The NRA P***ed Off the Wrong Nerd Genius

the daily Beast ^ | 08.26.14

[RC one]

It was reported Monday that Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and incredibly wealthy guy, and with his wife, Melinda, have given $1 million to Initiative 594 in Washington state. The ballot initiative, if passed by voters on November 4 (and it currently enjoys overwhelming support), will require universal background checks for all firearm purchases in the state.

[Darksheare]

Yup.
Shame he got gypped out of proper accolades all this time.
Instead, a clever huckster by the name of Gates gets the praise.

[Rinnwald]

I guess you missed the part where it says this section does not apply to transfers between family members.

I guess you missed the part where the exemption is only for "bona fide gifts". Do we have to go through the sham of pretending every transfer is a "gift"? Will a prosecutor buy it if we "gift" the same firearm back and forth twenty times at a shooting session?

(4) This section does not apply to: (a) A transfer between immediate family members, which for this subsection shall be limited to spouses, domestic partners, parents, children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, first cousins, aunts, and uncles, that is a bona fide gift;

[SkyDancer]

Right - you can’t buy or sell unless ... and the people pushing this thing are saying that gun shows are loop holes, etc etc....

[21twelve]

***** or if in harm of “imminent death” *****

I wonder if a combination trigger lock on a gun would work. As the bad guy is breaking down the door, the wife can call her husband at work and get the combination from him? I see a money-making opportunity for locksmiths. (Well - for sure for the lawyers if this monstrosity passes.)

Will need to look at our Washington state constitution and laws to see if this violates any of that.

[morphing libertarian]

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[SERE_DOC]

Here's a thought, fight the lie!
If they want to control / charge folks for "Firearms" then let them do that....

if you understand just what a "Firearm" actually is:

(a) Firearm The term “firearm” means
(1) a shotgun having a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length;
(2) a weapon made from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length;
(3) a rifle having a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length;
(4) a weapon made from a rifle if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length;
(5) any other weapon, as defined in subsection (e);
(6) a machinegun;
(7) any silencer (as defined in section 921 of title 18, United States Code); and
(8) a destructive device. The term “firearm” shall not include an antique firearm or any device (other than a machinegun or destructive device) which, although designed as a weapon, the Secretary finds by reason of the
date of its manufacture, value, design, and other characteristics is primarily a collector’s item and is not likely to be used as a weapon.

And nothing else!

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/5845
26 U.S. Code § 5845

[Red in Blue PA]

If Universal Background Checks were in place when this country was founded, the Founding Fathers would have been executed by the British with that information.

[smokingfrog]

He can spend all the money he wants.

It doesn’t make him right.

[RC one]

I am liking Ohio’s new law. We have made it such that Ohio residents with a valid CCW license need not submit to the NICS check at all. No chance of ending up on a federal data base that way. that’s a major FU to the gun grabbers that hasn’t received its due attention IMHO. It’s also a decent model for other states to follow.