Posted on 03/24/2009 2:05:08 PM PDT by Raebie
Meet the ‘Rapist Protection Act’ March 23, 7:28 PM · 5 comments ShareThis Feed
Few gun control proposals more clearly reveal the ultimate intention to disarm American citizens than those which punish lawful gun owners for the crimes of others. Imagine a mandatory gun storage law which would make you criminally liable under the following circumstances:
A minor steals your firearm, even if the minor doesn’t live in your house; The gun doesn’t belong to you and might not even be in your possession, perhaps having been brought into your home by someone else without your knowledge; Even if you kept your gun in a locked box or gun safe or with a trigger lock installed, you could be prosecuted unless you also kept it unloaded, with ammunition stored separately. Meet Senate Bill 664, misnamed “’Safe’ Storage of Firearms,” introduced in North Carolina by Senator Malcolm Graham (D-Mecklenburg). It is a re-hash of a bill my organization, Grass Roots North Carolina, sent down in flames in an 83-33 floor vote in 2001.
Under SB 664, it is plausible that a teenage gang member could break into your home, steal your gun by cutting into your gun safe, and use it in a gang-related homicide. And who would be responsible? You.
The single and only way you could be “safe” from prosecution would be to lock up the gun, unloaded and apart from ammunition, thereby rendering it useless for self-defense.
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Mine will remain loaded on my bedside table. Some bastard breaks into my house he will have 5 rounds in him before I finish hollering “Eat some carpet a..hole!!”
Follow my lead, move to the northern Virginia mountains. The Old North State has become a haven for loons of the wingless variety.
Alas, Caddis the younger has a sister-in-law in the San Francisco area(A Sheville) of wnc.
The mayor of the small college town where she lives is a rooster fighter. According to her, a DimRat. Go figure!!!
Michael Vick must have been a republican!!!!!
Caddis the Elder
Follow my lead, move to the northern Virginia mountains. The Old North State has become a haven for loons of the wingless variety.
Alas, Caddis the younger has a sister-in-law in the San Francisco area(A Sheville) of wnc.
The mayor of the small college town where she lives is a rooster fighter. According to her, a DimRat. Go figure!!!
Michael Vick must have been a republican!!!!!
Caddis the Elder
The left really doesn’t want normal people to have guns. They can’t ban them yet, so they pass laws which have the same effect.
The revolver in a woman’s purse is her greatest deterrent against being raped. Stupid “take back the night” protests only allow women to engage in an emotional orgasm.
“Eat some carpet a..hole!!”
careful. that could be misconstrued as a hate crime or something.
It IS a hate crime.... Damn, I hate that I just ruined the carpet with that scumbags blood.
Buy your guns used from private citizens. That way no one knows you own them.
Absolutely not! That would spoil a perfectly good piece of rope. Hang em first, clean the rope for use on the next stupid politician and then apply the tar and feathers if you insist.
I believe that this law would be unconstitutional on its face.
This bill, if signed into law can be easily challenged on 2nd Amendment grounds. In Heller the court found that requirements to store firearms unloaded and locked were unconstitutional. Let the words of the decision speak for themselves:
“Similarly, the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense andis hence unconstitutional.”
Such a case could provide a vehicle for incorporation of the 2nd Amendment.
I think this law would be unconstitutional on its face.
The court held that requiring a weapon to be locked denied the citizen the right of self defense. Let the words of the opinion speak for themselves:
“Similarly, the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional.”
It could be that such a law, if challenged, could provide a vehicle for 2nd Amendment incorporation.
Too bad, but this would be illegal, and get me into some very hot water.
They’ll never be able to ban them. Heller took gun bans of commonly available firearms off the table.
Even if the composition of the SCOTUS changes, D.C. v. Heller is Supreme Court precedent, and nothing can change that. I think this will play out like abortion and Roe v. Wade: they might, MIGHT, be able to chip around the edges of firearms rights, but the 2nd Amendment enumerates an individual right, and nothing short of a Constitutional Convention can change that.
You can’t buy a gun from a relative where you are?
Well, I know I can be given a gift of a gun, say parent to child. But if the relative is not so direct (sibling or cousin), I believe that the transfer must go through a FFL holder.
Also, even in the case of gift from a more direct relative, I must file paperwork of the new ownership status (i.e. register) the gun.
So buy one that isn’t registered, and don’t register it. You think people really pay attention to those silly laws everytime a gun changes hands?
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