Posted on 10/28/2017 4:04:53 AM PDT by rellimpank
For a few days after the Las Vegas sniper attack, it seemed as if Congress might actually move to ban the device known as the “bump stock,” which the gunman used to convert his semiautomatic rifles into, essentially, machine guns that could fire 90 shots in 10 seconds into a crowded music festival.
That moment — like so many before it — seems to have passed. So what gun policy measure are lawmakers discussing in Congress these days? An absurd yet dangerous proposal that would drastically undercut states’ abilities to set reasonable rules about who gets to carry a weapon.
The proposed federal law, the so-called Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017, would require any state that issues permits for carrying concealed weapons to recognize concealed-carry permits issued by other states — even if those states have different eligibility and training requirements and less stringent restrictions on gun ownership. In the House, the measure has picked up 212 co-sponsors (including three Democrats). A companion Senate bill has 38 co-sponsors, signaling significant support.
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An absurd yet dangerous proposal that would drastically undercut states’ abilities to set reasonable rules about who gets to carry a weapon.
It is California government and the LA time that are absurd and dangerous.
People who legally carry guns are, statistically some of the safest and most responsible people in the overall population, as a group.
I wonder if California will order brutal fascism on itself?
If you make a post like this again would you please consider maybe putting a BARF ALERT ba
notation on it..?
California could get around this easily. Just quit issuing or renewing ccw's.
Better idea: California can get around it by seceding into their own Marxist country
Yes, that too.
Wait...there was a sniper in Vegas?
“Better idea: California can get around it by seceding into their own Marxist country”
I’m thinking that majority of Americans wouldn’t miss California’s departure. Actually, would be fun to watch as big corporations including defense contractors leave, taking most of their employees with them. Then conversely, the state will be over-run by illegals and criminals from other states. Looks like a big loss for Cali and a bigwin for the rest of the country to me, lol!
Seems I read something like that in a history book when I was just a lad! So long ago and memories fade.
I thought the barf alert was automatically assumed for articles from th LA Times
I prefer a pipe-lovers’ gun dream, but that’s just me.
Gun owners commit crime at a lower rate than police officers.
It’s well documented.
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