The article contains a link that covers the minimum age to purchase and possess. Also good information.
Federal law wrt who an FFL can sell to vs who an individual can sell to is noteworthy.
Interesting. Someone with an dishonorable discharge from the military is barred from possession of firearms. How many homos were given dishonorable discharges for homosexual behavior? If a homo cant buy a firearm for this reason do the leftists fight for “his” 2nd amendment rights?
This a BS statistic. If this were true we'd hear about millions of prosecutions of people who unlawfully attempted to buy a firearm. Otherwise ask, why haven't all these people been prosecuted?
The truth is that there were 3 million 'initial rejections' - but nearly all of them were false positives. These are people with similar names (spelled the same, or phonetic similarities). The database basically only checks names. It does not check or validate based on birthdate, drivers license or ID number etc. If your name is similar to that of a prohibited person you get a rejection. Then, you clear up the confusion and buy a gun.
The truth is there were only something like 30,000 people who were prohibited and tried to buy a gun, and only a few dozen of those people were ever prosecuted. People who are prohibited more or less know they are prohibited, and they don't buy their guns from a licensed dealer. There are a few cases where the person didn't know he/she was prohibited, like the 70+ year old man who was convicted of "domestic violence" 40 odd years ago after he got into a brawl with his brother. It was written up as domestic violence before that term became a euphemism for wife-beating, and before the law against domestic violence made you prohibited. He went to buy a gun as a gift for his wife, not realizing he was a prohibited person, and got 2 years in the clink for it.
Did you ever get too drunk at a party? Sorry, your Constitutional rights are null and void.
Maybe these "lawyers" should re-read the law; how could they miss this?
Everybody is part of the “category of prohibited people” barred from possessing cocaine, heroin and meth. Yet how well has that worked out? The fact is that anybody who wants a gun will get a get a gun “prohibited list”, “universal background checks” or whatever other law is passed. Economics 101, you have enough cash, you will get whatever good or service you want, legal or illegal.
In his speech during the twilight of American freedoms, our President said, “That is why I have called for ‘Red Flag’ laws, also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders.”
That’s a communist song, and it’s very fitting for the occasion.
From the Marxism and Music Archive
https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/music/lyrics/en/red-flag.htm
The Red Flag
Jim Connel
1889
The people’s flag is deepest red,
It shrouded oft our martyred dead,
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold,
Their hearts’ blood dyed its ev’ry fold.
Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we’ll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We’ll keep the red flag flying here.
Look ‘round, the Frenchman loves its blaze,
The sturdy German chants its praise,
In Moscow’s vaults its hymns are sung
Chicago swells the surging throng.
Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we’ll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We’ll keep the red flag flying here.
It waved above our infant might,
When all ahead seemed dark as night;
It witnessed many a deed and vow,
We must not change its colour now.
Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we’ll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We’ll keep the red flag flying here.
It well recalls the triumphs past,
It gives the hope of peace at last;
The banner bright, the symbol plain,
Of human right and human gain.
Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we’ll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We’ll keep the red flag flying here.
It suits today the weak and base,
Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place
To cringe before the rich man’s frown,
And haul the sacred emblem down.
Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we’ll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We’ll keep the red flag flying here.
With heads uncovered swear we all
To bear it onward till we fall;
Come dungeons dark or gallows grim,
This song shall be our parting hymn.
Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we’ll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We’ll keep the red flag flying here.
I believe everyone should be entitled to defend themselves. The problem with the mentally ill is not them owning guns, it’s there is no access to treatment for the mental illness.
I reckon that we can come up with a clear, concise song to answer to that.
Don’t hoist that red flag, Mr. President,
Don’t be a one-term resident!
[To be continued.]
—familyop
We’ll make it a chant instead of a song, so that it will be easier for non-singer participation.
What percentage of mass killers would we have missed using this additional data?
Of course stealing the weapons from parents or others aren't precluded by these additional constraints.
This quote struck me.
“The parts of the brain responsible for impulse control, judgement, and long-range planning are among the last areas of the brain to fully mature, and in fact, may continue to develop until at least age 26.”
Yet they are talking about lowering the voting age to 16...
Noticed they didn’t include doctors as a new survey says they commit Suicide at high rates. https://www.painmedicinenews.com/Online-First/Article/07-19/Physician-Suicide-Statistics-Spark-Discussion-Of-Culture-That-Stigmatizes-Mental-Illness/55551?sub=11B22924EF6783FCEB2C8D2FC673DC5A5825E15F92FB318F546528377A7B24A&enl=true&dgid&utm_source=enl&utm_content=1&utm_campaign=20190805&utm_medium=title&fbclid=IwAR0I9Yc1iVdKkF0BKHOhlmzWuqL1ym2ln1tqO4Lqk1yoc3bNOmBj6VKBSWE
By there standards Any one with PSTD would be pre-cluded. As I suspect the parents of a Murdered Child would be. I fit both, the PSTD is my child’s Murder. Do I admit to it to medical NO. Simple I control it, it does not control me.
They first have to figure out a all-in-one database that each and every Federal, state, and local law enforcement agency must use, which I think is how think these type of people are getting access to weapons. Think of the rollout and cost of the Obamacare website debacle.
Then there’s the cooking of the statistics book to make crime rates appears to be less than actually are for political reasons across the spectrum.
No free man should (shall) ever be debarred the use of arms.
So said Jefferson. Anyone who cannot be trusted to be armed should not be running around loose.