Gun Control Bill Would Subject Firearms to Consumer Safety Screening

CNSNews.com ^ | 6/11/03 | Robert B. Bluey

[Blood of Tyrants]

This ought to meet your bump list requirements.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Real guns are not meant to be given to children like teddy bears or toy guns and ar MEANT to be inherently dangerous.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I can see their first recommendation would be to plug the barrels and chambers so that no bullet could be loaded into the gun. If you were able to put a bullet into the gun, it would be too dangerous!

[Blood of Tyrants]

And another label that says, "WARNING! A loaded gun is DANGEROUS!"

Duh!

[Joe Brower]

[Fiddlstix]

Bang

[LurkedLongEnough]

These people are sinister in their disingenous ways.

If my handgun were as "safe" as a teddy bear, then I should be able to carry it onto an airplane, right?

[templar]

As well as a virtual non-problem.

Shotguns blow up in the shooters hand with some degree of regularity. Every case I've ever heard of has involved something the shooter did (like getting a 20 gauge shell stuck down the barrel of a 12 guage and not realizing it), not a defect in the gun. I have no idea how consumer safety regulations could possibly prevent either intentional or inadvertent misuse.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Wouldn't common sense tell you that guns are inherently dangerous and not to monkey with them if you don't know what you are doing?

[Constitution Day]

Corzine's "Safe Gun"

[Blood of Tyrants]

What exactly is a magazine disconnect? I am quite familiar with guns but have never seen or heard of a magazine disconnect.

[umgud]

A pack of Wintergreen Lifesavers will load and chamber in a 12 guage pump.

[300winmag]

Firearms were specifically exempted from the purview of the Consumer Product Safety Commission because it was well understood that the CPSC would use its powers to effectively ban guns.

The article is complete spin, aimed at putting guns into the same category as Big Tobacco (and soon, Big SUV and Big Mac) as especially evil objects subject to extra-legal controls. To do this, they proudly point out that the Nanny State already controls toys and appliances, and then asks the typical stupidly-liberal rhetorical question, "why not guns?".

The article implies, falsely, that guns are completely immune from legal liability for genuinely defective products. So they want the government to design the guns first, before they can be sold. They will handily "discover" that current guns can't meet their new safety standards, and future guns never will, either.

It's all part of their plan to eliminate (or tax heavily) all things they disapprove of through threats of trial by crooked judges and idiot juries, or approval from agencies sworn to eliminate the items. For Big Tobacco, Big SUV, and Big Mac, they just want the power, and the money. "Big Gun" is scheduled for extinction under this scheme, money be hanged.

[Jonah Hex]

A magazine disconnect prevents the weapon from firing when the magazine is removed. Touted as a safety measure to prevent people from accidentally negligently dropping the hammer on a live round in the tube while reloading or cleaning, it also prevents you from using the weapon in a single-shot mode if the magazine is damaged.

Since the magazine is often the most easily damaged piece of a semiautomatic pistol, I prefer the option to own a weapon which remains operational even if the weakest link is damaged or missing.

[ought-six]

"I have no idea how consumer safety regulations could possibly prevent either intentional or inadvertent misuse."

They can't. And the grabbers know it. This is a gun-ban measure, pure and simple, and its authors are well aware of that. Good God, that's their intention!

[Monitor]

What exactly is a magazine disconnect? I am quite familiar with guns but have never seen or heard of a magazine disconnect.

I could be wrong, but I think it's a mechanism that disables the gun from firing if the magazine is removed.

Hollywood has taught the sheople - wrongly - that once you remove the magazine, the gun is cleared, and is "safe".

[AAABEST]

Thank God for Corzine's concern..There's been an epidemic of this for some time!

My thoughts exactly. It's about time our leaders are doing something about this nation's exploding shotgun problem.

[TexasGunLover]

I know the answer: all guns must require an idiotic warning label "DO NOT PLACE FOREIGN MATERIAL IN THE END OF THE BARREL"

... Unless that's French foreign material....

[lavaroise]

Guns are not a consumer good, they are our 2nd Amendment right.

[TC Rider]

The only gun that would ever be approved by the CPSC..

All those other guns are heavy, have sharp corners and small parts including bullets that could lodge in a toddlers throat.