Posted on 02/18/2021 9:46:20 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal
“This has to drive the biden anti gun Nazis nuts.”
YEP! Get rid of the permit requirement and you’ve just gotten rid of a major gun ownership database (assuming that gets destroyed too). Not as easy to go hunting down gun-owners for the feds.
This needs to happen in Florida where CC permits are handled by an elected bimbo liberal.
+1
I grew up in Florida in the 1950’s. One day my dad stopped in a roadside, open air eatery. The floors were sand and there were benches. The food was prepared in a shack. While we were eating a couple of trucks drove up. I think two men were linemen. They were wearing six-shooters like cowboys. A bunch of what appeared to be real cowboys showed up and they were similarly armed. No one seemed to notice. (Probably armed for rattlesnakes and alligators.)
The local K-mart sold all sorts of firearms. I was about 12 and chatting with the clerk. He said, “Funny thing. You can buy any gun here. But you have to have a driver’s license to buy the ammunition.” He had a ratted-out spiral notebook where he wrote down driver’s license numbers and recorded sales.
Sears had a catalog and I could mail order any sort of gun. Somehow, the death rate from firearms was fairly low as I recall from the newspaper. Believe me, if anything happened, the paper published it in the most lurid prose that could be published at the time. (A degree of censorship was practiced. It was especially noticeable on TV. Lucile Ball and her husband slept in separate beds.)
Our culture rapidly shifted. I can think of numerous causes, but one of which was the sudden focus on guns, which had just sort of “been there” all along. I remember high schools had an armory and taught marksmanship to their ROTC. The ROTC guys proudly wore their uniforms at school. Oh, My God! Could you IMAGINE the pearl clutching that would cause today? Oh, the high school parking lot was full of trucks with rifle racks containing rifles and shotguns. Oh! *palpitations* The horror!
Montana Law prior to this was sort of stupid. One could carry open/concealed anywhere in the state (no permit required), outside of city zones. Once in the city, you had to have a permit to carry concealed, yet you could still carry open. stooopid! Con carry just removed the stooopid. Try to open carry when it’s -20f outside while wearing an overcoat of any worth.
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