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If this were a perfect Country with conservative judges, I wouldn't have a problem with any of this. But it isn't -- too many people have been let out of prison or jail for a technicality, went out and bought weapons, and shot some innocent person.

One of my biggest complaints is some of the pawn dealers who deal on the black market. I think they should be locked away permanently.

Personally think law enforcement should be concentrating more on shutting down the illegal gun sales then on individuals buying guns from a gun dealer.

BTW -- semi automatics I don't have any trouble with at all. Just don't see the need for someone in my neighborhood to have a fully automatic rifle. Maybe if I lived on a mountaintop somewhere I might see things differently. But then I don't see where deer hunting is a sport when you put up a deer feeder, hide in a blind and pick them off as they come to feed.

BTW -- semi automatics I don't have any trouble with at all. Just don't see the need for someone in my neighborhood to have a fully automatic rifle.

Is it possible to get through to you that the AWB has nothing to do with fully automatic rifles? (Those weapons are heavily restricted to civilians and governed by the National Firearms Act of 1934). Why do you refuse to acknowledge this fact?

If this were a perfect Country with conservative judges, I wouldn't have a problem with any of this. But it isn't -- too many people have been let out of prison or jail for a technicality, went out and bought weapons, and shot some innocent person.

And this is FreeRepublic...a conservative activist site. Should we not be out there actively engaging each other, as well as our elected Republican officials to move the nation toward a more perfect, constitutional, republic? Or do we settle for BS, band-aid solutions(and most of the time "solutions" that actually add to the problem) from people who have an (R) at the end of their name, and cheer loudly when our side wins? I don't like being played for a fool...the AWB sucks for law abiding firearms owners. It doesn't even remotely address the real problem(s) at hand (unpunished crime, repeat crime, judicial mediocrity, other stringent laws that keep the police from doing their job, etc.)

One of my biggest complaints is some of the pawn dealers who deal on the black market. I think they should be locked away permanently.

Again...this is a crime and judicial integrity issue...not a gun issue.

Personally think law enforcement should be concentrating more on shutting down the illegal gun sales then on individuals buying guns from a gun dealer.

LEO's should be concentrating more on murderers, urban gang activity, rapists, and armed burgulars. The judicial process should be "justice" enhancer...it should help LEO's rather than help criminals.

BTW -- semi automatics I don't have any trouble with at all. Just don't see the need for someone in my neighborhood to have a fully automatic rifle. Maybe if I lived on a mountaintop somewhere I might see things differently. But then I don't see where deer hunting is a sport when you put up a deer feeder, hide in a blind and pick them off as they come to feed.

Again...the AWB does not cover automatic weapons. With the exception of governmental approval, fully automatic weapons were banned from public ownership in the 30's.