How dare these yellow-bellied cretins tell the citizenry
what types of muskets they are allowed to own!
Posted on 07/30/2005 4:07:46 AM PDT by ARCADIA
That is a market choice; why whould you want to make it part of the Federal code?
There is no difference between Democrat and republican pols.
The repubs can't openly support all the liberal positions, because they want to keep their jobs.
well...this is just ONE reason why I hold that the Democrats maintain a majority in the Senate.
Agreed, and it's possible, even likely, the House will do just that.
Of course that will cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth by the Brad Bunch, Schumer, etc., but that can be kind of fun to watch. :)
Senator Frist is just not a strong leader. It's unfortunate; here we have the entirety of government except for the judiciary, and we cannot even keep our eye on the ball long enough to get simple bills like this through untainted.
It's not even really that. The locks are required to be sold with the guns in enough states already that it's easier for them just to package them with the guns. The built in locks are another matter. I've never used the one on my Witness, except to test that it works, and then to be sure it was OFF.
This "trigger lock" thing is a load of kee-rap. Whatever happened to teaching kids to be safe around firearms?
I grew up around guns, and this was in the era before gun safes. Guns were either in an unlocked rack on the wall or standing in a corner of a closet. We kids knew not to touch the guns, or we would bring the wrath of the nearest adult down on us in a heartbeat. We also had graphic demonstrations of what guns could do when we observed the game that the adults brought home from hunting trips.
When we got old enough we were taken on hunting trips, and eventually we were allowed to shoot under the supervision of an adult. Any unsafe act with a gun brought a stern warning from an adult not to do that again.
I've put on firearms demonstrations in the past, and if there were any children in the audience I always made a special effort to teach safe handling of firearms to them. Hopefully I kept somebody from doing something stupid later on.
Bottom line: If kids were trained with firearms from an early age we wouldn't need trigger locks.
Actually the GOP easily 'has' the Judiciary Branch as well. To start with, 7 of the 9 Supreme Court justices are GOP appointed. Something to ponder..
What??? It's mandatory to include a trigger-lock with the sale of a new hand-gun. It isn't mandatory for the owner to have to use the gun-lock. I just bought a new .45 ACP a couple of months ago and they included a trigger-lock which I don't use of course.
The idea that your gun should have a trigger lock is a reflection of the strength of the left on American culture.
Can't you just imagine it: Someone is seconds away from blowing you away in your living room and you say to him, "Wait while I run upstairs to get the key to unlock my trigger."
It is the liberal/left/socialists who should be locked away.
There can be no totalitarian rule in a country with an armed population. Or, as someone said, "A government that does not trust its citizens to be armed is a government not to be trusted."
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