This is outrageous because Realco was singled out since it’s close to DC and 0.0003% (rounding up!) of the guns recovered in DC last year were traced to Realco. These guns could have been recovered in traffic violations or from people like Jim Webb’s assistant, who forgot to remove it from their briefcase before entering the city in their rush to get to work on time! Hardly a smoking gun, if you get my drift.
Try buying a gun from this store sometime and wade through the endless ID checks, forms, and Maryland waiting period required for “Brady” checks, and you’ll realize this dealer is being railroaded for purely political purposes.
The police spend so much time doing data entry and retrieval they don’t have time to go after murderers, rapists, and child molesters. The Second Amendment Foundation listed a study that showed “less than one handgun in 6,500 is ever used in a homicide.” Statistically, that’s zero!
On the Brady background check, the SAF states, “2,356,376 background checks were performed the first year the Brady law took effect, at a cost of about $24 dollars per check. Of those checks, only four prosecutions were initiated. That’s 14.1 million dollars per prosecution. Plus, local law enforcement agencies had to take officers off of the streets, and put them behind desks to process applications and perform background checks.”
Talk about statistical insanity! The Bradys, Million Moms, and Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow Push are all about inciting mass hysteria.
What’s it all really about? Obama wants to ban all private ownership semi-automatic firearms. Can you say tyranny? Jackson is a political animal, and doesn’t care that gun bans were used to keep African-Americans in slavery. George Mason, in the Virginia Convention, actually noted that restricting access to firearms was the best way to enslave people! So here are two leading African-American public figures advocating enslaving even more Americans, and one of them may be our next president.
Totally insane. I say get out to Realco or another local shop on the 28th and exercise your rights (at least temporarily) guaranteed by the second amendment. Our constitution itself is at stake and liberty is on the chopping block
I need to sleep more. Correction to the percentage of guns recovered in DC that initially came from Realco — it’s 3% (the % of guns used in homicides listed later in my rant remains 0).
And I’ll add that these guns may have been stolen years earlier from homes in Maryland and just showed up in DC last year.
I’m still frosted—this amounts to a hatchet job on an ethical, hard-working small businessman who has been a positive influence in our community for years.