Posted on 04/22/2011 4:28:43 AM PDT by marktwain
One gambit of gun banners is to promote “sensible gun laws” that increase firearms costs, ensuring that fewer Americans can afford guns.
Yesterday, Congressman Mike Quigley (D, IL-5) announced his “TRACE (Trafficking Reduction and Criminal Enforcement) Act.” Ostensibly, this will “give the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) a greater ability to identify the source of illicit guns and choke off the supply to traffickers.”
TRACE requires:
* “A second, hidden serial number on every gun”.
* “Maintaining background check records for 60 days”, instead of the current 24 hours.
* “gun dealers to perform inventory checks to report lost and stolen guns”.
These requirements will drive up prices by:
* Increasing manufacturing costs.
* Creating larger, more expensive government via additional data processing and storage.
* Increase firearms dealers’ overhead.
Gun control benefits the wealthiest Americans, by ensuring only they can afford guns. For example, the District of Columbia has the toughest gun control laws in America. Recently, the Washington Post reported:
“In the 2½ years since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the District’s handgun ban, hundreds of residents in Washington’s safest, most well-to-do neighborhoods have armed themselves, registering far more guns than people in poorer, crime-plagued areas of the city, according to D.C. police data.”
In 2008, Democrats became the biggest recipients of corporate campaign contributions. Now the new party of big business wants to disarm the people who mistakenly voted for the mythical party of the little guy.
True. The dollar has been tremendously devalued.
Hidden, LoL!
Gun control benefits the wealthiest Americans, by ensuring only they can afford guns.
From my cold, dead hands, quisling Quigley. Bring it.
FWIW cars and trucks have had hidden VINS for something over three decades now. Quality firearms have had a second, internal serial for longer than that. It’s not a requirement in the case of firearms but it’s been trade practice since the import rule changes of 1968. And it’s good practice for owners to put their own mark internally on anything you have of value. I’ve seen it aid recovery many times. Remember it was the hidden VIN on the axle that helped find out whose truck was used to blow up the Murrah building in Okie City. But making it a federal requirement is a bridge too far.
Yes, the vin plate on the axel helped to identify the truck in Oklahoma City but this congressman is trying to stop stolen gun trafficking. Has the practice of putting multiple vin numbers on autos stopped auto theft and trafficking?
Yeah, see, I’m not defending the moronic congressman who is plainly trying to raise the cost of firearms but to the extent that he wants a second hidden number on anything I’m pointing out that is not a bad idea, something an owner ought to do. In fact hidden vins on vehicles really cut into the stolen vehicle trade. The second number is in a place where modification is obvious. Now car thieves pretty much have to deal in parts rather than complete vehicles. And with both guns and cars I’m familiar with many examples of a second number aiding eventual recovery simply because the novice thief didn’t know about it.
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