Posted on 02/04/2013 1:00:13 PM PST by neverdem
For the gun shows I've attended the last 20 years, I'd see on average maybe two or three people at the show walking around with a gun for sale sign on their back. Usually it was some sort of safe-queen high price collector military rifle (non-auto). You can sell a gun on Craigslist quicker than waiting for a gunshow.
If we're disarmed, so are they... It can be called the 'If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander' bill of gun control.
Gee, you mean the NRA's single-issue strategy actually works?
But I thought a common theory here suggested that the NRA only endorse Republicans?
the MSM is settling in on the Universal (permanent record) backgroun check as a compromise.
staw man sales are already illegal.
sales as shows require a background check.
this is about abolishing the 90 day destroy records rule.
This does not make me feel much better, what with how the Republicans have folded on everything else recently.
Which pubbie would vote for gun control knowing that they would be challenged in a primary from the right? You can argue about being fiscally conservative, the consequences of shutting down gov't and threatening credit ratings. Not gun control. It's the rats who were supposedly pro 2nd Amendment in 2006 and 2008 who won in those years giving the rats control of Congress, not the gun grabbers!
As long as the Republicans lack any conviction or backbone, any dangerous legislation has a good chance of passing.
“Gee, you mean the NRA’s single-issue strategy actually works?”
It hasn’t worked in the past, they seem to be listening better now.
The NRA has supported every major gun control law passed in the last 50 years.
Universal background checks have nothing to do with gun shows. Its about abolishing the private transfer of firearms between law abiding individuals.
A background check will also require a 4473 which creates a paper trail and increases cost.
Well, look what happened when they criminalizd alcohol. Honest citizens went out and bought lots of firearms and then machine guns, so they criminalzed machine guns, and these formerly honest citizens, now armed criminals, became wealthy armed criminals, protecting their turf. Did they go back to normal jobs? No, because now they had power.
Now, the honest citizens being turned into criminals aren’t going to be dealing in a secondary product; they’re going to be dealing in a primary product. It won’t be moonshining and bootlegging, it will be arms dealing, magazine and arms manufacturing, and ammunition manufacturing and sales. And a large amount of it will be an underground black market, non-taxed economy.
Obama and the democrats are complete idiots. They now say they need more taxes and can’t see where they can cut spending? They could raise about a billion dollars easily with all the excess ammo they’ve bought just in the last few months.
Well, look what happened when they criminalizd alcohol. Honest citizens went out and bought lots of firearms and then machine guns, so they criminalzed machine guns, and these formerly honest citizens, now armed criminals, became wealthy armed criminals, protecting their turf. Did they go back to normal jobs? No, because now they had power.
Now, the honest citizens being turned into criminals aren’t going to be dealing in a secondary product; they’re going to be dealing in a primary product. It won’t be moonshining and bootlegging, it will be arms dealing, magazine and arms manufacturing, and ammunition manufacturing and sales. And a large amount of it will be an underground black market, non-taxed economy.
Obama and the democrats are complete idiots. They now say they need more taxes and can’t see where they can cut spending? They could raise about a billion dollars easily with all the excess ammo they’ve bought just in the last few months.
BTW, those who have been adjudicate/committed are already reported to the NCIC by the institutions and denied firearms purchases.
*** Its about abolishing the private transfer of firearms between law abiding individuals.***
So true. Years ago I went to a BIG gun show and before I left I had traded for several guns and traded off several. wheeled and dealed, left in the evening with a new firearm and a few dollars to boot. I had traded around at least five or six firearms before the day was out.
Now, think about how many “background” checks I and the person I was trading with would have had to make.
Yup. That’s what he wrote.
I saw it and found it funny. I like the show.
The key term here is DIAGNOSED. It really needs to be ADJUDICATED. With maybe some verbiage added regarding being "Baker Acted" or involuntarily committed for observation or something. If you're going to start tracking down folks who have ever sought help for being depressed you're going to make the problems much worse in the future because people will just stop looking for help. What about all the vets who've sought help for depression but aren't suffering from PTSD or some serious issue? You going to make them second class citizens based on a diagnosis of depression alone?
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