“To purchase a product that has the potential to maim or kill another human being you can (now) walk into a gun store, no questions asked,”
So there will follow, I assume, a registry for baseball bats and buckets?
Don’t give these hammerheads any ideas.
Forget that. More people are killed each year from beatings with hands and feet than are killed by rifles - any/all rifles. So forget an "assault weapons ban" since so-called "assault rifles" account for an even smaller percentage of deaths than all rifles combined. I want to see junior registered with the state before you let him take that karate class. Maybe they should mandate ankle trackers on all martial arts students and practitioners?
Oh, while we're at it, better register and background check anyone purchasing a hammer at a home improvement store or hardware store. Seems you're also more likely to be bludgeoned to death with a hammer than shot/killed with a rifle. Maybe they should mandate micro-stamping of hammer heads?
“So there will follow, I assume, a registry for baseball bats and buckets?”
In other news, California has just banned bath tubs, steak knives, hammers, rope, and .............