Posted on 10/01/2014 9:31:56 AM PDT by Abakumov
People believe that crime has gotten worse. But over the past two decades, murder and robbery in the U.S. are down by more than half, and rape by a third, even as complaints about “rape culture” grow louder....
Since crime is down, the media find the few cities, such as Indianapolis and Bismarck, North Dakota, where crime is up. If they can’t find increased crime, they focus on rare, lurid cases like mass shootings and serial killers. Even as life gets safer, people get the impression that the world is falling apart.
Then rule-makers overreact.
(Excerpt) Read more at radixnews.com ...
WHAT? Well if “gun” violence is down, why are the disarmunists pushing for more and more restrictions on 2nd amendment rights and “issues”? Oh. Because they can’t help themselves interfere with others lives. LUTFA. But, they are spending big bucks in NV pushing their intergalactic backround check initiative for the ‘16 ballot. Stay out of our state and we’ll stay out of yours.
Exactly, more Americans have guns, violent crime goes down like it should, and the gun grabbers’ response is, we need more controls. That will always be their response. Always, no matter what happens.
Gun control is about control, not guns. It’s a sickness with these people. They want to control good people and they let the bad run amok.
Did you know a handgun could expire?
Cheaper Than Dirt ^ | September 24, 2014 | Dave Dolbee
Did you know a handgun could expire? If not, you are probably not from California.
Effective January 1, 2001, no handgun may be manufactured within California, imported into California for sale, lent, given, kept for sale, or offered/exposed for sale unless that handgun model has passed firing, safety, and drop tests and is certified for sale in California by the Department of Justice. Private party transfers, curio/relic handguns, certain single-action revolvers, and pawn/consignment returns are exempt from this requirement.
This is the California-compliant tactile loaded chamber indicator.
Before a new handgun can be sold in California, it must first be certified. Certification in California requires that all handguns to be submitted for “testing” — a process that often ultimately results in the firearm being dropped and later destroyed. Worse yet, every model, caliber, color etc. has to have multiple units submitted making the process extremely costly to the manufacturer. Then, after the manufacturer has made the decision to bite the proverbial bullet and eats the cost to receive certification, the clock starts ticking. According to the logic of California’s rabidly anti-firearms ownership lawmakers, a model that was tested and approved must to be recertified after a period of time, run through the exact same series of tests to prove it still does what the design did when the testers drop tested them the previous time.
It is, by loud and above-board government design, a very frustrating and expensive process causing multiple major manufacturers to forego the California market altogether while others must very significantly increase the cost of California Compliant models. Retail cost often triples. There is a point to reporting on the certification other than demonstrating, yet again, the dangers of failing to get involved in the political process and supporting the national organizations dedicated to preserving your gun rights.
The anti-gunners are knee-jerk cowards who believe that guns cause crimes and if they banned certain guns, crimes would disappear.
> WHAT? Well if “gun” violence is down, why are the disarmunists pushing for more and more restrictions on 2nd amendment rights and “issues”?
The disarmunists are communists, and they are implimenting Lenin’s 1917 nine item, “Communist Rules for Revolution.”
Taking our guns away is item 9.
In May 1919, at Dusseldorf, Germany, the Allied Forces obtained a copy of the “Communist Rules for Revolution.” Nearly 95 years later, they have nearly succeeded in every area.
1. Corrupt the young: get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.
2. Get control of all means of publicity. Get peoples’ minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books, plays and other trivialities.
3. Divide people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
4. Destroy the peoples’ faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and . (speak against, condemnatory utterances)
5. Always preach ;true democracy; but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
6. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit; produce fear of inflation, rising prices and general discontent.
7. Foment strikes in vital industries; encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward these disorders.
8. By special argument cause a breakdown of the old moral virtues; honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
9. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext with a view of confiscation of them and leaving the population helpless.
Also, there’s a microstamping requirement, which no manufacturer has implemented. With time, every pistol or double action revolver now on the list will expire and drop off. This will turn into a defacto handgun ban with the exception of single shots and single action revolvers. I guess I’m done buying new handguns except for private party transfers from out of state.
I try do not advertise committing federal felonies.
Sorry, to clarify, I was thinking about private party transfers via FFL dealers. That’s required for interstate transfers.
It is hard to believe that back in 1982 the voters REJECTED proposition 15 to ban guns in Cali. Since that day the politicians there have been trying to find all sorts of ways around the will of the people.
Well, I believe they have found a way.
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