How about theft? Is it me, or is it just plain stupidity that prevents the anti-gun types from seeing this?
"There is simply no reasonable expectation of privacy involved in the purchase of firearms. And the recovery of a firearm by the authorities in the course of a criminal investigation is even less private," the Supreme Court was told by Lawrence Rosenthal, Chicago's attorney.
OK, I'll bite. Step one after that is to register all purchases of books (and don't forget books borrowed from the libraries) and magazines, so as to allow the FBI and other LE organizations to more efficiently develop criminal profiles. After all, there is simply no reasonable expectation of privacy involved in the purchase or use of books and magazines. And the Internet - we either need Super Carnivore or an outrigh ban. The next step on this slippery slope is to mandate the fingerprinting and DNA sampling of every person in the country. After all, there is simply no reasonable expectation of privacy involved in these important crime-fighting tools. Oh, and the last step is mind-reading implants, when the technology is feasible. After all, if you have criminal intent, you have no expectation of privacy, and if you're a mind-numbed robot, you won't care anyway. (/sarcasm).
I can't wait for the Supremes to slap Chicago around a bit. They and the rest of the gun-grabbers need it (and a whole bunch more).
Word is that dealer is missing an awful lot of guns, enough that if it were theft he WOULD have noticed them missing and reported it. That many don't disappear off the books without the store owner knowing.
Oh no. First, we register all Moslims. The next step will be to license newspapers just the way television stations are already regulated.
If they don't like it, limit their capacity to ten pages as *assault newspapers.*
After all, they charge for subscriptions and advertising, so they're not part of the *free* press.
Then, after that's done, we can proceed as you suggest.
-archy-/-