“Sensible” gun law demands over the years...
And to think, in 1962 Thomas J Dodd and Emaual Cellar proposed the first federal law on common firearms.
1962; “We don’t want to take away your guns, we ONLY want to register handguns! Rifles and shotguns will not be affected”.
1964: “We only want to register all your guns, not ban them! Only Army surplus guns will be banned.”
1968: “We only want to register your guns, and ban “Saturday Night Specials” and small foreign handguns along with army surplus rifles!” (They got the ban on 5 shot army surplus rifles and handguns and small foreign pistols)
1970: “We only want to ban Saturday night specials! Large handguns and rifles will not be affected!”
1976: “We only want to ban all handguns! Long guns will not be affected!”
1981: “The NRA is a rifle organization! They should give up their handguns, and they can keep their rifles!”- Lee Grant on GMA
1984: “We must ban “assault Rifles, unsuitable or hunting!”
1989: George Bush bans import of some foreign made “assault rifles”.
1992: Assault rifle ban passed by Clinton.
2000: first calls to ban single shot .50 cal rifles...
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Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.
“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.
Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.
So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.
My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — totally illegal.”
-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58
The Brady Center (former HCI) now has the hots to ban anything they can, including common rifles and shotguns.
Nothing paving the road to confiscation is sensible.
Let’s see his free speech license.
When I see a “sensible” gun law, I’ll support it.
So far, I haven’t seen a single law restricting RKBA that I would consider “sensible”.
Tell me what ‘common sense gun law’ would have saved those kids in Connecticut! ‘Common Sense’ is a propaganda term. It means nothing in reality. I get sick of reading this nonsense.
There is nothing sensible about a law coming from liberals.
You know, I would actually welcome sensible gun laws. Here are some examples:
1. Repeal the NFA34, GCA68, and 1986 assault weapons manufacture ban
2. Make any current and future firearms bans illegal, punishable by instant impeachment for the introducing legislator and signing executive (followed by felony convictions and mandatory prison sentences)
3. Establish national concealed-carry license reciprocity along the same lines as national drivers license reciprocity
4. End the NICS and order all records destroyed
5. Add NRA firearms safety classes to public school curricula
Any more suggestions?
- CT STATE POLICE LT. VANCE : “I am the master!”
As soon as legislators propose one, I'm sure they will. To date, all the proposals seem to be from the "Tyranny good; honest citizens with jobs bad" school of thought.
I welcome sensible gun laws that don’t restrict my freedom in any way. I believe we have already gone well beyond the threshold of restriction somewhere between the ten thousandth and twenty thousandth law.