[OttawaFreeper]

What would be an interesting thing to do would be to compare and contrast the firearms laws and ownership cultures of places like Vermont, New York, Texas, and California and/or the areas that these states tend to represent.

I have in my personal library a copy of David Kopel’s “The Samurai, The Mountie, and the Cowboy”. In that book, Kopel looked at Canada, Jamaica, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand and compared and contrasted such laws and cultures in those respective countries. It would be an interesting study to do something similar in the varying regions of the United States alone (with the areas I mentioned as examples).

[SkyPilot]

I think you would have to examine subcultures as well.

People assume that in states like New Jersey or New York, everyone is a big, anti-gun liberal. Right?

Wrong.

In upstate NY (where I grew up), people are furious over the SAFE Act.

In Connecticut, there was an outright revolt. 95% of gun owners refused to register their firearms.

In south and central New Jersey, people are incensed at the illogical and unconstitutional "assault weapons" law.

Here is an illustration of how stupid and illogical these laws are. In NJ, you cannot have a combination of a collapsible or folding stock, a flash suppressor, pistol grip, bayonet lug, etc.

When asked why they wrote that law that you have to pin the collapsible stock, the answer was: "Because it makes the gun more concealable, and therefore more deadly!" OK, so you have to ruin a perfectly good stock, and pin it. But you can pin it fully closed if you want, so long as it is pinned.

Therefore, the permanent pinning of the stock makes it.........MORE CONCEALABLE.

But there is not "logic" to this, it is just harassment and fascism.

I pray that Trump battles this insanity and does something about it. Here in NJ, honest, good people have gone to prison (serving hard time with violent criminals) because they ran afoul of our entrapment "gun laws."