Posted on 10/13/2017 8:53:01 AM PDT by rktman
On October 13 the Guardian reported that background check laws in Colorado and Washington state have proven a failure because citizens simply will not comply with them.
This means that after millions upon millions spent, political offices lost, and promises of a Utopian world with less gun crime made, the checks have been a bust.
According to The Guardian, the failure of these background check laws was discovered via research by Injury Prevention and it “is a setback for a growing gun control movement that has centered its national strategy on precisely the kind of state laws passed in Colorado and Washington.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The Guardian is to Americans what Der Sturmer was to Jews.
When you have stupid legislatures like Diana Regret that think when a magazine is empty it is of no other use the laws are also useless. 55 Sheriffs of Colorado filed lawsuits against Colorado because of unenforceable laws to little avail. Ignorance is bliss in the Dome of Dummies in Denver.
Well whenever I need expert advice about the 2nd amendment or firearms, I turn to the fair and balanced Guardian.. ;-)
It IS BS. Before my unfortunate boating accident, I would frequent the classifieds of a few gun forums. Whenever someone would offer a gun for sell they were clear ID was mandatory and a CCL preferable. The community is very effective at self-policing. No one wants one of their guns going to the wrong type of character.
Don’t we all!
The Guardian (formerly Manchester Guardian) is a very-left-wing British paper that has little readership or influence in the US
“Universal background checks” is a euphemism for gun registration.
If every transfer is recorded, they know where to go for confiscation.
They thought we were stupid enough to go along with it.
WE WILL NOT COMPLY!
(NY and CT also found that out)
Gun grabbers tell Americans they must do something or cannot do something, and we refuse.
Where government fears the people, you have liberty.
For now, the Nevada initiative is toast because the brilliant gun control assclowns screwed up the wording as to how to actually do the checks. It was a contradiction as to who would do it and it went unresolved during the last session so no action until next time. I’m sure the rats will come out swinging. And the populace will be non-compliant. And LEO won’t actively enforce it. Thus, a waste of tax dollars and time. Again. We know the bad guys are quivering in their nikes.
The problem here is that they don't have much time to devote to enforcement in general, but in specific cases they sure do.
Suppose you sell a gun to a trusted friend -- no problem, right? Well, suppose someone steals it from him and shoots the victim in a holdup. You can bet your bottom dollar that they will have plenty of time to trace that gun back to you and there will be dire consequences...
If so, I have to start promoting the term "The Pinheads in Phoenix".
Not if you go by the comments section.
DUMMIES IN DENVER i like it. never heard it. between the state ‘tards and the anti-cop mayor and city council in Denver it fits. going to use it from now on.
true enough for Colorado:
1. Of the 64 counties in Colorado, something like 53 of the county Sheriffs announced that they were not going to enforce local registration or the magazine law because they are unenforceable.
2. And they have a point.The laws are so poorly written that merely handing a neighbor one of your firearms is a violation, and because existing magazines were grandfathered, and because magazines have no serial numbers it’s impossible to tell a “grandfathered” magazine from a “non-grandfathered” magazine.
3. To the best of my knowledge, no one in Colorado has ever been prosecuted for violation of either law. Most likely the laws would be struck down as unconstitutionally vague if a test case was every brought.
(The one interesting consequence of these laws is that they inadvertently made gun “buybacks” essentially impossible to conduct legally, something yours truly pointed out chapter and verse in a legal brief i published in a local newspaper comment section the first time a local Sheriff tried to facilitate one of these gun “buybacks”. Sheriff then had to publicly back off a few days later in the same newspaper, and there has never been another attempted gun “buyback” in Colorado since then.)
It’s almost as if criminals don’t obey the law all the time.
(The one interesting consequence of these laws is that they inadvertently made gun “buybacks” essentially impossible to conduct legally, something yours truly pointed out chapter and verse in a legal brief i published in a local newspaper comment section the first time a local Sheriff tried to facilitate one of these gun “buybacks”. Sheriff then had to publicly back off a few days later in the same newspaper, and there has never been another attempted gun “buyback” in Colorado since then.)
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+1
That is so not fair.
You guys have some really cool nicknames for your legislature, but what can we say about the Texas legislature in Austin???
A******* in Austin? Sounds nice but not too conversation friendly.
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