Hello old FR friend Lazamataz. I remember you all the way back in 1999 here at FR. I’ve been trying to get Freeper Bryan to come back to FR but he’s been VERY busy.
I have a modest proposal: a national firearms owner ID (FOID) card.
You can apply for it 3 months before your 16th birthday. You get a thorough background check, a drug screening & thorough psych evaluation at federal expense. It gets issued and mailed on your 16th birthday if you pass.
You can buy a .22 rifle or a pump shotgun at 16, any type of legal long arm at 18, any type of handgun at 21, as well as the respective types of ammo at the corresponding ages. It functions as an open carry license at 18 and concealed carry permit at 21 in all 50 states.
It can be revoked or suspended by the BATF or FBI upon any conviction for a violent felony, or diagnosis of a mental disorder that presents a risk to the public or card owner. Petitioners in active orders of protection can get an expedited screening process, maximum 24 hrs, including the psych evaluation. If they can’t find anything negative, the card gets issued and FedExed in 24 hrs.
Any gun or ammo seller, including private parties, can check online using the card ID number to see whether it’s valid. Takes about 60 seconds. If it’s been suspended or revoked, no sale. If it’s valid, you can walk out of the gun store with whatever you can afford, with no waiting period.
No expiration date.
We have an FOID card here in Illinois, a deep blue state due to Chicago. (I wish there were a way to run a chainsaw along the Chicago city limits and shove it off into Lake Michigan, so that it’ll graft onto the @$$ of Michigan.)
I have an IL FOID card. My sister, due to her employment, has a CCP. It’s not hard to get, you just have to dot all your I’s and cross all your T’s. This would satisfy the gun grabbers (I think), without violating any constitutional rights.
No assault weapons ban. But anyone who uses a firearm in the commission of a violent felony gets it revoked for life, and gets life in prison with no parole. Anyone who sells a gun, or ammo, to someone with no valid FOID card gets 10 years with no parole. Per offense. Consecutive sentencing.
What do you think?
Shall Not Be Infringed.
Teach morality, pray in schools, teach the 10 commandments, and get gun-play banned from TV and movies.
I have another modest proposal: FOAD.
They will never be satisfied until all of US (not them) are disarmed. But ANY requirement for a permit or registration is an infringement.
If you can't be trusted to be armed you shouldn't be running around loose.
My honest opinion?
I don’t like it.
And this is why: We constantly cede ground to the anti-gunners but they never cede ground to us. You know how a racheting wrench works. Same thing.
I’ve been in Illinois and I’ve had an FOID before. While in that system and in that state, it was relatively painless, the antis will NEVER be satisfied, and you just ceded a lot of ground to them... and now the national FOID tightens and tightens and tightens.
Better to fight them absolutely at every stage. By not ceding universal background checks, for example, they cannot know for sure where the firearms are, making confiscation quite difficult.