Sniper may hit gun lobby

Dayton Daily News ^ | 20 October 2002 | Mary McCarty

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

my dog after mistakenly reading this

[isasis]

I hope you go to a free state way far away from me if you consider a free state a state where you can have your arms confiscated. That, to me, does not equate with freedom. When they confiscate my arms they are going to have to confiscate me. Maybe they should confiscate all our cars and swimming pools too. I could go on but I just get more angry with the entire idea of anybody even thinking of trying to confiscate my guns.

[alaskanfan]

Fingerprinting firearms is hardly the violation of privacy these measures represent. It's only a reasonable restriction of the kind that we submit to when we register our cars.

the most rudimentary, common sense gun-control measures.

How is gun registration in any form "common sense" when the supreme court has ruled that it is against the law to require any felon to register their gun (self-incrimination)?

My only guess is that "common sense" is a totaly foreign concept to Ms. McCarty.

[schmelvin]

This would amount to a national data base of gun owners.

My thought, too. Ballistic fingerprinting is step #1 towards firearms registration.

Soon, the gun grabbers will squeal, "Well, what good is it for the police to know which weapon the bullet came from if they don't have an up-to-date record of who owns the weapon?

The ATF, etc. could probably get around any laws prohibiting gun registration by requiring firearms dealers to hold onto the records. I've heard, but cannot confirm, that in the DC metro area, the FBI, in their search for the "sniper", are using records obtained from gun dealers. FReepers, who own the type of weapon(s) that could be the weapon used by the shooter, have mentioned receiving phone calls from the FBI in regards to their firearms.

[Axenolith]

CHUNDER AHOY!!!