What are the acceptable limits of the 2nd Amendment?

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by geetrue

The news today was that VP Biden has a plan to limit the kinds of guns you may purcahse that are the same kind being used in these terrible crimes from Arizona to Colorado to New England area.

He is also recomending limits on clips capicity to be limited to ten rounds.

They say these laws can be passed at the top levels of our country without public approval. I'm no really sure about that, but I do know the president is not running for office, perhaps he really does feel strongly about doing something.

Seems impossible to me ... How do you stop mental illness that constantly tries to figure out to murder someone and get the attention that particular person is really after.

Have you ever really seen somone that has Alzheimer’s disease and dementia?

They will try to untie the knots that bind them all day till they succeed.

Same with these mental ill people if they even know someone with guns they will figure out a way to obtain them and then use them for whatever it takes to gradifiy their senses.

What I want to know is what happens to people that already have these guns and the clips that may or may not become available in the near future?

Surely everyone won't have to march down to their nearest police station and turn them in.

We are talking tens of thousands of clips and semi-automatic guns in private hands.

It is almost impossible to stop what is going on and and no matter what they pass nothing would've stopped that crazy teen from killing his mother to obtain his guns and kill all of those poor innocent children ... not one law that is.

One armed teacher nearby would've saved perhaps half of the casualities, but not all.

My guess is that they would(notice i did not use will) wind up grandfathering in already produced magazines just like they did with previous bans.Even that New York ban makes it crime only if you happen to get caught with an illegal magazine so a smart New York gun owner would move to another state if they can not do this then they just keep their high cap magazines out of sight.

It will be nearly impossible to pass any such laws through congress though and even if they did there are more than enough states that would not ratify.That leaves an executive order but those can be vetoed by Congress 2/3 majority.I think in the end what they will wind up with is some sort unilateral requirement on back ground checks right now private sales and in some states sales at guns shows do not require a back ground check.In a way this is good for any gun store because they would be the broker of the back ground check which gives them the chance to sell something else to the person wishing to purchase the firearm and at least the gun store gets a fee for the background check and most likely some will try to get the person to buy some better firearm than the one they are about to buy from the private seller I can see that.

To be honest right now I wish I had about two dozen AR-15s if i did I'd sell them for two grand to all the yahoos just now deciding to buy one because it is trendy.$2,000 is the going rate for a AR15 right now.A buddy said he saw a guy selling used ones for $1500 at a gun show which is what a good one made by Colt or Rock River used to go for new two years ago depending on what you ordered.I have about 50 30 and 20 round STANAGs that I do not have need for that have never been used. I was on a job the other day this guy wanted some so I said I have brand new ones he said name your price I said $30 each for a 20 rounder $50 each for a 30 rounder half jokingly and he said yes and bought 3 30 rounders from me $150.00 dollars for magazines that I paid about $8.00 a pop for when I was in high school.