Gun Control thread (merged many)

[August]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Officers and Lobbyists of the NRA actually representing weapons manufacturers, not gun owners, that's why they seem to refuse to support common sense restrictions military style assault weapons, magazines that hold a hundred bullets, or background checks for anyone who buys a gun.

You've got the anti-gunner meme down pretty pat there Frei. Even to the use of the "common sense" term so popular among those circles these days.

But lets look at it:

"Military Style Assault Weapons" A very nebulous term. Could be applied to anything including your great grandfathers Brown Bess Musket. That's like the anti gunners previous gun ban attempts like "Saturday night specials" but I guess that's the point of the ban right? Could and would be applied to anything. Already people are finding major inconsistencies in the list as created. Functionally identical versions of a rifle finding their way onto both Feinsteins ban list as well as the accompanying hunting rifle exemption list. Apparently it only becomes dangerous to public safety if it looks scary. Duck and turkey guns qualifying as AW's because they have a pistol grip. That kind of thing.

"Magazines that hold a hundred bullets" Were they to limit their ban attempt to a magazine of such size there wouldn't be much opposition to it at all but they're talking banning over 10 bullets. In New York, their shining example of how gun control should be done, it's down to 7 with mandatory disarmament of those previously legally owned and the sky is the limit how much further it could and will be pushed.

"Background checks for everyone that buys a gun". The only reasonable proposal the left has made thus far but the devil is in the details. Privacy advocates are already indicating they will oppose any mandatory inclusion of mental health records in a Firearms no sell list so even if it's enacted it's unlikely to prevent the mass killings it's being sold as a cure for. Just another expensive federal boondoggle that will further erode our supposedly inalienable and uninfringeable constitutional rights.