Read about this video and it makes me sick:
I don’t know if I can fully label this as “Fudd” support but it smacks of the same idiocy, that was the hunters (Elmer Fudd) rallying against the “Assault Weapons Ban” of 1994 because they didn’t use AR-15s for hunting deer or ducks. (Tho the AR-15 is now one of the most popular hunting rifles in the nation now) I thought this foolish mindset was dead after the AWB because the hunters realized that the people who want “Reasonable Gun Control” are neither reasonable, nor are they willing to let hunters keep their guns.
First up the running talking point is “I own guns, and I think one-gun-a-month is not an unreasonable restriction”.
I’ll first up say I also own guns, and I have never bought 12 guns inside of a year. I HAVE on the other hand bought several guns inside of a month. As a collector I don’t get to choose when a deal presents itself to me, same goes as a shooter looking for defensive guns on a budget. My preferred carry gun is a S&W1911Sc commander. Brand new the gun runs about $900-$1,000 new…used guns of this model are rare as the people who buy them tend to hold onto them, but I see used guns on rare occasions for $700-$800. First up that’s no discount to sneeze at, and given that I can’t just go into a store and find one for that price any day, one must jump when the deal presents itself. Even more, for mine I paid much less, most likely for some cosmetic problems that I easily fixed or didn’t care about. I doubt I will EVER see a deal like that again. Hell if I had waited another dayJay G. had told me he would have bought it. I didn’t know he was even looking at it until I brought it home and told him about it. If I had already bought a gun I’d have to wait and likely miss out on a deal, or cave and spend large amounts of money on a new gun, or let a rare collectible go on to another home to appreciate in value, or heaven-forbid, be neglected…
The “pay off” for this stupid law is, according to the video:
-Shrink Supply of guns to criminals: (No it won’t, as most people don’t buy more than 12 guns a year anyway, nor will this bill remove guns from the wild)
-Help Police Track Crime Guns: (We have a 100% registration law in effect here. Every gun bought and sold, at any volume and for any reason must be registered with the state by law. Long Guns, Handguns, “assault weapons”, everything. I have NEVER read of a report of this data being used to solve a crime, or to “track a crime gun”. I doubt anybody can show me such a story, as this is a universal lie to registrations.)
-Punish Gun Traffickers: (Well the law WILL label innocent people doing normal behavior as “Gun Traffickers” and punish THEM. As for people running criminal enterprises of selling guns to unlawful people, this bill does not address that)
Overall I will note that there are only two people (who may or may-not be actors) in the video. Their talking points are pure rhetoric (A gun can take a life so easily there should be reasonable restrictions…..well why haven’t you killed anybody if its so easy? Also did you not get your Mass LTC that would allow you to buy guns? To Get that didn’t you take a training course? also didn’t you pay $100 for the permit, plus whatever price for the class to make sure poor people can’t join your ranks? Didn’t you undergo a background check and register your guns with the state? Are you a fucking idiot???)
This law will do NOTHING to take guns out of the hands of criminals (Hell DC and Chicago had “No-Gun-a-Month” laws for GENERATIONS, and it didn’t help them one whit!) but it will restrict rights of lawful people for no gain. If there’s no gain, and the proponents feel the need to lie about it, who’s to say they’ll be satisfied when this lie plays out as such?
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