Why Liberals Want Gun Shows Stopped

Human Events ^ | 03/15/2011 | Mike Piccione

[B4Ranch]

I think it’s been a long time since they studied the Constitution and attempted to follow it.

[Still Thinking]

I have not bought a registered weapon in over twenty years, I insist on private sales. I don’t keep track of who I buy or sell to and I’ve never had the cops knock on my door asking any questions about previously owned weapons. I will not participate in this registration game.

Hear, hear!

[wjcsux]

I'm sure all the freedoms that we still enjoy drive them crazy; can't wait to cut them all down.
Libs are generally nuts. Try taking one shooting like I did about 25 years ago. The reason they don't trust us with guns is they don't trust themselves with guns.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] Mayors Against Illegal Guns should take a closer look at those that are committing the crimes and focus on punishing the perpetrators rather than building a bureaucracy that is targeted at legal gun owners.

Fatal incomprehension.

The target isn't, has never been, criminals. The target is the People and their rights. The People are the Main Enemy of this Marxist strategic campaign.

[lentulusgracchus]

OR, you automatically become a lawbreaker.

Those "gotcha" provisions don't work ..... a similar California provision in re assault rifles was held to be unconstitutional by a federal court because it pretended to force assault-rifle owners to give incriminating testimony against themselves. So out it went.

The Framers had very little patience with those kinds of games and went out of their way, as in their narrow definition of treason, to frustrate them. The British used to like to try to drive political behavior with the threat of capital punishment under a doctrine of "constructive treason" -- so the Framers drove a stake through its heart with Article III's narrow definition of treason, to take a notorious tool of compulsion away from future authorities. They did the same with self-incrimination.

[OneWingedShark]

>>OR, you automatically become a lawbreaker.
>
>Those “gotcha” provisions don’t work .....

Unfortunately we’re we’re creeping up on one “gotcha” which many people tend to laud: the deprivation of the right to keep & carry firearms, and to vote, by those who would best be described as “ex-felons” {those felons who have served their sentences} and [even] straight-up felons themselves.

In 2014 ObamaCare becomes active and makes it a FELONY for someone to not have qualifying insurance; there are, IIUC, no exceptions for the unemployed or those who experience a “break in coverage” due to switching betwixt “qualifying” plans. This in conjunction with the extreme unemployment will have the effect of legally disarming huge sections of the population.

[El Gato]

I remember when I was a teenager walking down the street with an Ithaca Model 37 pump 12 gauge in the rural Adirondack mountain town where I grew up. I had purchased the gun from a friend and there wasn’t any paperwork, background check, state or federal government involved. A police car pulled up next to me and the officer asked “Are you coming or going?

I remember riding down an arterial street in my home town, actually the second largest city in the state, then about 100,000, with several friends. We all had shotguns across the handlebars, some in cases, some not. We were headed out for pheasant hunting. Today we'd all be run in, ladies would a get a case of the vapors at the sight. But then, no problem. This would have been 1965.

Even earlier I used to take my Daisy right through the business district of one of the little towns that been incorporated into the city in the '20s or earlier. I'd often stop at the drug or hardware store for more BB's. I was stopped by a foot patrol officer one time. He asked where I was going to shoot, I said, "My great Uncles place just across the highway". He said, "OK, be careful", and that was that. I never shot my eye out, so I guess I was careful enough

.....

Well, I did manage to implant a BB in my older cousin's temple. It bounced off a tree when I tried to shoot a twig. I was in the back seat of a '53 Pontiac, he was in the front. (too muddy to go mucking around on our grandparents farm that day). A little lesson in knowing what is beyond your target. But he never ratted on me. Heck it didn't break the skin. :)

[El Gato]

We had a rife range in the basement of the gym

I never knew my High School had one, or had in the past, until well after I and my brother had graduated. My dad was a grad of the school's first year of operation ('42) , and he told me it did. It was tucked rather out of the way though.

[First_Salute]

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