Posted on 03/29/2012 10:02:29 AM PDT by marktwain
TOLEDO, Ohio (WUPW) - Nearly 150 firearms recovered over the past six months in Toledo will soon be melted down at a foundry.
"They vary anywhere from little Derringers all the way to assault rifles," said Toledo police spokesman Sgt. Joe Heffernan. "It's a little collection of things that we've obtained through search warrants, and traffic stops. Some people just have a firearm they don't want anymore. They'll turn it in to us to have it destroyed."
I believe if someone commits a non-violent felony (and there are so many more of these nowadays) there should be no loss of 2A gun rights.
I believe if someone commmits a violent felony, especially where someone gets murdered, they never get their 2A gun rights back.
Luckily, Ruger will make thousands of times more guns than these idiots destroy this year alone.
Yes, and the technology has improved as well. A Ruger 10-22 take down with stainless barrel and composite stock might well be perfectly functional 200 years from now.
There are 200 year old firearms that are functional. I would guess that the oldest that I have is a bit over 100 - Well, I have a 150 year old, but cannot get ammo for it.
I think the improved metallurgy and the composite stocks will make firearms even more durable.
You completely missed my use of parallelism. I was pointing out the problem with the word “register” when applied to the word “firearm”. We don’t have to register when we invoke other freedoms.
I see your point. We don’t have to register to write, pray or talk to one another.
However, (unless you are Muslim) your worship doesn’t usually kill someone. When you write or speak publically, you have some responsibility on telling the truth; that’s why we have laws on slander.
Guns are a tool, who’s purpose is to cause death. One could argue that some are long range paper-punches, but generally they are designed for the taking of a life, usually that of game or varmit. That said, registering these guns is a means of issuing some kind of responsibility to the owner of these guns. If I sell you 3 guns, and we find that these guns were used in the commission of a crime, the phrase “Lucy, you got some ‘splaining to do” will likely be used. If these guns are stolen from your house - now we have a means of adding Burlary to the list of charges that the actual criminal will face.
Simply saying “Gee, that mass-produced Glock looks a lot like the one I used to have” is meaningless, unless you can back that up with a serial number. I see nothing wrong with this.
As far as your comment about a Felon lying about owning a firearm - he probably lied about the felony he committed too. If he is caught with a weapon, or if he commits another crime and his house is checked (pretty much SOP) and a gun is found - he will face an additional felony charge for the weapon.
The part that may be ‘unfair’ is, if there is a weapon in his home that he has reasonable access to (which can mean almost anything), it doesn’t matter if the handgun is registered to his parents, wife, girlfriend, children, great-aunt twice removed on his step-uncle’s Dads side of the family. If there is ANY weapon (shotgun, rifle, handgun) in an area where he has “reasonable access to” - he will get a second felony charge added to his list.
Bottom line: It’s really a good idea not to be a felon.
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