Originally Posted by
Dist. Expert 26
It's not. What's bad is the optics of a prominent gun manufacturer supporting a "gun control" bill. It's going to cost him business and give the left more ammunition. "See, even assault weapon manufacturers think we need gun control".
It's not gun control, it is people control. If you don't want to lose your toys, we need to NICS guns for some of these boys.
We need to make a distinction between the two and take the focus off the guns and on the crazies that shouldn't have guns.
If we can shift the focus from 'what' to 'who'- which we know is more effective (and preferable) to us.
Plus, change the name from 'gun control' to something that fits our agenda.
I didn't hear people complaining about this when it passed the House (it passed the House, right?).
Originally Posted by
kwelz
Then get those amendments in there before we push it. As a rabid gun owner I actually don’t hate the NICS system and feel it is a good compromise. I do have a problem with something this open ended being pushed by people in the gun industry.
With all the talk of mental health lately this bill has the potential to block a lot of people unjustly from purchasing firearms. I am actually behind the idea of fixing the NICS system and making it more accurate. But it has to be done right.
GOA and a couple other groups posted a pretty good analysis of why this is a dangerous bill as written. It can be expanded too easily though interpretation. And we know how dangerous that is.
I don't know the details, and I'd like to see the what the problem is. I do think that no law would ever be acceptable to some people because they think that the local PoPo is just waiting to get their guns. People have to have some serious head trash to think that they are that close to crazy that someone will come and take your guns. Look at Parkland. Look at the states with laws in place already. Do people think that they are that indiscernible from that kind of crazy?
This is were anti-social A-holes hide behind the libertarian label.
The Second Amendment ACKNOWLEDGES our right to own and bear arms that are in common use that can be used for lawful purposes. The arms can be restricted ONLY if subject to historical analogue from the founding era or is dangerous (unsafe) AND unusual.
It's that simple.
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