Simple. The plot of Taken 4 will be “they’re trying to take my guns.”
Wait…
“I have a particular set of skills … to find a Walmart, where I can go get more.”
Another sharp-shooting toddler gets a hold of a loaded gun: Three-Year-Old Shoots Father and Pregnant Mother.
Kid took the loaded handgun out of his mother’s purse and accidentally fired it.
The bullet hit the father in the buttock, exited the man’s hip and then struck the toddler’s mother in the shoulder, according to police. The mother, who is eight months pregnant, is hospitalized in stable condition and the father has been treated and released, police added.
olaf
3651
A couple of interesting developments in the past week.
First, a provision of the amended GCA of 1968 was struck down in a federal court. If this stands up it means you don’t need a local FFL to transfer a gun that you bought from another FFL, as well as making it much easier to legally acquire a firearm in locales that restrict FFLs (like DC, in this case). This is a pretty big deal because the GCA 1968 is basically the core of federal gun control for almost the past 50 years.
Second, the BATFE is trying to ban some ammo. The ammo in question is commonly available, and has been since its creation. It’s not designed to defeat body armor, but because it is a rifle cartridge it will, like pretty much every other centerfire rifle cartridge in existence. This is not really a ground breaking move by the ATF, they banned some 7.62x39 stuff in 1994 and some 5.45x39 last year, but in this case they are targeting probably the most common rifle platform in the US, the AR-15, which has resulted in a lot more opposition than the previous bans.
ShivaX
3652
If .223 is “armor piercing” all rifle and half of shotgun ammo is too. Better ban deer slugs next.
olaf
3653
Surprised to see this article published on that site.
ShivaX
3654
If body armor penetration is really the “issue” then they need to ban all rifle ammunition and especially any hunting round for anything.
My M1 will punch through body armor better than an AR could dream of. So will any hunting rifle. Or most shotguns firing hunting slugs.
It’s a stupid as hell move across the board. Gun people are still bitter about the overseas ban. They WILL come out and vote and in big numbers. People who wouldn’t vote Republican will vote Republican. I mean if someone like Joni Fucking Ernst can win on vague “they’ll take yer gunz” rhetoric while being such a terrible candidate, imagine what a candidate that isn’t a brain damaged squirrel will manage.
olaf
3655
“Josh Earnest: The president has long believed that there are some common sense steps that we can take to, and what I mean is the federal government including Congress, to ensure that we are protecting the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans while also some common sense steps to prevent people who shouldn’t have guns from getting them… It’s a common sense step we can take.”
This does not help. This is a complete bullshit response. Banning this ammo is not at all a ‘common sense step’ and nothing about it is doing anything to protect Second Amendment rights. This kind of blatantly misleading and nonsensical statement is not helpful regardless of which side of gun control/gun rights you are on.
“Common sense” is one of my favorite watch-words. That one must be in the manual.
Timex
3657
“Common sense” is usually used in a statement to fill the place where a logical argument is supposed to go.
olaf
3658
In SAFE Act news, New York sees widespread non-compliance with the registration requirements, as Connecticut saw last year, and California saw in the 90s. I recall reading somewhere that Australia saw similar issues with lack of interest in registration, but I can’t find a source for that assertion off-hand.
I don’t think Australia experienced quite the same thing. All guns over here have to be registered. After the Port Arthur shooting a range of firearms were made illegal (high powered semi-auto rifles mostly), with a grace period and compensation for owners to return them for destruction. There are certainly firearms out there that were not returned, but they are now illegal so registration would have been invalidated and it is now an offense to still be in possession of one. I also assume the government used registration data as a vector for communication to owners regarding change of legislation and their requirements to return or destroy.
ShivaX
3661
There are still plenty out there buried on people’s property. Pretty much every Aussie I know has a cache hidden someplace.
I am guessing you don’t know that many Aussies…
I am sure there a bunch of station owners that never returned them and are still using, or have them hidden away. But that will be far from the norm over here. Like I said, all firearms are registered anyway, so the Government had a pretty good handle on how many were out there and who had them. It’s not like 10,000’s of gun owners pleaded ignorance to the location of their firearms once the Government initiated the return.
Shh… you’re not supposed to tell people this is what happens.
ShivaX
3664
I know 4 or 5 and I think 3 of them did it. The other 2 had weapons that weren’t banned so they didn’t bother.
From listening to them talk to each other, it was sort of an assumed thing, as in so many people had done it, it wasn’t a matter of “I did it” so much as “what did you decide to stash?” They obviously didn’t do it with everything, but they picked a couple favorites that suddenly got “missing” or “stolen” when the government came knocking.
I am truly stunned that out of the 5 Aussies you know, all had firearms, given our per capita rate is <20%. They are some pretty long odds. Could depend on the circles you move, I guess, and I can see that might lead to you to believe there are caches of firearms buried all over the country, but it is just not true.
Pod
3666
Was it on a gun-forum, by any chance? :)
