(April 7, 2014 at 5:00 am)Zen Badger Wrote:(April 5, 2014 at 9:18 am)Chas Wrote: Please separate the two entirely different points - licensing of gun owners and registration of guns.
Please discuss what problems each of those purports to solve, what side effects there may be, what positive and what negative consequences could occur.
I don't see them as being separate issues and the screamingly obvious benefit is that idiots and people with criminal records can have their guns taken away.
No downside as far as I can see.
No, they are separate. Someone who does not have a license can't legally acquire or possess a firearm. To do so is a felony.
Someone who loses his/her license has to surrender the firearms. Not doing so is a felony.
We already have the laws.
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