RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
January 28, 2017 at 5:20 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2017 at 6:16 pm by The Industrial Atheist.)
(January 28, 2017 at 3:16 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(January 28, 2017 at 3:06 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: I think in the US when we had some gun control laws it was more buy back programs and that sort of thing than busting into people homes and seizing their guns. I guess if you had an assault rifle when they were illegal the police could take it if they had some reason to search your home.
I was solemnly assured that Obama was going to come for our guns and if he didn't Clinton would.
Of course the NRA is going to say that. They are funded by the gun manufacturers. LOL you couldn't get guns around the time Obama tried to get a very reasonable universal background check passed because the stores ran out of guns.
(January 28, 2017 at 3:20 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(January 28, 2017 at 3:06 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: I think in the US when we had some gun control laws it was more buy back programs and that sort of thing than busting into people homes and seizing their guns. I guess if you had an assault rifle when they were illegal the police could take it if they had some reason to search your home.
They were never illegal. It's a common misconception. When anti gun folks try to make assault rifles illegal, they're crippled by their fundamental ignorance of -all- rifles...and end up making other shit illegal on accident.
There was an assault weapons ban in '94 I believe. I'm not going to get in an argument about what guns are more or less likely to be used in a mass shooting as I don't know too much about guns. But I hope we can agree a universal background check is only a sane minimal step to take.
