Strict gun control in france.

[The Grand Nudger]

I can be certain that their only use, if stolen, is as a club.  Yeah. Let me give you a rundown.

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The guns have trigger lockes and chain through-guards (jamming the bolts assemblies where applicable). There are locking mechanisms on the actual hammers themselves requiring a key. The firing pins have been removed and are kept separately, as is the ammo..in a firesafe fixed to my floor and foundation. All of this applies only to those I keep assembled (maybe half, at any given moment). A person would need to steal a key from my keychain, hack the throughguards, "somehow" get the trigger locks loose, drill a safe, find yet another key in the safe, and then have the eye to realize that the firing pins are missing (and the skill to reassemble). All of this, ofc, after having broken into my house to begin with.

Why any person would do this..if they could do this...when they could just go to a gunshop and get a hot pistol for $50, is beyond me. In order to remove just those safety features my guns came shipped with a person would have to destroy the gun. If a person can make it past everything I have in place..they're a criminal mastermind who could just as easily build an smg from parts they bought at the Home Despot (yup..that's a real thing). I doubt anything could stop them. But again...$50 at a gunshop.......

I have kids, I want to see them grow up, it only takes one "accident". If a person buys a decent rifle from a reputable manufacturer they will have everything listed above except for the safe and the ability to remove a firing pin in the package the gun comes in. Rossi, for example, is such a manufacturer. Savage is another. Remington, Henry, Winchester...all of these guys compete with each other on safety features, and their inclusion with the firearm in the purchase is not optional. The only way to get an unsafe firearm nowadays, or to posess an unsafe firearm...is if you try really, really hard. If you happen to find a defect in your firearm, any of the above manufacturers will pay to have it shipped to them, they will replace the firearm at no cost, and ship it back, again on their dime...within days. If you have an antique or used firearm, you need only go and purchase one of a great number of competing trigger locks, bolt chains, muzzle-stops, safes, smithing sets...etc.

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That's why I call massive and inarguable bullshit on these "it just went off", "I don't know how the kid got ahold of it", and "he stole my gun" types. No it didn't, yes you do...and it shouldn't matter if someone stole your gun. Failure in any of these categories, is a crime...failure in even one of them can be a felony, depending on the state. If a person can't manage to avoid committing a felony they don't get to own a firearm...and this is already federal law.

A properly secured firearm is less dangerous than a godamned kitchen knife, and my car is more likely to be stolen, in addition to being easier to steal, and then used in the commission of a crime. Not that our gun problem has much to do with people stealing guns...in the first place. The crushing majority of guns used in the commission of a crime are purchased. Straw purchases....already illegal. Fuck those guys right alongside the people up above. They are ruining my favorite hobby, and a not-so-insignificant portion of my heritage. If we ever go the route of "no-guns" it will be because of those cocksuckers, and that puts me and a very large number of law abiding..responsible gun owners (hi Min, lol) out. So of course -we're- for gun control, just as a pilot is pro FAA regs...because he likes to fly and doesn't want some smchuck either colliding with him mid-air, on the runway...or otherwise affecting -his- hobby.

On that note, enjoy.

Ask a cop on the beat how criminals get guns and you're likely to hear this hard boiled response: "They steal them." But this street wisdom is wrong, according to one frustrated Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agent who is tired of battling this popular misconception.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/.../guns.html

The article above will direct you to a significant portion of our -actual- gun problem, as opposed to the fantasies bandied about by politicians seeking supporters and the promise of an easy, single issue campaign run. Good luck getting the reds to go after "small business owners" though.....and good luck getting the blues to admit that the simple existence of a gun does not ensure the death of 40 children.... someday, somehow...it's become a veritable pillar of the party platform.

The situation is infuriating...as a shooter, I'm sure that comes across in my posts, lol. I've spent more than three decades getting good at this, it's a perishable skill, I used it in our service, and it brings me great happiness while harming -no one-. I don't even understand why there's a need to explain myself, why I'm put on the defensive by my peers for having the audacity to own a firearm; why a person would even suggest that I may be part of our problem.