RE: Another mass shooting.....
November 6, 2017 at 10:44 am
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2017 at 11:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Guns that are registered and stamped with rifling patterns filed that come with biometric controls. There are already fundamental differences between old guns and new guns..and more useful differences can be mandated as a standard of manufacturing, same as the legislation we have regarding automotive manufacturing (and gun manufacturing). The majority of those guns will not be used in a crime either, unless we really ramp up the criming in a big way while reducing manufacturing.
As to durability..depends on the coating and manufacturer. As to Australia..keep in mind, I'm not interested in becoming Australia, I'm interested in reducing gun crime and gun death. I'm a shooter, remember? If we can achieve that without a gun ban, tha';s preferrable to a gun ban from my POV. I think we can. The ATF thinks we can...if we'd fund and enforce the law, close the P2P loophole, and focus on the actual weapons used in crimes. Hell, even if we're going to eventually have a gun ban...I still think it;s a good idea to do this until then. Keep in mind....our laws make a blanket gun ban a hell of alot harder than it was for Australia....but our wealth makes the buyback portion easier to swallow.
It's worth a shot, we might find that we don;t have much of a gun problem if we make an earnest attempt to resolve the problem for what it is, if we use good metrics and solutions that at least have a chance at doing what we say we want to do. If we have an efficient and politically unobjectionable plan. There's a palpable and fundamental cost, in the US, to a gun ban. Not just in personal liberty or gun ownership and the money it would take to pull it off....but as I mentioned earlier, in the things we use surcharges and taxes to support. Again, IMO, failure to do so will inevitably -lead- to a gun ban.....so, times a wastin.
As to durability..depends on the coating and manufacturer. As to Australia..keep in mind, I'm not interested in becoming Australia, I'm interested in reducing gun crime and gun death. I'm a shooter, remember? If we can achieve that without a gun ban, tha';s preferrable to a gun ban from my POV. I think we can. The ATF thinks we can...if we'd fund and enforce the law, close the P2P loophole, and focus on the actual weapons used in crimes. Hell, even if we're going to eventually have a gun ban...I still think it;s a good idea to do this until then. Keep in mind....our laws make a blanket gun ban a hell of alot harder than it was for Australia....but our wealth makes the buyback portion easier to swallow.
It's worth a shot, we might find that we don;t have much of a gun problem if we make an earnest attempt to resolve the problem for what it is, if we use good metrics and solutions that at least have a chance at doing what we say we want to do. If we have an efficient and politically unobjectionable plan. There's a palpable and fundamental cost, in the US, to a gun ban. Not just in personal liberty or gun ownership and the money it would take to pull it off....but as I mentioned earlier, in the things we use surcharges and taxes to support. Again, IMO, failure to do so will inevitably -lead- to a gun ban.....so, times a wastin.
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