RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
November 18, 2015 at 2:29 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2015 at 2:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-Gun- merchants....guns, not death, guns. They don't make death in their factories, you won't find any death in their inventories. You -will- find alot of guns. Yes, gun merchants spend their resources in service of their business interests, as do the manufacturers of any product. Our legislators are -supposed- to leverage discretion and better judgement, as they do when they tell cigarette manufacturers that children are not a valid focus group for their products. As they do when they tell pesticide manufacturers that protocols must be established and followed for their design and use. As they do when they tell toy manufacturers to leave the lead out of the paint.
Background checks don't infringe upon my right to own a firearm. I know this, because I go through one at the checkout line and they let me walk off with a gun, everytime. Takes all of 5 minutes, usually less time than it takes for the cashier to count the change at walmart when her little dispenser goes down. That matters very little to manufacturers, though, because direct sales are not their business model. That's nickel and dime shit. They sell in bulk. If anybody had a problem with background checks, for that reason, it would be walmart...but walmart doesn't have a problem with background checks, they require them.
Isn't that disturbing, btw, walmart has a better handle on reality than our government?
Go to any major manufacturers website and try to order a gun. You will be redirected to a licensed dealer. Savage, for example, doesn't see the sense in assuming liability or sales issues that others will happily take off their hands. They will agree to sell you a gun, if you push hard, preferably a custom or bulk job in excess of a few thousand dollars, but who wouldn't...if you shove your money in their face hard enough. They'll then have you fill out a background check or provide your dealers creds.
This isn't the manufacturers problem. They're the ones consistently making safer, better engineered firearms despite the fact that there is no requirement that they do so. Pointing the finger at them allows those actually responsible to shirk their culpability, and importantly, their liability. Our government is failing, A: to write meaningful legislation...and B: to enforce their meaningless legislation.
Background checks don't infringe upon my right to own a firearm. I know this, because I go through one at the checkout line and they let me walk off with a gun, everytime. Takes all of 5 minutes, usually less time than it takes for the cashier to count the change at walmart when her little dispenser goes down. That matters very little to manufacturers, though, because direct sales are not their business model. That's nickel and dime shit. They sell in bulk. If anybody had a problem with background checks, for that reason, it would be walmart...but walmart doesn't have a problem with background checks, they require them.
Isn't that disturbing, btw, walmart has a better handle on reality than our government?
Go to any major manufacturers website and try to order a gun. You will be redirected to a licensed dealer. Savage, for example, doesn't see the sense in assuming liability or sales issues that others will happily take off their hands. They will agree to sell you a gun, if you push hard, preferably a custom or bulk job in excess of a few thousand dollars, but who wouldn't...if you shove your money in their face hard enough. They'll then have you fill out a background check or provide your dealers creds.
This isn't the manufacturers problem. They're the ones consistently making safer, better engineered firearms despite the fact that there is no requirement that they do so. Pointing the finger at them allows those actually responsible to shirk their culpability, and importantly, their liability. Our government is failing, A: to write meaningful legislation...and B: to enforce their meaningless legislation.
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