RE: Man Arrested for owning guns.
July 14, 2021 at 1:49 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2021 at 1:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There’s a connection between volume of sale and gun violence, but it’s delayed and tertiary. More guns does mean that in 4 to 7 years time, especially if there are even more new models at that time, the secondary market is flooded and gun crime has a relatively cheap buy in. Thing is, there always has been and always will be some portion of used firearms available at a decent price from unscrupulous but otherwise legal primary buyers.
Monitoring or capping sales -could- have an effect, but the effect would be small, and at great economic and political cost. Gun manufacturers and gun lobbies frankly wouldn’t even care if we limited volume domestically so long as we removed those pesky international sales guardrails and limits ( that ironically do exist…in context). *
It’s a finishing touch, at best, and something worth sinking our time into if and when we’ve shored up more direct and efficacious plans.
*and just to drive this home, manufacturing lobbies have been consistently -for- gun safety laws and stronger enforcement,…domestically. The culture war giving them cover to work toward the real prize, our genuine distinction in the world of guns. Unlimited international arms sales.
Monitoring or capping sales -could- have an effect, but the effect would be small, and at great economic and political cost. Gun manufacturers and gun lobbies frankly wouldn’t even care if we limited volume domestically so long as we removed those pesky international sales guardrails and limits ( that ironically do exist…in context). *
It’s a finishing touch, at best, and something worth sinking our time into if and when we’ve shored up more direct and efficacious plans.
*and just to drive this home, manufacturing lobbies have been consistently -for- gun safety laws and stronger enforcement,…domestically. The culture war giving them cover to work toward the real prize, our genuine distinction in the world of guns. Unlimited international arms sales.
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