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Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence prevention
(www.politico.com)
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Straw purchases are already illegal and punishible by a considerable prison sentence already, can't make it double illegal. Registration won't help, nor will purchase permits (which historically, as in last year, NC had those and got rid of them when the sherrifs, who got to choose who owned handguns in their counties, decided black people couldn't own them. 60% of Pistol Purchase Permit denials were to black people) as they can both be circumvented by simply reporting the gun stolen when you sell it (and also PPPs are racist as fuck, even if that isn't the intent that is how they were actively being used in NC, and that was the intent because it was a Jim Crowe era law. The potential for abuse is too great.)
I realize that straw purchases are already illegal. The issue is that it is difficult to figure out who is doing straw purchases. The way to do that would be registration which absolutely would help. It's a bit hard to find out who is doing the straw purchases without much of a trail.
And you do realize you can do permitting without it being racist, right? Sit through a safety class and do a test if you are looking to purchase a new one in a different year. You only get racism when the process is not objective.
"Help" maybe a little, but it's trivial to bypass by reporting the gun as stolen or making it yourself, which is easier to do than you'd assuredly like to think (you can learn how in about a week, and that's slow, and then they take like a few hours to make once you know how.) It won't help as much as addressing the root causes.
Yes, but have you been to America recently? Good luck.
Why? Gun safety doesn't change year upon year, Cooper's four rules have been the same since like 1970 and every private range in the country makes you watch videos teaching it before you get or renew your membership. Even subscribing to your theory, you'd only need to do it once for your first purchase. Year over year mental health checks would be another story, but they'd be useless tied to purchases and on top of that, they're abelist.
Having to report the gun as stolen would mean someone is having to report multiple gun thefts a year. That raises a serious red flag and means the person is at the very least not properly storing their weapons. And it may be easy to CNC your own lower but that is still much more difficult than walking into a gun store and picking up a gun.
We can agree there. But there is a difference in scale. Addressing the other gun violence root causes (aside from ease of access) of income inequality and mental health are major tasks that are fiscally and politically expensive. Registration is extremely low cost in comparison.
The more something is hammered into people, the more they will actually remember. Just because you learned a couple rules a decade ago does not mean you remember them. A large portion of people who own guns do not even know the four basic rules. I know several people who could not name them and one of them even has a concealed carry permit and did test on those once a decade ago.
That is simply not correct. A overwhelming majority of gun owners are also not members of private ranges. I can only think of a few people that I know that own guns and are members of a range.
The first purchase that year.
Mental health checks are too subjective. There are already fuck head Republicans trying to use that excuse to block the trans community from being able to purchase firearms. As for being ableist...yeah. That is kind of the point. If you are not able to differentiate between reality and your delusions, you are not really able to safely operate guns.
We could always go back to how it was when the country was founded where you registered your firearm and had to have it inspected to make sure that it was in working order. I'm sure the Constitutional originalists would be fine with that. /s
Not necessarily, if you buy them slowly and then have a "break in" where they all "get stolen" about every 5 years, then you have a wealth of guns to sell on the black market, and your not stolen ones you buy legally to supply the next "robbery," rinse and repeat.
CNC is probably the easiest but most expensive, there's also the Luty SMG and a myriad of 3d printed lowers that actually work at least for a few thousand rounds which is certainly enough for a school shooting. Luty is probably the hardest, but all the parts are at Home Depot and the books aren't that hard to follow, and Ender 5s are like $300 now and 3d printing is just a hair harder than CNC.
Registration of new sales you mean? Because getting the 600,000,000+ already unregistered ones registered is basically an impossible task, nobody will comply. At that point I'd say that tbh addressing inequality and such would actually be easier.
Well then your CCW class is meaningless and more of them will be just the same, not to offend but your friends sound like they're kinda just dumb.
Where do they shoot if not the range? Do you live out in the sticks where you can just shoot anywhere? All the gun owners I know are members of a range, I live in a city though.