A Gun Nut's Guide to Gun Control

[makattak]

Teaching your child how to shoot a semi-automatic would automatically make him a felon.

Teaching any new shooter on a semi-automatic makes them a felon.

Getting new shooters involved with firearms becomes highly regulated and difficult, necessarily decreasing the number of new shooters. This is a scheme designed to turn owning guns into the niche hobby that NFA owners/shooters are.

I.e. it's about killing the gun culture over the long term.

No.

[HankB]

My theoretical theory on that is we assume a person is law abiding and non-violent until he proves otherwise.  Then we take away his rights.

But of course, that would be harking back to the days of old before all the pre-emptive right-taking came about in modern politics.

Terry, 230RN

So how about this - driver's licenses (or state ID cards) are cross referenced with criminal records, with a big CVF ("Convicted Violent Felon") on the driver's licenses of convicted violent felons. Everyone without a "CVF" can buy anything they want, where ever and when ever they want? (The alternative is to keep the proven bad guys in jail and just not let them run around loose.)

I'd also include criteria for disqualifying people who are mentally ill, but seeing as I put the pill pushing quacks of modern psychiatry (who'd no doubt be making that determination) on a par with astrologers and phrenologists, I wouldn't have much confidence in the results.

[brimic]

A 'gun nut's' (me) perspective to reasonable gun control:
-Repeal the Hughes Amendment.
-Repeal the Gun Control Act of 1968
-Repeal the National Firearms act of 1934

Nothing else is 'reasonable.'

[Fly320s]

So how about this - driver's licenses (or state ID cards) are cross referenced with criminal records, with a big CVF ("Convicted Violent Felon") on the driver's licenses of convicted violent felons. Everyone without a "CVF" can buy anything they want, where ever and when ever they want? (The alternative is to keep the proven bad guys in jail and just not let them run around loose.)

I'd also include criteria for disqualifying people who are mentally ill, but seeing as I put the pill pushing quacks of modern psychiatry (who'd no doubt be making that determination) on a par with astrologers and phrenologists, I wouldn't have much confidence in the results.

How about this: every free person at least 18 years of age can buy whatever they can afford, no questions asked.

[cordex]

How about this: every free person at least 18 years of age can buy whatever they can afford, no questions asked.

Fly320s for Supreme Court!