Slade3200
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Where does your brother live?I’m curious. Do you personally know anybody who wants a gun but is unable to get one because of overregulation?Ok so you are being reasonable by supporting the current system but if you could have it your way would you do BG checks and restrict felons from owning firearms? Do you think those regulations are constitutional and effective?I have no problem prosecuting straw buyers... but if we had it your way anybody could buy from gun stores and there would be no need for straw buyers. It wouldn’t be a crime to straw buy. So your arguments conflict with eachother. You either believe in infringing on the 2nd amendment and regulating who buys guns thus making straw buying a crime... or you don’t. Which is it?I disagree I think limiting who we sell guns to makes a difference. I don’t think it stops everybody from getting a gun but it stops some. Plus every time the cops bust a straw buyer or an illegal gun transaction they are preventing guns from being obtained and used which would not happen if anybody could simply go buy from a storefirst of all you don’t know which laws I support or don’t support.
In this case do you think the guy with the record should be able to waltz into that store and buy a gun no questions asked?
Yes, he should be able to buy a gun, no questions asked. It's not the ownership of a gun that should make a criminal, it's what a person does with the gun. That the guy 2aguy mention, the one that shot 3 cops, was not able to legally buy a gun didn't stop him from getting a gun and shooting 3 cops. Being in prison for the entire legally possible time for armed robbery would have stopped him from shooting these cops.
They easily without universal background checks or registration, but, as my earlier post showed...prosecutors do not go after straw buyers and put them away for long prison sentences......
We do not need new gun laws....we need democrat party judges and prosecutors to keep violent, repeat gun offenders in jail...
America Should Be Prosecuting Straw Purchasers, Not Gun Dealers | National Review
Wisconsin isn’t alone in its nonchalance. California normally treats straw purchases as misdemeanors or minor infractions. Even as the people of Baltimore suffer horrific levels of violence, Maryland classifies the crime as a misdemeanor, too. Straw buying is a felony in progressive Connecticut, albeit one in the second-least-serious order of felonies. It is classified as a serious crime in Illinois (Class 2 felony), but police rarely (meaning “almost never”) go after the nephews and girlfriends with clean records who provide Chicago’s diverse and sundry gangsters with their weapons. In Delaware, it’s a Class F felony, like forging a check. In Oregon, it’s a misdemeanor.
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I visited Chicago a few years back to write about the city’s gang-driven murder problem, and a retired police official told me that the nature of the people making straw purchases — young relatives, girlfriends who may or may not have been facing the threat of physical violence, grandmothers, etc. — made prosecuting those cases unattractive.
In most of those cases, the authorities emphatically should put the straw purchasers in prison for as long as possible. Throw a few gangsters’ grandmothers behind bars for 20 years and see if that gets anybody’s attention. In the case of the young women suborned into breaking the law, that should be just another charge to put on the main offender.
Nope....I am fine with the current background check system for licensed gun stores and gun sellers......what we need is an instant system where you plug in the soc. sec. number and name and you see if the buyer is a felon.....gun stores need access to the actual data base cops use when they pull you over for a traffic ticket. We are stuck with that system....so being reasonable I will live with that....but no to universal background checks. They are pointless and useless.......
The current system doesn't stop criminals or mass shooters but I will leave it in place since, like masks, it is security theater....
It is already illegal to sell a gun to a felon.......we don't need universal background checks to do that......
Gun stores checking to see if you are a felon is likely Constitutional....for the sale of private property...no. ..And background checks.......they are not effective...as our gun crime rates in democrat party controlled cities show.
Guns? Yes....my brother and his wife have applied for a Firearm Owners I.D. card weeks ago.......without that card they can't buy or own a gun.....they are not criminals, they are law abiding...but because of the back log created by our Governor taking funds from the State Police for exactly the reason of slowing down the process....they can't get a gun. They aren't the only people.......I am have been waiting even longer to get my renewed FOID card....
For Concealed carry permits here in Illinois...my boss at work works 80 hours a week and couldn't find the time to get 16 hours of training to get his concealed carry permit......
And I know a few people here on the board who live in states where it is pretty much impossible to get concealed carry permits, and I know John Stossel, the reporter....was denied a concealed carry permit.....