SavannahMann
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Prior restraint of a Constitutionally Protected Right is by definition infringing upon that right.
Absolutely not.
The most likely outcome of such a proposal being made into law is that the people people who most need some help will not seek it.
Why not just fully enforce existing law? If someone is nuts and dangerous get a court to deem them so after a proper evaluation which would then render them ineligible.
The truth is that nobody wants existing laws enforced.
Remember the crap over the lawyers in St. Louis. They were outside brandishing their weapons. This was illegal. In Georgia it’s called Aggravated Assault. Nobody on the right wanted the laws enforced because these fine people were standing up to BLM.
Time after time. Incident after incident. Nobody wants the laws fully enforced. They want the laws enforced on the other side. They are the bad guys. Not our side.
And fully enforced is not as easy as it sounds. Twenty years ago I heard of a case. A retired Army Officer owned an AR. He had fired it tens of thousands of time. The Sear had become worn through normal wear and tear.
This man let his friend borrow the rifle. It was taken to the range. The Sear failed and the rifle went runaway. That is to say it did not reset and wait for the trigger to be pulled before it fired again. It was a malfunction.
The Retired Army Officer was charged. Tried. And convicted. His crime? Transferring a fully automatic weapon without proper authorization or tax stamp.
A worn out Sear got a man sent to prison.
And the same people don’t want the same laws applied. Juveniles in Chicago with guns are criminals. Juvenile with a gun in Kenosha is a hero.
That is the problem. The laws are viewed as something that needs to be used to control the other side. Leave our side alone. We are the good guys.