“A bipartisan group of senators has reached a deal on legislation that would for the first time create specific federal prohibitions on gun trafficking and the straw purchasing of firearms,” the AP reports. “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy says the bill would establish tough penalties for those who buy a firearm or ammunition with the intent of transferring it to someone else. The measure also would make it a crime to smuggle firearms out of the United States.” Wait. What? So the tactics used for the ATF’s Fast and Furious “Guns for Goons” program are now illegal? Wow. “The bill was crafted by Leahy, two other Democrats and two Republicans and will be part of a package of four gun control measures that will be considered Thursday by the Judiciary Committee.” By which time we should have the text. Watch this space . . .
Democide– I like it. It’s very fitting.
The 2nd amendment is 2nd for a reason.
You can’t have two 1st amendment’s.
The 2nd amendment: Because we talking monkeys just can’t be trusted.
I’m glad to see the straw purchaser loophole closed. Now we just gotta close the premeditated murder loophole, we’ll get this yet, Randy
Fathers buying a gun for their son anyone?
According to Gun Owners of America this legislation S. 54 is a whole lot worse than it appears on the surface. I have not read the actual bill but here is a link to the GOA site and their take.
http://gunowners.org/alert03042013.htm
Years ago, I read a sci-fi book published by the JPFO which was about the future America. People wore extra large wide hats and dark sunglasses to avoid the cameras recording their every step. It didn’t help that everyone was required to have a crystal chip embedded in their hand that recorded their location and movement.
To all the gun owners that chose legal weed over the 2nd Amendment last November… I hope it was worth it!
1.) The Flag is facing the wrong way
2.) A good chance that if someone nicks your gun, there’s a good chance you’ll try to wrestle it back. So your hand will be within 15″. OR do you take off and chuck the watch first, or just run and let them keep it?
It’s just like cars. All the safety features in the world can’t compensate for an idiot operator.
If cars were priced like guns, I’d have a bunch of those as well.
Basically everybody has a decent level of familiarity with cars and they can understand why one person might own an SUV/truck, an efficient little sedan/hatchback, and a sports car. When you have no familiarity with guns, however, it’s very easy to be completely unable to understand why anybody would ever want/need more than one. They all do the same thing just like, if you knew nothing of cars, they all do the same thing as well (get you to your destination). Just like a single knife would properly cover all of your needs in the kitchen and at the dinner table.
I might have to submit this to Unclutterer‘s “Unitasker Wednesday” feature.
The only thing I really disagree with is crimping. Most match shooters don’t crimp their .308 or 30-06 loads. Bullet walk isn’t really an issue in a 10 lb rifle like it is in a 16 oz snub.
when they arm them with single firing laser tracking mini guns with frangible ammo we need to get off the streets.
You got to have the right to own and carry arms in your state Constitution. Everyone should get that in there if it isn’t there already. Otherwise, you will be fighting all the way the supreme court of the US.
What is the famous saying here in the states? The second amendment protects the first? Prime example of where it woulda been useful…
Performance requirements specs from 2005. I’m betting that the DHS and CBP are fielding far more capable UAV’s.
Good for Ms. Carlson there.
Hope she stays safe, with all these idiots trying to disarm her…
Take suppressors and SBRs out of the NFA and life would be simpler all around.
Better yet, repeal the NFA and the GCA.
Good for him hope he kicks DHS butt.
Search/read on Morpho Trust U.S.A., a Georgia company and consider. Morpho is a “security” company serving the Feds (and state/local) is NOT a Georgia company. Morpho is a FRENCH company owned by Safran (French transnational military industrial conglomerate.
So your nifty new digital/biometric (Fed dictated) drivers license photo and personal info/data is transfered not to your state DMV but to a FRENCH “secuity” company also on the FED (Obama) payroll. Cool.
Other than Obumer, and his progressive ilk who love the French, most thinking Americans would not regard anything about that Eurupeeon marxist, neoIslamist cesspool as a friend of the US. Now the FRENCH (read UN) are in charge of US security including aggregating our “Real ID (drivers license) records? Lets just call it a National ID card. Beria never had it so good.
And we learn that the US “progressives” want to tie firearms (carry permit) info into the same database on US citizens? What a surprise. Enough to consider making one a aluminum foil helmet.
Congratulations, Democrats. Thanks to these bills, I’ve spent over $1000 in the last 2 weeks purchasing normal capacity magazines of over 15 rounds (12 in the case of shotgun mags), mostly for guns I don’t even own yet but plan to eventually. I normally only buy older C&R firearms, but now I’m getting into the tacticool stuff. You’re causing me to be far better armed than I would have been otherwise.
Talk about unintended consequences…
No AR is cheap currently but I would have to say the S&W M&P15 Sport is the best bang for your buck. Mine is a tack driver with match ammo and with M855 the point of impact only shifts 2″ from 25yds to 100yds. After owning a Mossberg ATR100 rifle, you could not give me one of their AR’s. It would break in half before I could sell it.