My mother used to drag my father into some of the world’s most expensive stores. She’d point out how ugly something was (my Mom has impeccable taste). “At least it’s expensive,” my father would pronounce. That’s how it is with gun control. Not only is civilian disarmament ugly — in terms of trampling on Americans’ right to keep and bear arms — it’s also an enormous waste of taxpayer money.
To wit this little gem from Connecticut’s stamfordadvocate.com: “State police are seeking 39 additional workers — at a cost of $2.6 million — to handle an avalanche of new duties brought on by gun laws passed after the Newtown school massacre.” Pah! That’s a drop in the bucket. The real cost of the Constitution State’s unconstitutional gun laws is . . .
. . . the Office of Fiscal Analysis estimated the legislation would cost up to $17 million through the 2015 fiscal year, including more than $4 million for state police.
And we all know how good the government is at estimating costs. Come what may (i.e. a doubling from original estimates) gun owners and tax payers (and especially tax-paying gun owners) are on the hook for Connecticut’s feel-good security theater gun control.
Some of the cost of the gun bill will be defrayed by $35 fees for eligibility certificates to purchase guns and ammo, but the remainder will ultimately be borne by taxpayers . . .
Taxpayers would cover most of the $1.9 million in wages and $700,000 in fringe benefits needed to pay civilian employees to process paperwork for background checks, gun registries and permits established under the nation’s toughest gun legislation.
I don’t think the word “tough” means what the Advocate thinks it means. I’m thinking tough means unconstitutional, expensive and burdensome.
Administrators recently told a legislative committee that as of the end of last year state police had 1,000 gun transactions to log into its system. That number has now swelled to 62,000.
There are also 2,720 sets of fingerprints to be processed for pistol permits, along with 9,326 applications.
Which doesn’t include the new requirements for ammunition purchase. Can’t wait to see what that’s doing to the system. Meanwhile, here’s a heads-up from a reader named Brad in Maryland where legislators also “got tough” on legal gun ownership . . .
Have you guys been following what is pretty much infringement on 2nd Amendment rights in Maryland with respect to the background check process? Even now, before the dreaded new “Gun Safety” bill goes into affect on Oct 1st, the waiting period is horrendous. People getting the “Not Disapproved” back from the MD State Police has bee averaging about 70 days. The MDS has stated that it takes them a week to get through 1 day’s worth of applications.
Should these and other slave state wise-up and roll-back their gun control regulations, or should they be forced to do so by the U.S. Supreme Court, the bloated bureaucracy created by these laws will be a lasting legacy, and an ongoing threat to personal liberty. In case you didn’t know.
BigSkydoc brought up something interesting about the .458 SOCOM.
I had never heard of that round before and for those as ignorant as me, it uses a .308 sized rim and feeds single stack in the .223 mag. This was to stay within the M4/16 infrastucture for the military.
How many .458 rounds would fit in the .223/5.56 30 or 20 rnd mag?
If you carried around a mag filled with .458 to show law enforcement its “true” capacity, what could they say about all your empty ones built in 2014?
“Yeah but, but…”
I guess they would head back to the legislative drawing board.
It would be nice if there was a way to convert a AK between 5.56, 5.45, 7.62×39 and .300 BLK using the same mags for 5.56 and 5.45.
I gave Kris K. a $100 bucks in each of the two Kickstarter pushes. I am proud to have been a supporter – this needed to be made.
Context fellas, context. This is a gun site, right.
That kind of a question here to the AI, is a “don’t get me started” can of worms.
Read part of it. Due to the extensive list of places you cannot legally carry, this is a de-facto ban on carry in Chicago (at least from on outsider’s perspective). If public transportation is as important there as it is in most cities, most people, especially lower income people, will simply not be able to take their guns with them. And watch how long it takes for the city to pressure businesses into putting up “no guns allowed signs.”
So, you can carry a gun. If you jump through their extensive series of hoops. And the police deem you worthy (based on their own subjective judgment). As long as you don’t actually plan on going anywhere or doing anything while you are out. In which case you might as well stay home. But at least you can home carry a loaded gun while you knock around your apartment. Or while you are out jogging or walking, as long as you are careful.
It’s truly sad if this is a step in the right direction for Illinois.
Can anyone with legal expertise weigh in on this please? I’m all for backing any effort to push back against the grabbers, but it this the right case to back? Sure sounds like what we need to clarify the McDonald ruling, but could set a bad precedent if it fails.
Anyone who knows more about legal issue than I do (which is very little) want to comment?
We watch as the graceful Pmag perches itself upon an upright log post. Being the last of its kind within the state not in captivity, it waits for its flock to arrive before migrating to its new home of Texas. Ah, but it appears the magazine has caught a liberal gun-grabber trying to sneak up on it. Being made of plastic smarter then those who wish to destroy it, the Pmag lies down in an attempt to mimic a rock. As expected, the predator soon passes without incident.
Nice write up Nick, but just like going around a race track in a pace car is easy and straightforward doing at the speed of the Pro’s is anything but!
So in Maryland you don’t get approved, you get “not disapproved”? That’s hilariously sad.
This is how it starts.
My grandmother lived in Beloit Wisconsin( on the IL/WI border). Yellow margarine was illegal to sell in WI in the olden days. She would smuggle a case of “colored oleo” into the Dairy State when she came to visit. I guess Grandma Cantonia was a bad guy.
When the price SPREAD, for an illegal or taxed item is large enough, players arbitrage for the risk reward pay off. So, here we go. Lets make the tax so high so that the differential of the free market and taxed price is so great that we get the Big Boys involved. The mob will replace the hodge podge street corner gun dealers with a real efficient conduit to the REAL bad guys.
Lets review, one hand, create gun ammo purchase ID cards so only good guys can buy ammo. Other hand, tax ammo excessively to create an underground efficient mob run supply so that bad guys can skip the whole ammo ID thing. All the while to generate a cash flow to bribe and corrupt the cops.
I thought up this scenario all by myself because I know, we have never seen this kind of thing before in our past history.
If Obama had a son he would be like Trayvon…wow, a true statement from Obama.
I lived in San Francisco during the Rodney King riots. Someone threw a big empty bottle of Colt45 beer through our front window during one of the rioting nights and then took-off. One of my house-mates had a shotgun and I had an older Gerber MKII 8-inch dagger. Talk about feeling unarmed.
A couple months ago, I read that the owners of the home owner’s association where the shooting occurred settled out of court with Trayvon’s parents for $1,000,000. They got their investment back with far more profit than they deserved.
The threat of rioting should not be a factor with respect to the disposition of this case. If Zimmerman is found innnocent then let law enfocement deal with those low-lifers who are looking for any and every excuse to riot.
Where do they have 440 rounds of 7.62x54r for ninety bucks?
45 will have more nock down power every time hands down, and as far as the test about throwing them by hand that is the most butt backwards example I’ve ever heard of, let’s take your test rules and re apply, you take your marble and throw it at me as hard as you can, then I get to take my cueball and throw it at you at half the speed you throwed, your marble might sting a little but I bet the cueball will knock you out!!!!