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Missouri Bill Reveals Gun Control Endgame. Again. Still.

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 State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal (courtesy cbsstlouis.com)

Gun control organizations claim they support Americans’ protected right to keep and bear arms. When spreading their lies and disinformation they say “We support the Second Amendment but -” Whatever infringement follows is “common sense.” Must prove a need to anti-gun bureaucrats to bear arms? Common sense! Sixteen hours of mandatory training? Common sense! Prohibited from carrying more than seven rounds in a handgun? Common sense! And now . . . “A proposed state law in Missouri would make it a crime for parents or guardians not to tell school officials if they have guns in their home . . . If passed into law Missouri State Senate Bill 549 (reintroduced from last year) could slap parents with a $100 fine if they didn’t tell their children’s school about their gun.” noarmycanstopstupid.com doesn’t point out that the bill doesn’t stand a chance in the legislature. It doesn’t. Even so, listen to the rhetoric . . .

This is the second time State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D-District 14, St. Louis) has introduced the legislation. The same law was introduced last year as Senate Bill 124 but it never got anywhere. She introduced the newest version in December.

“I am not trying to take away the gun rights of any parents or any other citizens. I believe in the Second Amendment,” Chappelle-Nadal told a St. Louis TV station when the bill previously was introduced. The senator said she was trying to stop school violence and crimes like carjacking.

She believes in the Second Amendment but – she doesn’t. It’s as simple as that.

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Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. Mckinney has a population over 125,000 and is a suburb of Dallas. Hardly a small town. Nice holsters though.May check them out.

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  2. Ok, so she wants public schools to be the gun registration…. Right. I have taught my daughter to stfu about any items we may or may not have in the home. It’s bad enough handguns in MI have to be registered with local police within 10 days of purchase.

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  3. In the op-ed, the guy cites a Bloomberg stat (shocking!), where gun deaths are expected to overtake car fatalities. Why are they comparing car accidents to all gun deaths (violent crime, accidents, suicides) is beyond me, since that’s not apples to apples at all. The vast majority of gun deaths are caused by the criminal element. Something tells me they will not care much about this “gun owner’s insurance,” even if it was required by law. This sort of legal requirement would do nothing to reduce crime, and there would be no payouts to victims, since criminals would not have this ridiculous insurance. And this insurance would put even more restrictions on regular citizens and further reduce legal gun ownership. Yeah, that’s some brilliant thinking there….and by brilliant I mean incredibly stupid.

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  4. I just bought a 55. Tried to put 115g rounds through it. It stove piped every time. Tried 50 rounds. Was wondering what everyone is using for ammo? Not sure yet if it was ammo issue or gun defect. Any info would be helpful.

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  5. Common sense is being able to read “shall not be infringed” and seeing that it is a period at the end of the sentence, no asterisk involved.

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  6. As often as these guys bring up insurance, I’ve yet to hear any insurance company championing the idea. With as cutthroat an industry as that is, for them not to wade in at all tells you just how toxic and unlikely something like that really is.

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  7. I commented on this before, ain’t changed. A chopper is excellent for a doorkicker crew, roadblock interdiction, supporting fires, name your poison. And take those drums and put them on ebay so some chump will pay big money for them. Stick to 20rd sticks and save yourself a world of misery.

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  8. With that reasoning mentioned in the above article, we should make all drivers suffer with unfair laws to hinder their ability to drive just because a few drunk drivers that go out driving while drunk and kill people, like my two cousins getting killed by a drink driver 8am on a Sunday morning years ago.

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  9. The real sin here is that for like 10% of the cost you could get a .308 that you could actually use somewhere other than the range.

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    • Damn Straights!
      Yeah….so many want to be the next Carlos Hathcock…why I don’t know….he toted a worn out Winchester model 70 that would group no better the 2″ at 100 yards.

      Now what could be the real reason Hathcock was so effective? Hmmmm….

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  10. I do agree with 3. Politicians who are anti 2nd ammendment should not have armed security.
    I am pro get the government away from my guns. I agree with the limitation of mentally ill people, alcoholics, drug addicts, rapists, child molestors and stalkers being able to own firearms. But to limit law abiding citizens from owning a certain type of gun or a certain capacity magazine is rediculous!

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  11. Esteemed TTAG readers; this surprises you? This is the face of what our American future portends. Modern liberalism rejects the competence and sovereignty of the common man and subordinates him to the will of governments run by Democrat/Liberal/Socialist elites. America’s twentieth century capitulation to this philosophy is obvious–and the implications for liberty are ominous.

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  12. Wait, what?

    “We have tens of millions of people across the country who support the Second Amendment and who will go out and listen to the NRA and vote the way the NRA tells them to,” said Andrew Arulanandam, director of public affairs for the National Rifle Association.

    That disconcerting NRA quote and info about MAIG/Shannon Watts, et al, in this USA Today piece.

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    • I must be an anomaly, here I am an NRA life member and yet I freely criticize their actions when they conflict with my own opinions, and I let them know it. I also think for myself and nobody but me decides who I vote for. Granted, NRA interviews and expose’s on candidates may influence my opinion, but so can interviews in any newspaper or media source.

      Or maybe, I am like most NRA members.

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      • You’re doing it right. Did you see what James Yeager said about the NRA in one of his videos? I quoted it in the Digest last night.

        Join the NRA. And if you don’t like the NRA, there’s a simple fix: Become a life member and that gives you voting rights, and then vote for the Board of Directors that you want. Quit being a douchebag running down the NRA. If it wasn’t for the NRA, all these other half-assed pro-gun organizations wouldn’t have any guns to protect to begin with. Join the NRA, make it the organization you want it to be.

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  13. This proposed legislation is beyond retarded. There must be a point in doing that. Is it so there will be totally idiotic things that can be dropped so that perhaps a partial idiotic piece of legislation may have a chance?
    Lets say for the sake of argument that law was in effect and Little Willies parents notified the school they have an AR15, AK47, a .22 rifle, a .40 Glock and a shotgun in the home. Then what? Little Willie will be profiled? The school will keep an extra good eye on Willie to see if he is in a bad mood? Lets face it, most houses have some sort of gun in them, so 90% of they kids would have to be watched??
    The idiots in the schools can’t even prevent bullying and ignore it when they do see it so now they are going to do…..what?

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  14. In all honesty the redacted words should not be present until the Investigation is completed. WE are all and should all be innocent until proven guilty. I’m not without doubt but I’m also without proof. Lets be fair.

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  15. Which crimson trace grip did you use and how did you attach it without a rail underneath? My SAR just came in and that is exactly what I am looking for. Thanks!

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  16. this incident reminds me of the opening scene in The Other Guys. the scene when the cops use tons of tax payers dollars, endanger everyone, and get in a shootout, all so they can bust someone for having like 2 oz of weed.

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  17. I’m going to withhold judgment until the whitewash has been completed and the officers are exonerated.

    Why bother with an investigation if the outcome is predetermined? In the end, that’s what it’s going to come down to, and we all know it. If the process was fair and transparent, we would have more confidence in the police. Then again, if they had to face a fair and transparent process, police would kill less people.

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  18. Sure there’s not an extra ZERO on the end there?

    If they said it was $347.50, I would’ve said: Hmmm ok, they’re trying to corner the low-end tacticool operator market. Probably sell a bunch. …but $3,475.00? Really?

    Besides looking like it was made out of a plastic dishwasher pallet, the scope mount height (presumably in order to clear a ‘forward rail’ ?) is just unforgivable, and I see not one redeeming feature that would even make me consider a second look (let alone a first look), let alone investing $3475.00 into MPA for a precision shooter …. over say… a DTA SRS A1 for a few hundred less (doh) – or heck even a Ruger American for $320, which least I could do something with other than look like a total fool at the range.

    Not sure who they’re targeting with this, but it sure aint me.

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  19. Ok, fine, how’s this for the wanna be representatives? — If you want to run for congress or the house or the senate, on the state or federal level, you must provide – for full public view – your entire income statement. We want to know ALL of your sources of income. Then, we want to know WHERE you are spending all of that money.

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  20. Ugh. They make ugly but affordable MACs, and that I can at least understand. Don’t need, but understand. Making ugly AND unaffordable bolt-action “DMR”s? Can’t fathom a use, audience, or even a want, let alone a need.

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  21. I am PRO COP but realize that some COPS are BAD… or maybe just human and make mistakes. They do have a “License to Kill”, and in all fairness they are a target; 100’s of LEO are killed (murdered) or seriously injured in the line of duty every year…. So thank you men and woman LEO’s, Amen! HOWEVER these Hail-O-Bullets is dumb…. There is no name on FMJ lead. They had wicked crossfire. The empty your magazine philosophy or the “worth shooting once they’re worth shooting twice” should NOT be SOP standard practice. LEO nor YOU nor I have a right to PUNISH or EXECUTE people, no matter what. Was he a threat? I doubt to the point they fired so many rounds. May be a double tap, pause. If they are down and/or hands up…. STOP FOR GOSH SAKES. It really looks bad for cops, but last word is DO NOT RUN FROM COPS OR REFUSE THEIR COMMANDS….. F your rights (at that time and survive the nut Cop). Don’t bait or back talk cops. News flash Cops don’t like that. Comply now, file grievance or sue later. We saw it with the black woman and her kids running on TV. The other black woman in DC who ran had mental issues….. older white nurse lady on way home from late shift at hospital getting thrown to the ground because she drove slow the rest of her way home to get to her husband (thinking the cop was not real)…… Another lady who was talking on phone got pulled over, apulled to ground and stomped on because she did not stop right away. Cop’s don’t like it when you ignore them. So pull over, shut up, do as they say and remain calm….. I find Yes Sir and No Sir goes a long way. I got off with a warning a few times by following the shut up and Yes Sir rule, and a thank you…. makes all involved happy.

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  22. I fail to understand how telling the school that you (a parent) own guns is going to prevent anything. Are they going to give those particular children pat downs every time they go to school? Are they going to be treated differently because their parents own guns?

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  23. Even if your anti police good GAWD that guy in the front is shooting directly back at all the cop cars following the runner…..

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  24. This kind of reminds me of the police shooting in DC of the unarmed women and the one year old child in the car. I still have not heard anything about that investigation. That should have been murder charges, not to mention most of those police were feds during the shutdown. I do not believe they were essential personnel, which means they should not have been working and not covered by the government. We were always told no paid orders no work, as you were not covered in the event of an accident.

    I wonder where all the outrage was on that one as opposed to Travon Martin. This woman did not try to harm anyone.

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  25. If you pay 400 hundred dollars for a scope and expect something good you got to be high. Everything I have been taught(two different service sniper schools and have attended shooting course with the like of David Tubb is you should expect to pay more for the optic than the gun. So the fact you are surprised by the scope being a piece is hilarious. And I don’t understand the whole purpose built for the round concept. And I have yet to understand what the rage is with having a variable power scope is. Set it to max power and learn to use a dope card. If you need to shoot anything under a hundred just get a 45 degree red dot holder.

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    • Variable power is nice because of the wide field of view. shooting with a 10x magnification at 300 or 500 metres is confusing IMO (especially with my bad eyesight). I prefer 1x for every 100 metres. If I had to have a long range (1000 metres) fixed power I would go for 8x or 4x but never above 10x.

      But I agree with you on price. Here in Norway we say: “Cheap rifle, expensive scope”. Not unusual to buy a rifle (308/3006 mauser) for 1000 NOK (about 150 USD)and then put a 10000 NOK (1500+ USD) scope on it.

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      • Honestly I am really sad you aren’t going. I was hoping to get your fresh and honest take on the whole shot show. Robert missed out on the everyman experience content you would have provided and we missed out on the real world believability of the gear and guns SHOT show provides.

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  26. University City–liberal bastion and solid demokratic voting bloc

    Since the bill has no chance of passing they will fall back on something else

    In totalitarian societies….
    children are encouraged to report their parents transgressions against the regime–

    just sayin

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  27. What about states that don’t have them or states like liberalfornia or communist york? It shouldn’t be an option for the federal or state government to infringe on constitutional rights!

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  28. You can buy cars all day long with no sort of background check or licensing. You just can’t legally drive them on public roads without a license, but that legality bit doesn’t stop many people.

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  29. I read about Indian gun laws a while back, and as I recall .32 is the largest caliber pistol that the average citizen can legally own. They have extremely onerous gun laws, but obviously no shortage of crime.

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  30. Don’t know what it is about the Indians: They still make the Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle basically unchanged since the late 40s.

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