Category: Sale of private property loophole
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Background check stats
Not quite sure what to make of this, but the Medical College of Wisconsin released a study that gun suicide and homicide rates were about 25% lower in states that did local background checks as opposed to state or federal checks. It does strike me from the map that a) there are not that many…
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The NRA and McCain
The anti-gun blogs have been abuzz with criticism of John McCain at the NRA convention (Ray Schoenke and Paul Helmke 1 & 2.) Why is the NRA supporting a C+ rated candidate? Snowflakes in Hell has the quote of the day to explain it: “…let’s face it, the choice is between getting hit by a…
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McCain has “work to do”
The Hill reports on some of the disagreements John McCain has had with gun owners in the past, one of the largest being the McCain-Feingold bill, and the Regulation of the Sale of Private Property Law. It is interesting that the first objection brought up by the NRA in the article is not a Second Amendment…
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Gun Control as a Winning Issue?
Paul Helmke wrote an article claiming that gun control was a winning issue in this election. Someone ought to tell the candidates, because a quick check of their websites finds only one of the three lists it on their “issues” page. And that one is John McCain calling gun control a failure as a crime…
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Well, He DOES have the lone vote between the democrats
American Hunters and Shooters Association appears to be supporting Obama, apparently on the strength of HIS ONE PRO GUN VOTE (the federal Katrina bill), which apparently nullifies a lifetime of infringing on our rights. If the laundry list of gun ban proposals they support (50BMG bans, FBI access to NICS, and closing the Sale of private property loophole, and opening…
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Lost or stolen firearms: a backdoor to registration.
The lost or stolen firearms bills and “gun show loophole” laws are not only an unnecessary imposition on gun owners, making it harder for people to be a law abiding gun owner. They are also a backdoor, and/or a steppingstone to gun registration. When you have such laws in place, along with the trace data for sales,…