A firearm question for you LeftiesFollow

If by universal registry, you simply mean a registry of people who are legally registered to own a firearm? Sure. No problem at all. I just proposed an idea where anyone can get a gun registration ID that verifies that they are legally allowed to own firearms. You do that once. The cards are required to purchase any firearm. The POS systems are linked to a database that validates the card, so that if the persons legal status changes, they can't buy guns. Beyond that, no tracking of anything at all. It would act like a credit check. You either can or can't legally own a weapon.

No background checks required because it's already done for you. Swipe your card. Green means you can buy a gun. No need for bewildering registration or licensing systems for the firearms themselves. If you are in possession of a firearm, cop swipes your card. Green means you're legal and you continue on your way. Point being as long as the firearms themselves are legal to own (ie: don't violate existing restrictions), there's no need to track how many anyone has or what types they are within that range. In exactly the same way that if I'm legally able to buy alcohol, the government shouldn't be tracking how many bottles I buy, or what kind. If I want to buy 20 television sets, the government shouldn't track that either. See how that works? If I want to give a friend of mine a gun, as long as he's got a valid card, it's legal. There's no more need to track that than there is whether I give that friend an old dresser I don't need anymore.


We track way too many things already IMO.

Okay, I can live with that.



Have many times, hence post #786. Best part of a civil war is when neither side will really represent you in the end, but they still force you to choose sides...

Shooting ranges tend to have rules as well.

Not if I can help it; got an underground bunker a shotgun and a tinfoilhat.

GET ME IF YOU CAN AMERICA!!





[:shotgun:]

SpoilerActually it's kind of nice that most of the time no one else really cares. Well, until we legalize pot or euthanasia or something...

Edited, Feb 13th 2013 2:37pm by someproteinguy

Absentee FTW. All voting should be done while lounging on your couch in your underwear.

What's an absentee ballot? Is it like, a sniper rifle or something?

I JUST WANT TO KNOW THE RULES, GBAJI.

Come on, it's supposed to be part of liberal indoctrination or something right?

Those kids at Sandy Hook were voted DOWN~!!!

Why can't we respect these gun-vote rights?!

I know that you're being facetious, but the actual vote isn't being shot. In that philosophical thought, the car is just as guilty for transporting you to the location.

If we're going to do this, let's really do this. First, all votes are meant to be equal, therefore the only legitimate thing to do is to only have one legal model firearm. How can you sit there and suggest that a Remington 700 CDL is the same as a Beretta 950 Jetfire? It's ridiculous. Equal vote, equal gun. Next, no one pays to vote, therefore whatever model we decide on has to be free. But to do that it'd have to be government funded, as no one would suggest that people produce millions upon millions of pistols for free, so you'd simply have to raise taxes to cover it. Beretta and Glock already have contracts to make weapons for the armed forces and various law enforcement agencies, so I'm sure they'd be more than happy to get paid more to make more. And, you know we don't prevent people who don't pay taxes from voting, so we can't prevent people who don't pay taxes from these free guns either. That would be unconstitutional.

So I guess that's what gbaji really wants. Higher taxes, no real choice in what low quality firearm you can get and in pretty much anyone's hands regardless of socio-eco status.

I vote that we shoot this thread. Dead.

I don't know, I wasn't all that impressed with the manifesto...