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White House Floats Gun Control Proposals

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)1/06/2013 9:10:57 pm PST

re: #238 Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All

I’m late to the party (as usual) but I might be one of the few people here who doesn’t like the idea of a database of gun owners. Particularly one that is publicly accessible. Why? because it can lead to more complex and confusing laws regarding what is registered, how a private resell is registered, if a gun is stolen, how is it handled, would it be a crime to not report a stolen firearm? would it be a crime to register a private transaction? Effectively, you can come close to outlawing the sale of guns with increasing red-tape.

How on earth would requiring people to actually report gun sales to each other be onerous red tape? It’s not like private citizens are going to move massive amounts of guns— or if they are, that’s a freaking problem.

And it comes nowhere close to outlawing the sale of guns. Did you mean the private sale of guns?

And yes, if your gun is stolen and you don’t report it, that sure as shit should be a crime.

But personally I’d love to see anyone who wants to own an assault style weapon agree to join a militia of some sort, license it and make sure that it pays a yearly fee to cover the costs of classes and training and education, along with drills to coordinate with the local national guard. nothing fancy, just a meet and greet every 6 months or year for a day or weekend where they can do stuff out in the field.

What is a militia? Give me some requirements. Are the whackjob militia’s down patrolling the border militias?