Colorado Shooting Suspect Avoided Gun Reporting Requirement

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The NRA has convinced state lawmakers to make it easier to buy and carry guns, said Adam Winkler, a University of California, Los Angeles law professor who wrote about the subject in his book, “Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms.”

Winkler pointed to states such as Arizona and Wyoming that don’t require permits to carry guns. Florida lawmakers in 2008 forced business owners to let employees and shoppers bring firearms on their property and leave the firearms locked in their cars.

Virginia lawmakers this year repealed a cap on buying more than one handgun per month.

“Tragic incidents like this don’t move gun control laws,” Winkler said in an interview. “No matter how many people die, gun control reforms go nowhere.”

The nuts are already out in strength in the comments to that Bloomberg wire story. It doesn’t take them long.