Is there a reason why you selectively quoted, and didn’t use the whole sentence I posted, substantially changing the meaning of it? The only “poison” is in your choice to misrepresent me.
Anyway, you claimed that it was “just” a way to collect money, and solves nothing. You are wrong. Registering guns would make it much easier to trace the source of guns in the hands of criminals, and prosecute those who provide them.
So long as guns are not registered, I can sell my collection to anyone I damn well please, and be pretty sure to not face any consequence.
That is called a “concealed weapon permit” , and yes, if you carry a gun in public, without such a permit (hunting in areas, police, etc aside) you can be arrested.
And what has that have to do with Gun Registration? Are you talking about have all gun transfers be required to have a background check, as in CA? That is exactly what I have been pushing for- other than some exemptions, such as a gift to a family member, to law enforcement, etc, I think all private transfers be required to have the same background check as when you buy a gun from a dealer. Not to mention gun advocates want to keep guns out of the hands of criminals even more that non gun owners.
The Supreme Court ruled that criminals do not have to register their guns. And selling a gun to someone who turns out to be a criminal is not a crime. Now, yes, I am in favor of all sales requiring a background check, but there can’t be a law that says if you complete a lawful sale to someone whose background check comes out clean, and that person later commits a crime, the dealer is held responsible. No one can foretell the future.
Depends on the state, of course. Here in Ohio, you can openly carry a handgun without a license unless it’s a prohibited place (government building, etc.). And in one month, you’ll be able to carry a concealed handgun without a license. The same is true for a number of other states. (Of course, it will be a crime to do so if you’re a felon or otherwise not allowed to possess a gun.)
I’ve heard the whole “if black people started carrying guns the way white people do, all of a sudden conservatives would be calling for gun control.” I just am not buying it though. In the past few years - during which, unfortunately, the public carrying of guns during protests and demonstrations seems to have become normalized - I distinctly recall black groups open-carrying weapons on numerous occasions. It didn’t seem to result in any change of heart from (white) gun advocates.
Anecdotally, I used to be a member of a shooting range/gun store that was near my house, until I realized I just didn’t go there enough to justify continuing to pay for the membership. It was a really high-end shop too, it’s more like a golf pro shop/driving range, but for guns. Anyway, every time I went in there, I saw a lot of black people (both men and women.) Either buying guns, shooting guns, or bantering with the staff and other customers. It certainly didn’t seem like some kind of “white space” where they weren’t welcome.
The whole thing with the Black Panthers and people freaking out about scary armed black militants was a long time ago, things have changed a lot since then. The concept of gun ownership seems like it’s become just another extension of general consumerism. And for this reason, it doesn’t serve corporate interests to limit the consumption of guns, by blacks, whites, or anyone else.
In some states, not all, a quick glance finds 13 that don’t. And you are the one with a license there, not the gun.
Background check would be nice, but at least a record of where it went would be the minimum.
But, without registration, you could sell hundreds of guns to criminals, and it would be nearly impossible to effectively track and prosecute you.
As many times as you trot that out, it’s a more than a bit disingenuous in that SCOTUS didn’t say that a criminal may possess a gun. It’s just that, since they aren’t allowed to have a gun in the first place. They still get in trouble over having the gun, they just don’t get in additional trouble over not registering it.
Exactly, don’t ask, don’t tell.
No one said that there would or should be. Where did you even get that bit of herring from?
They only become someone’s business once someone is harmed by one, and at that point, it’s become impossible to trace where it came from.
I don’t understand why you’re taking a victory lap you’re completely wrong too with your “The only time gun laws got strengthened was when Black Panthers marched” thesis too.
Maybe I’m too cynical, but I’m not persuaded that white conservatives nowadays as a group have changed so much since the days of the Black Panthers as you seem to think, when it comes to paranoia about armed Black people.
I suspect that the paranoid types among them have simply shifted their perceived remedy from general restrictions on gun ownership to reliance on increased firepower and militarized aggression on the part of themselves and LEOs. That plus modern incarceration culture in the US is probably enough to reassure them that they will prevail against the “scary armed black militants”. (And, of course, it’s far more profitable for gun manufacturers and dealers, as well as for sensationalist paranoid-conservative media, than trying to restrict gun ownership would be.)