Oregon now requires a background check for all gun transactions … seriously, you have to meet your next door neighbor at a gun shop and have the check done … guns shows have to have the ability to do the check at the show … I think immediate family is the only exception …
The shots get fired at the guy with the machete attacking me in my bedroom late at night …
From the beginning … “It may be their fault but they’re not dead, are they?”
If I use a Glock 30, then machete-man is dead … and it’s his fault … the Springfield maybe not, and yeah the prison system will have to pay his medical bills, shame on me …
I guess I should be more careful how I use complicated English and throw a pronoun in … It’s the convicted felony’s fault he’s a convicted felon, and can’t own a gun … technically, if the convicted felon is dead, then he has no claim to 2nd Amendment rights, that’s called a moot point …
I was there too and there was NO PANIC purchasing of Firearms in the year or months before the Riots (In the sense of the Nationwide Panic buying of 2008 and 2012 and 2014-15 ) and the 15 day cool off period was in effect too so if you were astute enough predict that the SHTF was coming you had to have scored a few weeks out otherwise you were SOL at getting a New or Used Firearm from an FFL ESPECIALLY A HANDGUN during the entirety of the Riots …
Well, this Canadian who has had a colorful past disagrees with you on both points. Canada’s restrictive handgun laws actually do severly limit how easy it is for criminals to get guns. You can still get them, but they cost a lot, require some major connections to find on the black market, and are a major heat-score from the cops. IME most Canadian criminals use knives or other easier to get weapons. I knew a few dudes who carried sawed-off shotguns, but they were the exception.
On your second point, criminals to get rid of their guns all the time. Once you’ve used it, it’s now evidence that you committed a crime. The logical thing to do at that point is to get rid of it and replace it. By creating laws that restrict the acquisition of guns, you make replacing the guns they have now harder. It’s not a cure-all, but it’s not a situation to just throw your hands up in the air and claim it’s impossible.