Two really bad ideas and one really good one….
First bad idea: District of Columbia style firearms storage laws currently being batted about by the Seattle City Council
Not quite as idiotic second bad idea: “National Gun Buy Back Program”
Good idea: Concealed Carry for All
Would not such a law in Seattle be unconstitutional under State law? I was under the impression that the law was written in such a way that no subordinate entity to Washington State (such as a county or municipality) was permitted to make a law more stringent than State law regarding guns.
“a ban on assault-style weapons, a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, and an end to the gun-show loophole on weapon sales and background checks….wants the state to have laws regarding trigger locks and safe storage, and features to mark firearms so police can trace fired bullets.”
These snips from the prattle are a simple bullet-point list of wet dreams by gun banners that have been around for at least a decade, and seriously challenged or proven to be no factor in controlling gun crime:
What the Hell is “assault-style”? Style is like Beauity, in the eye of the beholder. That can NEVER be a legal term. Lipstick on pigs.
“Gun-show loophole”…does NOT exist. Private sales DO exist, in most states. It being a State matter, a State’s Rights challenge is sure to accompany any Federal intrusion. Bad guys don’t get their guns on Craigslist, they steal them or they buy them on the street-corner from gun-runners who are NEVER going to obey that law.
Trigger locks? I’ve gotten one with every new gun bought here in Oregon is the last ten years or so. I believe that they are ALREADY mandated by the Feds. They ARE a poor substitute for gun safes, of which I have a pair and they are both kept locked except for my bedside and carry guns.
“Safe Storage” doesn’t help when the mass-murderer murders the gun owner to get her guns. Both Clackmas and Newtown guns were stolen, Newtown by killing the owner. The perp than had several hours to get into the safe if one was involved.
Then that last: microstamping. An unproven technology, made entirely un-necessary by simple facts: most anyone can replace a firing pin, if the technology to engrave them were even feasible, which several machinists I know says it’s not. What about revolvers, and rifles set to not eject which makes microstamping a moot point? Also, in the case of tracing fired bullets, again, the Feds have already been there. Every single rifled firearm I’ve bought new for the past ten years or so has come with a fired bullet in a sealed envelope. If the cops want that bullet, I don’t give a rip, give it to them. I suspect that they don’t want that bullet, storing millions of them would be a hassle, and what about the other 200,000,000 guns? What about smoothbores? BTW, the science of microscopic comparison of bullets to the rifling is a proven technology, and has been proven for over a century.
You really don’t have to look very far to see the infeasiblility of every single one of these ideas, but then, infeasible ideas are the hallmark of (D)emocratic Party policy, aren’t they?