laffindog said:"Track of the Wolf has announced a Gun Building Class"
Gee, I wonder where they will be getting the parts?
laffindog said:That is except for all the ones that they have started making themselves recently.
Explain please.
There may be some thngs going on in the background, Bud, that not every one knows about.
laffindog said:Anyone on the "inside" would have seen the humor in my comment. That's all it was, a little jest.
Concerning my OpEd to a newspaper on background checks at gun shows:
I'm the gun maker who favors background checks at gun shows for almost all gun transfers, muzzle loaders included. Better still would be BCs for all gun transfers, regardless of venue, except between close relatives.
In jurisdictions that require nearly universal BCs at gun shows there have been no negative impacts on such shows.
And after studying this country's gun violence issue I'm convinced that about 1/2-dozen well-written, well-funded & well-enforced NATIONAL gun laws would drastically cut our nation's gun death & injury rates. None of them would be unconstitutional, or of any real burden to law-abiding gun owners.
To protect our shooting sports heritage & our 2nd Amendment rights in a ever more urbanized world we gun folks must be proactive in keeping firearms out of the hands of dangerous individuals who, by their own actions, have forfeited their right of gun ownership.
Brent Gurtek
Gun Maker
Sorry for the deafening silence but I was in my shop all day. Regarding my message to the Supremes I was very anxious as to the outcome of the Heller case, but figured it would come out O.K. Which, of course, it did.
But all rights have limitations, written or implied. In the issue concernng the right to arms, even our English forebearers whose "right to arms" is (along with Enlightenment ideas) the basis for our such rights today, there were censures against criminals & nut-jobs acquiring weapons.
Persons may, by their own misdeeds of violence, lose the right to arms (not to mention liberty & life in some cases).
A national system of about 6 or so gun laws would go a long way to reduce gun violence. Instead we have 20,000+ local, state & national laws that are unconnected. And many of those have within them inherent loopholes.
A city or state can pass very strict gun laws yet have the whole effort undone by adjoining jurisdictions with lax laws. It's like a home owner who is anal about lawn care but has neighbors who do little to keep up their own property. The "anal" owner is very likely to have dandilions, etc, no matter how much he/she weeds, etc, because the pollen passes to their yard from the neighbor's. That doesn't mean that weeding, etc, is inherently ineffective. It just means that the whole neighborhood needs to get with the program.
American cities are not citidels. They're not walled enclaves with guards at the gates that search every person or vehicle that enters their corp limit to keep unauthorized guns out. Thus there's no way for local, or even state laws to be effective in a modern, free moving culture. You need a national policy for that. Then the crooks will have to either make weapons like Bubbles & me or smuggle them accross the border. No doubt some will try either. But a cottage industry of illicit gun "manufacturers" can't make arms in the quantity & quality of the current major manufacturers. And as far as smuggling is concerned, guns have flown out of our country at both borders for quite some time; at the south since at least the Poncho Villa days. I doubt that we'd see an appreciable influx of arms at our border.
I used to believe that gun regulations were, at best, pure folly. I actually hated those who proposed them.
No I find myself a champion of some of them.
Still, I'm opposed to any gun ban. I have no problem w/permit to carry/ concealed carry laws. Got no problem w/ .50 BMG rifles but do feel that they are ballistically in a class by themselves & under the right circumstances (especially regarding the semi-auto models) could cause some havoc. Got no problem w/ guns in parks.
But I do have a problem with anyone selling a gun to someone they don't know w/o verifying that the person is, as the English would have said, a "good subject" ("good citizen" in our case).
Background checks are not the only way to do it. "Permit to Transfer" cards, like are used by FFLs in Minnesota per state law, work great & leave no record of the gun acquisition.
A person can have as many guns as there are in the Cody Museum. More power to them as far as I'm concerned. I just want to know that they can be trusted with those guns & the right "good" citizens have been given to posess them.
Brent
G. M.
Col. Batguano said:Sounds like a good opportunity to learn something, which is always a good thing.
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