Thoughts and Prayers!!!

[Nebfanatic]

I have an acquaintance who builds AK47s.  Has about 25 of them he's built.   You can go on-line and order all the replacement parts you need and assemble it yourself.   If you learn how to take apart and assemble a weapon, you can find every piece you need on-line and order it.  And scary enough, if you order these, you can probably order and assemble without having to have a gun license to buy one.  Anyone with a credit card, a mailing address and access to the internet could build one from scratch.

While it's a fine line I don't see why some legislation couldn't be brought forth to limit this type of practice if that is the case. 

 

[funhusker]

While it's a fine line I don't see why some legislation couldn't be brought forth to limit this type of practice if that is the case. 

Kind of what I was thinking.  If these are existing parts and pieces of guns, I don't see why they wouldn't fall under the same type of background check.  Now, if he was machining and molding parts in his basement, that would be a totally different story.

 

[BigRedBuster]

Hey....maybe we need conceal carry for HS kids so they can protect themselves.

 

[Fru]

Hey....maybe we need conceal carry for HS kids so they can protect themselves.

I'm curious as to how many people would actually support that. 

 

[knapplc]

Two dead, nineteen injured. But this will be swept under the rug. Again.


Can't wait for Conservative media to declare this one a hoax, too.

 

[sho]

And the one in TX yesterday.   I didn't see much of anything about either of these.  It's no longer the big breaking news story.

 

[commando]

I'm curious as to how many people would actually support that. 

the NRA would push for it

 

[Danny Bateman]

1. Shooting occurs.

2. Some variation of "the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

3. Repeat ad nauseam.

 

[knapplc]

the NRA would push for it

The NRA pushed for bump stock bans after Las Vegas. That was months ago, and they're still for sale.

 

[commando]

The NRA pushed for bump stock bans after Las Vegas. That was months ago, and they're still for sale.

they never pushed for bump stock bans...but they gave tepid support to a partial restriction on them....for awhile.  now it's business as usual.  arm everyone and make money...damn the consequences and the body count. 

 

[BigRedBuster]

Umm......we are only 23 days in.

 

[knapplc]

they never pushed for bump stock bans...but they gave tepid support to a partial restriction on them....for awhile.  now it's business as usual.  arm everyone and make money...damn the consequences and the body count. 

That's true, and I was being sloppy when I wrote that. I should have said something like they claimed they were going to push for a ban, but never did. 

 

[BigRedBuster]

The NRA doesn't give a crap about this stuff....other than it's more and more easy for them (and their backers) to create fear the government is going to try to take all our guns away....thus creating more gun sales (for their backers).

 

[BigRedBuster]

So....The Republicans are trying to say that if the Democrats don't fund the wall, they are complicit on every murder a Mexican immigrant does.

If that's the logic we are going to use, does it then mean that if the NRA is not going to support laws that help prevent gun violence, then they are complicit in all murders with guns?

 

[knapplc]

The NRA pushed for bump stock bans after Las Vegas. That was months ago, and they're still for sale.

States are (rightly) taking this into their own hands. But if bordering states don't ban them, or if all states don't ban them, then it's kind of a moot point.