NRA: 10 ways it has weakened gun-control laws in the US

[krispos42]

22. All from Mayors Against Guns, and not a single explanation or counter-balance

1. Concealed carry reciprocity
About 10 states do not recognize any reciprocity, regardless of whether the visitor's home state requirements are as strict or stricter than the state being visited.

2. Private gun sales loophole
It's not a loophole. It's a private transaction, which may or may not (usually not) be at a gun show.

3. Terror watch list
Flying is a privilege, not a right. The government could also suspend the driver's licenses of people on the terrorist watch list, but they cannot prevent them from traveling, voting, speaking, jury trial, etc.

4. Stand-your-ground laws
It's not a shoot-first provision, it's a "you don't have to run away if threatened" provision.

5. Guns on campuses
"Remarkably, the argument is often made that not having hidden guns on campus would help prevent another Virginia Tech, America's deadliest shooting by a single gunman, in which 33 people were killed in April 2007."

6. Guns in schools
Yeah, because those signs up 1,000 feet from the perimeter of a school campus really deter crime.

7. Guns in the workplace
It's my car. You want the right to search the car I'm driving, buy a car and loan it to me free of charge.

8. Guns in bars and restaurants
And the provisions about being intoxicated and in possession of a gun remain in effect.

9. Tracing guns used in shootings
The amendment "...prohibits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from releasing information from its firearms trace database to anyone other than a law enforcement agency or prosecutor in connection with a criminal investigation." Okay, so what's the problem?

Also, if the government keeps a permanent record of all approved background checks, that's de-facto gun registration.

10. Revoking licences from corrupt dealers
I don't know enough to comment on this issue.