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Gun Control & RKBA

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)

6. define common sense

Reply to tblue (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 24, 2012, 01:57 AM

Oct 2012

and yes, it is a political agenda. Part of the problem is simply getting local police to enforce existing federal law. Under federal law, he should have turned in or disposed of his guns. It is a federal crime to possess a gun.
Question, how would you enforce the requirement for a private sale being brokered by an FFL?

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Wisconsin Spa Shooting Brings Call for New Gun Laws [View all] mikeb302000 Oct 2012 OP

I'm shocked ... holdencaufield Oct 2012 #1

Shouldn't be. Anti-gunners excel a such nonsense. Clames Oct 2012 #2

Pro-killing machiners do too. tblue Oct 2012 #5

If my killing machine never kills anything ... holdencaufield Oct 2012 #11

your death spewer is defective...send it to me. ileus Oct 2012 #13

Molon Labe ... holdencaufield Oct 2012 #15

firearms are meant to save lives. ileus Oct 2012 #12

So are life preservers SecularMotion Oct 2012 #14

There are 308,745,538 million Berserker Oct 2012 #17

You almost made a point. Clames Oct 2012 #23

Common sense gun control is not a political agenda tblue Oct 2012 #4

define common sense gejohnston Oct 2012 #6

A lot of things are responsible for senseless deaths ... holdencaufield Oct 2012 #8

Actually it is prohibition which is the agenda.nt Eleanors38 Oct 2012 #22

"Common Sense" gun control... Clames Oct 2012 #24

at the risk of being a precision nazi, gejohnston Oct 2012 #3

At the risk of being an even more uptight precisionite, should it not be petronius Oct 2012 #7

yeah, but it's late and I wasn't gejohnston Oct 2012 #9

Here is what mikee posted: machI Oct 2012 #10

Maybe he's a hidden criminal?? nt Remmah2 Oct 2012 #16

Open up the NICS background check system to non-federal firearms licensees slackmaster Oct 2012 #18

They're NOT calling for new laws, they're calling for better enforcement of EXISTING laws Trunk Monkey Oct 2012 #19

Umm... discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2012 #20

Why don't we push new laws after every crime? 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #21

"new"??? discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2012 #25