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rbixby

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31. I like the background checks for private sales too

Reply to ProgressiveProfessor (Reply #22)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 12:22 PM

Jan 2013

It doesn't do anything about illegal sales, but that's kind of the nature of illegal sales.

I think that requiring a bill of sale or a proof of ownership for each firearm would be good to have, so we know the last known person who legally transferred the weapon was.

Yep, it would be a gun registry, but make it only available by search warrant, not to the general public.

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I Love It - Not Gun Control - But - Ammo Control....... [View all] global1 Jan 2013 OP

Reloading your own ammo is trivial. Speck Tater Jan 2013 #1

Ban the sale of gunpowder and the primers problem solved stultusporcos Jan 2013 #7

Black market gunpowder would be all over the place. Speck Tater Jan 2013 #32

If you want to play with a single shot musket hogwyld Jan 2013 #38

oh well, then fuck it frylock Jan 2013 #39

oh my backwoodsbob Jan 2013 #2

Too late ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #12

I love Chris Rock! Larrymoe Curlyshemp Jan 2013 #3

Ha! You beat me to it! I immediately thought of that. PotatoChip Jan 2013 #8

+1 uponit7771 Jan 2013 #21

You think paying a few more dollars to fill a gun magazine will deter someone? OneTenthofOnePercent Jan 2013 #4

OK, tax it 4000%, or 40000% CanonRay Jan 2013 #10

So you support poll taxes? ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #13

What does taxing bullet sales have to do with a poll tax CanonRay Jan 2013 #29

It would be regarded as a "use tax" for a constitutional right NickB79 Jan 2013 #35

Making "ink and paper" the equivalent of bullets CanonRay Jan 2013 #37

Not sure what poll taxes have to do with ammo taxes.... rbixby Jan 2013 #30

you can't do that backwoodsbob Jan 2013 #25

I Have No Idea What A Bullet Costs.... global1 Jan 2013 #11

Anywhere from ten cents to a dollar per bullet Recursion Jan 2013 #24

Speech is free Riftaxe Jan 2013 #5

You will never be able to use a 3d printer for gunpowder Exen Trik Jan 2013 #6

If 3d printers are here, can replicators be far behind? JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2013 #23

The bill that would make armor-piercing rifle rounds illegal? NickB79 Jan 2013 #9

Sounds like more incompetence from pols ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #14

Another reasonable response from the all-guns-all-the-time contingent Orrex Jan 2013 #15

I have tried that approach several times here backwoodsbob Jan 2013 #16

I'm fool enough to keep trying. There are things that need to be tightened up ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #18

No, just a call for some understanding of the basic tech involved here since as old AWB showed us, ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #17

A fair start indeed--thank you. Orrex Jan 2013 #19

Some additional feedback ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #22

Thanks Orrex Jan 2013 #27

I like the background checks for private sales too rbixby Jan 2013 #31

MOAR GUNSES!!! frylock Jan 2013 #40

+1 uponit7771 Jan 2013 #20

Shooting range control alcibiades_mystery Jan 2013 #26

Are you proposing a ban on ammo storage at home? NickB79 Jan 2013 #33

You need an insurance policy on your automobile- why not your guns? stlsaxman Jan 2013 #28

Except some states don't require an insurance policy NickB79 Jan 2013 #34

So we want people to have guns and not practice shooting? dkf Jan 2013 #36