Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Woman uses 2 guns to shoot at would-be home invasion robber [View all]branford
(4,462 posts)Guns are hardly unregulated. We have thousands of pages of federal, state and local statutes and other regulations concerning firearms, as well as an entire federal law enforcement agency who's primarily dedicated to regulating guns, the BATFE. Laws like the NFA already make ownership of wide swaths of firearms such as fully automatic or short-barreled weapons prohibitively difficult.
Additionally, I've seen virtually no one here advocating the elimination of any major firearms restrictions, such as prohibitions on ownership by felons or individuals adjudicated as a danger to themselves or others.
Universal background checks also enjoy significant support. If supporters of the law would simply resist the urge to draft such proposed laws as veritable registration lists, and stop attaching them to far less popular gun control legislation like magazine limits, UBC's would probably already be a reality.
The greatest difficulty in passing the platform's restrictions, other than the obvious lack of popular and political support, is that there's no evidence that these measures, short of anything close to an unconstitutional ban, would make any appreciable difference in gun crime. This is not the position of the NRA, but rather the Obama DOJ as recently as January 2013.
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