Reply #33: Mr. B --

[DavidMS]

I have said it before but its easier to repost than to find where I wrote it orignonaly.

1. The Gun "Loophole" is properly called a private transfer exemption because forcing everyone buying and selling firearms to go through a liccenced dealer may deter transfers to innelegable persons but provides a very high regulatory hurdle and isn't worth the trouble of 'fixing'.

2. Firearms manufacturing is tighly regulated. Take an oppertunity to read the federal and state codes. I trust you can use Google.

3. Firearms tech is stagnant and has been since the 50s. Simply put the metalurgy and machining processes have improved but with a few exemptions (like polymers) fundamentaly anything that could be built today could have been built then. As a mature technology pattents and trade secrets protect very little and as a result there is a low barrier to entry (into the bussness of firearms manufacturing) and as a result low profit margins.

On a more persional note, if I were to ever own a gun (I see no point in it at the pressent), just because of people like you, I would get the evilist looking "assault weapon" just to anoy you.

Don't use straw man arugments where leftists are compared to lower primates like Nugent, Hatch and Asscroft. Don't attack the person making the argument but the argument itself. Otherwise, the poster looks like a raving irrational loon.

On the other hand posters like CO Liberal and Iverglas may support stricter gun regulation than myself but bring up valid points in the discource that occurs here.