Reply #26: The gun-control lobby shot itself in the foot

[benEzra]

by adopting nonsensical positions that have nothing to do with violent crime (exhibit A, fighting to ban modern-looking rifles and shotguns).

One does not need to be a "wacko" to see that legislating 19th-century-fogey stock styling and Civil-War-era capacity limits for civilian rifles is nonsensical.

Background checks for private sales - I am not a priori opposed, as long as it's done right. NC conducts background checks for private handgun sales, without much fuss. Perhaps such a system would be law in Virginia were the Bradyites not so much more concerned about the shape of civilian rifle stocks...