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Originally Posted by Ret10Echo
These are the laws Northam proposed:
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Universal background checks - If I understand the
intent of this, it is to make it a crime for one private citizen to sell another private citizen a firearm.
I agree with background checks and it appears that Virginia has a much stricter/thorough questionnaire than states I have inhabited. I am under the impression that it is already illegal to sell via a private transaction, a firearm to someone who can not legally own one. "Universal background checks" just seems to be the lingo that leaders are supposed to bandy about when talking about gun control.
Child access prevention - How can this be enforced? If what they want is "common sense gun control", then keeping your damn untrained children away from firearms seems pretty common sense to me.
One gun a month limits - This is silly. Is the mindset that crabwalk used 2 guns the motivation behind this?
Banning assault weapons, including bump stocks - I think this speaks to the real agenda. crabcock didn't even use an assault weapon, nor a bump stock. Hell, why not throw suppressors in there? Guess they cant miss out on any opportunity to turn a whole bunch of people into criminals.
Requirement to report lost or stolen guns - Back to the "common sense" thing. I dont know if I have read it or if its just "common sense" to me to do this anyway. Again, how are they going to enforce this? "if a weapon used to commit a crime is found to be registered to someone other than the criminal then the registered owner is somehow complicit in the crime if he has not reported it stolen"?
Allowing localities to ban guns from municipal buildings - Yeah this always works well. They are already prohibited from federal buildings, schools, airports, etc... Back to enforcement. The county courthouse in my city is the only building I'm aware of with metal detectors and armed officers frisking entrants. Funny that that is where all the judges and lawyers and mayors hang out all day
Red flag laws - this one is interesting, especially given the grey area (in the US) in which mental health issues and right to keep and bear arms co-exist.
I'm curious, again, how this can be legislated. To give close friends/family the power, so to speak, to report a gun owner as being unstable and therefore incapable of possessing firearms IMO would trigger first a sit down with a psychologist to determine the gun owners actual mental state, in general, under no specific pretense
before the case is presented to a judge, where the
culpability of the reporter as well as the psychologists findings can be weighed in the balance.
I would also think that the gun owner should have pre-scheduled re-evaluations at regular intervals with a psychologist who was unaware of WHY he was ascertaining the mental health of the gun owner, and that these reevaluations can be reviewed in a timely fashion, by an impartial judge for the possibility of reinstating the right of the gun owner to his weapons.
Or... Common sense from another direction. Make it a law that every citizen whom can demonstrate mental and physical ability to safely and proficiently operate a firearm, own and carry a firearm (when reasonable) at all times. -- In re-reading this last paragraph, I wonder if something like this would decrease crime and increase accidental shooting injuries/deaths and/or suicides...
MOO YMMV