When it comes to gun violence at the national level, gun control is more religious than practical. Politicians must genuflect to the solutions proposed by national gun control groups and their deep-pocketed donors.
If the gun control laws Giffords and Everytown fail, but remain in place, then it becomes clear that the true goal of gun control is unrelated to reducing crime. It’s really all about harassing law-abiding gun owners.
Even though Ottawa hasn’t confiscated a single gun yet, costs have already begun to pile up for taxpayers. Since 2020, when the ban was first announced, the government has spent $67 million on the program.
“The magazines at issue in this case are not ‘dangerous and unusual,’ but instead are standard components of the sorts of bearable arms in common use for lawful purposes,” the lawsuit argues.
Demanding that Congress quickly pass universal background checks and ban ‘assault weapons’ and ‘high-capacity magazines’ in response to this crime is one of the dumbest reactions of Biden’s gaffe-prone career.
I want to help build a Democratic party…to make sure that what happened to my classmates is never happening again. And our party is one of the best ways of doing that, but we have to be bolder.
No one in the White House issued any calls for more gun control after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. Or after the second failed Trump assassination attempt. Or after a CEO was murdered on the streets of New York. Go figure.
Current ATF Director Steve Dettelbach says he’s more concerned that Mr. Trump would appoint no one at all, creating a leadership void at the bureau akin to the seven-year stretch of interim directors that preceded his own appointment.
The FGC-9 is now thought to be the most popular 3D-printed weapon in the world. It is particularly difficult to police, given that it doesn’t involve illegal parts. As Basra says, “You can’t regulate a steel tube or a spring.”
Most gun owners never considered in their wildest dreams that someone might think it’s somehow “deceptive” to express creativity, artistic taste, or individuality through the color scheme or design painted on a firearm.
