Imagine a 2D matrix of gun laws, with one axis labeled chaotic-orderly and the other labeled restrictive-permissive. That creates four possible scenarios.
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- Chaotic-restrictive: This is the situation in most third-world countries. Guns are nominally banned or heavily restricted, but also freely available to anybody with the right connections.
- Chaotic-permissive: This is the current situation for silencers and SBRs in the US. Access is much freer than it used to be, but it’s hard to know exactly how, and the rules can change without warning.
- Orderly-restrictive: Most wealthy countries live in this quadrant, including the US.
- Orderly-permissive: The aspirational target.
The federal government seems to be engineering its own loss in the case that Judge Hendrix ruled in. That’s good, but the way they’ve gone about it so far has put the country in quadrant 2. Hopefully they’re working on moving quickly to quadrant 4.
— Open Source Defense in The Dog That Caught the SCAR