[TheForge] The most effort for the least results

[Ries Niemi]

A similar crisis occurred in 1934.
there had been repeated public machine gun murders, battles on city  
streets, and massacres, and the public was just fed up.
Hence, the National Firearms Act of 1934.

Interestingly enough, they did not attempt to seize or confiscate  
firearms.
Instead, they declared that law abiding owners of machine guns, and a  
couple of other categories of weapons, could register their existing  
guns, keep them, and then would be required to pay a transfer tax upon  
selling them, and the sale would be tracked.
In 68, they modified this law to allow no more new guns to enter the  
"transfer" pool.
So there are a finite number, around a quarter million, legal full  
auto weapons in circulation. If you want one, you can buy it, although  
they are not cheap. Supply and demand- a capitalist notion that works  
quite efficiently here.
But they are still, by and large, about half the price of a new  
harley, and I sure dont see any shortage of people with enough money  
to buy a new harley out there.

If they did something similar with specific, well defined weapons-  
legalized existing ones, restricted sales of future ones- do you  
really think 200-300 million firearms currently in circulation is too  
few?

Regardless of rumors, current actual homicides with ILLEGAL full auto  
weapons are almost non-existent, and there have been something like  
TWO homicides with legal ones in 80 years. So the law actually works-  
it keeps the vast majority of fully automatic weapons out of the hands  
of criminals, and yet allows legal ownership, depending, of course, on  
State laws- I think five States prohibit full auto ownership.

I cant see similar laws not working for fifty caliber sniper rifles,  
high capacity semi-auto shotguns like the russian Saiga 12 ( an AK  
looking gun with an 8 round banana clip of 12 gage shells- not exactly  
common for duck hunting), or, yes, even AR's.

ries


On Dec 24, 2012, at 12:28 PM, <wmullett at bright.net>  
<wmullett at bright.net> wrote:

I think some people are missing the point here.  Where do you draw the  
line with the right to own guns according to the constitution?  - No  
limits?

What is the difference between handguns, rifles and shotguns vs RPG's,  
shoulder fired missiles, machine guns and other automatic weapons?   
Obviously there is a big difference and we already recognize that. The  
latter are all weapons of war and all of them need to be restricted.

Australia didn't put armed guards in every school.  Instead they  
severely limited the ability to own weapons.  Their results are: “In  
the 18 years prior to the 1996 Australian laws, there were 13 gun  
massacres (four or more fatalities) in Australia, resulting in 102  
deaths,”  “There have been none in that category since the Port Arthur  
laws.”

We need to put and end to this foolishness.

---- Original message ----
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 04:38:18 -0800
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net (on behalf of Andy Gladish <anjgladish at gmail.com 
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> Subject: [TheForge] The most effort for the least results
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>
> This is making me feel old: I remember when "Ban All Handguns" was a  
> very
> common headline. When was that, early 70's?
> The current dogma (Banning "Assault Rifles" will make the country  
> peaceful)
> is so silly- I get that they creep people out, and I get that if it  
> were to
> prevent one mass murder it would be a good thing.
> What kind of sense does it make to ban the gun that is LEAST LIKELY  
> to be
> used in homicide and suicide on any given day (That's according to  
> the FBI,
> but hey, what do they know, right?)
>
> Can we at least be honest with each other that banning them would  
> barely
> affect murder and suicide rates?
> I'm not making this stuff up, look at the FBI Uniform Crime Report.
>
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