Agreed that the bill is terrible. BUT ... there is simply a level of oppression in the law beyond which I will not comply. Between us, my son and I own something on the order of maybe 45-50 guns already....guns that are NOT accounted for in any currently existing registry, with the exception of a couple of SBRs. If I refused to comply and simply sold them off the books, there would be no way for compliance to be enforced. This bill would NOT even slow down an underground market in firearms, UNLESS, it was accompanied by mandatory registration of all NEW gun sales. Even then, there would be no way to enforce it for the millions of guns already circulating in private hands. Most of mine were purchased through FFLs, but not ALL of them. I could easily still be pretty well armed even if ATF went snooping through every 4773 I’ve ever filled out. if something like that ever happened, the very FIRST thing I would buy is a boat - even if I never put it in the water - just to lend plausibility to a boating accident claim.Soccerdad1995 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:46 pmGun registration is enough reason to oppose these bills. But this one also makes it impossible for many law abiding gun owners to sell more than 5 guns a year given the restrictions on qualifying for an FFL.Papa_Tiger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:35 pm They are different bills, just filed sequentially by the same author. Yes, they are both terrible as the essentially create gun registration for law abiding citizens.
Bills like this are an exercise in futility for the commies. I’m NOT suggesting that we should relax and not worry about their passage. We absolutely SHOULD fight them, but not just because they are about gun-control. We should ALSO fight them because they are: (A) bad law because of unenforcability; and (B) they’re just one more layer of irrelevant law in a sea of irrelevant law which tramples down liberty.