I'm Late on This

I'd blame it on work, but I received a nice email from reader Steve Vaujin on Tuesday about the topic, and I'm only now addressing it. I know all of you are already aware, but here it is again:

Address Gun Violence in Cities: Obama and Biden would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent. - Found on inauguration day at http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/urban_policy/

So much for believing in the Second Amendment.

"Closing the gun show loophole" means "Ending private-party sales. All sales must go through an FFL." This will, of course, get the support of many of the (remaining) FFLs. And it will be the first step to an eventual national registration system.

"Making guns in this country childproof." All 300 million of them? Will this be like "childproof caps" that only children can actually open? Or does it mean "won't go bang at all"?

"...support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent." Now, if you're an optimist, you read this as "making the expiration permanent," but we all know better than that. No, this means a new, IMPROVED "Assault Weapons Ban." One that will, you know, actually ban something.

Oh, and "addressing gun violence in cities" - where it's largely committed by and committed upon a tiny, easily identifiable demographic, but instead the .gov wants to put in place sweeping, highly restrictive laws that will affect everyone but that demographic.

The philosophy cannot be wrong! Do it again, only HARDER!

Well, there's a great big hole in my collection that I need to fill. I'm not a fan of the 9mm Europellet, but I have been waiting and looking for a nice custom Browning Hi-Power to fill that niche - a 13-round capacity model, with a bunch of spare magazines. When I take newbies out to shoot, the lack of a 9mm has presented a problem as I work them up from .22LR to .45 Colt. (Hmm . . . And now .260 Remington?) I think this weekend I will go shopping for an EAA Witness in 9mm, and all the spare magazines they have in stock.

Who knows, maybe I'll stumble across that Browning!

(*Sigh* - I was looking forward to at least a few more years before the .gov finally got around to passing enough laws to make me a willing felon . . .)