Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Doctors on Guns

Their requests include:
ACP supports strengthening and enforcing state and federal laws to prohibit convicted domestic violence offenders from purchasing or possessing firearms. Domestic violence offenders include dating partners, cohabitants, stalkers, and those who victimize a family member other than a partner or child. ACP supports federal legislation to require that such domestic violence offenders be reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. 
Individuals convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor should be prohibited from purchasing and possessing firearms based on existing federal law. The federal government should encourage states and localities to create a process for these individuals to surrender firearms they already possess. 
Too late! 
Already federal law.  To quote ATF:
Misdemeanor Crime of Domestic Violence
Does the prohibition on receipt or possession of firearms and ammunition apply if the person was convicted of an MCDV prior to the enactment of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(9) on September 30, 1996?
Individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders, including temporary orders, should be prohibited from purchasing and possessing firearms and be required to surrender their firearms for the duration of the order.
Also requested:
The College supports a ban on firearms that cannot be detected by metal detectors or standard security screening devices, including but not limited to 3D-printed firearms. 
Way too late.   18 USC 922(p) is the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988.
It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive any firearm - (A) that, after removal of grips, stocks, and magazines, is not as detectable as the Security Exemplar, by walk-through metal detectors calibrated and operated to detect the Security Exemplar; or (B) any major component of which, when subjected to inspection by the types of x-ray machines commonly used at airports, does not generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of the component. Barium sulfate or other compounds may be used in the fabrication of the component.
More evidence of their ignorance:
The College favors strong penalties and criminal prosecution for those who sell firearms illegally and those who legally purchase firearms for those who are banned from possessing them (“straw purchases”).
Straw purchases are already illegal.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has partnered with the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) — the trade association for the firearms industry — in designing an educational program to assist firearm retailers in the detection and possible deterrence of “straw purchases,” the illegal purchase of a firearm by one person for another.
How seriously can you take requests for laws that are already in place?


Unknown said...

Well that's their strategy as they will of course ask for ever more laws till the 2nd is no more and everything is banned.....sadly the misinformed masses and hoplophobes eat it all up! They scream, "Yes, that's what we need!"

BFR said...

Not at all.

And expertise in any one (or several) area(s) does not automatically confer any to other fields of knowledge or endeavor.

alibaster said...

Not one more law. No you cant have my AR my AK my Uzi, or anything else. We need to let them know its war if they push it.

THEY RAISED a generation of shooters and prozac poppers, its not my fault and NO I am not willing to give up my rights

StormCchaser said...

Did you see their repeated references to weapons designed to kill more rapidly? Dumb!

Unknown said...

Slightly off topic: