Gun Control & RKBA

Is that a supportable position? If you think so . . .

We differ on the marketing of 'my first rifle' but that's a red herring. Your point was that brightly colored toy guns would lead to treating real guns as toys as justification for not marking toys as toys. The Cricket proves you wrong.

I do not hate guns. You know I own rather a lot of them and have expended enough rounds to put three through a playing card at 100 yards from muscle memory. I DO want to prevent senseless death and injury when possible. Toy guns seem like a no brainer yet the industry resists. I'm trying to understand why.

I am on record as wishing to ban the import, manufacture, sale or transfer of any semi auto gun with a removable magazine. That is because since the '70s when the gun industry co-opted the NRA and began the fear mongering campaign we currently see the lethality of weaponry on the streets has increased dramatically. I'd like to limit that lethality to revolvers and bolt action/pump guns that must be loaded through conventional means.

The Pentagon is currently taking submissions for a new sidearm. It must be more reliable, more accurate and more lethal than the current Baretta. All good things in a combat situation, not so much in civilian hands. As soon as it is adopted it will become the gun dejure for the gunner public and marketed as such much like the AR. Emergency rooms nationwide will contend with the increased lethality.