Excellent idea!
Ammo’s not an ‘arm’, until the inevitable moaning to the SCOTUS says it is.
HOW aM I going to EXpress MY second aMENDMEnt RIGHT BY SHOOTing STUFF? UNconstitutionaL!11!111!1!one!1!!1!!!
The Chris Rock Theory of gun control! I always thought that was an excellent idea.
Not just background checks, but tax the hell out of it as well. Can’t wait to see how the NRA will make it a 2nd Amendment issue, when it fact, it isn’t.
I’m waiting for the inevitable commentary from a certain someone stating that new laws won’t matter because there is no point in any gun control at all.
Remember Prohibition? This will just create an underground market of bulletmakers, sellers and buyers. Let’s just vote the NRA out of office.
Great idea if it was national policy. Without the same rule in all 50 states, it will add ammo running to gun running as lucrative interstate commerce ventures.
Congress is key. What the sit-in is doing is focusing on gun control as a national issue. If the Dems continue to force the issue right up to the election the voters will see a clear choice- Dems to make things happen everywhere with say a national firearms safety agency, GOP for status quo. What individual states may or may not do just highlights the lack of a uniform national policy to seriously reduce gun deaths and injuries.
Certainly it’s not the whole story, but just maybe that sit in is having an effect.
That’s two states today…and it’s still early.
Great Idea. Maybe California should also require background check for car tires, given that it might inhibit drunk drivers.
Typical liberal stupidity.
The gun laws in France and Brussels sure helped protect the public. Guns don’t kill people…ammo does. Once again I’m amazed at how easily the sheep give up their rights and of course the rights of others because it’s all about controlling the thoughts and others of everyone. If you don’t like guns then no one should. Childish.
Yeah, but you could be arrested for having bullets…!
Yes! They can have all the guns they want…just no ammo. I like this.
No one is banning ammo. It’s just a background check that’s been proposed. Big difference.
And if it keeps ammo out of the hands of people guilty of violent crimes, I’m okay with that.
The Second Amendment says nothing about ammo. NOTHING.
It won’t. But it’s a symbolic first step with many many incremental steps to follow I hope. And on a national scale.
Those against any manner of control say it does not work. Granted that controls would work better if they came at the national level and that the desired results would not be meaningful in the short term.
IMHO if the assault weapon ban had been strengthened and was still in effect then we’d be seeing good results now, twenty years after it’s enactment.
If you have to show iD to buy Sudafed, you should have to show iD to buy ammo too.