The best idea I’ve seen about gun control is that just incremental hurdles to ownership and various forms of use will stop a certain number of people and keep that many more guns out of people’'s hand and predictably save that many more from injury and death. It’s easy to buy guns now, and easier still to buy ammo. The minor inconvenience of filling out a form and waiting a minute or so will be some deterrence. Certainly worth doing.
Future sales and ownership might be doable, but it seems like there are stockpiles in the hands of a large of number of the wrong people’s hands. Think the Las Vegas massacre. Or any other massacre for that matter.
Any movement in that direction is good even if it is more symbolic than not. It’s gone so far the other way that we need movement back toward sanity - any movement.
Yeah, especially since it’s defeatist to say bummer, too many guns out there, can’t put the toothpaste back so let’s just give up. That’s not a helpful attitude.
Existing data on Russia Illegal guns in Russia are estimated to outnumber legal guns by a factor of 3 to 1.
I suspect illegal everything outnumbers legal everything in Russia by a factor of at least 3 to 1.
Don’t mean to step on your comment, but I couldn’t help it. sorry
The way we got a handle on the fully automatics were to tax them …
at the start ----
That’s some big mob ; - )
Oh yeah, even the basics that get you through the day. There’s even a name for it, Blat.
As reported by The Moscow Times, the shadow economy totals just under 20 percent of Russia’s 103.6 trillion ($1.85 trillion) legitimate GDP.
@fiftygigs FYI
Wow. I didn’t know the name before. Thanks.
Blat.
That reminds me of medlar fruit, which isn’t ready to eat until it has bletted.
"While curtailing gun owners’ rights is a political battleground in the United States, Christchurch gun owner Max Roberts, 22, predicted Ardern won’t face serious opposition to her agenda.
“There will be no opposition to it. There’s no movement in New Zealand for that. Our media and politics are more left wing,” said Roberts, a carpenter who uses guns for hunting."
There will definitely be opposition here - there are gun nuts here, too. And they lobby fiercely. I should also note that in 2017, the Minister for Police rejected tighter gun regulations. Not coincidentally, she is also an avid hunter.
New Zealand has 250,000 firearms license holders, and most of them are males between the ages of 40 and 70. It has an estimated 1.2 million guns - estimated, since most guns don’t have to be registered.
There are a lot of farmers and recreational hunters here. I don’t know why any of them would need an AR-15 type gun. Come to think of it, pistols are more heavily regulated than semi-automatic rifles.