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[drewkitty]

From change.gov "Urban Policy"

>>• 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.

In other words, create that national gun registry which is the first step to confiscation. Also gift the rest of the country with the
California ability of peace officers and dispatchers to look up whether you own a firearm or not.

>> 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.

Note "common sense" to disguise the fact that these are new restrictions and laws.

>> They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof.

Again, the "gun show loophole" is to require that all firearms transactions be tracked by the government, another technique for confiscation

As for childproof guns, why not childproof blowtorches and chainsaws? This is a thin excuse for banning as many firearms as possible..

>> They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.

It was allowed to expire because it didn't have any effect on crime. So why resurrect the corpse?

Don't be fooled by platitudes. This is a laundry list of the gun ban movement, which has little to do with urban policy and everything to do with further erosion of your 2nd Amendment rights.

Comments

Re: Unintended Consequence

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

The problem is that "childproofing" a gun is a lot more difficult than it sounds. If a person with weak hands (i.e. the elderly) can fire it, so can a child. There is also the issue of needing to fire after being injured, again ties back to grip strength. Even a crisp trigger pull and strong slide are no bar to an accident with a child. (The kid can pull on the firearm when the trigger is hooked on an object.)

There are valuable safety features such as loaded chamber indicators, grip safeties, multi-stage triggers and so on. Some people swear by these (I do), others swear at them. Should they really be required by law? Even though they improve safety, they certainly don't make the firearm "childproof."

California already has a very strict safe storage law. If my firearm is taken to school by a child, or used by a child to injure themselves or someone else, I have committed a felony. This is how it should be.

Note however that the focus in Obama's policy statement is on the guns and not the owners. Owner education and gun safety laws are the way to tackle this problem; a software problem, not a hardware problem.

You can't childproof chain saws and blowtorches. I think you might appreciate the difficulties of the latter. As for chain saws, certainly some safety features are a Really Good Idea . . . but except in forestry and farm settings, no one under sixteen has any business using a chain saw. They are inherently dangerous by the nature of their function.

In California we have a "safe guns list" that requires the manufacturer to submit multiple guns for destruction testing, and pay for the test (several thousand dollars). This keeps a lot of otherwise safe handguns from being imported into California, raising gun prices. Note that higher handgun prices simply keep guns out of the hands of the law-abiding poor. Criminals pay whatever they have to for an illegal handgun, or steal one instead. I see no benefit to making this a nationwide practice.

Re: Unintended Consequence

[polymathwannabe.livejournal.com]

"Owner education and gun safety laws are the way to tackle this problem"
Agreed - Most Definitely!

I don't believe that anything can be *entirely* 'childproof' anyway. At best, somethings may be 'child resistant'.

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