When,
O When Will Liberal Gun Grabbers Realize All They Are Doing Is
Shooting Themselves In The Arse?
Posted
By: Watchman
Date: Sunday, 6-Sep-2015 09:43:23
Date: Sunday, 6-Sep-2015 09:43:23
The liberal brain is some messed up collection of grey matter, and they prove it continuously.
Gun control has ALWAYS been the always been the talent to perforate what one is aiming at, every time, and always will be.
Every. Time. And I do mean EVERY Time they come
up with some hair-brained gun control scheme all they succeed in doing
is causing gun sales to skyrocket.... Absolutely love it.
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USA Today – by Kevin Johnson
WASHINGTON — Renewed calls for more restrictive
gun laws, following a succession of fatal shootings in the United
States, immediately appear to be generating a boost for the gun
industry.
Newly released August records show that the FBI
posted 1.7 million background checks required of gun purchasers at
federally licensed dealers, the highest number recorded in any August
since gun checks began in 1998. The numbers follow new monthly highs for
June (1.5 million) and July (1.6 million), a period which spans a
series of deadly gun attacks — from Charleston to Roanoke — and
proposals for additional firearm legislation.
While the FBI does not track actual gun sales,
as multiple firearms can be included in a transaction by a single buyer,
the National Instant Criminal Background Check System’s numbers are an
indicator of a market upswing in the face of growing anxiety about
access to guns.
“Whenever there is a call for gun control, sales
increase,” said Larry Keane, general counsel for the firearm industry
trade association National Shooting Sports Foundation. “Unfortunately,
this is a pattern that repeats itself.”
The summer trend is not on par with the panic
buying boom that followed the 2012Newtown massacre, which jump-started
state and federal campaigns for a host of new firearm measures. During
the months that followed the Connecticut attack, which featured new
calls for an assault weapons ban and expanded background checks,
apprehensive gun buyers emptied the shelves of dealers across the
country. Yet, the recent uptick represents a similar buying pattern that
dates to the uneasy period before 1994 adoption of the assault weapons
ban. (That ban expired in 2004.)
Virginia Del. Patrick Hope, a Democratic member
of the state Assembly who proposed an expansion of background checks
following last month’s shooting deaths of two journalists near Roanoke,
said the stockpiling of weapons represented an “over-reaction.”
“We’re not at all threatening any one’s ability
to get a gun,” Hope said. “What we’re talking about here is common sense
legislation. I don’t think any one is threatened by background checks.”
In the recent Virginia shootings, an attack
carried out on live television, gunman Vester Flanagan passed a
background check prior to last month’s purchase of two Glock handguns,
including the weapon used in the Aug. 26 assault in which reporter
Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, were killed. A third person, a
local chamber of commerce official, was wounded. Flanagan later used one
of the weapons to kill himself.
Hope said his expanded background check
proposal, supported by a petition containing 28,000 signatures, is aimed
at the unchecked market of private firearm transactions, mostly over
the Internet and at gun shows, that account for about 40% of firearm
sales.
“I chose background checks, not because it would
have prevented (the Virginia shooting) but because this would be
easiest to pass,” Hope said. “We will not be able to prevent every
single incident. We need to do something.”
But Keane said the legislative proposals
commonly offered in the emotional wake of fatal shootings often do not
account for specific circumstances leading up to the attacks.
“These things are being offered up before the
person is even arrested or before (investigators) even know what
happened,” Keane said. “For people concerned about their Second
Amendment rights, the concern never goes away.”
Keane said the gun purchases prompted by calls
for new restrictions are “certainly legitimate to the person exercising
their fundamental civil liberties protected by the Second Amendment.”
“The concern that anti-gun politicians are
seeking to infringe and restrict the right to keep and bear arms is very
real and well-founded,” he said.
Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to
Prevent Gun Violence, said there is risk during periods of increased
sales when all purchases are not covered by background checks.
“When gun sales rise, more and more weapons find
a set of dangerous hands to call home,” Gross said. “There are people
in this country, people like felons, fugitives, and domestic abusers who
we all agree simply should not have guns.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/04/gun-sales-new-legislation-sales/71703118/ http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=26990
