Is it actually harder to get cold medicine in Alabama than to get a gun?
Source: al.com, by Christopher Harress
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Since I have a cold right now, I figured I'd go out and buy the medicine first, CVS's Cold and Sinus Relief, which contains a substance known as pseudoephedrine, the same stuff that goes into making meth. That's why it's a partially controlled substance. If you want it, you have to approach the pharmacy directly and hand over a state driver's license or ID, or a passport. Your details are inserted into a database that tracks how much pseudoephedrine you're buying. In all, the transaction took about five minutes. I'm feeling better already, and I didn't try to make meth.
Because people were buying hundreds of boxes at a time, Alabama passed a law in 2010 establishing that no person can buy or sell 3.6 grams of a pseudoephedrine product per calendar day or more than 7.5 grams per 30 days. A standard cold medicine box of 40 tablets contains 1.2 grams of pseudoephedrine in total. That means you can buy up to three boxes a day but not more than about six boxes a month. That's 240 tablets a month, or 2,880 a year, which is a hell of a cold. See a doctor. Seriously.
By comparison, there's no limit on how many guns you can buy.
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Online you say? I've heard of it.
So I visited Armslist, which is widely known as the Craigslist of guns. I found myself the exact same gun that was used in the recent shooting in Texas, the Ruger AR-556. Price: $450. There was another at $495. I emailed the seller of the cheaper gun who explained that I could buy the gun if I stated to him in an email that I was over 18 and was not a criminal. No background check required.
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To the best of my knowledge, there is no Craigslist for cold medicine.
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Read it all at: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/is_it_harder_to_buy_a_gun_than.html#incart_river_home?li_source=base&li_medium=default-widget
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