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Thu May 16, 2013, 11:47 AM

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I'm much more concerned about who has a gun than what gun they have [View all] Recursion May 2013 OP

Universal background checks and registration would provide the biggest 'bang' for the buck. rdharma May 2013 #1

With 50,000 hand guns stolen a year, it means anyone can get a gun. Anyone. n-t Logical May 2013 #2

I agree. What do you do about that? Recursion May 2013 #3

Those are the low-hanging fruit. If no guns were stolen ... JustABozoOnThisBus May 2013 #33

IF you had someone you wouldn't trust to have a gun, and jmg257 May 2013 #4

The revolver is easier to conceal, the rifle is easier to reload Recursion May 2013 #5

The weapon of choice is shifting to the relatively short high capacity and rapid fire AR style flamin lib May 2013 #14

The revolver also typically has 6/7 shots w/o reload, the AR has 30/31 hi-power rifle rounds. jmg257 May 2013 #18

The power of a 357 magnum is comparable to a 223 centerfire Recursion May 2013 #20

Its more fixating on gun deaths. And the notion of reducing them by substantially jmg257 May 2013 #26

Far too many laws are intentionally un-inforceable. flamin lib May 2013 #6

We need traceability to work in one direction but not the other Recursion May 2013 #9

I think there should be records tracing the gun from the manufacturer upaloopa May 2013 #17

I'd like that too, but I don't see a way to get it Recursion May 2013 #23

I don't want law abiding people being bothered upaloopa May 2013 #37

Permit them all, but strict registration for them all. geek tragedy May 2013 #7

I'm for registration, personally, but man that's a hard hill to climb Recursion May 2013 #8

I think you could get registration as part of a global geek tragedy May 2013 #10

Yeah, true; I don't think either side wants to give in to the other Recursion May 2013 #13

Part of the issue is that there's no bargaining geek tragedy May 2013 #22

Agreed 100% Recursion May 2013 #25

But, who's going to negotiate such a deal? geek tragedy May 2013 #30

And there it is. We need conservative buy-in from the start. So, stalemate again Recursion May 2013 #32

We need gun manufacturers buy-in from the start, actually. geek tragedy May 2013 #35

You know, Biden didn't meet with NSSF or any manufacturers that I know of Recursion May 2013 #38

"I doubt anyone who is compliant with the insurance requirement would be much of a problem" Chan790 May 2013 #46

Well, DC registers handguns already. That's how they "banned" them. Recursion May 2013 #49

The number of people that can be killed in a few minutes upaloopa May 2013 #11

True, but that net gets very wide very quick and catches most guns out there Recursion May 2013 #12

That's the old "we can't stop everything so we shouldn't try to stop anything" bull shit line upaloopa May 2013 #19

No, it's not that Recursion May 2013 #21

But as we discussed numerous times, there are easy ways to address that, bills have tried jmg257 May 2013 #27

I don't know shit about gun parts and don't care to know upaloopa May 2013 #29

OK, so you'll force Bushmaster to change the shape of its grip. You have that right Recursion May 2013 #31

Well if that is so knowable than just maybe the law can be upaloopa May 2013 #34

You would have to ban semi-automatics as a platform to fix that Recursion May 2013 #36

Again that is because of gun manufacturer money upaloopa May 2013 #40

Very little? premium May 2013 #41

I have a sense for euphemism Recursion May 2013 #43

Yes, it is popular with the base, premium May 2013 #47

Sen. Feinstein's mild AWB went down in flames, premium May 2013 #39

It wouldn't as long as the legislators are bought upaloopa May 2013 #44

Fair enough. nt. premium May 2013 #48

True, but small capacity handguns are by far the bigger problem. nt geek tragedy May 2013 #24

We had some regulatory success with the "ring of fire" gunmakers in the 1990s Recursion May 2013 #28

We could play misery poker here... Orsino May 2013 #15

Full auto has been illegal for 80 years or so and there's no real movement to change that Recursion May 2013 #16

Why? All gun owners are potential murderers bowens43 May 2013 #42

You know, we had 41 constructive posts before you... (nt) Recursion May 2013 #45