Proposed Gun Shop In Niles Faces Opposition

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14. No, but I also will not carry a bottle of whiskey and drink it in the Ice Cream Store

Nor would I go into that Ice Cream Store with an inflated sex doll. I think all three ideas are just plain stupid.

The point I was making is a gun Store is no more disruptive of that neighborhood then would be a bar, a liquor store or a sex store. We may NOT like any of them to be near a school, but unless the law bans all stores, singling out guns store violates the right of the owner of that location to do with that location as he or she sees fit.. Please note, many parents would be upset about me drinking out of a whiskey bottle on the sidewalk or walking with an inflated naked sex doll then with an unloaded firearm but the same rule applies, ban ALL stores or none.

As to restrictions on gun stores, I agree with you additional restrictions should be placed on them, and the Federal Government HAS imposed such restrictions. Most states have additional restrictions on gun stores and if related to how the weapons are stored, local laws can be applied. Weapons must be secure and ammunition placed in a safe location. It is rare for someone to go into a Gun Store, buy a gun and Ammunition can come out shooting. Happens in the movies, but not in real life.

On the other hand LOCATION is not an issue when it comes to safety given that modern powders are relatively safe in the quality kept my most stores (Modern gunpowder, i.e. post 1886, tends to burn not explode if outside the chamber of a firearm, in a fire, rounds do go off, but the bullet in those rounds rarely travel more then a few inches. This is a nature of modern smokeless powder, in a fire a lot of bangs but little actual damage).

If weapons are kept locked when no one is in the building and Ammunition is in areas where standard Fire sprinklers operate, fire is not an issue when it comes to the safety of such weapons and firearms. Or are no more of an issue then some of the modern plastics that when burned leave off toxic gases.

Thus the fact that you dislike a Gun store near a School is like the person who OPPOSE a sex store or alcohol store in the same location. There are people who dislike those things that close to a school, but unless the ban is on all stores in such location safety is not justification to discriminate against such stores. You comment about someone carrying an AR-15 is like someone carrying out a bottle of Whiskey and drinking from it outside the store, or someone else walking from a sex store to his home, people will object but what will harm is being done by those actions?

Just pointing out reasonable regulations are permitted when it comes to Gun Stores, but the regulations must be reasonable not reactions to people who dislikes the idea of that type of store in that location.