They like free speech that doesn't get them immediately banned, not free speech for everyone else's ideas
maybe they just really need the help?
Indoor is obnoxious! Electronic is great but not very common with new shooters. Why spend the extra money if you don't know if you'll use it very often?
The issue is there is that gun laws are difficult to get rid of even when it's proven to be ineffective or unneccesary
One time I ordered something and I had to go through the same paperwork and as if I was buying a belt fed machine gun, including a $200 tax stamp, paperwork, fingerprints etc. After that was filed I went home and waited seven months for the ATF to process and approve that paperwork. Not a wait period, that's just how long it takes for the bureucracy takes to function.
After all that time I finally was able to take home what I had bought I, a suppressor for a .22 pistol so I can teach new shooters without shouting through their hearing protection. That rule has been in place since the 1930s
Luigi Mangione's suppressor was 3D printed and the only crime I've ever seen committed with one
I haven't had the pleasure but if I could learn to use one on a range I wouldn't say no!
It's a proactive vs reactive problem. Arresting someone for maybe possibly thinking about doing something doesn't hold up in court. But having an action happen means harm was done which is not good of course.
Red flag laws being proposed are far from ideal and are seen as a major slippery slope of precedence for privacy and government intervention (think of how an administration could abuse it because odds are one will at some point)
There is a form 4473 that has to be filled out and then you undergo a background check to verify that you are not a felon, have a restraining order, a history of domestic violence etc. If you order a gun online it doesn't get shipped to your house but it goes to an FFL (gun stores federally allowed to do said paperwork) and the same process is done there before you can pick it up, usually for a small fee to the people at the FFL.
As long as the state laws allow for it (no wait periods, addtional hoops) and you don't have a criminal history it can really be that simple. Most gun sales are done in like 30 minutes.
Technically as an individual I can sell a gun to anyone without doing a background check or paperwork but if that gun is used in a crime that is easily tracable back to me and my paper trail at the initial sale. There are new rules in place for the "private sale/gunshow loophole" to say when paperwork is mandatory but I haven't read enough to have a good grasp of it
Yes it's a comic but for those that don't know irl most gun owners take the 4 rules of firearm safety pretty seriously and licence or not you're still responsible for every round
The ones that don't....well we see those on the news and the internet
sorry, I'm just a nerd that likes guns enough to "well aktually" about it
Awesome thank you!