Gun laws excabberating the problem

[hekidanjo]

Since a lot of people are in the mood to discuss gun laws, I will lift the curtain on some of the bizzaro laws we've passed in the name of making our nation safer. The problem typically stems from people trying to regulate an industry and hobby that they don't understand and sometimes...make the problem worse. Behind a cut for those who just don't

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[ying_ko_4]

That is an ugly rifle, G. Sorry...

I understand your dilemma. I have a .22 handgun with an 11 round clip. If what I support were to happen, I'd have to turn it in somewhere, no money back at all. Sometimes life happens thattaway...

[hekidanjo]

It really is. The wood only made it less so. It's also expensive to feed, difficult to reload ammo for since it mangles the cases, astonishingly loud, the action requires a determined three armed gorilla to operate and reassembling the thing after cleaning is very frustrating. It's not been fired in around 5 years.

Unwanted pistols are a lot easier to deal with. Since there is moderate to serious paperwork involved in their purchase you can't sell it at a gun show but depending on the model, some of the older .22s can command quite a bit of coin, even at gun store prices. If it's a Woodsman, that would put quite a few things in your stocking.

[ying_ko_4]

It's a cheap $100 pistol I bought at a gun show a few years ago. I can't even get the slide off to tear it apart, it jams sometimes, blergh...

Now, my .38 revolver? That's a great handgun. I'm quite proud of it. It's around 80 years old, a S&W long barrel, pre M&P. Great pistol.

But I get your point about people not knowing enough mucking things up. But, that's the downside to collaborative government.

[hekidanjo]

Eww. Yea I have a pistol like that. It sits in the bottom of my safe with the stench of "what was I thinking?" lingering all around it.

There is something about the .38 target revolver. Not only are they amazing fun to shoot and gorgeous bits of manufacturing prowess but they recall a day when none of this was an issue...an elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.

I think in this case, more collaboration would have been better. The whole thing just reeks of two radically opposing views working regulation at cross purposes and creating something that serves neither the cause of keeping guns available to sportsmen nor keeping the most dangerous of them off the streets.