"Were we disappointed we didn't get that [the amendment]?" Abraham said. "Yeah, but, all right, so you take away a stone and you give us a mountain of gold," she said.Aside from complicating going off the grid and creating a near-useless bureaucratic registry that leaves out all stolen guns coming in from out of state, and aside from the fact that it reinforces all this nonsense as some sort of solution, here's the part I thought stuck out the most:
* Anyone simply possessing a firearm with an altered or obliterated serial number would be charged with a felony instead of a misdemeanor.If zealously pursued, I can see this netting innocent collectors who might have some old guns that are showing wear, as well as people who bought a cheap old firearm in a private sale and never really noticed, or even heirs of old guns found in Dad's old trunk in the attic.
Of concern ought to be why the DA perceives a golden opportunity, especially since anyone who really thinks this pretentiousness will reduce violent criminal acts must be stoned.
Though I will stop short of a blanket generalization, there are an awful lot of DAs out there who want to be governor some day....
ReplyDeleteAn obvious consequence of this kind of threat might be for everyone to accidentally direct wear and tear upon specific locations of all their firearms, thereby rendering such tracking numbers as have may previously existed to become less prominent. Hypothetically.
ReplyDeleteDavid is that stoned as in high or with rocks? I'm leaning towards rocks myself.
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