This is one of the rare occasions when a false statement on a 4473 is actually punished, just as when a prohibited person is turned away from an attempted purchase it is rare for that individual to be prosecuted. Guess they needed some statistics. Laws that are enforced selectively breed contempt for the law.
I think we're about to see that "selective enforcement" on a mass scale, complete with TV news stories about 60-year-old hunters registering their rifles and shotguns while proclaiming "it's the right thing to do." New Zealanders have already experienced this blather. Meanwhile the problem people, aka felons, laugh.
This is one of the rare occasions when a false statement on a 4473 is actually punished, just as when a prohibited person is turned away from an attempted purchase it is rare for that individual to be prosecuted. Guess they needed some statistics. Laws that are enforced selectively breed contempt for the law.
ReplyDeleteI think we're about to see that "selective enforcement" on a mass scale, complete with TV news stories about 60-year-old hunters registering their rifles and shotguns while proclaiming "it's the right thing to do." New Zealanders have already experienced this blather. Meanwhile the problem people, aka felons, laugh.
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