ok, so what's the point of this stupid law....

[lazs2]

Bad enough that there is a "1 gun a month" law for purchase... I mean... wouldn't someone regestering 100 guns a month be a clue?   but....

what is the point of the gun lock law?  specificaly, the part about the gun lock has to have been purchased within 30 days of the firearms purchase?   If you have a gun lock you can't use it on a firearm you purchase?  you have to buy a new lock at 10-30 bucks?  

Incrementalism?  I think so... make so many regulations that soon honest people or people on fixed incomes just say the hell with it?

My guns are "kitchen table sales"  (the ones I buy now legally) And I have a gun safe so am not affected by the law but not that many folks have gun safes.... I would reccomend them tho.

lazs

[AKIron]

Can ya buy a used lock? If so, and you already have one, can you sell it to yourself?

Face it lazs, if you wanna shoot at cattle rustlers, yer gonna have to move to Texas.

[Sixpence]

There are no stupid laws, just stupid people who write laws.

[Mini D]

Ah... the hidden cost of the cheap firearm purchase.

I think that law is particularly funny.  It's forced many firearms companies to package locks with the guns.  Now, I have 8 cable locks that I never use because of my gun safe.  If I buy another rifle, I'll get yet another lock.

Sometimes I think it's incrementalism, other's I think it's just people being stupid.  Though, to be honest, I don't know that there's much of a line between those two camps.

MiniD

[lazs2]

so the people who most need an inexpensive firearm (the poor) are penalized?

No... you can't sell the lock back to yourself and there is no law that says that you ever have to use the lock again providing that you have a safe at home and locking case for transport.

lazs

[gofaster]

Gunlock laws - the 30 day rule was a compromise.  The proponents' intent was to have a gun lock for every gun so that kids wouldn't shoot themselves with their parents' gun(s).  The opponents said they could police themselves and didn't need no stinking locks.  The politicians tried to appease both parties and you ended up with a 30-day rule.

Let's face it.  The greatest threat in America nowadays are babies running around in wheeled walkers packing Commie pistols.

[Airhead]

That gun lock law could have prevented Colombine. It doesn't go far enough, IMHO.

[Mini D]

Originally posted by lazs2
so the people who most need an inexpensive firearm (the poor) are penalized?

Wow... you really are a democrat.

MiniD

[lazs2]

If I don't defend the right of babies to go armed  with little commie guns in their walkers then who will?

airhead... exactly... gun locks stop no one but... if a teacher woulda had an unlocked concealed handgun then the thing woulda ended with fewer deaths... If the little goth darlings all suspect that about 10% of their teachers may be packing concealed the there probly will never be another columbine...

If you make sure that the little goth darlings will be the only wolfs in the sheep pen then you will get more columbines.  

lazs

[Airhead]

lazs, are you aware of just how many stroll-bys happen in daycare centers every day from babies in walkers using Communist guns?

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by lazs2
.. if a teacher woulda had an unlocked concealed handgun then the thing woulda ended with fewer deaths...  

lazs

Well, i'm not sure who is more likely to snap

[capt. apathy]

Well, i'm not sure who is more likely to snap

sould lower the stress level for teachers.  I wouldn't have pulled half the crap I did in highschool if I thought they could shoot me if I pushed them to close the the edge.

always remember-  an armed society is a polite society.

[hawker238]

On the contrary apathy, kids would push the teachers to shoot them.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by hawker238
On the contrary apathy, kids would push the teachers to shoot them.

Sounds like win/win to me.

[capt. apathy]

Originally posted by hawker238
On the contrary apathy, kids would push the teachers to shoot them.

only once