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**44 AMP** · August 1, 2014, 06:25 PM

The Lautenberg act stands unique in gun control legislation. Retroactive, no time limit, no exemption for police or active duty military.

I'm unsure how the military is handling it, but I do know that since passage of that law, quite a few professional police have been taken off the streets, and assigned desk jobs, as they can no longer legally possess a gun, thanks to a misdemeanor conviction.

You have to admit it was a slickly marketed bill, focusing on domestic violence, after all, who can argue against keeping wife beaters from having a gun, right?

But, combine a draconian lifetime prohibition with the retroactive increase in punishment it simply boggles my mind.

What ELSE can they do? Seriously?

August 1, 2014, 06:25 PM	#26
44 AMP Staff Join Date: March 11, 2006 Location: Upper US Posts: 28,814	The Lautenberg act stands unique in gun control legislation. Retroactive, no time limit, no exemption for police or active duty military. I'm unsure how the military is handling it, but I do know that since passage of that law, quite a few professional police have been taken off the streets, and assigned desk jobs, as they can no longer legally possess a gun, thanks to a misdemeanor conviction. You have to admit it was a slickly marketed bill, focusing on domestic violence, after all, who can argue against keeping wife beaters from having a gun, right? But, combine a draconian lifetime prohibition with the retroactive increase in punishment it simply boggles my mind. What ELSE can they do? Seriously? __________________ All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.