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Originally Posted by rwilson452
I was wondering how many times a gun charge is dropped by a DA in exchange for a guilty plea on another offense. I can't always blame the DA for it, as in most districts they are under stress to end a case as cheaply as possible.
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Probably very often. And to me, that suggests that a lot of these obscure gun laws are not regarded as primary offenses, which means that the police don't know or care about them and they aren't enforced in their own right. Instead, they are used as a bludgeon by the prosecution, added on top of a primary charge or two when the prosecution wants to "throw the book at" someone as a tactic to coerce a plea bargain.
I have commented previously that my great-grandfather was a professor of law (grandfather met grandmother as a result of having taken one of GG's classes). I was brought up with the belief that laws which are enforced rarely, arbitrarily and capriciously are worse than no laws at all, because they create disrespect for the rule of law.