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September 11, 2017, 08:51 PM | #51 |
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One of the House sponsors of concealed carry reciprocity reports that Ryan and McConnell are blocking a floor vote on all the pro-2A bills because they "don't think the timing is right."
https://www.ammoland.com/2017/09/rya...can-radio/amp/ |
September 11, 2017, 09:45 PM | #52 | |
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Also, consider that from the time that SilencerCo puts a planned suppressor on their books for construction, they have to have a piece of material with a serial number on it to show that they can account for the item. This is even before actual construction/assembly of the suppressor itself has begun! This means that there is considerable extra labor and material involved in stamping/laser engraving a piece of metal that will never even comprise part of the suppressor when it is finished.
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REGULATIONS have SOMETHING to do with the COST of every business IN THE WORLD!!!!! prove me wrong! Pick ANY business, anywhere, there are licenses, fees, permits, involved. There are costs created by laws (and regulations) about everything, from the cost of workers, to the fact that you need a govt permit to let water run down hill. There are labor regulations, environmental regulations, marketing regulations, taxes and fees, etc. Different businesses bear different levels of regulation, (and manufacturers are particularly hard hit in the US) but EVERY legal business has regulations they have to meet, and that costs money. Don't think otherwise for a minute. Just because the consumer USUALLY doesn't see them, doesn't mean they aren't there. In fact, even the black market costs are driven by govt. regulations. The black market EXISTS because of govt regulations, taxes and fees. In fact, at least one nation came into existence because of people's reaction to what they felt were excessive taxes, regulations, and fees..... OURS.
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Regulations require that businesses incur expenses for record keeping, accountants and auditors to monitor compliance and to be able to assure both management and regulators that the business is complying with applicable regulations. Among other things, if there are compliance lapses management better know about them and take corrective action before the regulator discovers the problems and takes punitive action. A regulated business must hire compliance officers, accountants, IT staff, and lawyers to review business practices, prepare policy and procedure manuals, and to assure implementation of business practices and policies and procedures that are in compliance and to develop and install information systems that can facilitate compliance. When the HIPAA medical privacy regulations were being promulgated, the medical care industry and the medical insurance industry spent billions on compliance efforts. And I made a lot of my money helping business comply with government regulations.
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September 12, 2017, 09:02 AM | #56 |
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The timing will never be right as they don't support expanding gun rights. The only time the timing would be right would be if pressure rose NOT to support candidates and send money to them.
Then they will argue, if you do that then antigunners get in and they are worse. So stick with us do-nothings. As stated, let's keep the issue as a fund raiser and a threat. During GWB days, whenever he got in trouble, they took us to Condition Orange and started to babble about constitutional amendments that had no chance but appealed to proportion of the base. I'll pass on mentioning the topics.
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September 12, 2017, 09:23 PM | #60 |
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Here's the text of the SHARE ACT.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-...bill/3668/text It would open up the ACOE lands to concealed carry AND includes the Hearing Act! Here's an article about as well: https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2017/0...g-rights-bill/ |
September 12, 2017, 10:03 PM | #61 |
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The GOP has had the greatest success in the last 100 years by being perpetually offended and ineffective. Why would they wish to change that? We have very reasonable requests supported by NRA and yet the sponsor of the bill tells us House and Senate leadership won't let it out of committee
The GOP feels zero need to deliver for us because we are now a captive voting bloc with nowhere else to go. Considering the overlap between Trump voters in the Rust belt and the NRA, you'd think the Dems would exploit that wedge but they are too busy trying to out-Commie the next Dem nominee. We have a good product and we can deliver the votes. The key is we need a bidding war because right now there is only one party at the auction. |
September 13, 2017, 06:49 AM | #62 |
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September 13, 2017, 08:02 AM | #63 |
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It does seem when I vote (as far as gun thing go) I have the choice to vote for someone who is going support more gun control and restrictions or someone who will do nothing.
Granted, we have come a long way in recent years but I'd like to see more. Get rid of some of the laws that prohibit SBRs and suppressors. National reciprocity won't happen, but I don't think a person should receive anything more severe than a traffic citation if they are otherwise law abiding. |
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I have never had the antipathy for McConnell that some of my federalist colleagues sometimes demonstrate. He stood against the Garland appointment when even some here were calling for the Senate to hold hearings and a vote. He doesn't employ a lot of over the top rhetoric, but in terms of content he has a a record in the senate on 1st and 2d Am. issues that few senators can match. I understand frustration, yet I resist the impulse of political movements to eat their own.
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September 13, 2017, 09:39 AM | #65 |
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If you can't score when you are in the red zone, you aren't going to win many games. Gorsuch was a huge and unexpected win for us; but the party that claims to be pro-2A has a majority in the House and Senate and a friendly executive and we can't even get a bill out of committee. And that isn't just a story at the national level but one that gets retold at the state level frequently as well.
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1. An unpredictable exec 2. A purely nominal majority in the Senate which leads a a strategic difficulty that any repub senator can show he is a "maverick" with an erratic sense of honor by voting against repubs. 3. More than one ball in the air. ACA and tax reform also matter, and how the process of forming voting majorities unfolds can influence whether voting majorities can be achieved for any of them. Rep. Massie's recounting of Ryan's comment that the "timing isn't right" is specifically about the Scalise/recoprocity bill. It's Massie's observation that Ryan and McConnell are working contrary to their expressed positions. That strikes me as freedom caucus reductionism. To conclude that despite their often stated public positions on 2d Am issues, the ACA or tax reform, Ryan and McConnell are actually working against those positions because it isn't done yet is the same kind of simplicity that had freedom caucus house members pushing ACA repeal votes to show us how they weren't making excuses, but doing what they were sent to do. That's an admirable sentiment, but it was not effective in legislative operation. Which legislator is more manipulative of voter desires, the one that demands a vote before having made provision for a successful vote, or the one who avoids that misstep?
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September 14, 2017, 07:05 AM | #67 |
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Well, it appears the SHARE Act (which includes the Hearing Protection Act, though not reciprocity) has been passed out of committee and will get a full vote in the House. It will very likely pass the House, so the next big hurdle is now the Senate where we need 60 votes to beat the inevitable filibuster.
Maybe that's the "timing" issue. They want the bill to get shot down in the Senate at the right time to spur some outrage in 2018. |
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I understand that there can be genuine misgivings about a federally enforced reciprocity, but with that removed I thought SHARE had fairly wide support. Quote:
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As I've stated numerous times on and off this forum, IMHO the real political power of the NRA isn't the campaign contributions; it's the fact that they keep score and hold past anti-gun votes over the heads of politicians—forever.
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The "gun control moderates" in the Dem party are a handful of people who see the NFA as something to expand, not shrink. The remainder just don't want you to have guns period. Where are six more votes? |
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September 15, 2017, 08:26 AM | #71 |
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Guns America reports that the Hearing Protection Act has cleared committee:
https://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/hea...ars-committee/ |
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Aguila B, thank you for the link.
I think my understanding of this incorporated an error: I thought that a device that served hearing safety would not encounter the same kind of arguments as an actual arm. I was wrong. From AB's linked article: Quote:
Commendably, Chipman omitted "Won't someone think of the children!!!". However the argument he did make is as poor as the one I saw an ATF agent present to congress in the 1990s, that the only reason for a rifle to have a pistol grip is to make it easier to fire from the hip.
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September 15, 2017, 08:44 PM | #73 |
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Chipman is a gun-grabbers' stooge. Agents such as Chipman are the reason the BATFE is so loathsome.
Legalizing "silencers" [sic] won't put them in the hands of criminals, it will put them in the hands of people who want to preserve their hearing. It ain't like there aren't back room shops who can crank out black market suppressors for the criminal element already. But a "silencer" [sic] doesn't help make a gun more concealable. As for masking the location of an active shooter? GIVE ... ME ... A ... BREAK. When the cops show up, they'll know -- just look in the direction everyone is running away from. |
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Aguila Blanca---thank you for monitoring this and posting the link.
I looked for recent main stream media articles on this and only found the Huffington Post article on it. Major Spoiler Alert---the Huffington Post is NOT in favor of 'suppressors'/'silencers' becoming easier to get. They seemed to delight in pointing out there is a 'Trump Slump' in gun sales. Sigh. I found the comments to the article to be interesting with a few knowledgeable folk posting about the technology and many anti-gun folk just posting anti-gun stuff. The anti-gun folk seem to be pushing several talking points ALL THE TIME and WHENEVER the topic of guns comes up: 1. If you have a gun your compensating for 'other' deficiencies-wink wink, nudge nudge, giggle giggle. 2. The government has NEVER been coming for your guns and NEVER will. 3. The NRA is just an arm of the gun industry trying to stir up paranoia to sell more guns. The Huffington Post link is here. If you want to see the comments go to the left side of the screen and along with the Facebook/Tweet/Pininterest etc. icons there is the dialog bubble/balloon you can click on. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0edff97188620 |
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It'll be interesting to see what happens, especially when the discussion is to be had that...
A) suppressors are a common firearm accessory in Europe B) a background check will still be required (defeating the whole "criminals have ready access", no, by definition they won't and criminals will still do whatever they want regardless) and most interestingly... C) Ronald Turk's white paper, directly indicating the suppressors are a great candidate for removal of ATF purview.
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