i'd go one step further, having seen the fucktards in congress pass laws like obamacare only to try and exempt themselves. Make CONGRESS and the entire legislative/executive branches live with it for THREE YEARS as a trial run before any other asshole has to be forced to live with their shitty insight. Remember when Concord made all the engineers be passengers on the initial flight after grounding the entire fleet to fix a rash of mechanical failures? Congress should be forced to live by that same concept.

if they are closer than 7 feet you need to be in hand-to-hand combat. If you want to use a side-arm you need to be further away. I can not only shoot you with your own weapon if you were that close, but there is a really good chance i could do it with your finger still on the trigger holding it. There are enough accupoints that I could render your arm docile for a couple seconds. It only takes one or two to turn the table in a fight.

Simply using a better holster that requires more than a few seconds to remove would work better and be more reliable. I use a serpa blackhawk holster that has the finger release. It works perfectly for the wearer to depress while unholstering his weapon and even serves to put your finger in the right position along the slide of the gun. Its not as easy for someone trying to grab it and depress the button at the same time to do that. They would have to spend a lot of time practicing that exact situation to be able to do it before the cop could respond with a hand-to-hand counter. If they were that dedicated they could just as easily practice a hand-to-hand move to shoot you with your weapon while its still in your hand (this is quite possible exploiting the nature of body mechanics and automatic human responses).

considering how often the six AA batteries die in my quick access GunVault .. I would rather not rely on batteries for a gun to work. I have had to come up with a hidden spot for the barrel-key that also opens the spring release on that GunVault simply because the number of times Ive found myself needing go use a key instead of the finger combination.

mine are locked all the time regardless of when someone visits. Not the trigger or those other through-the-mag-well but in a metal safe or locker. I simply would rather them not stolen so I keep them locked away or in the holster when I am wearing it. I keep large ammo cans full of ammo in the bottom of the lockers, making the idea of someone carrying off the whole container quite difficult. If I don't have enough time to travel 20 feet, use the hidden key to unlock it, insert the loaded magazine and chamber the weapon, then I probably need a different strategy in that case anyway. Security is best in layers, never put all your eggs in a single basket, even if that basket is a .40 S&W or .45 ACP. Improve your hand to hand combat skills, learn how to disarm an opponent, have a noisy ass dog that barks at strangers, have an alarm system, invest in a decent lock and definitely put the yard sign out that says your house is monitored by alarm systems and surveillance cameras. Your backup methods should have backups. You do have the home court advantage.

the same argument applies not just to guns, but to every single dangerous tool or piece of machinery. the only reason guns get singled out is because there is, for what ever reason, LESS of a culture of safety with them than other tools. Stupid non gun owning tv directors and movie directors are just as much to blame. The majority of true accidents that arise from guns often occur because they are mishandled ... and often in a way EXACTLY as they mimic watching it on tv or in a movie.

if more people would view them as a tool most of the problems would take care of themselves. I doubt we will ever see a complete cure of accidents, just like we will likely never stop seeing fingers chopped off from misuse or use of inferior table saws. And we probably will still read about the children that are way too young to be allowed to ride a 4-wheeler getting killed when they turn over on them. But you are correct, its a tool. A very dangerous tool that shouldnt be feared, but certainly respected for what it is capable of doing. keep the safety on, keep your finger off the trigger, and never point it at something you dont intend to destroy. Its really not much different than the safety circle training you learned in camp as a kid when they trusted you with a hatchet.

you've heard of a zip gun right? they make them in prison.. I'm pretty sure you wont find a way to require even zip guns be made with these biometrics. If someone has access to ammunition, it wont take too much work to come up with a crude but effective close-range working mechanism to fire it.

what standing army? hell our goddamn national guard even gets deployed in foreign wars now.if it werent for the armed population we'd be ripe for conquer. Our forces are scattered all over the globe, we couldn't hope to rely entirely on the military to defend the country. Switzerland understands that. Thats why their veterans are all allowed (encouraged) to keep their service rifles and side arms. Its a well-trained militia that doesnt cost them tax dollars to maintain. Our government (DHS) should stop making statements like "our military veterans are the greatest terrorist risk this country faces" and start working with them to defend the country instead of trying to make enemies of them with statements that they are a far greater threat than islamic fundamentalists.

"The fact that I can go to a local Gun Show, buy a 9mm with a 17 round clip for about $400.00 (Brand New) from a dealer, pass the background check (which takes about 30 seconds so can't be that thorough), and walk away with the gun. Then, I can walk across the room, without even opening the case, and sell the same gun to another "enthusiast", without background check and registration, for double the money. No questions asked. Haven't broken any laws. If my gun turns up as used in a crime, all I have to do is say, "I sold it at a Gun Show"."

that's not legal. In fact your background questionnaire clearly states that you are buying this weapon for yourself not with the intent to buy it for someone else. If you buy a gun with the intent to immediately re-sell it then you are a straw buyer and that is, in fact, illegal. I really dislike the term "gun show loophole" because there is technically nothing going on at a gun show that couldn't happen outside the laundromat or anywhere else.

people can object to the ease of someone who is disturbed having easy access to guns, removing their easy access isn't going to make the disturbed person any less dangerous. Its just one of many methods they can use to carry out their plot. The guy in Aurora that shot up the theater also made a lot of explosives and chemical gas weapons to use. I have no doubt that having been denied access to the rifle and pistols, his plot would have still succeeded because he would have simply used more explosives instead. Perhaps, and this is pure hindsight, fewer people died that day simply due to the fact that he chose to use the rifle over 20 or 30 well placed improvised claymore devices.

I certainly feel that those that own guns, myself being one, should have access and be required to have the best training available. However that training only serves to promote safety and prevention of ACCIDENTAL death. There is no amount of gun laws you could ever hope to pass that will do one bit of difference to someone determined to kill someone else. Murder has been illegal and yet still occurring long before the invention of the first black powder musket. Its futile to think that anything beyond addressing accidents can be fixed with rules and regulations.

suicide by car? never really thought of that... but is it still just suicide if you put a bunch of other people at risk too? I wouldnt call an airline pilots attempt at suicide mid-flight just a suicide attempt. I would call it wreckless endangerment. I dont care if someone wants to check out.. that their right. But they don't have the right to take someone else who doesnt want to check-out with them. Thats more or less a Jim Jones approach.

either that or these countries like france with a higher suicide rate must have a totally fucking insane amount of people ATTEMPTING to commit suicide and simply failing at it. Which I could be talked into believing.. If i were a cheese eating surrender monkey (aka french) I'd probably want to kill myself too.

after reviewing report after report of the BILLIONS of rounds of ammunition purchased in the last year (more than the entire amount of ammunition spent in 6yrs of conflict in Iraq) for agencies like the NOAA and Social Security Administration, I would not be in the least surprised to hear that this proposed spending increase was yet another way to buy and arm more federal branches of the government while doing nothing to the status quot of the functionality of the departments themselves. Increasing spending to a branch of government isnt the same thing as actually doing something productive, not anymore it seems. Ever wonder how, after having 3x the amount of IRS employees we did in 2008, for the first time in my living history the federal government has failed to get all the tax forms approved by jan 31st? Now all federal refunds depending on some of these forms are delayed until mid march. Included in this group is the amortization of mortgage interest.. thats no small percentage of population getting affected.

"this country and its institutions belong to those that inhabit it. Should they ever grow weary of if they should exercise their constitutional right to amend it or their revolutionary right to dismember and over throw it."

Abraham Lincoln.

but you are correct about a continental army of militia. Thats also, on record, what prevented a Japanese invasion on US soil during WWII. The idea that an invasion on US soil would result in the entire citizenship taking up cause to repel borders is something of significant value. The founding fathers wanted both a continental army and an armed citizen population. Yes its to prevent foreign invasion, it is also a check and balance to prevent the government from growing to the point where it abuses its power and returns to the type of life they had under king george.

thats because while they work tirelessly to remove your legal rights to protect yourself, they wrap themselves up in the very blanket of freedoms they want to deny you. They hire for themselves several armed security guards, often paid for by you and me. Translation: only the rich and powerful deserve to live. Everyone else is food for the rich and powerful.