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Comment Re:Gun nuts (Score 1) 1374

A firearm may have ben purchased legal at some point, but there was a very good chance it was stolen at some point too.

Instead of stricter gun controls, why don't we try something that hasn't been tried, but a variant has. We increased laws for those crimes that occurred with the use of a gun, assault becomes aggravated assault, robbery becomes armed robbery, etc. This is fine for going after the crime, but doesn’t stop the firearms from getting into the black market. So why not increase the penalties for possessing a stolen firearm, and even better for just stealing one. Say theft of a fire arm or possession of a stolen one, is minimum 20 years in prison served consecutively to any other conviction.

This way we triy to make it more painfull for the people who steal guns to sell them rather then for just the people who buy them and use them.

Comment Re:Gun nuts (Score 1) 1374

The first clause does mean something in regards to the last two clauses, but probalbly not what most people think. Most people read "well regulated" and think, "Army" and if not army, then iether Reserve or National Guard, and all that organization carries with it. The Guard and Reserve are both trained and equiped by the Federal governement and are trainined and equiped to be pretty compatable with the regular Army itself, in general. All are issued equipment and go through boot camp to learn to use, maintain and fire that equipment among other things.

In a militia, members normally equipe and train themselves as individuals and small units. This being the case, well regulated takes on a differnt meaning, it means moving towards a normalized state within the militia, but not necessarilly standardization. It is something as simple as; having a long gun, having ammunition for it, having a sufficient quantity of that ammunition, having magazines for it, knowing how to clean and maintain it, knowing how to fire it accurately and otherwise how to operate it, for example. For the militia, there is no bootcamp, these all are things a civillian can do and learn on thier own and can do if there is no organized miltia at the time.

So that you don't have a group of 50 people; 19 with rifles, some with a single magazine for their AR15s. 15 people with pistols and 9 with various types of shotguns, and between 6 and 500 rounds each. The guy with 500 rounds is shooting a .22LR, so he can at least share ammo with the 3 people with .22 rifles. Then there are another 4 with bows, 2 with crossbows and 1 guy with a blowgun. Well regulated at least means There would be 50 people with rifles, and 250 rounds each, even if they weren't all .223, but a mix of .223, .308, 30-06 and other calibers.

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