It may be self incriminating to say that the next idiot I hear yammer about "common sense" gun control will get my ten-and-a-half up his backside. Minus the cartridge case, which I pulled out and left at the range. The kick in the pants is only a misdemeanor; the rimfire case in the boot is a felony.
Borepatch
Common Sense Gun Control
March 8, 2009
[H/T to Roberta X.
I am of the opinion that we should pass a constitutional amendment making it illegal for there to be victimless crimes. Any politician or law enforcement officer who proposes or enforces such a law should be convicted of a felony, heavily fined, forbidden to ever receive any money derived from taxes, and loose their right to vote forever.
Several years ago I was traveling in California and looked up the laws in the local library (this was, essentially, pre-Internet). Among their "common sense" gun laws was a law against having a loaded gun in public. The definition of loaded was ammunition in contact with any part of the gun--regardless of whether it was the correct caliber for the gun. Hence you could have a .22 LR cartridge epoxied to the frame of your .45 caliber 1911 and it was considered "loaded" by the State of California.
One could make a case for the anti-gun people being incredibly stupid for things like this. But another argument could be made that they know exactly what they are doing. It makes firearm ownership so risky that people are discouraged from owning them. I call it Huffman's Rule of Firearms Law.--Joe]