I realize I’m far better informed on the state of gun laws than the average gun owner but it appears this guy has had his head locked in the bank vault for the last couple of years:
“Ownership should be earned. It’s a privilege,” said Dickson, vice president and branch manager at Stamford First Bank. “Anybody can easily buy an automatic assault weapon. There should be required training and extensive background checks before people are allowed to own a gun.”
The specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms is a privilege? How could any gun owner of not heard of the Heller decision? Anybody can easily buy an automatic assault weapon? That’s not been true since 1934 and since 1986 it has become significantly more difficult.
Someone needs to find the keys to safe deposit box where Dickson keeps his brain.
http://www.stamfordfirstbank.com/aboutus/whoweare.aspx
Robert Palermo – Divisional President – rpalermo@stamfordfirstbank.com
Linda West – Divisional Senior Vice President – lwest@stamfordfirstbank.com
Robert A. Hagan – Vice President – rhagan@stamfordfirstbank.com
Neil Dickson – Vice President – ndickson@stamfordfirstbank.com
Just sayin…
Maybe he vacations in Mexico a lot?
Maybe he’s a hard-core libertarian, and wants the drug gangs to implement the training and background checks? You just ASSUME he is calling for government-mandates.
and him. I particularly likes how he contradicts himself in his closing statement and his signature line:
and me:
Depositers should RUN, not walk, to that bank and pull their funds out now and find a bank or credit union where stupidity and ignorance (or else utter dishonesty) is NOT the managerial theme.
Its not that he’s had his head in a vault. This is the result of the intentional falsehoods that VPC/Brady trade in as we’ve discussed.
Define “easy”.
I am friends with two guys that don’t find buying machineguns difficult at all; they’re bloody rich. Buying an MG is definitely a problem that can be solved by throwing money at it.
’86 didn’t make it more difficult as much as make MG’s unaffordable (the goal no doubt).
To me “easy” would include pickup and/or delivery within a day or two of nearly any MG model currently in production.
Waiting weeks or months for paperwork to be completed and approved is not “easy”.
Ownership is earned, by definition. One earns money and buys something.