Quote of the Day
There’s an illegal flow of guns into states across the country from a couple states with weaker gun laws. We should at least have a penalty to make sure that we can fund enforcement of this common sense idea.
Jack Schlossberg
U.S. Congressional hopeful for New York’s 12th District
December 20, 2025
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One response in the correct direction:
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb countered, “How about penalizing New York for all the criminals they release on cashless bail, who then commit crimes in other states?”
The veteran gun rights advocate said New York doesn’t have a “gun problem, it’s got a criminal justice problem.”
I don’t think this goes far enough. He is right about the criminal justice problem. We have a people problem, not a gun problem. People like Schlossberg should be referred to the criminal justice system for prosecution.
Schlossberg: We should at least have a penalty to make sure that we can fund enforcement of this common sense idea.
I 100% agree.
We should have a penalty to make sure we can fund enforcement … of the 2nd Amendment and the equitable commerce of firearms from States with sensible gun laws to States with tyrannical gun laws. Naturally, I would expect such a penalty to be paid by the States who insist on keeping tyrannical gun laws on the books.
That’s what should happen when a State decides that the Constitution and Bill of Rights — y’know, the “Supreme Law of the Land” — don’t apply within its borders.
And I agree with Alan Gottlieb: States with lax criminal justice enforcement should pay a penalty for all the criminals it releases that commit crimes in other States.
I have a figure for that. Or at least I had a figure I worked out in about 2018.
It’s about $300 * X per day restitution owed to every non-prohibited person, owed by the class of people that infringed upon their right, in their personal capacity.
The X there is tricky, as it is a multiplier based on how complete the infringement is. 1.0 would be “you are non-prohibited, but we will imposed some kind of penalty on you if you keep/bear an arm”, 0.5 to 0.8 might be “you can only buy arms off our approved list or criteria”, 0.35 might be “magazines restricted to 10 rounds”, 0.1 might be “no hollowpoints, while there exists something like CorBon Powerball that doesn’t count but does the same thing”. The only way to get a flat 0.0 is if the gun control law doesn’t actually affect anyone or is so utterly reasonable that nobody in their right mind challenges it, like “no arms within 35ft of a running MRI machine” or “no fire-arms within the safety zone of a petroleum refinery plant or ammonium nitrate storage facility”.
The point is, the restitution starts clocking up immediately upon going into effect, and doesn’t stop until there are proper formal orders to stop enforcement, not just the police chief telling his cops not to make any effort for that law. Change the law to make court cases moot? Great, we have an end date to that infringement, we can move the cases into the final penalty phase where the value of X is debated by the jury and we can start divvying up the responsibility to those who abused their office or conspired with them to do so.
My methodology to calculate was:
– That year’s Dept of Transportation Value of a Statistical Life figure, because that it used to determine whether traffic safety projects are funded, comparing the project budget against a risk-weighted calculation of the value of lives saved if built. So this is our already-approved government-provided money vs death/bodily harm figure. 2024’s figure was $14.5M.
– My figure was for a national law, so I used the national Violent Crime Victimization rate. By any measure, violent crime qualifies for armed self-defense to prevent that harm, so by preventing keeping/bearing, or restricting it, you are accepting a certain amount of unresisted violence, very similar to the DoT deciding to not build a road safety feature. I converted the national annual rate/100K into a individual daily rate. This number can be tuned for state, county, local rates, according to the scope of the law.
– National dependency rate. When you carry, it’s not just for you, but dependent children, elderly and infirm in your care. If I remember the figure I had was about 1.63, which makes sense since all of you have 2.3 children and own 1.7 dogs, and the DoT knows each vehicle has 1.8 people in it.
Multiply those together, along with some X value, and just add it up day by day, and that’s what you, personally, should be owed. For delays to retail transactions, could be broken down to the minute, with a grace period of the fastest resolution time for any background check system. So, if the fastest system is check photo-id, scan QR code on NICS-cache card, crypto-math checks, which takes all of 60 seconds, if your state has a separate system, a’ight, but they start owning you at 61 second and the bill doesn’t stop accumulating until the transferer gets an OK during business/working hours.
Every infringement counts separately. If they pass a bunch of laws, and they are 0.5, 0.35, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, and 0.2, your total infringement value doesn’t cap at 1.0; this isn’t ‘intersectional infringement’. No, those were separate actions, with separate enactment dates, involving a different class of infringers and a different class of infringees, and they all need to adjudicated and paid separately.
What we truly need, and is long overdue, is an “oath breaker” law in this country. If you hold a position of public trust and swear to uphold the US Constitution as part of in processing for your job as every law enforcement and court officer does, as well as all elected officials and most state and local government employees, We The People, chop off your hand at the wrist in public, broadcast live on local community TV if you fail to adhere to The Constitution. Make them all public servants again!