On Jan 8, 2008, at 11:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I realize my question ultimately depends on a plausible
> explication of
> "pro-Second Amendment." Unfortunately, I'm not able to do that. So
> let's just use
> the NRA as an example. My second question is which proposed (or
> actual) gun
> regulations does the NRA oppose. Again, thanks in advance.
There are so many proposed, it is like naming grains of sand. For
starters:
Banning all ammunition.
1,000% tax on all ammunition (Sen. Moynihan).
Banning all handguns (Sen. Chaffee, Rep. Major Owens).
Banning a gun on the basis of cosmetic features as "more dangerous"
than a functionally equivalent unbanned gun (Sen. Feinstein).
Allowing municipalities to bans types of guns that are legal
elsewhere in their states, or to ban gun possession likewise (Mayor
Daley).
Laws making it a crime to give or sell a firearm to a qualified
resident of another state (GCA of 1968).
Laws that create a registry of gun owners that could be used to
confiscate firearms (Brady Bill records retention issue)
Edicts from local law enforcement that suddenly and capriciously
outlaw all legal gun possession (as happened after Katrina).
Those are just off the top of my head. For a good history of how the
NRA, once a sportsmen's association sympathetic to gun control, got
forged into an opposition political force practically against their
will, read "Gun Control" by Robert Kukla. Many more examples of
answers to your questions will be found there.
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