On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:45:08 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/30/2014 8:22 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:48:03 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Of course, there are the hard core gun nuts who jump to the claim that
registration automatically means confiscation someday. I don't think we
will ever see that happen.

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Based on the way things seem to be going, I don't think you can rule
it out. Rights are eroded one small step at a time. I don't
consider myself to be a hard core gun nut but do try to read the tea
leaves and check which way the wind is blowing.



I guess I've been reading different tea leaves.

As were a lot of Australians and British folks!

If ownership can be made onerous enough that I relinquish a firearm,
then 'confiscation' has been accomplished.


If there has ever been a period for advocates of gun bans and/or repeal
of the 2A to be successful it was in the recent 18 month period that
involved something like 74 separate mass school shootings.

They couldn't even get a universal background check approved.

Even the liberal politicians don't want to touch the hot potato of gun
control despite many organizations and influential private citizens
trying to push legislation.

Instead, local governments and some state governments have enacted some
laws that limit magazine capacity or some types of firearms. That's more
political in isolated areas and really doesn't address the anti-gun
culture concerns. Harry's thick barrelled AR-15 (legal) vs the thin
barrel version (banned) is an example. Heck, even in the People's
Republic of Massachusetts I can legally own an AR-15. I just don't want
or need one.