Huh?
Anyone else find it ironic that the Second Amendment Foundation’s Gun Rights Policy Conference is in Los Angeles? Good way to ensure folks like me don’t go.
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August 29th, 2005 at 11:45 am
Ironic? No. Angering? Yes.
Next year why don’t they hold it in D.C.?
August 29th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
Yep. Did a post about it a while back. Your Cash; Your Cause was the title if I recall. I was so distraught about it I actually said the NRA did something right 😛
& they’ve held it in D.C. before
August 29th, 2005 at 4:39 pm
Why single out L.A.? Their gun laws are barely distinguishable from the rest of Kalifornia, which is not good, but it’s nothing like DC, NY or Chicago.
August 31st, 2005 at 1:00 am
Well X, the main reason is cause the pro gun right spolicy conference is being held there. Sure, some places are worse than Cali but it’s not a goo state to be in for gun owners. I fear the pro gunners lost Cali a while back, so having a pro gun conference thre that deals with nationwide as well as state issues seems to me a little absurd. The argument from the SAF is that it’s in need of some support from gun owners. The counter to that is that it’d be better to shore up places that are doing well than to waste an attempt at raising morale in a place that may well be lost. Plus, a gun right conference in a place where no one can pack? It’s about as nonsensical as the Garand Collectors Association who had their annual meeting in Mass, where no one could bring a Garand.
August 31st, 2005 at 2:52 am
My point was singling out L.A. in particular, rather than California in general. As a gun owner living in California, I know firsthand that our laws suck, and probably always will. But it seems to be a common myth among gunnies that L.A. has ultra-draconian gun laws akin to those in effect in D.C., Chicago and N.Y., which is not true due to preemption. Query whether it makes more sense to hold a gun rights conference in a location where everyone knows they’ll always have such rights anyway, or whether it is better to hold them in the eye of the storm, or whether it makes more sense to ignore that issue entirely and just plan the convention for wherever the fewest people have to travel or the most would like to. We’ve got no shortage of gun owners, numerically speaking, just not percentagewise.
I never knew Garands were banned in Massachusetts. Are they banned anywhere else?
August 31st, 2005 at 4:50 am
X,
It’s not that Garands are banned, it’s that you need a license to possess anything (including pepper spray) & non resident licenses, except for hunting, aren’t at all easy to get. garands ar elegal in Mass as long a syou have that license.
& I understand your point about picking on L.A. Again it’s mainly cause the conference is being held there. If it was san fran then we’d be talking about san fran. Course L.A. did kinda spearhead the .50 ban though – despite thei cops having them for some unknown reason.
& I know there are a lot of gun owners in Cali. I also know that they effectively have no voice, hence the most they can hope for is things staying jst as bad as they are now. I’m pretty sure it’ll get worse – it’s just a matter of time. What I can’t figure out is if I’m just some kind of uber-gun nut or if something’s not clicking with cali’s gun owners. I mean, I understand wanting to stay & fight, but if the californians migrating here pushed cali’s gun laws through on colorado I’d be in wyoming before you could say “southpark reruns”. Why the hell do ya’ll stay where you’re treated as a sub class? (& I knwo Cali isn’t the worst place for gunnies, but still it’s too bad for me to tolerate)
August 31st, 2005 at 10:08 am
Speaking only for myself, I’m here because my job is. If it were the least bit portable, I’d have ported it away by now. I’m sure there are other gunnies who stay here for other reasons; too bad there aren’t enough of them to make a real difference.