This is so frustrating. Every time some politician in New York talks about implementing some law to help solve crimes, all they are doing is making gun ownership more expensive.
The ballistics fingerprinting program in New York was (http://troopers.ny.gov/FAQs/Firearms/CoBIS), thankfully, cancelled, but not because it hasn’t caught any criminals but because the state in in debt and cannot afford the program.
So now they want to shift the burden of cost to the manufactures, so that guns will cost more and to do what? Catch criminals who use legally purchased so that the crime is traced back to the original owner? Oh yeah… that totally makes sense.
In case you haven’t seen it in other sites, Oh. and Penna. have been jockeying to be first in line to found New Ilion. Now somedood in So.Car. wants in, too.
Friendly competition. That’s what this country needs.
Maybe two or three states could get together and just go in and take those gunmakers, their employees, families, and revenues. N.Y. doesn’t deserve them. As the bestseller says, we’d all be better off without ’em.
Texas needs more gun manufacturers. No state income tax for the employees! Here in Austin there are lots of skilled labor from the slowing high tech industry.
LKP, I sorta like “Supporters of the technology say it will be a ‘game changer,’ allowing authorities to quickly identify the registered guns used in crimes.”
I fail to see how microstamping prevents any crime whatsoever.
I wonder how long these insane regulations of places like Kalifornia, Neu Jersey, and New Yourk would last if ALL the gun manufacturers said we are not going to sell you any guns. Period. Mayor Bloomturd’s bodyguards? Nope, no guns. California/NJ?NY Highway Patrol? No. NYPD? We ain’t sellin’. Make your own if you want guns. Moving all of the gun makers out of the occupied territories and into (relatively) free states would be a very good first step and I do truly wonder why it hasn’t already happened.
Las Vegas is fast becoming Gun City. We have all the advantages of Texas, plus a surfeit of available real estate. Open carry too, and SHOT show suddenly gets a lot cheaper to attend.
Oklahoma, guys; we’d LOVE to have a new Remington plant here.
In the article, did you notice “Their main product isn’t even semiautomatic guns; the main thrust of what they do are long guns and military contracts,” from one politician? Does this idiot not understand that lots of long guns ARE semi-automatic? And let’s pass over, for now, all those pretty 1911A1 pistols Remington is making now…
August 29th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Ooh…I see the “Gun show loophole” is back.
August 29th, 2012 at 12:48 pm
GDI. Some kind of switcheroo. The above was meant for the Segregation post.
August 29th, 2012 at 12:59 pm
This is so frustrating. Every time some politician in New York talks about implementing some law to help solve crimes, all they are doing is making gun ownership more expensive.
The ballistics fingerprinting program in New York was (http://troopers.ny.gov/FAQs/Firearms/CoBIS), thankfully, cancelled, but not because it hasn’t caught any criminals but because the state in in debt and cannot afford the program.
So now they want to shift the burden of cost to the manufactures, so that guns will cost more and to do what? Catch criminals who use legally purchased so that the crime is traced back to the original owner? Oh yeah… that totally makes sense.
August 29th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
In case you haven’t seen it in other sites, Oh. and Penna. have been jockeying to be first in line to found New Ilion. Now somedood in So.Car. wants in, too.
Friendly competition. That’s what this country needs.
Maybe two or three states could get together and just go in and take those gunmakers, their employees, families, and revenues. N.Y. doesn’t deserve them. As the bestseller says, we’d all be better off without ’em.
August 29th, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Texas needs more gun manufacturers. No state income tax for the employees! Here in Austin there are lots of skilled labor from the slowing high tech industry.
August 29th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
The money quote from one of the hacks. “It’s unfair of them to resist sensible regulations.”
August 29th, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Please come to TEXAS. No income tax, ‘Right to Work’ laws, LOTS of land and buildings, plenty of workers, etc…
Try Tyler, we used to make cannons and rifles… in the Civil War!
We could make ’em again!
August 29th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
LKP, I sorta like “Supporters of the technology say it will be a ‘game changer,’ allowing authorities to quickly identify the registered guns used in crimes.”
I fail to see how microstamping prevents any crime whatsoever.
August 31st, 2012 at 9:04 pm
I wonder how long these insane regulations of places like Kalifornia, Neu Jersey, and New Yourk would last if ALL the gun manufacturers said we are not going to sell you any guns. Period. Mayor Bloomturd’s bodyguards? Nope, no guns. California/NJ?NY Highway Patrol? No. NYPD? We ain’t sellin’. Make your own if you want guns. Moving all of the gun makers out of the occupied territories and into (relatively) free states would be a very good first step and I do truly wonder why it hasn’t already happened.
September 1st, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Las Vegas is fast becoming Gun City. We have all the advantages of Texas, plus a surfeit of available real estate. Open carry too, and SHOT show suddenly gets a lot cheaper to attend.
September 1st, 2012 at 11:13 pm
Oklahoma, guys; we’d LOVE to have a new Remington plant here.
In the article, did you notice “Their main product isn’t even semiautomatic guns; the main thrust of what they do are long guns and military contracts,” from one politician? Does this idiot not understand that lots of long guns ARE semi-automatic? And let’s pass over, for now, all those pretty 1911A1 pistols Remington is making now…