Registered guns? I keep hearing that term and I don’t know what it means. I’ve seen pro-gun stories, too, about gun owners either defending themselves with, or getting arrested for, their “legally registered” guns. I know Chicago had, that’s right h-a-d, gun registration, but Illinois statewide never did. What other states do? Are CCWs registered guns? Who keeps the register? Is it shorthand for “I’m using a meaningless adjective to make a point about something I have no clue about”?
First they switched the original article with a Christmas article, even though the comments were about the gun article. I commented..asking where the article went and why there was no mention of the edit.
Oh, and I was going to comment: If he got that info-graphic so terribly wrong, how many others are equally wrong, but I am just not knowledgeable on the subject to know? Why should I trust him now?
The ATF National Firearm Registration and Transfer Record is used via the NFA and 27 CFR, Part 479, to keep a register of fully automatic firearms and AOWs.
I wonder if the author of the article realized his registered weapons were all those full autos guns held by civilian agencies in DC? I didn’t until I googled.
> If he got that info-graphic so terribly wrong, how many others are equally wrong, but I am just not knowledgeable on the subject to know? Why should I trust him now?
Absolutely DC is gun friendly. In DC and Chicago, you can roll down your car window and buy a handgun from a sidewalk salesman, no paperwork, no wait, no getting out of the car! That’s customer service for you.
January 5th, 2015 at 8:35 pm
FBI,Secret Service, BATF Homeland Security, Capitol Police, DC Police, etc, etc,etc……..
January 5th, 2015 at 8:49 pm
Registered guns? I keep hearing that term and I don’t know what it means. I’ve seen pro-gun stories, too, about gun owners either defending themselves with, or getting arrested for, their “legally registered” guns. I know Chicago had, that’s right h-a-d, gun registration, but Illinois statewide never did. What other states do? Are CCWs registered guns? Who keeps the register? Is it shorthand for “I’m using a meaningless adjective to make a point about something I have no clue about”?
January 6th, 2015 at 2:21 am
First they switched the original article with a Christmas article, even though the comments were about the gun article. I commented..asking where the article went and why there was no mention of the edit.
Now….404.
With NO mention of any editing.
January 6th, 2015 at 2:55 am
Try this: http://tinyurl.com/mzzb5ws
Goes to google cache
January 6th, 2015 at 11:19 am
At the bottom of the graphic are the following sources:
Bloomberg, ATF’s national Firearm Registration and Transfer Record and US Census.
ATF’s WHAT?
January 6th, 2015 at 11:58 am
I commented on the article yesterday, but it look like it has been memory-holed. Does anyone have a working link?
January 6th, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Oh, and I was going to comment: If he got that info-graphic so terribly wrong, how many others are equally wrong, but I am just not knowledgeable on the subject to know? Why should I trust him now?
January 6th, 2015 at 12:50 pm
The ATF National Firearm Registration and Transfer Record is used via the NFA and 27 CFR, Part 479, to keep a register of fully automatic firearms and AOWs.
I wonder if the author of the article realized his registered weapons were all those full autos guns held by civilian agencies in DC? I didn’t until I googled.
January 6th, 2015 at 1:36 pm
>Does anyone have a working link?
Proving the point again that not everyone reads all the comments before commenting. Eh, we all speed-read from time to time.
Anyway, I dung the cached image out of the cache link I found and reposted it for parody and fair use purposes.
http://imgur.com/OWqLUKP
> If he got that info-graphic so terribly wrong, how many others are equally wrong, but I am just not knowledgeable on the subject to know? Why should I trust him now?
search-fu: Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
(obligatory “layers of editorial oversight”)
January 6th, 2015 at 7:35 pm
Absolutely DC is gun friendly. In DC and Chicago, you can roll down your car window and buy a handgun from a sidewalk salesman, no paperwork, no wait, no getting out of the car! That’s customer service for you.
January 7th, 2015 at 12:14 am
Hell, if DC is “gun friendly” I damn sure don’t want to see a place that’s anti!
January 8th, 2015 at 2:17 am
You’d think Forbes would know, DC is NOT a state.