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I have been a member of the NRA for decades.
I am a member of the local outdoor shooting club. I like paper targets anywhere from 7 yards.s to 300 yards.
I like common sense. So what do you feel about my issues with the current legal
stuff with the NRA?
1. You can purchase a hand gun and a long gun every thirty days.
Do the math. In ten years you can have 120 hand guns and 120 rifles.
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I can legally purchase one morning, noon, and night on the same day. I can legally purchase dozens on the same day. What on earth are you talking about?
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2. Ten days to wait for delivery of your firearm.
Wait thirty days. You got people mad at bosses, co-workers and ex-wives.
Give them time to settle down.If you really want a firearm then 30 days is
nothing to wait for.
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What about folks who already own firearms? Or baseball bats? Or kitchen knives? Should there be a waiting period on axe handles? Ball peen hammers?
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3. High cap mags. Sturm Ruger even said that anyone as an American citizen
doesn't need more than a ten round magazine.
I know that the government goes south on us, they will have high caps.
Tough to argue that one.
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One guy in the entire firearms industry, and as soon as he died, Jr. reversed the company's position.
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4. PTSD. Who is clinically proven to suffer from PTSD should not have a firearm.
Sorry for all of you out there receiving some government dole for your PTSD, but
I spent a year in Vietnam and carried a M16 and M79 everywhere I went and
witnessed **** I don't like seeing again but didn't go to the Va and get
any kind of pay for PTSD.
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To what degree would they have to be suffering to be disqualified?
My father in law served in WWII. He literally walked across North Africa chasing Rommel's army. Then then crossed the Mediterranean into Sicily and his unit fought at Anzio.
For over 30 years after he got home he would periodically wake up in the middle of the night screaming and flailing. Back then, it was "shell shocked" rather than "PTSD". Many of his generation who served suffered from it.
My own dad served in Korea. Same thing, but not as bad as my father in law had it. Us kids could hear him, and then hear my mom trying to calm him down. He died at 50 years old and never did get over it.
Men of their generation, in spite of that, owned firearms and never harmed a soul. Would never consider it. Millions of men of that generation.
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5. One handgun and one longrifle once a year.
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What would this accomplish? I'm hard pressed to come up with anything at all that this would accomplish towards a reduction in gun violence.
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My big concern is that the hundreds of thousands of Baby boomers nearing the "end of life" with tens of thousands of rounds of ammo and safes full of firearms are
not going to be happy with what happens with the stash they have unnecessarily
accumulated.
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In most cases, these collections are merely passed on to their heirs. If their heirs don't want them, they get sold at an estate sale or something.
And what do you mean "unnecessarily accumulated"?
Boy, you know, you started out saying "I like common sense" and then very convincingly demonstrated otherwise. Nothing you posted makes any sense whatsoever.