Now that Joe is moving his attention into what has always been sacred GOP territory, i.e., crime control, he’s also taking on the so-called gun lobby over the issue of how the ATF tries to regulate guns. And here’s the key sentence from yesterday’s speech: “The point is that there has always been the ability to limit — rationally limit the type of weapon that can be owned and who can own it.”
Wait until Gun-nut Nation figures out how to respond to that one. Here’s the President of the United States saying that we can pass laws to regulate not only who can own guns, but what kind of guns they can own. That’s not just a violation of the 2nd Amendment, it’s an infringement on our God-given ‘rights’ to defend ourselves or whatever else we want to do with an adult toy that we refer to as a ‘gun.’
And who is going to make sure that these beloved 2nd-Amendment ‘rights’ are no longer so beloved or even allowed to be thought of as ‘right?’ The ATF.
And what is the ATF going to do to make sure that the 2nd Amendment will sooner or later completely disappear?
They will go after all those ‘rogue’ gun dealers who are, to quote Joe, the “merchants of death” who are “breaking the law for profit.”
To back up Joe’s decision to send the ATF out to all those gun dealers who are ‘willfully’ selling all those guns to all those guys who use those guns to commit crimes, Joe cited an ATF study published in 2000 which found that 90 percent of illegal guns picked up at crime scenes were sold by 5 percent of gun dealers.
Actually, what the study really showed was that 4.2% of all retail dealers accounted for 72.5% of all guns that were traced by the ATF, whether the trace was done for a gun connected to a crime, or for any other reason. It should be noted, by the way, that less than 25% of all traces conducted by the ATF each year are for guns which were used to commit a serious crime.
What all this data being used to spot those rogue dealers does not explain, however, is the degree to which the gun dealers who receive most of the trace requests also happen to be the gun dealers who sell most of the guns. Know the old 80-20 rule which says that 20% of retailers make 80% of all retail sales?
In the gun business, the rule is closer to 95-5. That’s right. Most gun ‘dealers’ are retired guys who rent a small retail space because the wife got fed up one day with him just sitting around the house and said, “Why don’t you take all those friggin’ guns out of the house and open a shop?”
So, the guy goes into town, finds some empty storefront that is available for a couple of hundred bucks a month, and now he can sit there all day long, shoot the sh*t with his friends and oh, by the way, he doesn’t have to do all those chores around the house because, after all, he’s got a business to run.
Think I’m kidding? Next time you drive past Joe’s Gun Shop, park your car and walk in. I can guarantee you that 95% of the members of Gun-control Nation have never been in a gun shop, not even once.
I have yet to see a study of all those rogue gun dealers selling all those crime guns which compares the shops getting most of the trace requests to the shops which just happen to sell most of the guns. Until someone at the ATF figures that one out, the idea that we know which dealers the ATF should go after because so many guns from their shops wind up in the ‘wrong hands’ is just so much talk.
That being said, Joe’s speech was still a good speech, particularly when he told the jerks who claim they need an assault rifle to fight the government that what they really need is an F-15.
Keep it up Joe, keep it up.
Jun 24, 2021 @ 10:45:38
“When he told the jerks who claim they need an assault rifle to fight the government that what they really need is an F-15.”
Don’t forget the nukes.
I believe the Vietnamese people did a good job at it.
Everyone that mattered was worried that Trump would have a meltdown and nuke Russia or China. So Trump was replaced with a guy that would nuke Tennessee or Wyoming, or any other Red State that refused to turn over their guns. Have they made it perfectly clear to the normies yet, that they consider YOU to be more of their enemy than the Chinese Communist Party?
Jun 24, 2021 @ 11:47:26
Rats. Does this mean I have to get an NFA Stamp for my nuclear-tipped cruise missile?
Jun 24, 2021 @ 11:57:18
Like that one. Even for an old man like me…that’s a good one.
Jun 24, 2021 @ 22:02:16
I’ve always harbored a suspicion that almost all the guns – typically handguns – that are used for intimidation or harm are stolen or, perhaps to a lesser extent, sold on the sly by persons who acquired them in one legal way or another illegal one. Any way to prove or disprove this thought?
Jun 29, 2021 @ 11:33:38
I don’t know of a single study that has ever traced the exact way in which a gun ends up in the ‘wrong’ hands.
Jun 24, 2021 @ 22:41:29
Had a couple of minutes and found that there are a number of F-4 Phantoms that are privately owned. Also, more of these aircraft will become available every year for private ownership.
I remember seeing these planes flying over some very un-friendly skies. Now, I may look up and say it’s a bird it’s a plane…no it’s an F-4 Phantoms being flown by one of those 2nd-Amendment nuts.
Won’t take long before you may have a 2nd-Amendment ‘right’ to buy one of those F-15’s, just like the F-4 Phantom.
Sooo, take that ATF, or as President Biden calls them…AFT. What a leader and a man. Just can’t help but love him.
Jun 29, 2021 @ 11:32:37
And if they are privately owned, they are stripped of all the weapons and technology which made them fighter planes. I can buy a Jupiter missile if I want to. I know a guy who bought one and put it in the town square of where he lives in New Hampshire. Think the missie is anything other than an empty tube? Think again.
Jun 29, 2021 @ 12:22:26
“…they are stripped of all the weapons and technology which made them fighter planes.”
And so, the F-4 Phantom being stripped of all the weapons and technology they are no longer fighter planes, is like the AR-15 not having a third pin hole for select-fire, it is not an Assault Rifle.
Mike, I believe you just made my case.
Jun 25, 2021 @ 14:08:48
So says a gun control supporter whose command of the English language is remarkably poor or he has never read the bill of rights. In any event as a propagandist and liar his claim is once again totally false unless he can show how he can keep and bear one of “those”. Can you do that Mike the gun control guy? Would you like to revise the garbage you wrote to comply with FACTS? But if you can afford one and find it for sale just get your wallet out and fill in the forms. You can buy a tank as well to scare the gun control rabbits away and frighten the heck out of them.
Are you just flexing that frighten the ignorant fools into supporting gun control tactic again?
Jun 29, 2021 @ 11:30:07
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