http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/letter-from-the-editor/Content?oid=3233473 Comments On: Letter From The Editor by Bruce VanWyngarden en-us Copyright 2013 Memphis Flyer. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Memphis Flyer readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Memphis Flyer. wil@desert.net (Memphis Flyer Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 12:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Believe it or not,the ATFE DOES Keep records on what types of firearms are sold at any venue.That is how they know how few times "semi automatic firearms that look military" are used for crimes-less than 1%.They are,however barred from knowing by name who is buying which guns.Imagine if the government knew by name who was voting for which candidate.Would you like them tracking that information?It's a Right,just like buying a gun.
If people were hitting gun shows to buy firearms that they fully intended to use in a crime,they'd be able to trace them.I've bought and sold plenty of used guns & had top go through the background check.The guys I've sold them to haven't gotten the police sent to my house looking for the last person they could trace the gun to.It's the guns I've had stolen that worry me like that.Then I'm the one proving that my M1A/M14 type rifle was stolen at the same time Katrina was hitting Mississippi in 2005.
As I've said before,if all the hoplophobes wanted were reasonable gun laws,they wouldn't keep going to Congress asking for more.The new bills they want passed could easily be defined as "Unreasonable" since they didn't ask for it at the time they were talking "reasonable gun control".

Posted by towboatman]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:32:44 -0500 Memphis Flyer
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Posted by Phlo]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:16:23 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by M_Awesomeberg]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:48:19 -0500 Memphis Flyer Currently, in Tennessee at least, involuntary mental commitments are reported to the Tennessee Department of Safety and to the FBI. The only problem with that is if a person goes into a mental health treatment facility on an emergency judicial commitment the case can be disposed of in several way.
Posted by Drift Boat]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:12:50 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by BruceVanWyngarden]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:46:05 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by BruceVanWyngarden]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:26:51 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by towboatman]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:56:31 -0500 Memphis Flyer Police can also keep you awake for however long it takes to get you to confess to whatever crime they are charging you with,do things to you in order to get you to confess that the ACLU wouild call torture or coercion & when you sign the paper,you don't get to see what you signed translated to a language that you read.You could be confessing to have voted for John McCain in 2008 for all you know.
Maybe you'd like to live in such a society but I wouldn't.I'd rather have the government restrained by law than to be restrained by the government.
Posted by towboatman]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:53:16 -0500 Memphis Flyer If the only reason to have large capacity magazines is to kill large numbers of people,then obviously that clown got some bad magazines.
You also don't know the laws concerning firearms purchases.There ARE background checks on every gun sale.Single shot,lever action,pump,semi auto hunting rifle,military style(assault is an action,not a device)rifles,shotguns.If a firearm is purchased from a federally licensed dealer,the transaction goes through the police(Tenn Bureau of Investigation,in this state) who checks a nationwide datat base for criminal records that would disqualify the sale.
Even at gun shows,this is required.The only time a firearms sale is NOT required to have a background check is when the sale is person to person as in if i sold one of my guns through the paper,I wouldn't have to do a background check on the buyer,just like as if I were selling a car through th paper.
I do have one final point:If the gun controls that were passed in 1994 "reasonable gun controls",does that make anything that wasn't included but desired by the hoplophobes for a later time "unreasonable"?
Posted by towboatman]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:46:30 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by clegg]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:55:25 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by Me]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:18:00 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by mad_merc]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:01:24 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by M_Awesomeberg]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:41:26 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by BruceVanWyngarden]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:56:55 -0500 Memphis Flyer Here is an article about semi automatic rifles used by hunters. I don't hunt, but it appears a lot of folks use the AR style weapons for hunting.
Posted by Drift Boat]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:42:22 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by cd]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:32:07 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by mad_merc]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:21:22 -0500 Memphis Flyer
While I agree with you that semi-automatic high powered weapons should not be intended for the public, nutcases are always going find a way to kill lots of people in soft targets like a movie theater...driving a truck into a crowd, etc.


Posted by Shep Fargotstein]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:18:16 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by mad_merc]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:09:59 -0500 Memphis Flyer All hunting rifles have necked down cartridges, unless you want to count .22 cal rifles.
The same calibers are available in hunting rifles as "assault rifles", they all cycle at about the same rate, and hunting rifles can fire just as many supersonic rounds. Every time you pull the trigger the gun fires.
Posted by Drift Boat]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:06:01 -0500 Memphis Flyer
Posted by 38103]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:57:36 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by mad_merc]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:49:29 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by Drift Boat]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:05:09 -0500 Memphis Flyer
As I've stated, I'm not a gun owner, never have been, but I'm still interested in the issue of gun control, and I can see some of both sides of the argument.
Posted by GroveReb84]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:30:59 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by M_Awesomeberg]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:03:51 -0500 Memphis Flyer