Thursday, April 19, 2007

Meme: Gun Laws

As a mental exercise, another blogger (Hammer, I think) posits: "Congress & the President have spontaneously repealed ALL gun laws. You and Sarah Brady are locked into a room for thirty days to bring forth a new compromise on the topic, which will become the law of the land. What trade-offs are you willing to accept?" Anti folk welcome to comment/meme as well...

1) In exchange for an objective-standard national/federal CPL to include transit spaces (air/train/bus/etc) - I'm willing to trade about $250/2yrs, annual background check for holders of the Holy Grail, a requirement of 40hrs training every 2yrs, and a licensee-submitted list of self-defense tools that may be carried under this license (I'm not willing to include "limiting the number thereof in the trade"). I might be willing to throw in some kind of "deputization by Federal Marshals in state of emergency clause" to get this. I'd even be willing to throw in language about "while in holders home state, home state rules take precedence" allowing New York to continue to tormenting New Yorkers, but not out of state folks.

2) In exchange for moving the current subjective NFA Local Law Enforcement approval standard to an objective standard with attestations under oath (and thus liable for discussions of perjury), I would be willing to trade a 6 mo. NFA waiting period.

and then I get stumped....

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