Smells Like Infringement: War on Gun Stores Edition
Oh look, anti-gunners don’t like small, local businesses either. Shocker!
Gun banners have learned that most Americans don’t like the idea of making it illegal to purchase firearms, which clearly gives them a bad case of indigestion. It’s a tough onion to swallow for them. Rather than pop a Tums, they instead try to find new ways to release the uncomfortable pressure of knowing that their goals are tough to achieve through legislation. They’ve recently taken to doing the next best thing: Harassing and zoning gun-store owners out of business. After all, what does it matter if guns are legal, if would-be gun owners can’t find a place to buy one? Let’s not let them sneak one by us by blaming it on the dog–instead, let’s daub some Vicks Vapo-Rub under our noses and tell the gun-banners that what they’re doing sure smells like infringement. Today, we’ve got two stories about the latest air-biscuits the gun banners have tried to float (in a crowded elevator, no less)…and a bonus tale of one woman who seems to have “gambled and lost.”
1. No, no, that’s not malicious zoning. That was my shoe!
Our first tale of anti-gunners trying to eliminate small, local gun stores comes from, you guessed it, California. Although very little would shock us coming from that particular state, it’s still quite remarkable the extent to which the gun-banners were willing to go to limit Californians’ ability to purchase a gun. After a long series of lawsuits that were first upheld and then overturned, the state now allows localities to pass zoning laws that treat gun stores as if they were XXX adult stores. Do these people know that when 2A people talk about “gun porn,” we mean pictures of guns? (Well, that and the After Dark series here on GGD, heh heh.) Click here to get a whiff of how they did it.
2. No, no, that’s not a Kafka-esque restriction. I just microwaved broccoli!
Our second sad story of hoplophobia takes a turn for the bizarre with a much less sophisticated method of eliminating gun stores. In this one, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has just signed into law legislation that requires all gun stores to have available for purchase at least one smart gun. If you’re not familiar, “smart guns” ideally work off of biometric measurements–generally a fingerprint–to ensure that only the gun’s rightful owner can shoot it. There’s just one teeny-tiny little squeaker of a problem with that: They don’t exist. There really aren’t any smart guns out there available for purchase. Gov. Murphy may as well have required that gun stores always have a winged unicorn available for sale in order to stay open. Click here to learn more…but be sure to hold your breath.
3. No, no, I didn’t just “gamble and lose,” there must be a sewer grate close by!
That brings us to Kansas City’s Sandy Skaggs, who isn’t a politician…just a regular lady who likes to see her name in print, and who doesn’t really think things through very hard. You see, Skaggs has a friend who asked her to store his AR-15 in her house for him. She agreed to do it, but over time she must have grown as impatient with the AR’s presence as a person with a tummyache looking for a quiet corner to go release some pressure. In the wake of last weekend’s mass shootings, Skaggs decided to buy the gun from her friend for the sole purpose of then destroying it. Then, of course, she contacted the news to let them know, because clearly her virtue needed a signal boost. Here’s the thing…I’m not going to tell Skaggs and people like her to cut it out. It’s a free country, and they’re more than welcome to buy as many guns as they want for the purpose of destroying them. I will, however, recommend that if anyone else wants to destroy their gun, all they have to do is contact me. I’ll be more than happy to send small lead projectiles down that gun’s barrel until it’s just plumb worn out. Click here to laugh at Skagg’s “laundry mishap.”
Maybe we should ban moronic gun banners and anyone who seeks to infringe on the 2nd amendment.
IF only the Politicians ..OBEYED their OATH of OFFICE…which includes the CONSTITUTION….as written into LAW in 1787…….BUT they do not…and today even their ‘lip service’ to it is becoming ‘silent’….This is why the Federal Government is out of controll…NOTHING to make them remain in the ‘chains of the Constitution’…since THEY remove ..State MILITIAS from this nation….and replaced it with those that only serve THEM….Not many will ‘bite the hand that feeds them’….The State Militias could and would..ARREST the law breakers when ever they left DC and came home….the RECALL option if you will….also noted the change to the Constitution of elected Senators…used to be APPOINTED by STATE LEGISLATORS….then THEY (the Congress) shanged it to General Elections….thus SENATORS only work for the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT…and THEMSELVES….BUT YOU get to vote them in…not many get voted OUT….look at the YEARS served in office by the majority of the self made MILLIONAIRES…all on your ‘dime’….imo
I think we should ban ALL motorized vehicles because they kill so many people each year. No more car salesmen on TV with their car porn. I am sure I speak for ALL thinking people in America. Does my breath smell as bad as my recterick? sic LOL
What the liberals don’t get is, ya just don’t need a gun to throw a liberal very far.
And if you are that worried some law abiding citizen is gonna shoot you, probably shouldn’t create hype and worry in the first place, damn kids!
If ya leave me alone, you don’t have to worry about my response to your actions, unless you are endangering others too, then poopoo on you. Everyone is always thankful when they are rescued, no matter how it was accomplished.
We have a right to protect our country from all enemies, FOREIGN and DOMESTIC! Don’t bitch about the spec in my eye when you can’t see the board in your own…
Try it sometime.
Vote the SOBs out and change the regs! But in the meantime complain about any business whose traffic flow seems to interfere with road traffic or is close enough to a traffic light to create congestion. Check signage regulation in your area and see if all signage complies. Write letters complaining that you don’t appreciate being associated with porno since law enfocement utilizes firearms.
Check out Illinois.
The new “Gun Dealer Licensing Bill” requires video surveillance, minimum training requirements and background checking of employees (like any gun store would not do that already) and a host of other expensive requirements.
End result………… Anywhere near Chicago, (where the gang bangers get their straw puchased guns) the Big box stores and large gun stores just pass the cost on to customers.
In rural Illinois, the Mom and Pop dealers can’t afford all the red tape, and are going out of business. A 50% REDUCTION THIS YEAR ALONE!
Just check out Chicago shooting stats to see how well that’s working on controlling “gun violence”
Well you know liberals….they can read minds, predict the future, and can speak for everybody…..but their breath smells really bad!