Tam, over at View From The Porch, has a lovely piece about someone stepping on his own dick over the proposal being bandied about to ban the internet/mailorder purchase of ammo by lowly civilians. His idea is that if we surrender Poland, maybe the Germans will leave the rest of Europe alone.
At which point, his Facebook exploded.
So, a guy who makes his business selling ammo is supporting restrictions that will force people to come to him for his ammo. Okay, it’s a bit self-serving, but at least I can understand that. But then it gets clouded in the Neville Chamberlain-ing Bill Ruger-ing of ‘maybe if we throw this one guy out of the sled, the wolves will stop chasing us.’
Back-pedalling and ‘what I really meant was…’ has already started. I dunno about you but if the zombie apocalypse was going on and this guy was the last source for 9mm ammo, I’d forget about my Glocks, go all Daryl Dixon on the zombies and lead ‘em straight to this guys shop.
Yeah, that was pretty crappy of him going there, he should know better. Maybe he figured that he needed to look ‘reasonable’ to the people doing the interview.
The only thing that will stop the gun control crowd is when the ownership of firearms are completely banned to the public (except for LEOs, licensed body guards and military because they work for us!).
Our local ABC affilliatte did an ‘expose’ on internet ammunition purchases last night. Using a station’s 14 year old son as the buyer, using his father’s credit card, they showed how easy ‘Anonymous’ ammunition purchases can be made. Obviously, they were trying to draw parallels to the Aurora shooter. They neglected to comment on:
1) Anonymous ? Credit card number, name, shipping address required and they call that Anonymous ? LEOs can easily trace that back if they want to. And maybe its news to them, but credit card purchases ARE traceable (film at 11 . . )
2) Most websites required that the buyer was of legal age to purchase. Many require that purchasers submit a copy of their driver’s licenses BEFORE purchases are made. Again, must have slipped their minds . . .
Not really many parallels here. Aurora shooter is 20 something which gave him legal age, very likely a driver’s license or other ‘picture’ identification. And no criminal record, no . Pretty much just like most ammunition purchasers.
Silly a$$ story if you ask me, but what do I know, I’m just Joe Six-Pack, don’t know anything.
It’s like banning mail order sales of rifles after the JFK assassination, when Oswald could have gone to any pawn shop or gun show and bought a better rifle for the same price. Yeah, yeah, I know… grassy knoll, 2nd and 3rd gunmen, Jimmy Hoffa, Castro, CIA, Agent K-19 head of the Cosmic Secret Service, Build-a-better-burger Society, lizard men from the center of the earth… blah, blah, blah.