Article – Black LA residents lack access to guns as wealthy rush to buy firearms amid crime wave: Activists

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To other Second Amendment activists, gun control restrictions marginalize Black Americans and have historically been racist.

“Gun control in this place called America was created to stop melanated beings from having the means to exercise their human right,” political activist Maj Toure told Fox News Digital.

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Geneva Solomon, the co-owner of Black-owned Redstone Firearms in Los Angeles County’s Burbank, agreed with Toure’s comments. She said, “the gun control laws here are set up and intended to disproportionately affect those within the minority communities.”

She pointed to California’s complicated process of getting a concealed carry permit, saying single, Black parents in the state, for example, may have difficulty proving they have “good cause” for gun ownership.

“If the single parent is walking home and can’t prove that they’re ‘important’ by having money or high-value items taken from them, it may be really hard,” Solomon told Fox News Digital. “Which goes back to the ‘just cause’ requirement of the insurance of the CCW. Having ‘just cause’ is too big of a gray area. That means it’s up for interpretation of the person interviewing you and can lead to underlying bias.”

I suppose the more cynical and less-Woke might opine that according to crime statistics, “melanated beings” seem to have plenty of access to guns, thank you very much.

In this current atmosphere of culture war, there is very little in the political world that cant be recast as an identity-political issue. Why should guns be any different? In the past, some municipalities passed ‘gun control’ that would prohibit guns made out of ‘pot metal’ (aka Zamac and similar) in order to prohibit ‘cheap’ guns (aka ‘Saturday Night Specials’). If you’re a person-of-melanation then, according to the woke, youre a victim of ‘entrenched racism’ and ‘white supremacy’ and therefore don’t have the ‘privilege’ of being able to afford a Glock or Sig. So, all thats left to you is the cheap stuff like Rohm, RG, HiPoint, Lorcin, Bryco, Jennings, and the usual suspects you see in evidence lockers across America.

The reality is, any schmuck who can hold down a minimum wage job can afford a HiPoint within a month. Give up the cigarettes and beer and you can pick up a used Ruger or Taurus within six weeks.

But the article wasnt really about the affordability of guns, but rather the difficulty the melanated have in accessing them. But isn’t that what those same Democrat supporters (and, yes, I’m making an assumption that in that particular state most melanated beings are going to vote for the Democrats) wanted all along? A Byzantine government permission system for ‘controlling’ guns? Careful what you ask for.

 

20 thoughts on “Article – Black LA residents lack access to guns as wealthy rush to buy firearms amid crime wave: Activists”

  1. Is there a contest to see who can come up with the most outrageous euphemism?
    Melanated beings? Really?

  2. Also, our federal tax dollars fund abortion because it’s a ‘constitutional right’ and some women can’t afford it.
    I’ll agree with that logic, if we can also acknowledge the *actual* constitutional right (2A) exists and that some people can’t afford firearms, so perhaps there should at least be a tax break there?

      • Rights come from God. They are ours because of our very humanity. Permission slips come from gumminets, they have nothing to do with rights. Gummints only exist because we, the people, created them. They only exist because we, the people, allow then to exist, for as long as we allow them to exist.

      • Guess a lot of men are gonna be incels if they can’t afford condoms, then. Probably a significant portion of your commenters, I’m guessing.

  3. The phrase “Saturday night special” is the product of racism itself. I’ve explained the etymology of the term a number of times over the years and horrified a number of people in doing so.

  4. So if these disenfranchised folks seceded and formed their own country, would it be the Mela Nation?

  5. I think you all have missed the golden opportunity this type of thing represents, namely using the left’s own ridiculousness against them to get what we want. California doesn’t care at all about white gun owners but if we can say “yes, but look your conceal carry laws are hurting your beloved black voters” and it gets them to make getting permits easier for everyone lest they be label racists then how is that not a beautiful PSYOP campaign where gun owners win?

  6. Getting insurance for a gun store anywhere is ….tough. And expensive, compared to say a store selling knitting supplies.

    Getting such insurance in Los Angeles city (assuming one can get through the permitting process, of course) is much tougher.

    Now, imagine getting one for a ‘disadvantaged’ part of the city?

    My favorite (and first) gun store is Martin B. Retting, in Culver City, CA (immediately adjacent to west Los Angeles, and not at all a bad part of town).

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/Martin+B.+Retting/@34.010983,-118.4110773,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipO6TsC24fP6_q0dgQGIBU0-IEYfxYGqBiJLhPJA!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipO6TsC24fP6_q0dgQGIBU0-IEYfxYGqBiJLhPJA%3Dw86-h86-k-no!7i1536!8i1522!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2ba39523723d5:0x942ca89b76d89b3e!8m2!3d34.0109837!4d-118.4110842

    The store itself is a blockhouse, no windows, reinforced walls and doors…. What would an inner-city store require? TSAx10 levels of security to just enter the store?

    • Airlocks for one thing.
      I’m so done with all the whining by anybody and everybody.
      The last 3 times I tried to buy “new” guns I was denied by the NICS even though I’ve bought plenty, have been licensed to carry in 2 states for more than 20 years, have no criminal record (not even traffic) and have been fingerprinted at least a dozen times for various things (real estate license, etc.). As far as the gov’t is concerned there are no “rights”, just privileges that they can ignore at their whim. I only buy “lightly used” guns now and from here on out. fuk nics

  7. Well now. All they have to do is find Chaz from CHOP. Remember him. The black guy that dressed like a pimp and had a car to match. But this cat wasn’t pack in no hoes he was packing and passing out ARs and AKs. Pistols in all makes and models. Plenty of ammo to.
    The thing I found interesting was that in Washington State they have a law that is a typical Charlie Foxtrot devised by the idiots on the left.
    You go to the gun store. You look at what they have and then point to one to try. Oops? What’s that. You mean to tell me I have to pay for a background check just to hold the damn thing. Yep. That’s a big 10-4 good buddy. You aren’t allowed to let a friend check out your new hardware unless you transfer it to him and then back again. And the checks have to be done by a liscenced dealer.
    What’s that ? You need to buy a few firearms. Well guess what me amigo. That’s a background check for each firearm.
    But old Chaz he must got sumpin going with the local badge toters cause that dude was pass in em out like candy at Christmas.
    Last I heard the cost for a background check was $50. It may be higher now.
    THEY AND THEIR MINIONS CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING. BUT WE THE PEOPLE ARE TREATED LIKE SEWER GAS.
    It appears the country is starting to feel a bit like the 1930s. 1930s Berlin.

  8. The California gun laws were actually written to prevent black nationalist such as the Black Panter Party from open carrying. The Mulford Act in 1967 was used to disarm Black militants during the turbulent 60s. Few people know that Democrat California Governor Ronald Reagan was the one who signed it into law.

    • Yup, and the NRA and many white gun owners supported the Mulford Act along with many other gun control laws in the 60’s precisely for the purpose of disarming black militants. Many white gun owners supported them under the belief that the laws wouldn’t be enforced against them.
      Adam Winkler’s book about the history of gun rights and gun control is a very interesting read. The podcast episode called the Gun Show done by WNYC public radio with Winkler and Heller and Gura (the Heller lawyer) and a slew of others is really interesting as well.

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