Requiring IDs Doesn’t Prevent Illegal Gun Sales
By Tom Knighton | 12:29 PM | November 07, 2024
*** begin quote ***
One thing many anti-gunners want is for there to be an ID requirement for each and every gun sale in this country. The fact that many also oppose ID requirements for voting seems kind of hilarious to me, but it is what it is.
Most of us have had to show ID while buying a firearm at one point or another. Maybe not for face-to-face transfers, but any gun bought in a store required an ID.
This, some would argue, makes those sales nice and secure.
Yeah, about that…
*** and ***
ID requirements may sound good, but the truth is that it just means the market for fake IDs gets a little bigger. Similar can be said about literally everything else means to thwart criminals in their efforts to arm themselves.
It’s a lost cause and a waste of time to keep beating heads against walls and calling it gun control.
Tom Knighton
Tom Knighton is a Navy veteran, a former newspaperman, a novelist, and a blogger and lifetime shooter. He lives with his family in Southwest Georgia. He also puts out a daily newsletter of non-Second Amendment stories at https://tomknighton.substack.com/
*** end quote ***
The Gooferment has to STRICTLY enforce “felon in possession” and enhanced sentences for crimes using a firearm.
I hope DJT4547 requires each of his Assistant Attorneys General to report how many convictions they get for “felon in possession”. The following month, the lowest scoring AAG, and their next in command, should be required to report in person, a la Apprentice style, why this happened and how it’s to be remedied. If DJT4547 doesn’t like the excuses, then their second in command can give it a try. I bet crime with guns will drop like a rock within a year. Criminals are not stupid.
—30—
Posted by reinkefj 
Reinke Faces Life 