Myriad of gun laws should be enough
So, now, a bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to increase penalties for straw purchases of firearms, eh?
I know where they should start to get some real practice about enforcing existing American firearms laws.
Let’s refer them to Eric Holder, the attorney general, whose mandated straw purchases of real assault rifles caused the deaths of two border patrol agents and who knows how many Mexican civilians.
Federal Form 4473 — mandatory for every firearm purchase through a federally licensed dealer — contains 14 questions, one of which asks if the gun under pending sale is being bought for the ownership and use of the purchaser or for someone not legally allowed to own it.
All of these proposals, committees, bills, laws, are all smoke and mirrors and a dog-and-pony show. There are more than 30,000 anti-Second Amendment laws in force in the 50 States — an average of 600 per state — more than enough laws to prevent gun crime.