Scott Walker supports eliminating 48-hour waiting period for handgun purchases

Posts like yours?

 

Why? Go into details..

 

2 pepperonis and all the sauce cheese and herbs...

 

Because it makes the assumption that ones rights are subject to waiting periods.

 

What about the guy (or girl) who just found out his or her spouse cheated? Or got swindled in a business deal?

 

What about them?

 

This is America...more likely that mom protecting her kids weighs in at 195 pounds than your number...

 

Can't put a rifle in your pocket and go see your cheating spouse at work.

 

why? do you have any real evidence that waiting lists have any effect on violence at all?

 

You don't think a couple of days to cool off would be a good idea?

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So??????

 

You believe your rights can be delayed or regulated? Why? and to what purpose?

 

And if they remain as you say "still pissed off or suicidal" after the forty eight hour period has passed? Then what? Ultimately what good came of the waiting period?

Ultimately what benficial purpose does a waiting period serve if the purchaser is already a legal firearm owner?

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What is the legitimate justification in making purchasers wait for an arbitrarily determined amount of time before they can legally take possession of their property? How was the time frame of forty eight hours arrived at in the first place?

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A significant number of things can occur and go wrong within the time frame of a couple of days. Not everyone has the luxury of waiting.

 

Federal firearm licensees are trained in correctly performing background checks. A private individual making a one-time sale possesses no such training and can make egregious errors than render the background check useless. They are not trained in how to recognize a fake ID.

 

So everyone should be assumed of being guilty?

 

Judging by the context of your post, you do not.

Not everyone possesses the luxury of an infinite amount of time being on their side.

 

Meh, you underestimate individual sellers. Most that I deal with require the buyer to produce a carry license to keep themselves out of trouble. Many require filling out a form including the DL number, address, etc.. People make personal evaluations as they do not want to sell to someone not eligible. People aren't as stupid as the gun grabbers think. Methinks they watch too much TV.

 

Yet a shotgun can be sawed down to a more compact size to make it more concealable.

To be accurate there are some handguns too big to put into a pocket as well. The Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum comes to mind. As does the IMI Desert Eagle, and the Ruger Super Redhawk.

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That is assuming that an individual has the desire to calm down after a disturbing event.

What if the individual becomes upset after acquiring the firearm?

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And you are making assumptions based on your own experiences even if they are unique to yourself and only yourself. There are those that simply do not care about who they might sell to.

 

Not unique but common in a group of thousands online in this State.

 

What is the reason for the 48 hour waiting period? Is it really a cooling off period?

 

Actually, they are not trained at all but only have to be able to be eligible to apply for an FFL and follow federal regulations pertaining to selling firearms.

 

You have purchased from a sufficient percentage of those supposed "thousands" to warrant making a generalized assessment about their selling procedures?

 

We do have an internet. Information is not just isolated to one person.

 

The more I hear about Walker, the more I like him.

Defeated the unions. Didn't get brainwashed in an ivy league gulag. Anti-amnesty. Isn't a "progressive" communist.

And now pro-2nd Amendment. Gets better all the time.

 

Suicide is not correlated with guns. After a person decides to commit suicide, their preferred method is firearm, but if there is no firearm then they use other equally effective methods such as hanging and overdose. They do not decide to commit suicide and then change their mind if they cant find a gun. Australia shows this clearly, after their gun ban went into effect in 1996, gun suicides decreased significantly, but suicide by other methods increased, net change was zero.

 

allow them to be bought on-line, then the shipping would be the "cooling" off period....

I think anything that is legal should be able to be bought on-line, including Alcohol, Cigarettes, pain meds, the list goes on


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