Jeff Thomas
New member
John from AZ posted something about drivers licenses, and reminded me of an idea that I think may have some merit. I offer this with full expectation (and hope) that my TFL friends will beat this idea up one side and down the other.
The anti-self defense crowd is always posturing about how we must keep firearms out of the hands of criminals, nutcases (and on and on). Of course, our brilliant feds fail to enforce the laws we have now. And, we have bozos like Al Gore, Bill Bradley and others calling for ID cards to purchase firearms, registration, and in some cases confiscation.
I think many of us would agree there are certain folks we'd rather not see carrying firearms. Without immediately getting into the argument of who is 'reasonably' prohibited, please consider this:
Every state modifies its drivers license to include a section reading 'Firearms Purchase?' and 'Yes' or 'No' marked next to it.
Everyone with a drivers license would get a new license with this correction. Every court that finds an individual guilty of a felony, etc., and therefore disqualified (under current law) from legal firearms purchases, would need to confiscate their drivers license and cause a corrected one to be issued. Someone without a drivers license could get a separate state card for such purchases, but I would think this would be relatively rare.
I don't really like this per se, but as I consider the idea I find it infinitely more palatable than registering firearms owners or firearms themselves. And, if everyone has such a designation (one way or the other), there is no more NICS, and no more argument about keeping track of every gun owner. Even that witch Sarah Brady would have such a box on her license (assuming the twit can drive).
Yes, this would involve some additional expense. But, 'if it would save one life', and 'let's do it for the children' should overcome those petty expense concerns.
Actually, there probably would still be an argument about registering firearms and owners, but at least it would show the anti-self defense lobby is lying (once again) about their true motives.
Blast away, please.
Regards from AZ.
[This message has been edited by Jeff Thomas (edited July 26, 1999).]
The anti-self defense crowd is always posturing about how we must keep firearms out of the hands of criminals, nutcases (and on and on). Of course, our brilliant feds fail to enforce the laws we have now. And, we have bozos like Al Gore, Bill Bradley and others calling for ID cards to purchase firearms, registration, and in some cases confiscation.
I think many of us would agree there are certain folks we'd rather not see carrying firearms. Without immediately getting into the argument of who is 'reasonably' prohibited, please consider this:
Every state modifies its drivers license to include a section reading 'Firearms Purchase?' and 'Yes' or 'No' marked next to it.
Everyone with a drivers license would get a new license with this correction. Every court that finds an individual guilty of a felony, etc., and therefore disqualified (under current law) from legal firearms purchases, would need to confiscate their drivers license and cause a corrected one to be issued. Someone without a drivers license could get a separate state card for such purchases, but I would think this would be relatively rare.
I don't really like this per se, but as I consider the idea I find it infinitely more palatable than registering firearms owners or firearms themselves. And, if everyone has such a designation (one way or the other), there is no more NICS, and no more argument about keeping track of every gun owner. Even that witch Sarah Brady would have such a box on her license (assuming the twit can drive).
Yes, this would involve some additional expense. But, 'if it would save one life', and 'let's do it for the children' should overcome those petty expense concerns.
Actually, there probably would still be an argument about registering firearms and owners, but at least it would show the anti-self defense lobby is lying (once again) about their true motives.
Blast away, please.
Regards from AZ.
[This message has been edited by Jeff Thomas (edited July 26, 1999).]