I need a first hand account of gun control for my paper

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roadkill

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Someone just give me an account of how gun control has affected you. Even if it was when you went to buy a gun your background check was messed up and you couldn't buy a gun even if though your record was clean. Anything like that would help. I need it tonight, please. My paper is due tommorow, so of course i'm writing it tonight. Thanks in advance.

Later,
roadkill
 
Probably not as dramatic as you would like but I was a police officer my entire career and have never had as much as a parking ticket and am delayed from several hours to three days every time I buy since NICS started. It has been suggested that the reason may be because of my military record. Bad? No. I was honorably discharged and had a top secret security clearance in Europe. There in lies the problem. Because top secret clearence requires FBI investigation the system shows me as having been investigated.
Because of this I am always unable to purchase a gun at a show if I am too far from home for it to be practical for me to return days later after the check. It has also forced me to make a second trip to a gun shop four hours away in order to pick up a gun that I had been delayed for.
A minor inconvenience for the sake of the children. A police officer and honorably discharged US veteran unable to exercise his constitutional rights in a convenient, timely fashion or forced to pass up deals all together because the system does not work properly.

Come on folks. Y'all have gotta be able to top this. It is lame compared to some of the other ways gun control hurts us.

Roadkill, may I humbly suggest that in the future you ask before the paper is due. ;)

Gunslinger
aka William M. "Bill" Elliott
 
I'm not big on using my real name on the 'net, sorry.

Gun Control affecting me?

My fingerprints are on file with the Massachusetts Criminal History Bureau. I've committed no crime, i've never been arrested.

My CCW permit is currently issued to me "as requested by my employer". In a year or two I'll not be working for that employer, i wonder if my CCW permit will not be renewed after i no longer have a "reason" for it.

Massachusetts is a 'May Issue' state. Can you say Discrimination?

Currently in Massachusetts the following firearms manufactured after 1998 are considered "unsafe" and are not legal for sale:
+ All Glocks
+ All Berettas
+ All H&K's
+ All HiPowers
+ All 1911s
+ All Revolvers except for S&W

In Massachusetts, if i ship a firearm back to the manufacturer for repair and it is stolen on route, I AM RESPONSIBLE for the criminal use of said firearm.

In Boston, possessing standard capacity magazines is a crime. That means i cannot carry my USP 9x19, regardless of my class "A" license.

Massachusetts has gun registration. They do not have my correct information, yet.

Good Luck on your paper.

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~USP

"[Even if there would be] few tears shed if and when the Second Amendment is held to guarantee nothing more than the state National Guard, this would simply show that the Founders were right when they feared that some future generation might wish to abandon liberties that they considered essential, and so sought to protect those liberties in a Bill of Rights. We may tolerate the abridgement of property rights and the elimination of a right to bear arms; but we should not pretend that these are not reductions of rights." -- Justice Scalia 1998
 
And then there is the generic...

An AR15 which should be selling for $400 is now going for $1,200. Handguns are double the price they should be. Is there any reason a mass-produced Glock should typically sell for $500?

The Gun Control Act of 1968 means that we can no longer have the presumption of innocence. We used to be able to buy guns cheaply via mail order. Now we must fill out BATF Form 4473 which has no effect in fighting crime.

The FBI has been illegally using the Brady check to compile a database of peaceful gun owners. Study after study shows that the Brady law has no effect in reducing crime, yet I am treated like a criminal everytime I go to buy a gun.

Rick
 
I don't know if I've ever told this one here:

When my parents were just starting out, mom worked at a fabric store in the next town over. Dad and his brother went to pick her up one day. Now, you have to understand that Mr. Heinz, the owner of the store and now my neighbor, is a collector of firearms himself. Dad and his brother brought two CASED shotguns into the store to show him, then took mom home.
The nitwits working on a new bank building next door called the police and reported that two armed men had tried to rob the bank. Keep in mind that the "bank" was a trailer and the foundation and partial frame of the new bank building--no vault, no cash, no business.
This report came to the attention of the FBI, and that's who investigated. Dad didn't find out about it until mom realized she was being followed home from work one day and checked into things.

Why is this important? Because even though the whole thing was cleared up to everyone's satisfaction back then, about ten years later when dad applied for his FFL he nearly didn't get it because there was a "flag" from the FBI in his background. Took longer to clear THAT up than the original goofiness, I think.

To top all this off, one of the workers who reported a robbery later became my football coach--and he wasn't bad.....strange things happen in small towns. I didn't find out about the whole thing until last year, because dad didn't think I'd be interested in some story...
 
Go to your local books store and order BEST DEFENSE.
That will give you more compelling stories Against Gun Control than you can shake a stick at.
 
Not a personal story, but one worth re-telling. A very high profile story is the case of a crazy guy going into a Luby's cafeteria and shooting people. One of the people inside was a woman who later became a Texas legislator, and a big voice in pro-gun.

She had a revolver in the car, but didn't bring it into the cafeterial because it was illegal to do so. She could've stopped the carnage. She could've saved her father's life (he was killed by the gunman). But she could do neither because of Texas' gun control laws.

Someone from Texas please provide more info on the identity of the person and the story.
 
See my post "Be afraid of a national pistol permit" where I have a picture of my NYS pistol permit scanned in. You may be surprised at how socialistic NYS really is.

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The first step is registration, the second step is confiscation, the final step is subjugation.
 
This is first person, but I'm not the person:

Victor Klemperer, "I will bear witness, 1933-1941: A Diary of the Nazi Years", New York: The Modern Library books, 1998.

page 275.

"November 27.
On the morning of the eleventh two policemen acccompanied by a 'resident of Doelzschen.' Did I have any weapons?--certainly my saber, perhaps even my bayonet as a war memento... The house was searched for hours...The saber was found in a suitcase in the attic...
The young policeman returned: You must dress and come to the court building at Muenchener Platz with me. There's nothing to fear, you will probably (!) be back by evening. I asked whether I was now under arrest. His reply was good-natured and non-committal..."

(Klemperer was a World War I veteran and a collge professor who survived in Germany because his wife was not a Jew, and because he was extremely lucky.)
 
My real given name is James March. I live in California and I've been trying to score a CCW (Carry Concealed Weapons) permit for the last four years. I cannot get one without major struggle because I lack the money to buy one with campaign contributions, I have no significant political connections plus I've been living in high-minority-population towns that have been blanket-blocked from any possible permit access through illegal conspiracies between Sheriffs and PD Chiefs to "racially redline" some towns from permit issuance.

I'm not joking here. Go to my website at: http://www.ninehundred.com/~equalccw and pull up the "Contra Costa Cronies Roster" for starters. The formal legal opinion by Bob Beauchamp is interesting stuff, and everything in the "history" section.

Basically, California's "discretionary CCW system" is a nasty leftover of the "Jim Crow" era, both in it's original creation in 1923 and in it's PRESENT pattern of enforcement, at least in my county and several others (LA, Alameda, San Mateo, Fresno, others).

You might also want to check out my Federal lawsuit against this BS: http://www.ninehundred.com/~equalccw/pleadag.html

Jim
 
Grew up in the USSR, will never visit any place where I can't be armed. Answer enough for ya?

Living in fear, knowing that you can do NOTHING to prevent the state or freelance thugs from killing you anytime they so desire had been unpleasant. Couldn't have any arms and was brought up to accept the helplessness as normal. NO way that I'd be going back to that.
 
Sorry Roadkill,
Just saw your thread.

Rather than one story...can I suggest you writing about the Los Angeles riots?
Even as the trials were winding down, people were trying to buy weapons in anticipation for a riot and California law prevented them from getting a gun because of the waiting period imposed on all gun purchases.
Hundreds of thousands of businesses, homes, and people were left to the mercy of mob rule and could not defend themselves because they did not have the means to do so.
My wife and daughter and I drove through the area months after the rioting...miles and miles of burned out buildings, representing lives destroyed by the people that rioted.
The pictures alone could be your story.
Sorry, again for being late in reading your post.
good luck on your report.
 
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