Graf was a fun place,
Rain, sleet, snow, and sunshine on the same day
nearly bottomless mud holes, covered with a layer of dry dust, wonderful natural camouflage...
you haven't lived till you try to fix a machinegun in the dead of winter on range 6 with the combined temp and wind chill at -70F
Summers in the 90s, with humidity to match.
Still, there are worse places....
Can't remember the name of the stripper bar anymore..was it Mickey's??
As to a UBC system, what we get, and ALL that is seriously proposed is the gun controller's dreams.
First off, I dislike the general idea of prior restraint on a Constitutional right.
and, that IS what background checks are. Don't be mistaken.
Second, as I've pointed out before, they will not eliminate shootings, and I doubt seriously one could create a believable case that they will reduce them.
The stated goals of keeping prohibited persons from buying a gun ALREADY EXISTS in law, and has for some time. And, no background check can stop, or even IDENTIFY someone with evil on their mind.
Can someone please explain the usefulness (from a public safety point of view) of doing a background check on people who already own guns????
These things are being taking to barking ridiculous extremes in some places. I know a place that as the law is written (though, fortunately, currently not being enforced), if a friend & co worker whom you have known for 20 years, someone you know and trust, if you visit their house, and they hand you one of their guns to look at, they have just broken the law. IF YOU HAND IT BACK, YOU have just broken the law, and if he takes it back, he breaks the law, AGAIN....
Under the law, as written, we would both have to go to an FFL dealer, with the gun, PAY THE FEE, and have the check run, so he could hand it to you, and then HAVE ANOTHER CHECK RUN (with fee) so you could hand it back!!!
AND this applies simply because we own guns. Clean records, not even a traffic ticket in decades, either of us, but under the law, we are ALL GUILTY (of I don't know what, other than being gun owners), until PROVEN innocent (via a background check) and have to put up with these drastic impositions, or risk being criminals.
Its not fair, its not right, and its not ever going to do what they claim it will do.