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Re: Trying to understand
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Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:21:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> I heard something on the news yesterday that puzzled me, and I hoped a few of
> the more politically-savvy around here might help me to comprehend it. It
> seems George Pataki of New York favors certain measures of gun regulation
> including, among other things, mandatory trigger locks and ballistic
> fingerprinting. I understand the more popular arguments against trigger • locks,
> (in that, if one can steal a gun, one can steal the gun's key), but the NRA • has
> voiced its opposition against ballistic fingerprinting, and that's what
> confuses me.
> It seems they object to it on the grounds that it would establish what they
> call national gun registration. I suppose it would, but why would that be a
> problem, exactly? I'm not trying to be inflammatory here; this actually • seemed
> like a good measure. I know that fingerprinting won't prevent a stolen gun
> from being used in a crime, of course, but I feel that I'm failing to
> comprehend something about the NRA's view here.
> I don't often agree with the NRA, but in this case I'd at least like to try
> to understand where they're coming from...
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> Thanks for listening,
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> Dave!
To actually try and answer your question, the real reason the NRA opposes this
is because they are afraid of being nibbled to death. A regulation here, a
restriction there, a warning label that gets worse and worse year after year,
and on and on. It builds up. Ignoring whether they should be nibbled to death
or not, that is their fear, and they are probably right that it will happen.
So they fight *everything" whether it makes sense or not.
One can argue that fingerprinting amounts to registration, but it all comes
down to the NRA dreads the most, lost gun sales by increments.
Bruce
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