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This is so true. The problem with registration (other than the tax aspect of it) is that today, you register your gun that the gov is OK with. Three or five or ten years from now, the gov is no longer OK with it. Now they know where it is and where you are. It's a trap.

There are a lot of folks out there who may not be pro or anti. They see something like that, might turn them the wrong way. I support their right to do it, but it doesn't help the cause, IMO. Just like Josh Sugarman successfully convinced the 6 o'clock news watchers that ARs are "assault...

I had no idea!

Let's talk facts. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it hasn't happened, and just because it may not have happened doesn't mean it won't. The fact is there are places where some guns have been banned. Ask someone in CT about their semi-auto rifle. They either complied and got rid of...

How many buy more than one a month? Not an issue. If a couple with 2 teenagers has been asleep at the switch and suddenly wake up to the fact that life can be rough, and want to buy 4 rifles (or handguns, or shotguns), they should certainly be able to do so without gov oversight. How many are...

I don't know if this amounts to that, but the 2A is a threshold issue for me. If a candidate is pro 2A, I consider where they are on other issues. If they are not pro 2A, they get no further consideration (or a vote) from me.

So true. They play the long game. Examples abound. DOJ put out a white paper years ago explaining that universal background checks could not be enforced without registration, yet we don't hear the antis referring to registration with regard to the checks, even though they are well aware of this...

I am dead-set against any, and I do mean ANY, further restrictions on the 2A. I have mixed feelings about the display you reference. It is their right, but I don't think it does us any good, at all.

Stepping away from your point about having an AR on the capital steps, do believe there are restrictions we should concede?

Most of my gun-owning friends are true 'gun guys.' Looking beyond my circle (and yours), there are a lot of gun owners who don't get it. I know trap shooters who don't give a whit about anything but their O/U. Ban everything else, why do they care? Some people who carry ... that's their only gun...

To put it simply, a Fudd is a dummy who thinks the 2A truly is about deer hunting.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that. In some cases (sent to the hard-core libs) they don't mean squat. In other cases I believe they do. In any case, if you don't ask the question then you know what the answer is. You gotta try.

Of course, you're correct. Interesting that when DHS put out for bid a select fire rifle, the name of the item was "Personal Defense Weapon." How is it that my semi-auto is an assault weapon, but a select fire in the hands of the gov is a "personal defense weapon"? As an anti that question and...

I'm not sure we actively hitched our horse to that wagon. I think it was more just evolution. We favor those who favor the 2A. Most of those just happen to be conservatives. That said, I'll tell you the real problem with many "pro 2A" Dems: when push comes to shove, they support the party, and...