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So then the people who would otherwise use plastic guns to get past metal detectors would say "oh, well those are illegal now, I'd better not."
by jcromartie 11y ago
So then the people who would otherwise use plastic guns to get past metal detectors would say "oh, well those are illegal now, I'd better not."
- brasky 11y agoYeah but now these lawmakers get to pat themselves on the back for doing absolutely nothing.
- viraptor 11y agoDepends what was the intended use for the law. It's not always about enforcing it on the spot. Take another example - declaring you never joined a war on some visa applications. Of course they're not going to check that. But if it ever comes up and is discovered for some (un)related reason, you're out without further discussion. Same can be applied here. Found to have one during some checks? You're charged.
- reader5000 11y agoOut of all the nra-crowd's memes this is by far the dumbest.
- talmand 11y agoHow is that?
- whistlecrackers 11y agoCare to explain why you feel this way?
- RyJones 11y agoThese "plastic or otherwise undetectable" guns are already illegal and have been for decades, since GLOCK and some yellow journalism put the fear in Congress around the time Lethal Weapon came out.
- sandyarmstrong 11y agoDid Lethal Weapon have plastic firearms? My first thought was In the Line of Fire.
- RyJones 11y agoI'm sorry, it was Die Hard. http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Glock_7 http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Glock_7
- hga 11y agoI'm sure there was some genuine fear, e.g. I'm thinking about NY Republican gun grabber Peter King, who after fellow Representative Gabby Giffords was shot (with a Glock...) proposed a law that would create a floating, 1,000 foot bubble around important people like him in which it would be illegal for normal people like us to possess a gun (!). But like what this discussion is about, there's a strong pattern by the serious gun grabbers to try to ban anything new, be it the first wildly successful polymer frame handgun (the Glock of course has a steel slide and barrel, but the original proposal was to ban it despite it being easy to detect), or these newfangled printed guns.
- sgrove 11y agoIs "Gun Grabber" some kind of derogatory but catchy term for someone proposing gun-regulation? I've never heard it before, wondering if it's common (perhaps in some geographical areas more than others).