Usa Gun / Weapon Laws And Opinions

[lovinbiker]

Perhaps there should be an intelligence before a hunting license is issued

Sounds like a sensible idea to me too ITL, What checks need to be done before someone in the usa can have a gun?
In the uk they do have to have checks for criminal records.
LB

 

[intothelight]

Hi LB,

In the US, there are no checks to own a long gun, such as a shot gun or a rifle in the state where I live. Honestly, I am pretty sure that most states are this way. There are background checks required for hand gun ownership, registration, and licensing. But again, that is my state and they each vary in regard to this type of gun.

Gun ownership and control are such polarizing issues here. I kind of fall in the middle. We hunt and also have hand guns (employment related), so I don't worry too much about regulation. I will follow the law It is the lack of education that I find appalling, and a lack of attention to safety. In our business, we sell a lot of safes, including gun safes and I always have the safety cut sheets to hand out.

Everyone always talks about the numbers of gun related homicides in the US, but when one looks closely at the statistics, it is usually criminals shooting other criminals. No amount of gun control is going to fix that. Those are manifestations of underlying social problems, and only when those are addressed will a decrease in gun violence be seen.

Off my soap box now.

 

[anni]

4 years ago. I was in my zone, running this wonderful 4 mile route behind my house, when I used to run that. It's where I once saw a bob-cat, always saw deer and pheasant, etc. You have to go by a 'Gun Club', though, which always gave me the willies, since you could generally hear them off in the corn fields using calibers you just KNEW had nothing to do with whatever was in season. Two hunters were on the way to the house on that property one day, rifles in tow. They were maybe 40 yeards away. One saw me, lifted his rifle. and sighted it sort of off to the left of me. I just stopped and stared at the guy while all my insides left. You could see he was laughing. He did that for a few seconds, then his buddy pulled his arm down. you could see and argument going on during which I left, fortunatly wearing running shoes.

I ran the fastest mile home ever, called the police, who came even faster. The guy wasn't charged- he sort of ha-ha'd it, and I couldn't PROVE he'd done it, of course. He ruined that route for me, forever through being a complete *sswipe. It's this Gun Club mentality- the 'other one' which is dangerous in this country of this 'right to bear arms'. It's a privalege, to be taken seriously. like anything else, not a right. When this was written, all those years ago, the Brits were diallowing anybody from holding weaponry, hoping perhaps those pesky Colonists would thereby cease to be a threat and continue paying taxes to King James. Meanwhile, the criminal population HAS them, social ills run rampant and like Deb says, the entire argument is somewhat of a moot point until these are solved. I have to say it would be very, very helpful if this 'other' mentality did not highlight the fact that any idiot is also allowed to own them, apparently.

 

[lovinbiker]

Everyone always talks about the numbers of gun related homicides in the US, but when one looks closely at the statistics, it is usually criminals shooting other criminals. No amount of gun control is going to fix that. Those are manifestations of underlying social problems, and only when those are addressed will a decrease in gun violence be seen

Well said I would say and the same applies in the uk I would say

 

[Jawn]

The state I live in requires a criminal background check on the purchase of all firearms. And you have to pass a hunters safety course before you can purchase a hunting license too. That still doesn't stop an idiot or criminal from possessing a gun.

Jawn

 

[Innordinate]

Here's a link to something I read and found not only interesting but very sad.

[DLMURL]http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/01/20/more-americans-have-died-from-domestic-gunfire-than-all-wars-in-u-s-history-is-that-true/[/DLMURL]

FACT- More Americans have died from domestic gunfire than all the wars in the history of the USA!

that's saying something...