7thsfsniper

There are petitions circulating all over for just about everything. I was wondering if anyone can give me an example where a petition, such as this one, has ever changed anything or even been heard by the gov't. Does it simply serve as a smoke signal to like minded people letting them know that others are out there who think accordingly?

How about a petition, that if signed, that person promises, that if the gov't attempts any type of unlawful weapon confiscation, we the undersigned promise to not give up those weapons until you are taking them off our dead bodies. I'd sign that! Bet if that rolled into ol' D.C. some eyebrows would go up.

With that being said, I signed this one a couple months ago.

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BrokenArrow

DC v Heller makes this proposed legislation more interesting. May not pass constitutional muster now?

One way of looking at Heller is arms in common use for lawful purposes cannot be banned, and another is that unusual and dangerous weapons can be banned.

There are millions of these weapons in common use, and used much more often for lawful purposes than criminal. How unusual and dangerous are they when knives and baseball bats kill more people every year?

There is a lot in Heller that we will arguing about in reference to US gun laws for a long time to come:

"absolute ban", "within the home", "sensitive places", "conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms", "arbitrarily and capriciously", "in common use at the time", "dangerous and unusual weapons", "exception for self defense", "laws regulating the storage of firearms to prevent accidents", and "operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense."

NishanbazKhan

brokenarrow don't think the lunatic gungrabbers won't address that issue. They'd just as soon make it illegal to carry or use for defense knives, swords, crossbows, and even baseball bats after taking your guns. They'd probably make it a crime to sharpen a stick and use it for defense. You have to realize there is no end to madness of people who will state with a straightface and believe that a 750 grain bullet the size of your thumb could derail a train or down an aircraft in flight from 35000 ft in a single shot.