It is daft. It is insane. But that's America for you. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote :
Re "The requirements to drive and own a car are significantly more stringent than to acquire and possess a firearm. ": Thanks Emily. Sounds daft to me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emily.mae50@...> wrote : The requirements to drive and own a car are significantly more stringent than to acquire and possess a firearm. Re: registration requirements... "There is no comprehensive national system of gun registration. In fact, federal law prohibits the use of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to create any system of registration of firearms or firearm owners. A limited system of federal firearms registration was created by the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. § 5801 et seq. The National Firearms Act (“NFA”) was enacted in 1934 to impose an excise tax and registration requirements on a narrow category of firearms, including machine guns, short-barreled shotguns or rifles, and silencers, and these weapons must also be registered under the NFA.' Registration requirements by state varies widely. "Eight states have statutes prohibiting them from maintaining a registry of firearms except in limited circumstances." Registration of Firearms Policy Summary http://smartgunlaws.org/registration-of-firearms-policy-summary/#footnote_4_5700 http://smartgunlaws.org/registration-of-firearms-policy-summary/#footnote_4_5700 Registration of Firearms Policy Summary http://smartgunlaws.org/registration-of-firearms-policy-summary/#footnote_4_5700 Firearm registration laws require individuals to record their ownership of a firearm with a designated law enforcement agency. These laws enable l View on smartgunlaws.org http://smartgunlaws.org/registration-of-firearms-policy-summary/#footnote_4_5700 Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote : But there must be a register of gun ownership surely? Even car owners have their names and addresses linked to their vehicle licence plates (I've seen American cop shows on TV ;-) ). So it can't be difficult to check if someone owns 100 sports cars. Ditto firearms, no? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Dear Scorpion Meditator; No. For instance our dear, dear moderator of FFL can buy as many as he wishes, so long as he don't have a felony convction again him. But even then felons get guns pretty easy through friends, garage sales and gun show flea markets. Is easy to 'collect' semi-auto assualt guns of all sizes. Even [meditating] kids growing up here while in high school and their friends collected all kinds of armament and would go out and shoot together. You know, explore the physics of ballistics. The science of it. It is the culture. You should see the collection of antique guns one of my offspring who was deep in to Civil War re-enacting has. From those days I have friends with live-fire cannon in their garages at home. Most places you just can't carry them openly. Depends on the locality in America. Lot of places you can get a permit to carry loaded guns 'on your person'. Other places you don't need that. It is cultural. Like, the annual great communal deer hunt is going on right now here: shotgun season. And there are all sorts [undreds and maybe thousands] of armed people racing around in pickup trucks like mad people dressed in blaze orange right now. Some of them no doubt liquored up too. I pull my livestock in close during these weeks of the tribal annual deer hunt. I sold horses once to an engineer who was a manager of a DuPont chemical plant out in Maryland a few years back. He was saying they would shut their plants down during deer season because so many of their folks would call in sick anyway on those days. Basically, growing up American, if you go to a scout camp in America you learn to shoot an arrow and a gun. It is American. Evidently this is engrained as a first line of defense again religious nuts of various stripes, even protecting us from white X-ains of various bolts of white cloth. It is old history with us. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote : A query from Scorpion Nation: When US citizens buy a firearm they have to register the gun, no? Is there some central, federal agency coordinating the sales invoices? What I'm wondering is if a citizen were to buy 20 semi-automatic rifles would anyone in authority be aware that he had built up such an arsenal and wouldn't that automatically trigger concerns that maybe he needed appraising re possible terrorist/security risks? Perhaps in the States it's just regarded as his personal preference and a private matter . . .
