Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Latecomer  
Same way a state banning heroin enforces it, if you are caught you go to jail. Mosy people don’t violate these laws because the risk is too high. If you value gun rights why risk a felony and lose those rights forever? One issue is straw pur hases, but those are relatively small game because then the guy buying the gun also goes to jail.

@Background Pony #5EBE  
Well I guess the question is, can the lines be drawn around cities rather than between states?

@Latecomer  
Hmm, I bet they could do it, but I would worry about how fair that would be. When it comes to states it is so big that most people don’t have a problem, but going between city limits you could easily have cases where someone makes a mistake and enters a city or town that has banned a gun they carry. If they are caught they lose everything.
 
As a side note this sort of happens with gun owners on flights. If you pack your gun in your suitcase and declare it, that is legal. The problem is let’s say you have a comnecting flight in NYC, and your connection is delayed or missed and you have to spend the night there, you can and people have been arrested and prosecuted

@Background Pony #5EBE
 
“We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.”
 
That subtitle sure hit the NYT apology piece on the head.
 
Now to be fair, I do believe Reade but that doesn’t mean Biden assuredly did it. But it does mean an actual impartial investigation should be warranted if only to determine the truth.

@Background Pony #5EBE  
Well it would need some fine-tuning - I’m a general gun ban advocate, so uou’d probablu want to get someone else to do that. (Although I have given a lot of thought to the different needs of rural and urban spaces.)

There’s a Wildfire near Chernobyl  
We’re doomed

@Typhoon2000  
Shut it, Chicken Little.

@kleptomage  
It’s near Chernobyl, That’s already a recipe for massive disaster

@Typhoon2000  
The more we focus on the worst, the more we miss out on the really good stuff. You know, positive stuff.

@Prince Areo  
Chernobyl is still a threat, even 34 years later due to how fucking dangerous the area near it is

@Typhoon2000  
I’m quaking in my boots 10,000 miles away.
 
Knock it off with your fearmongering. We have enough problems right now.

@Background Pony #5EBE
 
Uh, if you have to ask permission, then they aren’t rights. To quote Freemendontask: “Free people don’t ask!” What was the first successful viable additive-manufacturing firearm on Goliad day is nearing a viable SBR with a suppressor:
 
 

 
Also, ammo is being speedily worked on, if only to shut up the “bUt WaHt AbOuT aMmO!?” fuckwits.

@Ebalosus  
As though ammo isn’t a limiting factor? If I wanted a plastic bludgeon shaped like a gun, the toy aisle is full of them.
 
It’s Nerf or Nothin’.

@Background Human
 
Seems plenty functional to me. But hey, if you believe that 3D-printed guns aren’t a threat, please tell your politicians to ante up on trying to regulate something that “isn’t a threat.”

@Ebalosus  
Okay, a metal bludgeon shaped like a gun. Or were those heat sinks for the internal mass driver he was swapping out, instead of magazines full of regular old bullets?

@Ebalosus  
3D-printed guns aren’t a big threat yet. For one thing, even making one is difficult. You can’t just download a CAD model online and print it like that. You actually have to be able to put it together which btw might as well be as hard as putting together a ship in a bottle. Second, 3D-printed guns can only fire a few shots before breaking down. So they’re the least reliable weapons ever.

Looks like there needs to be a serious crackdown on those things, and the techs used to make them.

@Background Human
 
Oh I wish we had guns that worked via computers and negative-mass accelerators, but am unfortunately doubtful that we’d ever be able to make negative-mass. If possible, they’d certainly be better than current designs which rely upon mechanics and chemistry.
 
It does raise questions about how gun control would work when the operating mechanism (which is what’s more regulated in all countries) is controlled by computers than by physical parts…
 
@Scrabbleman
 
Did you even watch the video linked? Or this one? Or this one? It isn’t 2012 anymore, and we can make viable guns pretty reliably now. Granted, it’s not yet press a button and then you have a gun, but for anyone who can follow instructions, they aren’t difficult to make; certainly easier than Lutys or Stens, which ignorant fuckwits usually retort with, but have yet to actually make themselves.
 
@Latecomer
 
You can’t, and if you think that you can, you automatically forego the right to ever criticise the tactics employed by the CCP to abuse their citizens, because that’s the kind of controls you’d need to even attempt to control this.
 
Some food for thought: the guy who’s helping develop homemade smokeless gunpowder is from China, and has demonstrated his results with actual guns. If the most powerful government on the planet can’t do it, why would you think less powerful ones would be more successful?

@Ebalosus  
Well, that’s neat. I’m okay with this. Unpopular opinion but everyone should have at least one gun in their house. Like, make it as common as cars.

@Scrabbleman  
No. the opposite. Inverse.
 
@Ebalosus  
If you really intend to make such measures necessary, then go ahead.

Virginia has made Election Day a holiday.
 
This sets a magnificent precedence.

@Dustcan  
Here’s to it catching on.

And with this administration there’s always bad news not soon after.
 
Trump is now retweeting posts demanding that Dr. Fauci be fired. We already knew Fauci’s days were numbered - he’s someone both competent and has to correct the dumbass with his misinformation about Covid-19 - but it seems his number is almost up.
 
Relatedly, Trump is in fact confiscating and distributing medical supplies based on political favors.
 
To summarize info in the above link, Colorado asked for 10,000 ventilators from the Feds. Trump dragged his feet. The Democrat governor in the meanwhile struck a deal with a company to get 500 in the meantime. Trump stole those 500, and then gave 100 of them to the Colorado’s GOP senator Cory Gardner, who it up for a tough reelection this year. Gardner then took a victory lap on Fox News to praise the Dear Leader and brag about saving Colorado lives.

@Latecomer
 
🎶The more you hurt, us the more the signal gets stronger…🎶