re: Paddock bought 33 guns since October 2016

Yeah, God forbid do a further background check on someone stockpiling. These have to be what, .1% of gun buyers? We can't spare the FBI to go check on this kind of activity, the type of activity they're supposed to prevent?

You people are fricking nuts.

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I've bought 10 in one year before along with a suppressor.

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Ok, so what's the problem with the FBI giving you an additional call, interviewing you for about an hour, and then saying you're good to go? I don't think this clashes with the Second Amendment. This isn't a remotely unreasonable request given how few people buy 2 figures worth of guns a year.

Sandy Hook shooter wasn't a collector.

Let's say LV only bought 2 guns, it still would have done the same damage as the 30 plus guns he had.

I know several people that have multiple AR platforms set up for different shooting situations IE hunting, sport, rather than change out scopes every time they want to shoot.

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God forbid do a further background check on someone stockpiling.

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Stockpiling arms is against the law? Even when they've already passed multiple background checks? What's the definition of "stockpiling"? Is it 3? 4? 7?

What you are talking about could lead/enable mass confication by "the man"! Not no, but hell no!

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I'm willing to bet that the number of people in this country that buy more than 5 guns a year is in the triple or four digit range tops.

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You'd be wrong

Also border states like Texas report to the ATF if someone buys more than 2 ARs I think at one time. It's up to the ATF whether or not they look into it

If I had his money id have a class 3 license and own all kinds of firearms, including full auto.

Why?

Because I can and its my right

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I'm willing to bet that the number of people in this country that buy more than 5 guns a year is in the triple or four digit range tops.

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Wrong. I personally know more than a dozen people that buy 5 or more guns/ year most years. It would probably surprise you how many people there are nationally that would be over that number. Hell I've bought 3 guns so far this year myself.

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stockpiling 33 guns in under a year

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don't think of this in a way of 'why would a crazy, lone wolf dude do this', but under what other circumstances would this make sense?

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If I had his money id have a class 3 license and own all kinds of firearms, including full auto.

Why?

Because I can and its my right

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Which my logical signed supports, and my logical side wins out.

But I sense that by highlighting how my, irrational emotional side would conclude, made it seem otherwise.

I guess I just wanted to show how the things that may have prevented THIS EVENT would make a likely conclusion based on emotional reasoning that we should use what may have prevented this attack to prevent future attacks. And I had to make sure my logical reasoning was based on the same concept to effectively refute it.

And since I've seen that same emotional conclusion before, I think it's a good idea to prepare to refute the specific aspects of the emotional argument with the logical argument.

And while the legal (constitutional) basis is ultimately a requirement, I don't think politicians and those in the public using an emotional argument are going to put much stock in the legal argument since it likely won't address the basis of their reasoning.

So I think it's a good front line defense for the legal basis to try to refute the emotional argument to limit the support and decrease the chances something comes of it and forced to the last line of defense in the courtroom.