re: Would you be for more stringent gun license requirements

Federal law trumps state law. Hence the Civil War.

No, I agree. Stats can add to federal law. But fed is a min.

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yes I do think they should be more stringent than they are now. Any shmo can walk off the street and buy one if they want to. It should at least be like Hunters Education in that you have to take a class to qualify to purchase.

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This is the biggest media fallacy. anyone who walks in a gun store an immediately out with a gun has zero reason to be prohibited. The media never reports on the felon who tries to buy a gun and is denied. None of your other rights require you to take a course to qualify. Hunting is a privilege, driving is a privilege, your ability to defend yourself with a firearm is a given right by the bill of rights. Not something assumed. Something so important that they listed it specifically in the bill of rights AS NUMBER frickING 2 to all that rights that were guaranteed. FACT..you can't uninvent the gun. I can go to Lowe's and. Build a crude firearm with black pipe. Crimminals will always be able to get them, manufacture them, or will choose other means. My right to defend myself should not be compromised. Tell me how many people who have died if good people would have had guns at the school in Parkland?

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Slightly off topic, have you ever had people get denied at your store?

Very simple question, and I'm honestly curious about your answer considering your profession and what you see day to day.

Should a very obviously mentally unstable downs patient(just using DS as example), but non felon be able to purchase a fun for self defense?
I know the seller can refuse, but should the law allow it?

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Very few in store, but God damn the kenner Gun show holds the majority of my denials....you know...the loop hole place.

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I'm baffled by the gunshow loophole shite. If I do private sales in Walmart's parking lot is that the walmart parking lot loophole?

Also, how do people generally react when they get denied?

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Some points to consider for all of you hardline gun people who refuse any suggestions. The second amendment doesn't grant you unlimited gun freedoms. Public opinions are shifting away from gun culture. Eventually, your gun rights will be limited if we as gun owners don't weed the crazies out. We need to get a head of this and have our say on how things play out.

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Let me point some things out to you, Fudd, since you obviously have minimal education about this topic yet think you can lecture anyone on the current political/social/legal landscape of this suject.

First off, public opinions are fickle things and you'd know this if you had ever glanced at some of the better, long established polls on this topic. You notice things like self-reported firearms ownership tends to dip when gun-control is topic de jour and support for gun-control measures go up. Then after a few months the trends reverse and, given long enough, gun-control becomes largely unpopular again as other things, like the economy, become more of a concern.

Second, just because some infringements on the 2nd Amendment have been left by the courts doesn't mean any infringement that pops into that rather cramped skull of yours is also on the table. Stringent license requirments, like those attempted by Chicago and D.C. post-McDonald and Heller cases were struck down. Apparently, and this should be obvious to anyone of any discernable intellect and honesty, the 2nd Amendment is not a second-class civil right according to SCOTUS and several Federal Circuit courts. As such, your idea has already been preempted, us "hardline" gun people got ahead of the Fudds and gun-control advocates a long time ago and how it has played out is a massive backslide against gun-control laws across the nation. Our gun rights are not going to be limited, especially from those like you who lack any in-depth understanding of this issue.

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So constitutionally, there is no reason for felons and those underage to be restricted either.

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That's not so much a constitutional issue, but those who have done their time and paid their debt to society should have full use of ALL individual civil rights. Those who haven't reached the age of majority have always been subject to different treatment under the law.

Support for gun-control is not what you think it is. This isn't the 1990's.

At the current rate we'll see parts of the NFA and FOPA repealed along with seeing the demise of May Issue CCP's in the few states that have it.

Illegal and made up