By Rob Morse
Southern California –-(Ammoland.com) I can’t excuse political abuse by calling it a misunderstanding.
Those rationalizations don’t work for me anymore. I can’t explain discriminatory laws as an accidental infringement on our rights. Let’s tell the truth for a change; some politicians hate firearms owners and have passed bigoted laws to punish us. These restrictions certainly aren’t done for public safety.
Here are a few examples of crazy gun laws that put all of us at greater risk. That isn’t an “accident”.
I am a responsible firearms owner, and that isn’t always easy. I’ve had contractors working on my home. Say, my home was damaged in some way and is no longer secure. In some states, I couldn’t move my guns to my neighbor’s house for safe keeping. You heard that right. It is against the law to move your firearms to a safe outside your control. Another good reason to store my guns with a friend for safe keeping is if I’m going to be away from home for several days. Some states [New Jersey] outlaw that simple prudent practice of keeping our firearms safe and secure. I suppose I could sell my firearms each time I go on vacation, but it is illegal for me to store them with a friend on a temporarily basis. To do so would be a misdemeanor. In some states [Washington as of 594], it is a felony once my neighbor gives my guns back to me after keeping them secure. Those are a few of the ways crazy firearms restrictions put all of us at greater risk.
Some states restrict firearms education. In those states, temporary possession of a firearm is against the law. That means I could neither bring a firearm to your house for non-shooting educational purposes, nor could you come to my house or business to learn basic firearms safety. Instruction is only allowed at some official shooting ranges. This is as ridiculous as requiring that student drivers must buy their own car before the student could take driving lessons. Oppressive firearms regulations have made it illegal for an instructor to take someone out on private property and teach the student to shoot. These overly restrictive laws certainly restrict firearms education.
The anti-rights bigots forgot that ignorance about firearms is dangerous! Or maybe they never cared in the first place.
Another way oppressive firearms laws have outlawed instruction is to eliminate shooting ranges. Several cities require practical experience before a citizen can have a firearms permit. Some of these anti-rights city councils also regulated private shooting ranges right out of their city [Chicago]. That looks more like anti-gun bigotry than an mere oversight.
The craziness doesn’t end there. In some cities it is a crime NOT to file a police report if your guns are stolen. At he same time, some of the overworked police departments in crime ridden anti-gun cities won’t come out to investigate the theft of your property. Put those two things together for yourself. YOU must report a crime that the police don’t want to investigate. To do otherwise makes you a criminal.
That goes beyond crazy. That is a legal trap to punish honest firearms owners. Some judges simply view firearms owners as criminals.
Let’s not mince words. People who punish and restrict innocent people are bigots. Much of the language, and many of the actions, by the anti-rights gun-control groups is designed to alienate gun owners from the rest of society. The reason is simple. It is easier for politicians to oppress an alienated minority. Yes, this is government sponsored bigotry.
The state denies us the right of self-defense for the smallest of reasons. Seeing this treatment as bigotry and then calling this treatment out is the first step in stopping it.
Let’s call it what it is.
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About Rob Morse: By day, Rob Morse works as a mild mannered engineer for a Southern California defense contractor. By night he writes about gun rights at Ammoland, Gun Rights Magazine, Clash Daily and on his SlowFacts blog. He is an NRA pistol instructor and combat handgun competitor.
Laws are made to be broken. Just don’t get caught. I was once fined for killing a wild turkey that was destroying things in my yard and it was not turkey season. Okay, the next time I saw wild turkeys on the road, I sped up, plowing into them killing I don’t know how many. That is what I think of your stupid laws.
This is a great article. I think we need to get the people together with politicians and create an Amendment to ban anyone to even suggesting to not uphold the constitution. Make such a criminal offense. I wonder how many of those idiots would think twice about messing with our rights if they faced jail time. Wouldn’t that be a switch?
It is time to get the Extreme court to deal with these and other infringement laws. Otherwise the idiots (gun control idiots) will continue to piss us off and hinder our otherwise 2nd Amendment rights. Enough is Enough.
All should donate to Judicial Watch, NRA and 2nd Amendment Foundation to fund a nation wide law suit to stop this harassment …
only crazy people want crazy laws and there are plenty crazy laws to go around
I usually do as I please, regardless of the laws-the government is and has been out of control, therfore hold no legitimacy in my eyes.
Speaking of legitimacy, Jack, we’ll recall that there is a process in a courtroom – jury nullification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
Jury nullification occurs in a trial when a jury acquits a defendant, even though the members of the jury believe the defendant to be guilty of the charges. This may occur when members of the jury disagree with the law……
Further, in their Marbury decision, SCOTUS rules that anything, even in the form of a “law” that is repugnant to our Constitution is null and void from inception, and “creates no duty to obey”. No “law” adds any options or capabilities to a prior existing God given right, but rather “infringes” by modifying that right, therefor is void at inception, and creates no duty to obey…duh…
In NJ I am required to go directly to and from a gun range when shooting a handguns. Once when my oldest daughters had a leaking sink in her first apartment she called me was on my way home from shooting. I did not stop at my home and drop off my unloaded cased in the trunk firearm and went straight to her apartment. I commited a misdemeanor.
I would caution the owner that most politicians don’t like honesty and forthrightness – especially democrats. Maybe they could point out where in the Second Amendment there are the words “if, except, unless.” Common sense says ignore the law and don’t get caught. No harm, no foul. New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetes and crime-ridden Chicago might be exceptions to the words “most politicians.”
Great article.