What's especially silly is that ignorant posters here target Southern California, which, once you get south of Los Angeles proper, is to the right of Phoenix, and WAY to the right of the populated parts of Oregon.
These laws come from the Bay Area and LA. Nobody else wants 'em. The ranges and gun shops are pretty busy around here.
Furthermore, this law just requires that an FFL verifies that another FFL is legit through a (poorly-designed) database system.
Honestly, it's hard to argue that this is so unreasonable. Something like it should really replace the ancient "faxed or mailed copy" system nationwide. This is 2008, not 1968.
If you want to complain about something, consider the gun laws in California and other places that have a far greater impact on RKBA than this.
Consider the fact that FFL's exist at all: Federal law creates an oligopoly of firearms dealers who get a legally-guaranteed cut of all interstate and commercial sales when, before GCA 1968, one could just order guns from the Sears Catalog.
I'm not happy about this law, but this law is hardly the largest problem. Why should we have to handle firearms sales through an FFL, really? I can buy a chainsaw from Texas and a knife from Idaho. And in the modern world, one could easily be NICS'ed remotely.
Don't forget what the real problem is, here. And when FFL's complain, don't forget that there's no magic reason that anyone should get a cut of interstate sales. This is purely an arbitrary law, and FFL's, for all their genuine tribulations with the ATF, profit from this.
These laws come from the Bay Area and LA. Nobody else wants 'em. The ranges and gun shops are pretty busy around here.
Furthermore, this law just requires that an FFL verifies that another FFL is legit through a (poorly-designed) database system.
Honestly, it's hard to argue that this is so unreasonable. Something like it should really replace the ancient "faxed or mailed copy" system nationwide. This is 2008, not 1968.
If you want to complain about something, consider the gun laws in California and other places that have a far greater impact on RKBA than this.
Consider the fact that FFL's exist at all: Federal law creates an oligopoly of firearms dealers who get a legally-guaranteed cut of all interstate and commercial sales when, before GCA 1968, one could just order guns from the Sears Catalog.
I'm not happy about this law, but this law is hardly the largest problem. Why should we have to handle firearms sales through an FFL, really? I can buy a chainsaw from Texas and a knife from Idaho. And in the modern world, one could easily be NICS'ed remotely.
Don't forget what the real problem is, here. And when FFL's complain, don't forget that there's no magic reason that anyone should get a cut of interstate sales. This is purely an arbitrary law, and FFL's, for all their genuine tribulations with the ATF, profit from this.