WestKentucky
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I see the logic, but the enforceable side of it is impossible.
Unless it’s a complete firearm it’s not a firearm... so a gun with a magazine disconnect is no longer a firearm because it is incomplete and not functional without a magazine. So Thug Nasty is cruising around doing a drive by and the fuzz lights up the wigwags on him. He conveniently loses the magazine out the window as he speeds away and now he no longer possesses a firearm.
Oh... more parts have to be serialized... Established law has it that a reciever that holds the parts together is the firearm and all the attached parts are just parts. Changing that is a nightmare legally, but ATF has already agreed to what so many “firearms” are. Do we suddenly need serialized Glock slides? Do we need serialized Contender barrels? Do we only regulate the “scary” guns by arbitrarily defining them in such way that people get around the definitions with things like a bump stock. Ok, we only have to serialized it when it’s completed as a functional firearm... hmm that’s fine and good, but now we need to keep groups of parts together as guns, or maybe we need to serialized every AR upper to match the lower that it’s going on, but then we have 6 uppers with the same serial number so that doesn’t work.
Maybe we just leave well enough alone since the new laws will serve to make a grand total of zero difference in crime prevention but it will make a lot more people (that don’t think like the mass idiot collective groupthink monster) into criminals. OR maybe we actually enforce the laws that are already on the books when we have opportunity to do so. I know, I’m preaching to the choir.
Unless it’s a complete firearm it’s not a firearm... so a gun with a magazine disconnect is no longer a firearm because it is incomplete and not functional without a magazine. So Thug Nasty is cruising around doing a drive by and the fuzz lights up the wigwags on him. He conveniently loses the magazine out the window as he speeds away and now he no longer possesses a firearm.
Oh... more parts have to be serialized... Established law has it that a reciever that holds the parts together is the firearm and all the attached parts are just parts. Changing that is a nightmare legally, but ATF has already agreed to what so many “firearms” are. Do we suddenly need serialized Glock slides? Do we need serialized Contender barrels? Do we only regulate the “scary” guns by arbitrarily defining them in such way that people get around the definitions with things like a bump stock. Ok, we only have to serialized it when it’s completed as a functional firearm... hmm that’s fine and good, but now we need to keep groups of parts together as guns, or maybe we need to serialized every AR upper to match the lower that it’s going on, but then we have 6 uppers with the same serial number so that doesn’t work.
Maybe we just leave well enough alone since the new laws will serve to make a grand total of zero difference in crime prevention but it will make a lot more people (that don’t think like the mass idiot collective groupthink monster) into criminals. OR maybe we actually enforce the laws that are already on the books when we have opportunity to do so. I know, I’m preaching to the choir.