Snoopy wrote:American states are really small though. It wouldn't be much of a task to smuggle them in. Perhaps it works here because we're not joined to other countries, and is illegal in every State and Territory. We also have the worlds toughest Customs and Quarantine's. I think that if the US were an Island on its own, not joined to Mexico or Canada would be able to enforce this law easily. Except they couldn't do it now, too many people farrrr tooo attached to their weapons.
A man was recently put in jail in Massachusetts for driving a few of his rifles up to go shooting with a friend in Maine. The kicker? Safe passage laws say it's legal to do so as long as the state of origin and destination consider your weapons legal.
People in the US might not be so "attached" to their weapons if they didn't have liberals in office who are not only completely against their 2nd amendment rights, but are also completely ignorant of what it is they're trying to ban. This is why you see phrases like "high-powered assault rifle" and other fear tactics used time and again in US media/news. We have to be attached to our weapons because if we aren't we will surely lose them.
Check out these guys, they're one of the more prominent groups of fools:
http://www.bradycampaign.org/Pushers of infamous stories like .50cal rifles shooting down commercial airliners and such.
The Brady Campaign has faced criticism over their frequent use of inaccurate information and selective use of statistics; such as labeling semi-automatic or self-loading rifles as "assault weapons," trying to conflate them in the public imagination with assault rifles, raising criticism over the use of an incorrect term (traditionally, an assault weapon is one used for breaching obstacles such as the Bangalore Torpedo, SMAW, SRAW, APOBS, and Flamethrower.), labeling of hollow-point handgun ammunition as "cop-killers", despite the fact that hollow-point ammunition, by design, expends the greater portion of its kinetic energy on impact, reducing penetration power compared to conventional jacketed rounds or solid slugs, and is incapable of penetrating ballistic vests.[13][14][15] Additionally, the Campaign has in the past called for a ban of non-existent "plastic guns".[16][17]
You would be attached too if you had people like this in your government.
Guns, in the hands of lawful citizens, deter crime(s). Criminals will get them regardless of gun laws. Ask Washington D.C. or N.Y. how their war on guns is going.
