Davis,

Re-reading them, you may the right about the added age restrictions and background checks, plus bans on switch-blades, brass knuckles, and “zip guns” have been around for decades in many jurisdictions.

Still, this doesn’t indicate when the added restrictions passed, what prompted them, or whether they had any desired effect.

I know for…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Unseen, So do Vermont and New Hampshire now. Vermont has had no laws restricting open or concealed carry for decades and New Hampshire repeal it’s requirements for concealed carry as well. They are still paradises compared against States that impose these restrictions.

They would be paradisal with or without guns due to t…[Read more]

Then I guess I read Vermont’s laws incorrectly because it seems like they raised the age, required background checks beyond federal laws and enacted a whole slew of new laws on gun control Enco.

https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/chapter/13/085

Seems like a shit ton of gun control to me beyond federal legislation. What do I know…I’m not…[Read more]

Davis,

Age restrictions, background checks, and licensing are Federally-imposed, not Vermont State-imposed, and statutes authorizing seizures of weapons are directed against the arrested, not the Citizenry at large.

The Federal restrictions are imposed on all States, so if they alone were effective against firearms crimes, the effect would be…[Read more]

Unseen,

I didn’t impose a “no exceptions” rule. Sure, there are (rare) contraexamples, but the proponderance of the evidence demonstrates that the states with weak gun control tend to be more dangerous places when it comes to gun deaths.

Sounds like goalpost-shifting to me. You asserted as Gospel that a State deregulating and de-re…[Read more]