Maybe I'm just not in the know, but I'd like to see some of our representatives in Congress and the state legislatures put the other side on the defensive. Several of the states have been doing just that. I'm talking about laws that the other side will be screaming about with their hair on fire and fighting with their last resource. For instance: Suppressors made legal under federal law with no state or local restrictions allowed and manufacturers given tax credits for making them integral to the gun barrel. Why should we be going deaf? A federal statute supporting the 2nd amendment by outlawing the requirement of any kind of permit for open carry, or maybe any kind of carry. A federal law requiring the return of lend/lease weapons or other arrangements that may have been made so we can get those M1 Garands and M1 carbines back here and distributed to the populace here. A federal law requiring surplus U.S. military weapons like .45's, Beretta's, M14's, and such to be sold by CMP or some additional outlet. Let them fight to get the select fire models made semi-auto only.
If some of these things have little chance of passage, who cares? Make them spend their political capital and their lobbying money to fight. We need people in office cranking out bills and amendments like this routinely. I'm sure there are more imaginative and more practical people than me, who could think of a lot of things like this.
And when I titled this "Get off the Defensive" I don't mean quit defending, just make that part of the approach rather than the whole focus by adding an offense.
If some of these things have little chance of passage, who cares? Make them spend their political capital and their lobbying money to fight. We need people in office cranking out bills and amendments like this routinely. I'm sure there are more imaginative and more practical people than me, who could think of a lot of things like this.
And when I titled this "Get off the Defensive" I don't mean quit defending, just make that part of the approach rather than the whole focus by adding an offense.