BL> The sane ones will turn in their guns anyway, and the loonies won't.

BG> Quite so.  I strongly suspect that the only people who surrender guns
BG> will be the very ones who are probably sane (or decent) enough to own them.

More likely those have ALREADY got them on a list as part of an earlier
set of gun laws. It will be interesting to see the relative per head
rates of turned in 22 semi autos in states where they aint listed at all.

BG> Frankly, I think that everybody should wait six months, or at least until
BG> the emotive aspect of this issue has abated. Fucking knee-jerk politicians.

BL> Yair - that's the gun-lobby line.

BG> It's my line too, and I'm neither anti nor pro
BG> (although I'd flatly refuse to hand in my miserable
BG> 5-shot bolt-action .22 if the law said I had to).

Yeah, its the main danger with the semi auto 22s, most who have them
will think the law is stark staring bonkers, and they are dead right.
I bet they ignore it in droves when they arent already listed as
having it and there is no ammo method of getting found out either.

Typical loony stuff that only utterly fuckwit politicians could produce.
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