I can't remember off the top of my head, but they've occasionally pressured politicians to support laws that were a little goofy. I don't remember the specific, but an example might be something like: removing any sort of mental health standard, even voluntary ones, that could lead to genuine paranoid schizophrenics into getting firearms.
Sometimes, I think they are just engaging in a "Big Ask" style of negotiation.
Well... aren't paranoid schizos getting guns anyway? The point of these regulations is to allow the state to decide that "you're crazy, no guns for you" for any reason, including not believing everything state propaganda says, or wanting to buy a gun.
Recent story from around here, btw: A former top-level exec from one of the biggest banks in the country ended up in a psychiatric hospital a while ago. One day he just walked out, went back home, grabbed his gun - WHICH WAS REGISTERED WITH THE POLICE, WHO WERE NOTIFIED HE WAS IN A PSYCH HOLD, AND WERE REQUIRED BY LAW TO TAKE THE GUN - and disappeared. Someone found him dead in the woods a day or two later. Good thing we have all those safety regs.
I can't remember off the top of my head, but they've occasionally pressured politicians to support laws that were a little goofy. I don't remember the specific, but an example might be something like: removing any sort of mental health standard, even voluntary ones, that could lead to genuine paranoid schizophrenics into getting firearms.
Sometimes, I think they are just engaging in a "Big Ask" style of negotiation.
Well... aren't paranoid schizos getting guns anyway? The point of these regulations is to allow the state to decide that "you're crazy, no guns for you" for any reason, including not believing everything state propaganda says, or wanting to buy a gun.
Recent story from around here, btw: A former top-level exec from one of the biggest banks in the country ended up in a psychiatric hospital a while ago. One day he just walked out, went back home, grabbed his gun - WHICH WAS REGISTERED WITH THE POLICE, WHO WERE NOTIFIED HE WAS IN A PSYCH HOLD, AND WERE REQUIRED BY LAW TO TAKE THE GUN - and disappeared. Someone found him dead in the woods a day or two later. Good thing we have all those safety regs.