Too easy to buy a gun

[A.J. Holst]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/want-buy-assault-rifle-florida-no-problem-073038767.html

In Florida, buying one is no problem as long as you're 18, a legal resident of the United States, aren't a felon or a domestic abuser and have no documented mental health or substance abuse issues.

(Pretty easy for a citizen in good standing to pass, and why shouldn't it be?)

 are the state's basic rules:

— All firearm purchases from federally licensed dealers require a background check, regardless of whether the buyer has a concealed weapons permit.

— There is no waiting period to buy a rifle. There is a three-day waiting period to buy a handgun, and handgun buyers must be 21 or older.

— People charged with or convicted of a felony can't buy guns. Neither can people who have been convicted of two or more DUIs, have been involuntarily committed to a mental health hospital or have a restraining order against them.

(Acceptable application of common sense)

Whether Florida gets its gun laws right depends on the perspective. Brian Malte, the national policy director for the Brady Campaign, said getting a gun is far too easy in Florida and private sales don't require a background check.

(Too easy Mr. Malted? Why do you propose to make it harder for citizens in good standing to purchase firearms and what steps would you put in place?)

(Be careful about the lawful and private disposition of lawfully obtained private property, looter.)

Of course, some of the disqualifiers, like mental health and substance abuse, would have to be self-reported if there's no record of the problem.

Bailey said people can't be denied a gun just because other people think they're mentally ill.

"Not in a free society," he said. "There has to be some sort of determination that that person is mentally incompetent."

(Perhaps a dive into the fragile state of mental health care should be the focus, not the tools used to cause physical harm.)

"People use AR-15s to hunt deer, to hunt hogs, to hunt all kinds of game," he said. "Think of the over 1 million people that have them and have never misused them, and they want to do away with certain aspects of the gun permitting or buying weapons because of one person's lawlessness."

(Couldn't have said it better)

[Steelharp]

It's not too easy for me.

(My issue is more financial, though.)

Good post!

[gregintenn]

2 hours ago, Steelharp said:

It's not too easy for me.

(My issue is more financial, though.)

Good post!

Yeah. The tight wife is a tougher sell than government regulations for me.

[DWARREN123]

Should not be hard for a citizen in good standing to get a firearm.