04-13-2022, 10:33 PM
(04-13-2022, 10:06 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Here's my issues with it. First and foremost, this isn't the role of a regulatory agency. Changing a definition laid out in law requires a law to happen. Regulatory authority is not allowed to override/supersede legislative action.
Now we can get into the reasons this is redundant and unnecessary. If someone sells a homemade firearm, 3D printed, from a kit, whatever, and it isn't serialized and all that then it is illegal. If someone steals a firearm, with or without a serial number on it, that is illegal. If they are in possession of a firearm, whether serialized or not, and they are ineligible to own a firearm due to a loss of their rights then that is illegal. If they use a firearm in the commission of a crime, that is illegal. If they possess a firearm and use illegal drugs, that is illegal.
All of these things are already illegal. Requiring serial numbers, which won't be put on the illegally created/transferred firearms with or without a law, isn't going to change that or improve anything. So why pass this law? It's about control. Law abiding citizens have found a way to own firearms that the government doesn't get to know about and that's scary to the government. That's it. These laws will do nothing to move the needle on this issue, but they will make criminals out of law abiding citizens.
Every single proposed gun control law within the last twenty years falls under this category. You can't legislate away criminality. Firearms are, and always will be, easier to obtain here than anywhere else. Bad people will do bad things with them. No new law will prevent or even mitigate that. Law abiding citizens will not commit crimes with them, regardless of how many new laws you pass. Politicians do this only because doing things that would actually lower gun related crime are often difficult to enact and have no immediate impact (social programs for example) or are politically toxic for Dems, like actually putting criminals in prison for a very long time.
I'll return to the recent Sacramento mass murder, which would not have happened if CA hadn't let a violent criminal out of prison four years into a ten year sentence. Now new law required here, just remove criminals from society. It worked that last thirty or so years until the Dems blew it the eff up.
