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WI: Buying a firearm shouldn't be easier than voting
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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To vote in Wisconsin, you have to register with the government, provide proof of where you live, and show election workers an official identification card.
To buy a gun in Wisconsin — even a military-style weapon — you can quickly and discreetly get one from an unlicensed dealer with little or no scrutiny. You don’t even have to pass a background check when you purchase a gun from a private seller online or at a gun show. |
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jac
(5/13/2021)
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A solution in search of a problem.
Criminals don't buy their guns at gun shows.
They steal them, buy them on the black market (mostly stolen by someone else), or buy them through straw purchases.
Denying individuals the right to freely sell their private property will only affect law abiding citizens and will not have any affect on crime or violence.
Criminals will get guns regardless of any laws designed to prevent that. |
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For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution. [Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822) |
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