Donald Trump’s Gun Proposals
BY Herschel Smith
8 years ago
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump — who said he has a concealed carry permit — called for the expansion of gun rights Friday, including making those permits applicable nationwide.
In a position paper published on his website Friday afternoon, Trump called for the elimination of gun and magazine bans, labeling them a “total failure.”
“Law-abiding people should be allowed to own the firearm of their choice. The government has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own,” Trump wrote.
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Trump said in the paper he has a concealed carry permit. The permits, which are issued by states, should be valid nationwide like a driver’s license, Trump said.
“If we can do that for driving — which is a privilege, not a right — then surely we can do that for concealed carry, which is a right, not a privilege,” Trump said.
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Trump said the current background check system needs to be overhauled because “very few criminals are stupid enough to try and pass a background check” and get their guns illegally. Trump said that criminal and mental health records also must be included in background checks.
Well, health records were a feature of my CHP, but I object because (a) this is still a government permission slip, and (b) I still claim [rightly] that mental health maladies have nothing to do with propensity to violence.
But for the time being, I’ll take what I can get. Of the possible revisions to the federal law and code on guns, I am most in favor of the following.
- First, a national carry law.
- Second, removal of the SBR from the NFA items list.
- Third, removal of suppressors from the NFA items list.
In that order. What would you like to see happen?
On November 14, 2016 at 1:03 am, milesfortis said:
Take #2 and up it to SBS/AOW (I refer you to the Pedersoli .45/.410 Howdah ‘pistol’ and ATF’s AOW rule on VFGs on a AR pistol et al. crapola)
#4 repeal 922(o) Hughes amendment to FOPA and open the NFRTR to new MGs for private purchase
#5 repeal 922(r) parts count for imported firearms…even if there’s never been a documented prosecution for a violation….just because.
#6 remove from State Department ITAR registration requirement any manufacturers and especially gunsmiths who do not export along with stringently defining ‘manufacturing’ to eliminate ATF’s and State’s current bizarre broad definition.
#7 remove the whole “sporting purpose” from GCA for caliber/guage and import criteria.
On November 14, 2016 at 2:46 pm, Archer said:
#8 – Clarify that “public information” (defined as being in the public domain, or information which the author or copyright holder has specified can be shared freely) on firearms designs posted on the Internet DO NOT violate ITAR regulations, and that bans on hosting or providing such designs for informational purposes DO violate First Amendment free-speech protections.
On November 14, 2016 at 8:01 am, Frank Clarke said:
All I want for Christmas is the repeal of NFA-34 and GCA-68. This would leave nothing for BATFEMZDQEtc to do and they could be disbanded and eliminated.
Next Christmas I’ll ask for federal prosecution of states with laws that violate the 2nd.
Not much to ask for, is it?
On November 14, 2016 at 10:08 am, Fred said:
I second the motion.
On November 14, 2016 at 8:02 am, Josh said:
I am very firmly against mental health records checks, unless it involves a method and criteria that’s so tightly legislated as can never be broadened (is that even possible?).
For example, allow doctors to report patients to a centralized STATE database (I hate it, but it’s the only way), so long as they are also co-reported by one or more other doctors, and meet established criteria (i.e. depression isn’t enough).
The whole idea is a slippery slope though.
On November 14, 2016 at 8:30 am, Haywood Jablome said:
That list of yours is a damn good start. Like you, I’ll take what I can get.
On November 14, 2016 at 10:24 am, Fred said:
“Health Records?”
-An ‘art’ that starts with feelings to arrive at A truth is not of the Truth.
-Always start with The Truth, if it makes somebody feelz a certain way, tough shit.
-The Holy Bible is Truth. Psychiatry is psycho-babel (yes, that Babel, meant to confound) witchcraft.
The day when the state uses a doctor to deny my freedoms is the day of contact with the enemy, a declaration of war against my rightful liberty. ALL OPTIONS are then on the table. There are no rules in war. Every living things has a right to defend itself. This is as natural as
sunshine. I will not be left at the mercy of the biggest killing machine ever devised, the state.
On November 14, 2016 at 10:32 am, BobSykes said:
I would like to see uniform national standards for what is a legal weapon, and a ban on weapon registration.
On November 14, 2016 at 10:36 am, Fred said:
Both are already defined and enumerated.
“Common use” is the national standard by law.
Registration IS infringement and illegal under 2A.
The failure is not the law. The failure is ours. The constitution does NOTHING, except, provide for A (one of many) framework by which we might govern ourselves.
You failed. I failed. We failed.
On November 14, 2016 at 4:05 pm, BobSykes said:
I have to disagree. Nowadays, each state and many cities define what is a legal weapon on their own. There is no national standard. Magazine limits, limits on military look-a-likes, etc., are common. Try bringing an Ohio legal AR 15 into California or New Jersey. Get caught with a 20 rd mag in New York.
On November 14, 2016 at 9:07 pm, Fred said:
You’re right. I was thinking of federal.
On November 15, 2016 at 11:33 am, Pat Hines said:
All US government laws with regard to weapons, any weapon, are unconstitutional. Those laws cannot legitimately exist.
Next, though it’s never been interpreted this way until recently, the Second Amendment’s wording should have prohibited state laws restricting weapons as well. As we can see, the First Amendment addresses only the US government, “congress shall make no law”, while the Second Amendment is a broad prohibition upon restricting the right to be armed with any weapon.
We may have a chance to force the Second Amendment to be what it was intended to be all along. We shall see.
On November 15, 2016 at 11:05 pm, rumcrookâ„¢ said:
Number 4. Hang Harry reed up by his ankles and beat him like a pinata. Oh wait is that too far off topic? My bad.