Anytime the Gray Lady whines about something I feel strongly about, I know that I am winning the conflict.

I particularly like the complaint about gun stores not reporting to the ATF multiple purchases by the same individual who is ostensibly “arming the underworld.” Utter nonsense.

While our spouses my hope for the passage of the 1 gun per month law, it is meaningless because it can be defeated by the use of straw persons.

More importantly, it sure looks like an infringement to me, if the Constitution were to matter to our lawmakers, the NYT, New York mayors, etc.

You want to know about why you have crime in large cities, all of you big city mayors, look at your Travelling Vicelords, Crips, Gangster Disciples and Latin Kings.

You want to know why we have low crime rates in middle America, look at our demographic make-up. There is no material amount of gang activity and there are lots of guns owned by law abiding citizens.

Where we live, there are an exponential number of lawful gun owners vs. gang members and drug dealers, and it would be highly unhealthy for the latter group to threaten the peaceable living among those of us who buy guns for protection and sport.

Molon labe.

Also useful to note that the DC snipers had another rifle, a Remington 700 in .308 IIRC, which they obtained through a straw purchase (again, illegally) which they left behind when some guys off-roading stumbled on their unauthorized target practice in a field overlooking WA-512.