Backdoor gun ban
NRA ILA says of the administration’s proposed ivory ban:
Any firearm, firearm accessory, or knife that contains ivory, no matter how big or small, would not be able to be sold in the United States, unless it is more than 100 years old. This means if your shotgun has an ivory bead or inlay, your revolver or pistol has ivory grips, your knife has an ivory handle, or if your firearm accessories, such as cleaning tools that contain any ivory, the item would be illegal to sell.
So, astronomical debt, shit going down in Russia, big spending, and every thing else but we have time for this?
March 3rd, 2014 at 7:43 pm
What is gonna happen to Gen. Patton’s set of guns then?
Guess they can never be sold.
March 3rd, 2014 at 8:09 pm
And this will help save elephants because shut up.
God knows the Chinese market for ivory will totally care that domestic sales of antique-but-not-100-year-old ivory that was harvested decades ago are now illegal, and stop encouraging poaching in Africa.
“To be seen to be doing something” remains the only motivator of politicians.
March 3rd, 2014 at 8:25 pm
(That said, I doubt it’s meant as a “backdoor gun ban”.
It would affect a vanishingly small number of guns, all in all, and I suspect the ivory ban proponents are barely – if at all – aware that ivory was ever even used in firearms.
The people this hurts are people with really expensive collections of high-end guns and accessories, who desire to sell them. It’d suck for them, a lot.
The effect on knives is likely to be much more significant.)
March 4th, 2014 at 7:31 am
Steinway hardest hit?
March 4th, 2014 at 10:29 am
Don’t blame it all on the political part of the administration. Somewhere in the 2.7 Million federal workforce, some stooge has worked 5 years to come up with it and is very proud of his small contribution to whirled peas.
March 4th, 2014 at 1:11 pm
Mu: Yep. Some idiotlog as vomited this, now that a president is in power who won’t punish him for sneaking this crap into the Federal Register.
March 4th, 2014 at 2:21 pm
It’s especially annoying since the decades of experience we’ve had shows that banning ivory from legal harvesting did nothing to decrease poaching, while also making elephants a “nuisance species” to teh farmers in their area — so the farmers go all “Shoot, shovel, and shut up,” only without the “shovel” part. Or they look the other way and pocket a gratuity whilst poachers come in and machinegun a bunch of elephants for the tusks alone. . .
The way to preserve an animal species from extinction is to make it commercially viable through sustainable maintenance, with the LOCALS benefiting signficantly — then the locals practice “Shoot, shovel, and shut up,” against the POACHERS.
March 4th, 2014 at 5:19 pm
Honestly officer, I did not buy or sell them. I bartered for them. I got an autograph of this soon to be famous person on this small paper.
March 4th, 2014 at 6:43 pm
Aaaaagh….inlays on the cases of dueling sets and sporting shotguns.
March 7th, 2014 at 12:51 am
comatus beat me to it.