10-09-2015, 02:59 PM
(10-09-2015, 02:33 PM)sally Wrote:(10-09-2015, 11:14 AM)F.U. Wrote: Just wondering what everyone thinks a gun registry would accomplish?
I think some states have laws that violent felons cannot live in a household with any guns. The same should be for the mentally ill or anyone who has been admitted to a mental health facility for any reason. If guns were registered it would make easier to ensure these people aren't being released to households that have an arsenal at their reach.
I don't really have any strong opinions on it either way, I'm in the middle on the gun debate. I think a more important first step should be to have armed security at the schools and making it harder to get in.
Actually a felon can be in a home with a firearm in it. They cannot have access to it however. That is a federal law. I know this because a brother did 3 years for being a felon in position of a firearm. When he got out and was on parole any place he went to had to be inspected before he could go there. Well as you would guess my home got inspected. I had about 150 guns at the time and enough ammo to fill the bed of a pickup. The inspector seen that, seen it was in a locked room and said it was cool. As long as my friend was unable to access that room he could be there. A couple years after he got off paper he was actually able to own and hunt with black powder firearms. So I bought him a nice inline muzzleloader and he started deer hunting again.