I have read some disturbing and completely idiotic stuff coming from Donny and his band of moron but this one takes the ….Are You High?…category.
This story from The Hill….
The United States Postal Service (USPS) could begin mailing handguns if a proposed rule from the Trump administration receives approval.
Filed last month, the proposed rule would allow Americans to mail concealable guns, like pistols and revolvers, to anyone in the country. Protections similar to those for mailing long-barreled rifles and shotguns, which require them to be unloaded and securely packaged, would likely be applied.
The USPS reviewed public comments due on Monday before making any changes to its rules on handguns.
Concealable handguns have been banned from being mailed unless they come from licensed dealers since 1927. The Department of Justice called the law against mailing handguns “unconstitutional as applied to constitutionally protected firearms, including handguns, because it serves an illegitimate purpose and is inconsistent with the Nation’s tradition of firearm regulation.”
The National Rifle Association (NRA) praised the decision, claiming that the “USPS handgun prohibition continues to create massive and needless headaches for law-abiding gun owners.”
The USPS reviewed public comments due on Monday before making any changes to its rules on handguns.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) praised the decision, claiming that the “USPS handgun prohibition continues to create massive and needless headaches for law-abiding gun owners.”
Attorneys general from around two dozen states sent a letter on Monday urging the USPS to withdraw the proposed rule. They argued that the proposal would make it easier for felons to access handguns.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) is among those state attorneys general pushing back on the proposed rule, saying that the proposed rule would “make it easier for criminals and abusers to access firearms,” calling it a “slap in the face to gun violence survivors and law enforcement.”
“We cannot ignore the dangerous consequences of this proposed rule, which could open the door for prohibited individuals to obtain weapons without background checks or regard for state firearms laws,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said in a statement. “This irresponsible loophole blatantly disregards public safety and would create a direct strain on state resources.”
Everytown for Gun Safety president John Feinblatt told The Associated Press that the proposed rule would turn the USPS into a “gun trafficking pipeline” for illegal weapons, “while stripping law enforcement of the tools they need to prevent and investigate gun crime.”
The NRA’s executive director for its Institute of Legislative Action John Commerford told the AP that thanks to the Trump administration, “USPS will finally allow these firearms to be shipped under the same commonsense safety conditions as rifles and shotguns.”
(thehill.com)
Who decides who is ”law abiding”?
What’s next from this admin a book of instruction on the proper use of a gun at mass shootings?
This is pour insanity….but what can we expect from the group holding all the power?
Thoughts?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
I keep telling these gun yahoos when they scream “law abiding” that everyone is law abiding… until the day they aren’t. Just check out every shooter recently for an example. All law abiding… until they weren’t anymore.
The right to bear arms, in the land of the free. Life in that madhouse means guns, guns, and more guns.
Best wishes, Pete.
There is a valid reason why there is a prohibition on shipping guns this way. This is how Lee Harvey Oswald got the rifle he used in the assassination of Kennedy. It was purchased by him under an alias and shipped to a PO box in Dallas. After the assassination there was a rush to shut down mail order as a way to buy a firearm. Go back through magazines from the 1950s and early 1960s and they’re full of deals. You could buy anything from little pocket pistols to military weapons by mail order. No questions asked. We absolutely do not want to go back to that.