Good morning, frazzledfrazzled wrote:OK I'm agreed the hassling is Big Brother and very California.
I too would rather see the shows "where they are wanted" ala Williamson/Round Rock (I do believe Cedar park has a new convention center hint hint)
Question-whats the issue with going through an FFL for a private exchange (other than the fee)? I'm not seeing why thats a big deal-can someone help me out here?
I'll take a stab at it. To me, anyway, the problem is that it is perfectly legal for a law abiding citizen to sell a legal firearm to another law abiding citizen...anywhere in Texas that they have a right to be. They are trying to prevent a lawful transaction. They are saying that because others made an illegal transaction YOU cannot make a legal one. It is the same old story which colors ALL of the gun control advocates' arguements. SOMEONE might do bad and illegal things with a firearm, so let's make the possession of firearms illegal by everyone, law abiding and not.
In this case they have no explicit legal authority to do this so they are bending a public nuisance ordinance to fit a preconceived intent.
As I wrote to APD, I don't want felons or illegal aliens to have access to firearms anymore than they do, so if they find such an occasion of illegal activity, then by all means present that case in court to get severe punishment to all criminals involved, but don't infringe on the legal activities of everyone else...including the operation of a legal private business.
They seem to have a problem with the meaning of 'infringe'.
That is my take anyway.