Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Kurt Hoffman:Punishing 'smart gun' Quislings already yielding potential policy

Kurt does an excellent job with this article.  Here is an excerpt:

In both cases, one of the strongest motivating factors behind the gun owner outrage was the fact that New Jersey's "smart gun" law is triggered (no pun intended) by entry onto the market of the first such gun. Indeed, the chief sponsor of New Jersey's 2002 law, Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-naturally), wasted no time in reminding the NJ Attorney General John Jay Hoffman that her law would require him to mandate that the Armatix iP1 become the only legally available handgun in New Jersey.

So now, the first two attempts to market "smart guns" in the U.S. have been abject, utter failures, and have indeed called into question how long the stores involved would have stayed in business had they proceeded with their plans. This happened in California and Maryland--the two states generally considered "gun control" strongholds. Imagine how much more intense the reaction would be if someone were to try this in Idaho or Arizona.

And the result? Even "smart gun" mandates' biggest boosters are starting to realize that threats to require "smart guns" are the biggest obstacle to the guns ever making it to gun dealers' shelves, and now, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Senator Weinberg may soon ask the New Jersey legislature to repeal her law:

More Here at St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner

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