Monday, July 22, 2019
Followup PA: Fatal Shooting of Tony Torrellas was Self Defense
The Lancaster County District Attorney’s office said an investigation shows a fatal shooting in April 2019 was done in self-defense and no charges will be filed.
Prosecutors say Tony Torrellas was shot after entering his ex-girlfriend’s house in Lancaster. The woman’s boyfriend shot Torrellas, authorities said.
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Sunday, July 21, 2019
Facebook Backs off Ban on Distribution of 3D Gun Files
In August of 2018, facebook was accused of banning the distribution of computer files associated with the printing of 3D firearms. From 3dprintingindustry.com:
According to numerous sources, Facebook released a statement saying: “Sharing instructions on how to print firearms using 3D printers is not allowed under our Community Standards,”This was always an overreach by Facebook. Information on how to make guns has been freely available, off line in printed form, for centuries. The idea that files on how to make 3D printed plastic guns, are somehow verboten, is a direct assault on the distribution of legal information. From another, pragmatic viewpoint, those files have been available on the internet for years.
In July of 2019, that policy was partly reversed. According to The Telegraph in the United Kingdom, facebook is relaxing the ban, in part, because such information is legal in many countries. From thetelegraph.co.uk:
Facebook will allow some users to spread and promote blueprints for 3D printed firearms on its services, potentially opening the door to sales of untraceable "ghost guns".Facebook has a policy that allows legal commerce. The blanket ban on the distribution of computer files on how to use 3D printers to print out guns or gun parts, was in direct opposition to its policy on legal distribution of information. From facebook.com:
The social network said it would let "legitimate" gun shops and online vendors offer instructions for printing so-called “downloadable guns” in places where it is legal to do so.
Firearm shops and online retailers are allowed to engage in commercial activity involving firearms and ammunition on Facebook (ex: offering a gun for sale) as long as all applicable laws and regulations are followed.Constructing your own gun has always been legal in the United States. There have been a few laws that nibbled about the edges. There have been kits and gun parts sold for people to construct their own guns for as long as the United States existed.
The ability to make your own gun is logically a part of the Second Amendment. It has existed as long as the United States. There have been a few odd state laws regulating it. Those laws have been passed recently. They have no long term history.
Individual experimentation with guns and ammunition has always been widely accepted. The most famous gun designer of all time, John Moses Browning, needed neither license nor permit to craft his world famous designs. The only license the famous inventor wanted was the license he granted to manufacturers to produce and market his designs.
Browning's designs included many firearms used in combat by the U.S. military, including the 1897 pump shotgun, the Brown Auto-5 semi-auto shotgun, the Browning Automatic Rifle, the Browning 1919 .30 caliber machine gun and the Browning .50 caliber M2 machine gun.
In the late 1930's the federal government required a license for people to manufacture and sell guns commercially. Individuals making their own guns have never needed one.
In the Heller decision, Justice Scalia mentioned the regulation of "commercial sale" of firearms might be Constitutional under the Second Amendment. It was implied: the regulation of private manufacture and sale would not be Constitutional.
Banning of the distribution of files that can be used to help make guns or gun parts with a 3D printer is blatantly unconstitutional under both the First and Second Amendments.
Firearms made with 3D printers do not create any significant risks beyond what has existed as long as guns have existed. Guns have been made of materials that are not easily detected by metal detectors for as long as there have been guns. Early guns were made of wood or bamboo. Today's plastic materials can be made into guns by using molds and/or ordinary tools and reinforced plastics, without 3D printers.
The ability to make guns as effective and undetectable as those made with 3D printing has existed a long as there have been guns.
What scares the hoplophobes, is not the ability to make these guns. It is the ease with which they and others, uneducated about guns, see how the ability to make guns overturns the premises of strict gun control.
Defense Distributed saw the potential first, and exploited it. Hoplophobes know little to nothing about guns or ammunition. They have first hand knowledge of computers and printers. Show them guns can be made with computers and printers. They instantly see the potential.
Tell them guns can be made with drills, files, hammers and anvils by illiterate tribesman in Pakistan or the Philippines, and they yawn. They relate to computers and printers. A drill and file is something people in the Red States have.
It is not so much 3D guns they fear; it is the clear understanding of the ease of making guns, promoted by the idea of 3D guns, they fear.
This is why they mounted an all out attack on the First Amendment along with the Second Amendment.
The lawsuits filed by numerous anti-First and Second Amendment state AGs are moving forward in Washington State, as is the lawsuit filed by Defense Distributed against New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, in New Jersey.
All of this is rendered pragmatically moot as 3D printed designs proliferate and are easily available on the Internet, Defense Distributed or not.
Attempting to ban smallish computer files that are widely legal, from distribution on the Internet, is a fools errand.
Those who demand a disarmed population don't care. They don't care if they have to create a distopic tyranny to put domestic disarmament in place. They see any limit on government power as immoral.
Free exercise of speech and the press is a direct threat to their vision of an unobtainable utopia.
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MS: Gunfight, 63-Year-Old Dead, 25-Year-Old Wounded, Suspected of Armed Robbery
After further investigation, police say they believe the hospitalized
male is the alleged suspect. He has not been identified yet, but is 25
years old. He is potentially facing charges once he is released.
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TN: Gunfight, Employee hits Woman with Gulf Club, She Pulls Gun
Police reviewed a recording of the incident and discovered that Khawaf was inside and arguing with the woman through the window. He then went outside with a golf club in his hand and hit the woman in the face. Police said the female pulled a gun out and started shooting at the ground in the direction of Khawaf.
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Followup NC: No Charges for Greg Spinella in Shooting Death of James Franklin Stepp III
Newman said HPD conducted a thorough investigation, and the evidence
included some video footage, witness statements and results from an
autopsy HPD officers were in attendance for. North Carolina is on the
side of Spinella in the incident, according to Newman.
″...the law supports what this man did. It is difficult, it is tragic, yes. This is not the way we want people to handle their disputes, but the facts are compelling that this is an act of self-defense, and for that reason I will not be submitting an indictment to the grand jury,” Newman said.
Newman said the case would not win a conviction in court, and that he and HPD were “very much in agreement” about the results of the investigation.
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″...the law supports what this man did. It is difficult, it is tragic, yes. This is not the way we want people to handle their disputes, but the facts are compelling that this is an act of self-defense, and for that reason I will not be submitting an indictment to the grand jury,” Newman said.
Newman said the case would not win a conviction in court, and that he and HPD were “very much in agreement” about the results of the investigation.
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More on CA: Sammy Davis Self Defense Shooting Death
A 29-year-old resident of Crestline was shot July 11 at Lake Drive and Lake Gregory Drive moments after he began to assault a 27-year-old male victim, according to a media incident report and a press release from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff’s Homicide Detectives responded at 24089 Lake Gregory Drive to conduct the investigation. They learned that the decedent, Sammy Lee Davis, and two other men had approached the victim, who recognized one of the men as an associate of a suspect who assaulted the victim in January 2019, an assault that left him hospitalized.
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Saturday, July 20, 2019
Chicago Illinois State Representative works for Concealed Carry Permits in his Community
On 14 July, 2019, there was one of the frequent shootings on Chicago's West Side, in the Austin Neighborhood. A 22-year-old was killed. Bullets also hit State Representative La Shawn Ford's car. Representative Ford (D-Chicago), has been ambivalent about concealed carry in the City. He has been a representative for the past 12 years. He ran for mayor in 2019, but lost the election. In 2011, he was ambivalent about a concealed carry permit bill. He eventually voted present rather than vote against it.
Representative Ford sponsored and passed a bill creating a Violence Prevention Task Force in 2013.
La Shawn Ford is a liberal democrat in Chicago. He favors more tax money going to Chicago from the State of Illinois, and from the Federal government. He thinks there are plenty of police in Chicago, and they should have more controls on what they do.
On the Mancow Show, on WLS, he said he is encouraging people in his neighborhood to obtain concealed carry licenses so they can defend themselves. From wlsam.com:
Ford tells The Mancow Show on WLS-AM 890 that he is encouraging his residents to arm themselves against the violence.John Lott has written that minorities in high crime urban neighborhoods benefit the most from an increase in concealed carry permits. Maybe Representative Ford has read some of John Lott's research. Maybe it is a classic case of a liberal changing their view when confronted with reality.
“I think about it all the time,” Ford said of the shootings that plague his community. “That’s why I’m working with a concealed carry instructor and we’re going to go through the neighborhood and we’re going to encourage people to get their concealed carry license because it makes no sense for people not to have the protections that they need.”
Welcome to the party, Representative Ford. One of the healthiest things for law abiding black people to do is to obtain a concealed carry permit. It is proof they are no longer considered second class citizens. Free men have the right to arms. It shows the system works, because they were not excluded from being armed because of their skin color.
For many years, black people were kept from exercising their right to arms. An entire class of gun laws were written and enforced to keep them disarmed.
The Civil Rights movement and its red-headed step child, the concealed carry movement changed all that. Black Americans are applying for and obtaining concealed carry permits in greater and greater numbers.
Illinois was dragged into recognizing the right to arms by federal courts. It was Otis McDonald, a Chicago resident, in the seminal McDonald v. City of Chicago, that incorporated the Second Amendment as applying against state and local governments, as well as the federal government. Otis McDonald was an black resident of Chicago.
I continually monitor the Internet for reported self defense events. More and more of those cases involve black people who have concealed carry permits. This is not surprising; the highest concentration of violent crime occurs in black populations.
The way to prevent criminal violence in black population is to instill the rule of law and a respect for the criminal justice system. When a black person applies for a concealed carry permit, their legal rights are respected and another small brick is placed in the foundational respect for the rule of law.
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Followup TX: Malcom Nwadike Charged with Aggravated Robbery
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A 17-year-old high school student shot by the
delivery driver he allegedly tried to rob at gunpoint appeared in court,
where prosecutors said he pretended to be a customer before he was
shot.
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TN: Homeowner Holds Burglary Suspect at gunpoint for Police
By then Beck got his handgun and rushed to the front door. Home
surveillance video captured Beck firing a warning shot and yelled for
the suspect to get on the ground. Moments later, he approached Kemp who
remained on the ground and searched him to make sure he didn't have a
weapon.
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AZ: Armed 19-Year-Old Shoots, Kills, Carjacking Suspect
Investigators say a 19-year-old man was sitting in his car at a gas pump with the driver's side door open when a woman reportedly came up to him to cause a distraction.
He then noticed the suspect coming toward him from the back of the car holding a knife.
According to the police, the suspect demanded the 19-year-old's car.
At that point, the victim got out his handgun and fired shots at the carjacker. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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WA: Woman with Rifle Shoots Man, armed with Pistol who Attempted Break-in
Seattle Police said they were responding to a 911 call from the homeowner who told them she had shot an armed man trying to break into her home.
When officers arrived to the scene they found a 41-year-old man behind the home with a gunshot wound to the shoulder and a handgun on the ground near him, according to Seattle Police.
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OH: Burglary Stopped by Armed Homeowner, Suspect Captured by Police
Richard Winegardner’s German Twp. property has been burglarized four times just since May — but the latest would end differently than all the others.
Winegardner was taking a shower on Wednesday, when he heard a stranger in his house.
He said he immediately grabbed his phone to call 9-1-1 and his gun, which was in a gym bag.
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Friday, July 19, 2019
Col. Townsend Whelen Tells How Hoppe's No. 9 Came to Be
Col. Townsend Whelen was an iconic American rifleman, soldier, experimenter, and leader who lived through the introduction of smokeless powder and bolt action rifles. He wrote voluminously, including several books. He lived a long and useful life, born in 1877, and dying at the end of 1961, at the age of 88 (correction, 84). His works live on today and are considered classics.
While visiting my brother in Northern Wisconsin, I was perusing his collection of Gun Digests. Looking at early Gun Digests reminds me of how much things have changed, how much we have lost and gained in our right to keep and bear arms.
In the 1960 Gun Digest, Col. Whelen, in one of the last articles he wrote, reminisced about the introduction of the Krag rifle and Hoppe's No. 9 powder solvent.
I had never seen the story about Hoppe's before. I have been unable to find it on the Internet. As the small excerpt about Hoppe's is well within fair use standards, I will reproduce it here, for the edification of future generations of shooters. The article recounts Col. Whelen's experience with the Krag rifle from 1900 to 1912. The primers of the time were a stable and reliable mix of Potassium Chlorate, Antimony Sulfide powder, Sulfur powder, and ground glass. The main problem with these primers was they produced a highly corrosive residue that stayed in the bore. From the 1960 Gun Digest, Col. Townsend Whelen, in the article titled: Days of the Krag:
Further experience showed that it was extremely difficult to really clean the bore. After cleaning it apparently thoroughly, within the next day or two "new" fouling would seemingly appear, and slight rusting had started. Captain Foulke thought this was due to the smokeless powder gasses being driven into the pores of the steel by the great heat and pressure, and that the subsequently "sweated out". He had a friend named Frank Hoppe, who was a chemist, so he and Frank started to concoct, if they could, a suitable cleaning solution. The first formula tried they called "An American Rifleman's Friend." It contained some ammonia, would of itself cause rust of left too long in the bore - it was not very satisfactory. The ninth solution they tried proved fairly satisfactory. If the bore was cleaned with a brass wire-bristle brush dipped in the solution for several successive days after the firing it would remain in good condition. Thus was born the celebrated "Powder Solvent No. 9," which is still used extensively, and with which we are all of us very familiar.Hoppe's No. 9 dissolves the corrosive salts produced by the corrosive primers. Hot water will also dissolve the salts, but then the water has to be removed or it will also facilitate rust. If the water is hot enough, it will heat the barrel to the point the barrel will dry itself. Use of the proper solvent, such as the No. 9 power solvent, eliminates the requirement to use hot water, along with the inconvenience and mess.
Most members of the Gun Culture can remember the sweet smell of Hoppe's No. 9 Powder Solvent.
Now we know how it came to be, and why.
Hoppe's continues to be used to clean rifles and pistols, even though corrosive primers have been supplanted by non-corrosive primers for decades. Corrosive primers are still found in old military surplus ammunition from WWI and WWII. East Block countries and China used corrosive primers until after the fall of the Soviet Union, and for some period later.
Most ammunition imported into the United States has non-corrosive primers; but there are hundreds of millions, if not billions of rounds of the older corrosive ammunition in stockpiles found everywhere from American closets to military arsenals. The United States military has no corrosive ammunition stockpiled, to my knowledge, but there are many other military organizations around the world who do.
Some of this ammunition invariably makes its way into commercial channels.
There is nothing wrong with corrosive primers. They have demonstrated superb longevity, stability, and consistency.
To preserve bores and accuracy, shooters have to clean their firearms shortly after shooting corrosive ammunition in them. In humid climates, this needs to be done the same day as the shooting.
The solution is Hoppe's No. 9.
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Followup CA: Man Shot, Killed, at Deadman Camp Ground Committed Similar Crime 2 Years Ago
Timothy Edward Smith, who deputies say was shot after entering a tent at the campground and getting on top of a woman, was arrested exactly two years ago for an “eerily similar” crime.
In a press release Wednesday, the Sheriff’s department said their investigation revealed Smith was arrested and charged in San Mateo County with indecent exposure, annoying or molesting a child, and attempted kidnapping.
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AL: Armed Neighbor Confronts Burglars, Does not Shoot (Gunshop)
They did make off with tobacco products, the cash register and an undisclosed amount of cash, he said.
The
commotion, and sounding of the alarm, summoned a nearby neighbor from
his home, who walked into his yard clad in underwear and armed with a
handgun, sheriff’s office reports show. When investigators asked him if
he thought of shooting at the suspects, he told them they were too far
away, the sheriff said.
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AZ: Armed Homeowner Chases Intruder from Home
Underhill told Arizona's Family that he was awakened by one of his dogs when the incident occurred.
Underhill later pulled out his handgun and confronted the man, later identified as Francisco Meza-Beltran, causing him to flee from the home.
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MI: Armed Victim Shoots, Kills Suspect in Muskegon Heights
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI – A man was killed in Muskegon Heights early Saturday, and police say the shooting likely was self-defense.
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AL: Warning Shot, Then Shot to Knee Stops Suspect Holding Knife
Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen says two men broke into the shed of a homeowner on County Road 83 in Pisgah.
He says the homeowner fired some warning shot and ordered the two men to get on the ground.
But he says one of them got up again and came at him with a knife.
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Tx: Armed Security Guard Chases Armed Suspect, Fires Warning Shot
Marrero followed Tejada as she drove away and pulled alongside her, motioning for her to stop. Tejada then produced a gun and pointed it at him. Marrero dropped behind Tejada, who then began driving erratically- striking curbs. Marrero followed Tejada to the 5400 block of Chimney Rock where Tejada then attempted to flee on foot with Marrero chasing after her. While fleeing, Tejada pulled a cellphone from her waistband and Marrero, thinking it was a gun, fired one shot from his pistol into the ground. Tejada then surrendered and Marrero detained her until HPD patrol officers arrived.
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
New Zealand Encounter Problems Enforcing Gun Ban without Registration
New Zealand attempted controls on firearms ownership from 1845 to 1885. It was not very effective. From 1885 to 1912, the arms control law was generally a dead letter. From 1912 to 1945 arms control was again attempted, primarily as a means of preventing revolution. From 1945 to 1965, there was again a peaceful enjoyment of firearms with few controls in New Zealand. There were registration controls on the books, but they proved ineffective. Because of increasing crime rates, from the middle 1960's to 1983, the New Zealand police struggled with the ineffective registration system. The information was obtained from the 1997 study of its gun control history.
The study found that seminal work done by Inspector Colin Greenwood in the first ever academic study of the effect of gun control in England and Wales, published by Cambridge University, was well received in New Zealand in 1982.
New Zealand abandoned firearms registration for most guns in 1983, after police found that gun registration was expensive to administer and was not helpful in solving crimes. From wikipedia:
An internal police report in 1982 criticised the proposals, saying there was no evidence that registration of guns helped to solve crimes, and that registration would use time and money better spent on other police work. This policy was adopted by the government in the 1983 Act.A summation of the 1982 report can be found at rkba.org.
In 1988 Josh Sugarman of the Violence Policy Center advocated pushing for gun control of semi-automatic rifles, as the push for control of handguns had stalled. Thus Sugarman laid out a basic strategy for demonizing semi-automatic rifles and working to have them banned or restricted. From reason.com:
Josh Sugarmann, founder and executive director of the Violence Policy Center, laid out this strategy of misdirection and obfuscation in a 1988 report on "Assault Weapons and Accessories in America." Sugarmann observed that "the weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons."The mass media, especially in America and the Anglosphere, has had an especially close connection with the anti-gun lobby since the 1960's. The media brazenly pushed for bans on "Assault Weapons".
The first widely publicized mass killing with AK47 clone was done in Stockton California, in January of 1989. Patrick Purdy Killed 5 school children and wounded 32 others. A spate of mass killings by shooting followed the publicity.
In New Zealand there were four mass killings, although only one involved an AK47 clone.
The first mass killing was in 1990, the Aramoana massacre in which 13 people were killed in 13-14 November. An AK47 semi-auto clone and some .22 semi-autos were used by a registered gun owner.
A second mass killing occurred on 20 may, 1992 at Paerata, where 6 victims were killed with a double barreled shotgun. The killer held a firearms license.
A change in the 1983 act occurred in 1992. The Aramoana killings were used to promote and justify it. Considerable regulation of semi-automatic rifles was included, mostly based on irrational cosmetic features, such as the strict regulation of rifles that had bayonet lugs, folding stocks, pistol grips, or flash suppressors.
A third domestic mass killing occurred on 20 June, 1994, using a .22 rimfire semi-automatic rifle. The killer held a firearms license.
A fourth mass killing of father and four guests occurred at Raurimu on 8 February, 1997, using a single shot shotgun. The killer's license had been revoked.
In 2019, after 29 years without a mass killing involving a "military style" semi-automatic rifle, but including one with a .22 rimfire and one with a single shot shotgun, a political terrorist targeted a militant Islamic Mosque. He murdered 51 people. The far-left government immediately launched an extreme program to ban most centerfire semi-automatics. The law was passed nearly unanimously, with very little dissent shown or allowed.
The murderers manifesto, showing his political reasons for the attack (including radical enviromentalism, desire for more governmental authority, and an philosophical admiration for the Chinese Communist style of government, was banned by the New Zealand censorship authority. The murderer predicted the imposition of harsh gun controls, and stated the gun community in New Zealand deserved it for being insufficiently radical. He stated one of his objectives was to promote harsh gun restrictions in the United states of America. Twitter banned John Lott for tweeting this fact.
The media in the Anglosphere applauded and promoted the New Zealand government actions. While a petition approving of radical legislation gathered 70,000 signatures in a week, a countervailing petition from the New Zealand gun culture was repeatedly taken offline. New Zealand has demonstrated that freedom of speech and the press are necessary to maintain the right to arms. New Zealand does not have a Bill of Rights.
The legislation was poorly thought out and contained numerous flaws. This is not unexpected,as it was drafted and promoted by people who know very little about firearms and firearms technology.
Opposition to the law started to grow in spite of the push by the media and politicians to pass the restrictive controls before the emotional response died down.The response by the gun culture in New Zealand has been to moderate the legislation. They wish to make it conform to the rule of law, and to centuries old systems of fair treatment. They demand that the confiscated property be paid for at market value.
There is no registration of rifles or shotguns in New Zealand, because the police found, over long experience, that registration was costly and ineffective in solving or stopping crimes. That experience was repeated in Canada, where the Canadian registration system for most long guns was repealed after it proved to be extremely costly and ineffective in solving crimes. New Zealand is facing problems in confiscating guns that are not on a registry. From inhomelandsecurity.com:
The government, meanwhile, is faced with a sobering set of challenges over how to enforce the new law.
There is no national registry for many of the weapons targeted by the ban, including the AR-15 — a semiautomatic rifle that has been used in mass shootings in the United States and is often at the center of American gun-control debates.New Zealand is demonstrating exactly what American Second Amendment supporters have stated for many years. It is difficult to have confiscation of guns when the government does not know who has what guns.
A new New Zealand group that is pushing for civilian disarmament, seeks to create a national registry. The group claims to be "non-partisan", although all three members are on the far left. They are Philippa Yasbek, Hera Cook, and Nik Green.
The registry would have an automatic expiration date of three years, presumably to enable a gradual confiscation of guns by slowly making more and more people ineligible to legally possess them. From the press release by Gun Control NZ:
The organisation will campaign for a mandatory gun register, a ban on semi-automatic weapons, and a shortened registration period for gun owners of 3 years.The policy did not work in Australia, where the number of guns owned has increased since their extreme gun laws were imposed in 1997. The only way to have a country free from the danger of gun violence is to have a country without any guns. No country on earth exists in that state.
Co-founder Nik Green says “Gun ownership imposes risks on all of us, and our current laws still have many loopholes. Gun Control NZ wants effective gun laws that keep the entire community safe.”
“Parliament recently banned most semi-automatic weapons, but until there is full control of these weapons, and a register of all guns, the risk remains of them falling into the wrong hands. Gun Control NZ will give voice to the majority of New Zealanders who want to ensure the next generation inherits a country free from the danger of gun violence,” says co-founder and firearms researcher Hera Cook.
The proponents of those laws have decried the increase in guns that are not semi-automatic. It is clear that hyper-partisans, such as Professor Philip Alpers of Australia, seek an ever diminishing number of people who own guns. Alper's partisan illogic shows with his use of the meaningless metric of people killed with guns. It is the total number killed, not the method used, that is important.
The suicide numbers in Australia increased, then dropped to about the same level, after the extreme gun legislation. While over all murders have dropped in half, they also dropped in half in the United States, which enacted legislation to allow millions more to carry guns legally, during the same period. While the private stock of Australian firearms took until 2016 to reach the levels it had in 1996, the United States private stock increased from about 250 million to over 400 million during the same period.
The number of legal guns in private hands has very little to do with the number of illegal guns, homicides, or suicides in a country.
Will mandatory gun registration of all guns be passed in New Zealand? It seems unlikely. Mandatory gun registration would not have stopped the rare mass murders done with guns in New Zealand. The only significant reason for mandatory registration is to confiscate guns, either piecemeal over a long time period, or en mass, as was recently passed in law in New Zealand.
With the power of the Anglosphere media pushing for mandatory registration of guns, it might pass. But New Zealand has already demonstrated the irrationality of mandatory registration. It does not prevent crime or aid in solving crime. New Zealand has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world.
That may change. Import large numbers of different cultures into New Zealand, and the crime rates are likely to rise, as they have in Sweden, England, France, and Germany.
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