Mark Kelly and his wife Gabrielle Giffords recently founded a gun-control group called Americans for Responsible Solutions. They advocate for the same three things as their peers: universal background checks, an arbitrary limit on magazine capacity, and a ban on military-style rifles.
So why did Mr. Kelly recently buy an AR-15 and “high capacity” magazines?
Even to buy an assault weapon, the background check only takes a matter of minutes. I don’t have possession yet but I’ll be turning it over to the Tucson PD when I do. Scary to think of people buying guns like these without a background check at a gun show or the Internet. We really need to close the gun show and private seller loop hole.
I’m hoping somebody can help me make sense of this. So, because the background check only takes minutes, we should mandate it to cover private sales? It’s OK to buy an “assault rifle” as long as the intent is to immediately surrender it to the police? Continued...