So what limitations / restrictions should there be.
What restriction should be placed on a law abiding citizen beyond being able purchase and carry as many guns and ammo as they can and want?
I am in Arkansas. I can walk into a gun store, put out the cash and walk out with my gun. I can take it home, load it up and fire it in my yard while drinking sweet tea. Same with ammo, even though I don't buy ammo other than .22.
There is no registration of guns, nothing to impede me from buying all the ammo that I want.
That is as it should be.
Why should there be any restrictions or limitations on what I buy? I have never committed a crime and in this country, in most places anyway, you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
So that you understand where I am coming from, I happen to own lots and lots of guns. I think I am still in double digits. That includes several AR's, AK's,SKS and every manner of so called "black gun" that you can imagine. I also have a couple of .50 BMG's, numerous revolvers and pistols. I reload for all them. I cast bullets for most of them.
Guess what. None of them are registered, I don't need or want permission from the government whether local or federal to tell me what I can or cant own, or to tell me how much ammo I can own.
As a matter of fact, I shoot more ammo in a years time than alot of small police departments do as a total.
Nothing you have said or proposed has want to make me change the way I do business.
You talk of giving something up to appease the anti-gunners. We have been doing that for the last 40 years and what has it gotten us?
Let me give you another perspective. I am a CHL instructor. I have been averaging 50 students per class. In March I had 80. I am not doing this myself, I have several other Instructors do different segments of the class to break up the monotony. We have been doing 1 class a month, and it has been filling up and we have been turning students away and referring them to the next class.
You are proposing that we "give up" to the ant's by voluntarily imposing a permit, or a fee of some sort, or a limit on ammo at a time when the Democrats have figured out that they had better be quiet about being anti-gun until at least after the next election, because they got their tails handed to them in the last two by Republicans that supported the right to bear arms while many of them opposed it.
There are now 47 states that have some sort of system for concealed weapons. Most of those are shall issue states,meaning that they don't have to jump through hoops, donate to a campaign, or kiss the tail of the Mayor or local Police Chief. You don't have to be related to anyone, you don't have to be a prominent member of society, all you have to do is have a clean record and submit your fee. In the may issue states, you are at the mercy or whim of who ever issues the permits. They don't care that your life may be in jeopardy or what ever reason you may have, in those states you are little more than a second class citizen.
In this state, as well as several other states here in the south, business has never been better. More and more people are getting permits to tote, more are becoming aware. The more they become aware, the more that they see some of the ridiculous laws, some of which make no sense at all, and they wonder what good they do, and they finally understand that most of them have no real bearing or reason or rationale for being passed other than it was the popular thing to do for some Senator or Congressmen so that he could get some air time and those that voted for them could see their smiling faces on TV.
In the last 15 years, we have been making great strides in regaining much of what was lost. We have the momentum, the tide rolls in our favor. The handgun business, especially the defensive part of it is thriving, we have new handguns being made specifically for self defense hitting the shelves all the time.
The ball is in our court and we are winning the game.
Why should I be willing to give up the advantage by limiting what I can do just to appease someone that doesn't understand or could care less?