Monday - February 23, 2004

Category Image The Second Amendment is About to Die


The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, at one time protected by the Second Amendment is about to die . And you know who is going to kill it? Gun owners and gun manufacturers.

It's all quite simple really. By creating a temporary ban on "assault" weapons several years ago, combined with the patently unconstitutional Gun Control Act of 1968, the price of automatic weapons and now "assault" weapons has skyrocketed far beyond what they would have been worth otherwise. Letting the "assault" weapon ban expire will mean that those who sell guns for a living will immediately lose a lot of money.

You won't hear them speaking of supporting an extension of the ban, but then it's only natural for them to roll over like a whimpering puppy if it's extended.

For example, a friend of mine is a class III weapons dealer and I mentioned to him that I have always regretted not buying a M-60 machine gun I once saw for sale in 1985 for $6000. I was a young lieutenant with more money than I could spend, but I decided it would be too frivolous. My friend told me that that same weapon, because of the ban, is now worth well over $30,000. If the ban expires, its worth plummets immediately back to one fifth of its current value.

Now imagine that you have a large revolving inventory. This could bankrupt your business.

No, there are probably very few weapons dealers looking to get this repealed, but they know better than to say it in front of their customers.

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