Monday - February 23, 2004
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weapons dealers looking to get this repealed, but they know better than to say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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