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So, if a ghost gun is just any gun that doesn't have a serial number, a previously destroyed gun being rebuilt to full function is....what, a revenant gun?

I'm thrilled that my tax dollars will end up being wasted paying the salaries of the goodness knows how many people the state AG office will use in thier doomed attempt to stop the courts from shooting this down.

Doesn't matter. Filibuster means they need 60 votes, and they don't have that, nor do they have the votes to get rid of the filibuster. That's why passing this in the house was stupid, now every dem that voted for this doomed crap is on record for having done so, which will be used against...

This is why gun legislation should be limited to "if you do X horrible crime, no guns for you" and nothing else.

'Good Samaritan' identified in Greenwood Park Mall shooting; called 'hero' by his girlfriend's family 40 yards with a handgun, even a handgun being stabilized against a pole (somehow) is very impressive shooting.

It was a gun free zone. But in Indiana a "gun free zone" means "you can have a gun, but if the staff ask you to leave you have to leave".

"I committed more crimes because I couldn't have a gun" sounds.....less than plausible.

The carry restrictions look like an almost-copy of IL's concealed carry limits, but worse. IL allows concealed carry in theaters, and you can carry in a establishment where alcohol is served provided the total revenue from such sales is less than half of the total, and you can carry during a...

No, because it's irrelevant to this question. Regardless of why the reoffense rate is so high, it is that high and our policies must respond to that.

Ok, so you want the default sentence for assault to be life in prison? Good luck with that. At this point, I'm pretty sure you're missing the point on purpose. Yes, in theory you can cause far greater harm with speech. In the same way that in theory you can win the lottery a dozen times in a...

That's not possible. For many criminals, particularly violent criminals, the legal system had to grapple with the fact that A) a significant number of them will reoffend, and B) there is a statutory maximum sentence you can impose. There is no "throw them in prison until you're sure they won't...

Right, that must be why so many people have been opting to carry an MLA formated essay over a gun, because the former is so much more effective as a self defense tool.

What exactly gives you the impression that felons are not informed of the legal restrictions that their conviction imposes?

Yes. "Absolute right" doesn't mean "a right that can only be infringed after due process of law". It mean that the right can never be infringed, for any reason, ever. No, that's stupid. Courts do not have the discretion to decide what the punishment for a given act of lawbreaking should be...

By that logic you can't ever arrest, imprisoned, fine, or otherwise punishment criminsls, without infringing on thier freedom of movement, property rights, etc.

Freedom of speech is a human right as well, and yet we have libel laws. No right is absolute, and in the case of self defense, the fact that you've forced other people to invoke that right in the past seems like an extremely valid reason to demand that you forfeit it in the future, you've proven...

Are you serious? The 2nd amendment is different because it let's you own a gun. Duh. I have some sympathy for changing that law as it applies to non-violent felonies, but otherwise, I am completely ok with having part of the punishment for violent crime be "you are never again allowed to own a...

Yeah, if you can afford to sit around for hours and wait, which the police don't always get the chance to do. Hostage situations, for example.

I don't think that's even remotely close to being true. "Once a marine, always a marine" comes to mind as the obvious rebuttal. An extreme example perhaps, given marines are infamous for esprit de corps, but they're merely the most extreme example of a very well known trend. Military training...

That's a stupid idea that will get people killed. SWAT teams exist in the first place because some situations require an immediate, forceful response where waiting for the national guard will take too long. It's particularly ill conceived because any proposal to eliminate SWAT and replace it...