On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 19:44:55 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 19:02:06 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"Ford," if there is a Ford, was full of **** from the first words of that
quote. There aren't 25 states that allow "anyone" to buy a gun and "strap
it
on." There is exactly one state that does: Vermont. And if "strap it on"
doesn't mean to carry openly, then where do you strap it? Onto your dick?

Alabama(1);

Alaska(2);

snip

Sorry, Gunner. Every one of those states, except for Vermont, has a list of
"Prohibited Persons" who are not allowed to buy a handgun -- or a gun of any
kind, in many states. The list ranges from felons, to people who have a
restraining order on them, to adults who were convicted of possessing pot as
a kid, to people who are addicted to painkillers (Ohio), depending on the
state.

You can get the whole list compiled in one place from the DoJ's "Survey of
State Procedures to Firearm Sales," which is compiled for several recent
years. If you can't find it, I'll send you a PDF file of it.

(Vermont, FWIW, doesn't allow sales to buyers under 16, but it otherwise
defaults to the federal NICS background check.)

Ed Huntress

Ah..every state has a Prohibited persons list..at the least related to
federal law where a felon whom has not has his/her rights restored may
not posess or own a firearm.

Including Vermont which defaults to Federal standards.

It was assumed that the In 25 states comment, that only those not
prohibited from owning (GCA 68 IRRC) were the ones in discussion. Of
course in all 50 states and assorted territories, those prohibited
persons will obtain a firearm from less than legal sources and carry
any which way they chose, no matter how unlawful their status makes
the practice.

Symantic word games are where you are going as some form of disproof?
Or simply changing the rules in mid game?

If so, "anyone can simply drive from LA to New York."


Gunner

No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound
woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil?
Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence,
they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest
animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that,
and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make
it work.
- L. Neil Smith