Federally, yes.
This is a thing, and especially with older people. Because many of them just get sick and tired, fed up with fighting the same old battles over and over again. And this is how the anti gunners persevere. They wear us down over time, like pouring water over a rock to break it down. Just look at the state legislature in Wash., same old assault weapon ban, proposed year after year. Of course the well-dug in political establishment will get it done, some year, and maybe next.
Are you mad cause I called you "old"? I was wondering when you'd get around to coming back.But I am pretty crochety.
bubblegum your friends, they can go choke on bubblegum.
Those people can bubblegum themselves and choke on bubblegum too.
With all of the testimony on history in the recent 114 hearing (though I realize that had mostly to do with what types of firearms existed and who had them at the time Oregon became a state), I wonder if this historical point could be used to argue against Measure 114
I agree with your post except perhaps the ancestors part. Did your parents fight GCA '68?? AWB '94?? I doubt mine even knew it passed, and if they did, didn't care. Of my two grandparents that were alive in my lifetime, my grandmother probably thought NFA '34 was a good idea and my grandfather didn't care because he did what he wanted and to hell with the rest of the world, especially the "law". And what about our descendants?? No kids of my own, but nieces and nephews, none of whom have known a world without WA 594 and OR 941. If any of them get involved with firearms (I'm trying, but not getting very far) they won't have known anything else. A few more infringements in their lifetime won't seem any different than NFA '34 to our grandparents or GCA '68 to our folks.I think that's part of it along with the young ones turning of age to vote are taught / brainwashed from school and media that guns and the 2A are bad and evil,
also many parents are not teaching and exposing their kids to firearms or teaching right from wrong but instead teaching how the 2A is a horrible thing .
Another one is it does not matter how they feel about firearms but more important that they teach / raise their kids / students that voting for a Republican
must be avoided at all cost regardless of the outcome. In my opinion the system / schools / social media and a large portion of families have took the hook line and sinker. Just look at today's youth and the majority of 30 and younger crowd . I in my opinion feel as the older generations die off this will be a much different Country.
Like many of you on this site I enlisted and served our Country like so many others and so many paid the price for our freedom just to have our hard fought
freedoms thrown away by the brainwashing being taught by the system we pay taxes for. I bet the generations before us like grandparents / parents would be shaking their fists at this nonsense being jammed up our a$$
Sorry about my rant
I embrace being "Old(er)", dammit! It's the aches and pains, some that are most likely because of the way I treated my body the last 52 years that might be the reason for seeming "Crochety" I embrace the use of my old man cripple card that hangs by the mirror too!
but it's really only been pushed hard here in Oregon for about three decades
Right. But they were outliers and not very well known. Lots of towns and counties had laws, too. But, for the most part NFA was the first REAL gun control law passed in the US. And it is still alive and well.
Sadly its normally "compromise". Every new gun law that comes along is "common sense" and such. So many will go along thinking that if they just compromise what they own is going to be fine. Sooner or later they run out of compromises and of course then its too late.
Who was supposed to pick up that cost?
