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You can't legislate or regulate stupidity.........
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Larry, that guess is so accurate, there isn't room for debate.
This has been a fun thread, but the American resistance to a government agency that regulates firearms would be absolute.
As with all governing agencies with control "from above," the wishes of the anti's would be slooowly interjected over time, so that your favorite Parker would be called in, condemned as "too old, unsafe, or some such pap, and destroyed.
I love this country......but I don't trust our government.
Besides.......Brown is as smart as a fox getting the hens in the hen house to cackle while he sits back and grins.
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So is Larry the "The Old Brown Fox?" Of course no relation to other well known foxes...  Both of whom are likable in their own ways. Mark
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Sam, that's the point. It isn't a Government agency here in Britain. I don't know about the rest of the countries with a Proof House though. Lagopus.....
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You can't legislate or regulate stupidity......... Anyone who's been in a serious motor vehicle accident would probably agree that it's stupid not to buckle up. Some people will be stupid enough to do so even when it's illegal . . . but there won't be as many of them. So I'd say that it's possible to reduce the general level of stupidity via legislation.
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Larry, I'm surprised at an ex CIA guy wanting a proof house. I kinda thought that a "slam dunk" house would be OK. Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Nial, not the place to get into a discussion of the whole WMD thing . . . but here's a hint: Stop and think about how the Americans and the Russkies did the arms reduction deal. They sent teams to watch us destroy ours; we sent teams to watch them destroy theirs. We knew Saddam had WMD's at one time, since he'd used them. And lacking evidence they'd been destroyed, the only assumption the analysts could make was that they were still there. So the "proof" worked very well with the Russkies and START. Too bad we did not have it with Saddam. As an ex-CIA guy, I thus believe . . . the more proof, the better.
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Aint the same..totally out of context...Behind the wall...
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Sam, that's the point. It isn't a Government agency here in Britain. I don't know about the rest of the countries with a Proof House though. Lagopus..... It isn't a government agency, but apparently its rules are enforced by the government. Please explain the difference.
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Larry, I think in order for us to have a legitimate proof house in the United States some legislation would obviously have to be passed to get the job done. I am a proponent of a legitimate proof house for several reasons but I want a proof house that proofs guns and that's it...that's all they do. If there is ANY sort of gun control earmarked in any sort of legislation with regards to a proof house, I would be strongly opposed and I would be extremely disappointed in myself for being a proponent in the first place. A proof house should proof guns and reproof guns with altered barrels and that is all they should do IMO. Guns that don't pass either are remedied or end up in a junk pile where unsafe guns belong and that is the only control a proof house should have IMO. BTW, I'm growing weary of this thread, aren't you??
Socialism is almost the worst.
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