Firing Back: Gun Laws are Strange and Ambiguous

The mainstream media has reported ever since President Obama took office that gun sales have spiked, along with the sale of ammunition. At the same time the MSM has repeated the usual line that the President isn’t pushing for any new gun laws. However, this isn’t to say that new laws haven’t been introduced in recent months. New York City continues to tighten its gun laws, while New Jersey’s governor signed into a law that allows for only one handgun a month to be purchased.

By banning, restricting or any other means of limiting firearms only hurts the legit owners, not the criminals. One example is that in New York City you couldn’t legally own a World War II Lee Enfield rifle. Why? Because it has a 10-round magazine. A double barrel shotgun is totally legal. Which do you think would be more popular with drug dealers and criminals looking to rob a store in the middle of the night?

So is there even a criminal market for Lee Enfields? These hardly seem suited to the modern criminal. And what about the handgun limits in NJ? Will criminals only buy one illegal handgun a month? Probably not. In the end, only those who play by the rules, and follow the laws to the letter will be hurt by these sort of gun laws.