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The lead sponsor of the ordinance, first-term City Council Member Bryan von Lossberg, sat with his hands calmly folded at a long table with other members of the 12-person council. His body language betrayed no anxiety, but appearances can be deceiving. He had received a threatening anonymous voicemail prior to the meeting, and had asked the chief of police to staff the proceedings with an undercover officer.
“This is the most emotionally wracking, stressful experience I’ve ever had on the City Council,” he told In These Times after the four-hour hearing. “I look across the breakfast table at my wife and 3-year-old and ask, ‘Why am I touching this?’ ”
Von Lossberg’s trepidation is understandable in a Western state where nearly 53 percent of residents—the sixth highest rate in the nation—own guns, according to a 2015 study. Montana, along with seven other Western states, received a failing grade this year from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, an advocacy group that evaluates state and federal gun-safety policy.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/18883/gun-control-on-the-frontier
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CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)..who has ever purchased a gun without a background check.
I have purchased guns from gun stores, police supply stores, gun shows and private dealers.
Background check at each and every purchase.
FWIW... the lowest ranking states according to 'Law Center to...' (the states they do not like due to 'weak' gun control laws) are also those with the safest (lowest crime) statistics according to the FBI crime report. *
Conversely, the 'Law Center to.......' highest ranking (their favorite) states are the ones with the most dangerous FBI statistics, or at least they contain cities with very high crime - and peaceful rural areas - such as New York.
New York gets as 'A minus' (the last time I checked) presumably they do not get an 'A plus' because after a 6 month background check by 3 different agencies (local, state, federal) the most rural counties in NY actually grant permission to carry a handgun. I suppose the 'Law Center to....' would prefer if the state just went full-on NYC or New Jersey and refused carry licenses outright.
You really have to love the anti-freedom types, don't you?
*Yes, I know. there are several southern states that do not fit that paradigm, I will admit. However the entire 'northern tier' of our nation (which is where I have spent most of my life and done most of my traveling) certainly does.
fullautohotdog
(90 posts)about items they didn't put out but still want to sell? How about at the range? Try it some time. It's hardly a rarity.
aikoaiko
(34,206 posts)San Francisco passes anti-gun local ordinances only to be invalidated by state courts because of state law.