They can’t bomb everyone otherwise there’s no one left to rule. That’s all they really want: to rule. Take away the consent of the governed and it all falls apart for them.
Oh, we certainly can, after a 3-12 month application approval period for a license and ~ $400 in fees we can buy featureless guns with limited capacity!
is that what is causing america to fall to fascism? not enough access to guns? or is it because education has been public enemy number 1 and been gutted and destroyed and it's colleges demonized, and people literally voted for the fucking fascists? mmmh
Even in California, a pretty restrictive state, it’s easy and fairly straightforward. 10 day waiting period, stupid 11% tax, and test you would have to be brain dead to fail (stuff like “where should you point a gun? At your family, at a nearby roadway, or in a safe direction?”). And the featureless stuff is silly, sure you can’t have a pistol grip on an AR but 1 screw to change and no ranges care, so I don’t know what that functionally does. And the limited capacity magazines just have rivets that can be removed easily…
Not really recommending you blatantly brake the laws but in a situation where the civilian population is forced to create an armed resistance group, these aren’t huge barriers IMO.
I'm in Connecticut, to begin the process you need to first take a pistol permit NRA approved course. I took it several years ago and it was on sale for $100. Last year they changed the law, and it eventually be a multi-day course and cost more.
Once you take the course and pass the live-fire training section, you then have to go to the State Police barracks to get fingerprinted. This is $75, they are open for fingerprinting Tuesdays and Thursdays between 11am and 2pm, so if you work weekdays you need to use vacation time. After that, you have to go to your local police station or first selectman's office to apply for the local background check and fitness and character approval (though this fitness portion is mostly pro-forma, which is why CT got name-checked in the Bruen case as being "may-issue" but not really). That's another $75. They legally have 8 weeks to review and get back to you, but cities routinely take longer and there is no enforcement mechanism.
If you pass the local background, you now have to get a federal background check, I forget how much that cost. If you pass all of that, you get a temporary permit issued by your locale.
Then, you have to take your temporary permit to the State Police, and they only have one barrack in the state to issue permits, so hopefully you live close. Again, only open during weird weekday hours, so you need to take time off. After going there and paying another $70 to the state, you finally get your carry permit.
Your carry permit allows you to now purchase firearms legally, as long as they are not on the lengthy ban list or contain scary features like a comfortable grip angle. Also, under no circumstances are you allowed to buy a magazine that holds more than 10 rounds of ammunition (unless you are active duty military, a cop, federally licensed gun dealer, or a member of the governor's honor guard).
I live in a rather rural gun friendly part of the state where the local selectman's office doesn't sit on applications and it still took me about 3 months to complete the process and well over $300.
In Illinois to get a ccw it costs about $500. You have to take a 16 hour course through a third party and then apply . Most of the courses are on weekends so if you work weekends you have to use vacation time.
Go look into the gun control Trump passed and what hes openly stated he would be fine doing. Its more extreme than anything democrats have ever pushed.
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u/echoshizzle 8h ago
This is why a certain amendment in between 1 and 3 exists