Joe Biden’s anti gun speech this evening.

    1. He wants an assault weapons ban.

There is no difference between an “assault weapon” and any other sort of rifle.  So an “assault weapons ban” will outlaw all rifles.  The anti gun folks are happy with this, the more guns they can ban the better.  Biden claimed that the “assault weapons ban” we had back in the 80’s and 90’s reduced mass shootings and that mass shooting went back up when the “assault weapons bas” was allowed to expire in the ‘00s.  Karl Rove, speaking right after Biden said this was false, the “assault weapons ban” did not reduce mass shooting and when it expired mass shooting did not go up.  Given a choice between Joe Biden and Karl Rove, I will believe Karl Rove.

2. He want “red flag” laws.  These laws permit anyone, parents, girl friends, teachers, doctors, ministers, Scout leaders, anyone to go to a judge and say “So-and-so is acting weird, I think he is a danger to himself or others, and we should confiscate all his guns.  The target/victim does not get a chance to defend himself.  If we think so-and-so is that messed up then we ought to involuntarily commit him to a mental hospital.
3. He wants longer and harder background checks to buy a gun.  I don’t know about this one.  Last time I bought a gun at an auction we all had to wait around for a couple of hours while a guy from Corey’s gun shop telephoned somewhere to get “instant” background checks done.  They allowed that the buyers of black powder guns didn’t have to do background checks
4. He wants to require all gun owners to buy gun safes.  I suppose.  But if this goes thru I have no good place in my house to take a gun safe.  They are BIG, and heavy.
5. He wants to raise the age to buy guns to 21 years old.  This is a judgment call.  My children were responsible enough to buy guns at 18 years old. How about yours?
6. He wants to outlaw “ghost guns”, home made guns with no serial numbers.  This seems like a paperwork thing, lots of paperwork must require the gun serial number.  On the other hand a Dremel will take the serial number off any gun in a few minutes.
7. He wants to outlaw all magazines that hold more than 5 rounds.  This is pretty much all magazines.  The magazine for my 1911 army automatic pistol holds 7 rounds; the magazine for my Ruger 10-22 holds 10 rounds.  My Hi-Standard 22 revolver holds 9 rounds in the cylinder.  My Marlin 30-30 lever action holds 7 rounds in the tubular magazine under the barrel.  I would have to do something about every gun I own.  
8. He wants to revoke the gun manufacturer anti lawyer protection law.  The lawyers were beginning to sue the maker of any gun involved in crime or accidents.  Like suing the car company every time a car was involved in an accident.  No manufacturer has the time or money to fend off all those law suits.  Revoking the gun manufacturer’s protection amounts to putting every gun manufacturer out of business.