In virginia we have good gun laws but the governor is anti gun and the state legislature is only 51R to 49D

As much as our R-governor, Rauner, stalled the gun laws, he let some of them through.
And now the Legislature AND the governor is turning hard blue

We also have state preemption so even though i live in the more liberal northern VA i get to enjoy the same laws as the rest of the state

like
AWB by February kinda blue.

Damn

and of course, Chicago and the rest of illinois just... don't really like each other, so despite literally the entirety of the southern Illinois protesting, it's gonna get passed anyway

oh yeah, and an ammo tax is coming up in the legislature too

Oh yeah i think i read about that, 1 cent tax per round

"Fuck you, .22lr shooters"

and everyone knows the cent per round is gonna go up once it's passed

Everyone I've talked to says somewhere between 5-7 cents per round

Anything to push people away from exercising their rights

Literally a poll tax

like, for us in southern illinois, it's just annoying

but for people trying to practice and have tight budgets for self defense

it's possibly a death knell

literally pushing the poor out

The main reason i got into guns was the politics
I was dragged along by my grandparents to the march for our lives since we live in northern va so i went along with them and seeing the protestors pushed me away over to the pro gun side

oh shit

I had never really paid attention to the gun debate before and seeing that these people didnt value the 2nd amendment at all changed my mind

funny, parkland really pushed me to finally get my FOID

~~and wait 90 days to exercise my 2nd amendment right~~

Lol

I know in new york(may just be nyc) its a crime to touch a gun at all if you dont have a license

Some places have really bad laws because the SCOTUS hasn't really taken gun cases

Lower courts are allowed to get away with a lot

kavanaugh didn't seem to change things much either

then again, it's barely been 2 monthes

soooo

New jersey reduced their magazine limit from 15 to 10 and you have to destroy your mag, get it modded to a 10 rounder, or ship it out of state or else you can be convicted of a felony, no grandfathering

And their court upheld that as constitutional

ridiculous.

I think in massachusetts you can be jailed for life if you have a bump stock, but if you have an actual illegal machine gun you'd only get the 10-15 years federal law has

The NFA itself shouldn't even be constitutional lol

Especially in combination with the hughes amendment

yeah, but good luck convincing moderates that

Its a de facto machine gun ban

Like, the things I think gun owners should be pushing for

>CMP being allowed to release surplus machine guns (m16s, m60's, etc.)
>CC Reciprocity
>HPA

These are thing that it's not hard to convince moderates on

Lol people are scared already of machine guns, look at the bump stock panic, some people even think ar15s are machine guns due to misinformation

As for CC some places have extremely restrictive rules on who can CC to the point where only people with connections can get permits, and some people are convinced CC permit holders are just going to randomly shoot people(see the teachers with guns in schools debate)

Also with HPA most people are still convinced that silencers are what you see in movies

Then you have the incrementalist thinking, where gun rights vs gun control is a tug of war type of thing where even if what you give to the other side is harmless, you're still losing

The thing to convince moderates on right now is that "assault weapon" and "high capacity" magazine bans are useless and unconstitutional