Most “gun control” laws have nothing to do with controlling crime; they are about making gun ownership not merely onerous, but legally perilous.<\/p>\n
And they work – where “work” means “scare law-abiding people out of their sacred duty and privilege to defend themselves, their families and their society from the scum around us<\/a>“:<\/p>\n Prior to yesterday, I never would have thought that possession of an empty magazine, kept separate from ammunition or a weapon, would violate the law, so I sympathize with Gregory on that point.<\/p>\n But I\u2019m less sympathetic than you might expect because fear of unintentionally violating gun laws is one of the things that has kept me from purchasing a handgun. As you know, I took the NRA safety course over a year ago. But I\u2019m a legal resident of Rhode Island who lives much of the year in New York, so there\u2019s an issue of whether I could obtain a NY permit, which is needed even to keep a gun in the home. And then there\u2019s the issue of transportation back and forth, and complying with the requirements to avoid prosecution as I pass through Massachusetts.<\/p>\n It all became such a bureaucratic jungle that I just deferred for the time being.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s attorney William Jacobson at\u00a0Legal Insurrection<\/em> in a piece on the importance of prosecuting NBC News’ David Gregory – who is a rabid anti-gunner and makes no “journalistic” bones about it, and whose kids attend a school protected by the same armed guards that he and his industry decry for the proles – produced a 30-round NATO STANAG magazine (which fits the AR15 and most other NATO rifles of the same caliber) during a segment\u00a0haranguing\u00a0for gun control on one of the Sunday Morning shows last week.<\/p>\n Jacobson, by the way, cuts Gregory some slack in assuming the “infraction” was inadvertent. \u00a0NBC apparently asked DC police for permission to\u00a0possess\u00a0the magazine for use in the “story”<\/a> (heh), and were denied. \u00a0 Gregory – or at least several people in his editorial chain of command – knew that they were breaking a law<\/em>…<\/p>\n …that was designed, like all of DC’s gun laws, to ensnare and make criminals out of as many law-abiding gun owners as possible.<\/p>\n