waiting periods | The Zelman Partisans

What was that line about A right delayed…?

The Dims are at it again. Rep. Elissa Slotkin [Dumbass-MI-7] has filed a federal waiting period bill, H. R. 2392 To require a seven-day waiting period before the receipt of a firearm.

Unlike the old Brady Bill waiting period, this one isn’t limited to purchases from FFLs, nor is it just five days

SEC. 2. 7-DAY WAITING PERIOD REQUIRED BEFORE THE RECEIPT OF A FIREARM.

(a) Prohibition.—Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(aa) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, to transfer a firearm to a person not licensed under this chapter unless at least 7 calendar days have elapsed since the transferee most recently offered to take possession of the firearm.

Any person, any transfer, with very few exceptions; all temporary.

“(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a temporary transfer if the transferor has no reason to believe that the transferee will use or intends to use the firearm in a crime or is prohibited from possessing firearms under State or Federal law, and the transfer takes place and the transferee’s possession of the firearm is exclusively—

At a range, hunting, or if the owner is physically present the whole time.

There are no exceptions for family members, not even for inheriting family heirlooms when granddad dies.

How exactly this would be enforced is left unexplained. It would seem to require complete firearm/owner registration (not in the bill), or an army of ATF agents swarming the country to make entrapping private purchases.

Seeing as how they still haven’t figured out how to get blackmarket dealers in stolen guns to comply with background check requirements, this seems unlikely to do anything about real malum in se crime.

Not that it’s really meant to.

It’s probably worth noting that this bill is co-sponsored by New Hampshire’s own Ann Kuster, who may be the stupidest member of Congress whose impairment isn’t obviously due to physical damage, or over-medication.

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If one were to take early reporting seriously (which I haven’t done for decades), some angry white guy — probably a right-wing white supremacist — shot a bunch of congressmen with a full-auto M4 assault rifle. The asshole took advantage of Virginia’s “lax” gun laws to get and carry his assault rifle.

Umm… Not so much. One, maybe two congressmen. One, maybe two cops. One, maybe two staffers. Maybe a lobbyist. Reports on that still vary.

CNN would have us believe the — oops, rabid left-wing Bernie supporter — used a Chinese knock-off of the AK-47.

Oops redux. Again, not so much. Now it was an SKS.

Note the subtle differences between this and the AK-47 and M4.

So he had an IL FOID (background check), possibly a CCW (background check), and bought his 3 guns from an Illinois FFL (background check & waiting period, background check & waiting period, background check & waiting period). He used a knock-off of a WW2-era semi-auto rifle (apparently with a 10-round fixed magazine, since it was Illinois legal. Heck, it might even still be California legal. Not an “assault weapon,” much less an assault rifle.

I can hardly bear waiting for the calls for laws that wouldn’t have stopped this. Oh. Wait.

I didn’t have to wait.

But I apparently will have to wait on national reciprocal carry while Congress addresses DC reciprocal carry only for our betters masters congresscreeps