Texas State Representative Lon Burnam (D-90, NRA “F” grade) recently introduced HB 2807 – Relating to creating an offense for the unlawful possession or transfer of a semiautomatic assault weapon.
There’s much that is wrong with this bill. What bothers me the most? Not just how it uses failed language. Not just how it places emphasis upon cosmetics and not upon anything of actual worth and meaning. Not just how it’s knee-jerk legislation. Not just how it criminalizes my ability to instruct children in gun safety and responsible gun use. But how it places undo burden upon the law-abiding. Why are there people who insist upon making the lives of good honest people more difficult and more cumbersome?
Stuff From Hsoi 
This looks like one of those well-intended laws that suffers from inverse selection. Like requiring parental notification on abortions.
Turns out, most kids tells their parents all on their own. The ones who don’t, are the ones who are abused, or abandoned, etc.
So, the law has the opposite of the reasonable effect.
Ayn Rand had a significantly more eloquent explanation for it, but, basically, it all boils down to control.
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