Monday - April 27, 2009

They Never Stop Trying

These gun hating leftist Socialists are just like the Swiney Hini flu. They don’t quit. Ever. And when they lose in the legislature they try for the courts. Maybe if we had a really really big jug of Clorox ™?

The state Supreme Court will tackle gun control today when it considers whether cities and towns may enact laws limiting the sale of firearms.

The justices will hear arguments on Jersey’s City’s attempt to limit handgun purchases to one per month. An appeals court last fall overturned the 2006 ordinance, saying the city had overstepped its bounds because state law already monitors those sales.

The lower court said municipal governments don’t have the power “to act in the field of firearm regulation and control.” New Jersey residents need a permit to buy handguns, but state law does not limit how many permits a person may request.

New York is the only city with a handgun purchase limit—one every 90 days. The city also prohibits purchases of more than one rifle or shotgun every 90 days.

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said towns and cities should be allowed to set their own laws, adding that he and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided to establish local laws that would be a “good start in the right direction at stanching the flow of illegal handguns.”

Healy said the biggest problem in Jersey City is “straw purchasers,” those with clean records who buy guns for gang members.

Scott Bach, president of the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, which is involved in the case, said restricting purchases within a city or state’s limits will not prevent criminals from buying handguns out of state.

He said most gang members are less likely to go through the strict permitting process that’s required for legal gun purchases in the state.

“The notion that criminals and their surrogates submit to police fingerprinting and background investigations, wait six months for permits, only to turn around and sell them illegally is absurd,” Bach wrote in an e-mail.

While the Supreme Court decides a town’s right to enact such a law, lawmakers in Trenton are debating its merits. A bill (A339) to limit handgun purchases to one every 30 days—with the exception of retailers and collectors—stalled in the Senate earlier this year, after passing the Assembly.

But lawmakers who represent gun enthusiasts said such a law would curtail Second Amendment rights. State Sen. Marcia Karrow (R-Hunterdon) said she has constituents who buy more than one gun at a time in New Jersey because it can take months to get a permit cleared.

“I have constituents who wait over 90 days for permits,” Karrow said.

Craig Levine, a lawyer for the New Jersey Institute of Justice, also involved in the case, said Jersey City’s ordinance—or a statewide law—would really mean that a person could buy 13 guns per year.

“What does someone need that many handguns for, other than to sell them out of the trunk of their car?” said Levine.

The state issued more than 33,600 handgun permits in 2008, said State Police Sgt. Stephen Jones. But Jones said that’s not the actual number of handguns bought last year, because permits could have expired before some could make a purchase.

The left just does not let up. Ever. It doesn’t matter how many times their stupid ideas get shot down, they keep coming back. That’s the “reality based” community for you: they will never stop trying to impose their Marxist Fantasy onto actual reality.

Posted by Drew458     on 04/27/2009 at 10:19 AM   
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