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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Glenn Reynolds argues for closing the gun show loophole

Although I'm not sure he meant to do it.

By pointing out that criminals can still get guns pretty easily outside gun stores, it would seem to argue that stricter rules are needed outside of them. Because if criminals can't get guns at a gun store, those aspects of gun control are then working. Making those standards uniform everywhere would seem to be a solution to keeping criminals from acquiring weapons in other places, yes?

By the way, wouldn't a criminal's punishment for committing a gun related crime and acquiring an illegal weapon be longer than one for comitting the gun related crime? If anyone knows, I'd love to hear it.