On May 3, 6:05 pm, BT Humble wrote:
Moe wrote:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i19/8519news1.html

Absolute idocy.
Imagine the lines to register for lawn fertilizer on a spring Saturday.

The police state mentality has got to go.

Mate, you live in a nation where one can buy almost any firearm short
of a machine gun with pocket change and a 10-day wait.

You do NOT live in a police state.

BTH
(Australia - the Nanny State).


Maybe instead of listening to the media you should come here to NJ and
see what it takes to buy a gun. Last permit to buy a pistol here in
NJ took close to a year after filling out the application and being
fingerprinted by the police. That included running the prints through
the FBI and the local police conducting a background check, which
includes calling references and anyone else the police feel like
contacting during their investigation.

As someone else posted, the biggest problem is not people obtaining
guns legally through any process. It's that criminals obtain them
illegally. Crack cocaine and heroin are totally illegal, aren't
they? Yet, those can be obtained on the street very easily by
criminals too.