Could firearms rights become more selective?

[Neuromancer]

Random thought I had could 2A become more selective for some people? Thus limiting the ability to obtain them based on something arbitrary?

 

[lowkey0z]

the 2nd amendment is damn near the first 1st amendment for them ppl

 

[doublecheese]

I think gun control laws are loosening overall...look how may states adopted constitutional carry in the past few years.

Cacs know that guns are the only equalizer.

 

[kingdizzy01]

Random thought I had could 2A become more selective for some people? Thus limiting the ability to obtain them based on something arbitrary?

no. but why?

 

[Neuromancer]

the 2nd amendment is damn near the first 1st amendment for them ppl

I don't mean for them.

 

[Neuromancer]

I think gun control laws are loosening overall...look how may states adopted constitutional carry in the past few years.

Cacs know that guns are the only equalizer.

I don't mean for cacs. I mean for non cacs

 

[CopiousX]

Random thought I had could 2A become more selective for some people? Thus limiting the ability to obtain them based on something arbitrary?

Sure. Congress has already restricted them. For a brief period in the 20th century fully automatic was legal, and then it was made illegal, then briefly legal, and finally to the current state where it's illegal. Same could be said for the restriction on people under 21 having handguns or even the felon restriction.

The Constitution didn't suggest any of these restrictions, but Congress has these regulating powers. You could just as easily ban folks with misdemeanors or people under the age of 30.

I don't mean for cacs. I mean for non cacs

If this was the case, the easiest method would be zip code. You wouldn't even need to ban them for people living in a zip code, you would just charge an arbitrarily high tax in those zip codes. And because most ethnic communities live in enclaves, this is an effective way to effectively restrict a whole ethnic group from acquiring firearms.

If a 3500 tax was added in to a 700 pistol, most black people would forgo the purchase. The brilliance of the strategy is Republicans can just pass it off as a bill to pay for extra policing in high crime areas which coincidentally would be black or mexican due to resource deprivation..

Because of how local ZIP codes are, only a red state could pull this off because national authorities don't operate on such small populations. So it would be hard to be specific to an ethnicgroup indirectly

 

[kingdizzy01]

Sure. Congress has already restricted them. For a brief period in the 20th century fully automatic was legal, and then it was made illegal, then briefly legal, and finally to the current state where it's illegal. Same could be said for the restriction on people under 21 having one or even the felon restriction.

The Constitution didn't suggest any of these restrictions, but Congress has these regulating powers.



If this was the case, the easiest method would be zip code. You wouldn't even need to ban them for people living in a zip code, you would just charge an arbitrarily high tax in those zip codes. And because most ethnic communities live in enclaves, this is an effective way to effectively restrict a whole ethnic group from acquiring firearms.

If a 3500 tax was added in to a 700 pistol, most black people would forgo the purchase. The brilliance of the strategy is Republicans can just pass it off as a bill to pay for extra policing in high crime areas which coincidentally would be black or mexican .

Because of how local ZIP codes are, only a red state could pull this off because national authorities don't operate on such small populations. So it would be hard to be specific to an ethnicgroup indirectly

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