argument for FTF sales

[BushMasterBoy]

If the firearms had been locked in a gun safe, then the Newtown, CT shooting would NOT have occurred. All my AR's stay locked in a gun safe, with a burglar alarm and video surveillance. Some psycho is not going to grab my AR and shoot up a school. As for FTF restrictive legislation, I doubt it will pass. If they want to pass legislation funding armed guards at schools, I think that will pass. We have too many armed forces overseas guarding us from "perceived" threats and not enough armed personnel guarding us from "actual" threats here in our own country. I like seeing armed guards when I walk into a bank or grocery store. Then again I grew up on US military bases as a child, and was used to seeing armed guards everywhere in the community. If you have an assault rifle, for Gods sake, lock them up in a safe.

[SAnd]

Don't forget that the Columbine shooters used guns that were bought by a straw purchase and at least one that was a face to face sale.

The individual that did the straw purchase did no jail time if I remember right. I'm not sure she even was convicted of any crime.

The background check didn't stop the straw purchase gun from being available to the shooters. The background check law and the straw purchase law didn't do any good.

[kidicarus13]

If the firearms had been locked in a gun safe, then the Newtown, CT shooting would NOT have occurred. All my AR's stay locked in a gun safe, with a burglar alarm and video surveillance. Some psycho is not going to grab my AR and shoot up a school. As for FTF restrictive legislation, I doubt it will pass. If they want to pass legislation funding armed guards at schools, I think that will pass. We have too many armed forces overseas guarding us from "perceived" threats and not enough armed personnel guarding us from "actual" threats here in our own country. I like seeing armed guards when I walk into a bank or grocery store. Then again I grew up on US military bases as a child, and was used to seeing armed guards everywhere in the community. If you have an assault rifle, for Gods sake, lock them up in a safe.

It may seem like a good idea to you but I will not be forced to lock my guns in a safe. They will continue to lie around my house loaded with one in the chamber. If someone breaks into my locked house and uses my gun in a shooting spree it is not my fault no matter how you look at it.

[PugnacAutMortem]

It may seem like a good idea to you but I will not be forced to lock my guns in a safe. They will continue to lie around my house loaded with one in the chamber. If someone breaks into my locked house and uses my gun in a shooting spree it is not my fault no matter how you look at it.

+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

[Whistler]

If the firearms had been locked in a gun safe, then the Newtown, CT shooting would NOT have occurred. All my AR's stay locked in a gun safe, with a burglar alarm and video surveillance. Some psycho is not going to grab my AR and shoot up a school. As for FTF restrictive legislation, I doubt it will pass. If they want to pass legislation funding armed guards at schools, I think that will pass. We have too many armed forces overseas guarding us from "perceived" threats and not enough armed personnel guarding us from "actual" threats here in our own country. I like seeing armed guards when I walk into a bank or grocery store. Then again I grew up on US military bases as a child, and was used to seeing armed guards everywhere in the community. If you have an assault rifle, for Gods sake, lock them up in a safe.

With those guns...

I don't own an "assault rifle" but if my firearms are "locked up" in my house, that's not adequate? Are you calling for mandating additional secure storage? What is "safe" enough, a cheap steel box with a lock or do you have some minimum requirement in mind? Better yet we could keep them at an officially approved storage location and sign them out, with approval of intended use/duration of course.

[Fmedges]

If the firearms had been locked in a gun safe, then the Newtown, CT shooting would NOT have occurred. All my AR's stay locked in a gun safe, with a burglar alarm and video surveillance. Some psycho is not going to grab my AR and shoot up a school. As for FTF restrictive legislation, I doubt it will pass. If they want to pass legislation funding armed guards at schools, I think that will pass. We have too many armed forces overseas guarding us from "perceived" threats and not enough armed personnel guarding us from "actual" threats here in our own country. I like seeing armed guards when I walk into a bank or grocery store. Then again I grew up on US military bases as a child, and was used to seeing armed guards everywhere in the community. If you have an assault rifle, for Gods sake, lock them up in a safe.

IF they were locked in a safe who is to say who would of known the combination? This kind of thinking is just stupid.