Gun Control proponents are now trying to buy Guns & ammo

[Caballoflaco]

New gun shop rules in CT. BY HIS EXCELLENCY NED LAMONT EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 7N

https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/Office...rder-No-7N.pdf

a. Firearms Transactions by Appointment Only. Effective immediately and through May 15, 2020, unless earlier modified, extended, or terminated by me, because the nature of certain regulated retail transactions, including purchase, sale, and transfer of firearms, ammunition, and their components or supplies, requires the customer's presence inside the business to accommodate certain parts of those transactions or associated background check processes, and in order to limit person-to-person contact as much as possible and manage the large increase in requests for authorizations for such transactions and the resulting burdens on the communications technology and public safety staff responsible for reviewing and providing such authorizations, any firearms dealer shall conduct all such transactions by appointment only, shall limit such appointments to a number that will maintain a distance of six feet between any customers and/or staff in a store, including customers and staff conducting such transactions, and shall allow entrance into their establishments only to those customers conducting such transactions.

That actually seems like a reasonable balance between protecting public safety and allowing people to buy firearms.

[RoyGBiv]

From the NRA Patriot Newsletter so, may be slightly biased...

Not sure if this link works for non-members...
http://graphics.nra.org/patriot/NRA-...sletter_10.pdf

Emphasis mine...

“May’s adjusted NICS background check figures are the highest on record for any May since record keeping began on point-of-sale instant background checks. Americans are being confronted with decisions regarding their personal safety and are voting with their wallets on their right to keep and bear arms. Our recent survey of firearm retailers shows us that 40 percent of these gun buyers are buying a firearm for the first time. Of those first-time gun owners, 40 percent are women and these buyers are overwhelmingly purchasing handguns for personal protection,” said the NSSF in a statement

[Leroy Suggs]

Anyway, I was looking at your avatar and thinking that, since this whole shebang started, I shifted over to carrying a 1911 and that my usual go-to rifle is a Winchester `94.

So I'm there.

(OK, the 1911 is a LW Commander, but still)

My go to rifle is a Winchester 94 30-30. An old one.

[rob_s]

what's the old joke? A democrat is just a republican that hasn't been mugged yet?

[Glenn E. Meyer]

The flip was that a Republican is just a Democrat who hasn't been arrested yet. That's the way it goes, sad to say.

Churchill said, that if you are not a socialist when you are young, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative when you are old, you have no mind.

Wisdom in all these sayings.