i am starting to see a lot of illegal

firearms in states that have enacted strict gun control.

Just the other day I saw where a couple of guys got arrested for making and selling machine guns in New Jersey. we are not talking about semi automatics here, but fully automatic machine guns.

Actually it makes sense. Ar 15s are for the most part illegal in New Jersey so the attitude becomes if one is doing something illegal, then what's the difference? You can sell someone an illegal AR15 and make money but if it is a fully automatic one is going to make a hell of a lot more money for about the same risk.

Marijuana has recently been decriminalized for a while now in many places. It used to be illegal and was categorized right alongside other illegal drugs. Some of these other drugs had a higher profit margin than pot did and the sentences were pretty close. It didn't make sense to sell pot when a dealer could sell cocaine and make more money although for some reason some dealers chose to stick with pot, probably because they did stand a chance of a lighter sentence if they were caught. On the other hand there are still people in state prisons for selling pot. In that light it would have made sense to sell cocaine or heroin. Same sentence but they would have made more money had they not been caught.

It's pretty much the same with illegal firearms. Why bother with a lousy AR15 when the opportunity to make more money lies in selling fully automatic weapons?

When AR15s became illegal in some places the motivation to stay legal was diminished and illegal fully automatics are starting to become more commonplace.

The law of unintended consequences has reared its head again.

It should also be noted that no state that has outlawed AR15s and like firearms has had a whole lot of people come running to their friendly, local neighborhood police station puffing and panting in a rush to turn these weapons in. The law has become a joke and I'd bet that it doesn't take a whole lot to buy one on the black market.

Of course, one pays no taxes on the black market, nor do they have any sort of registration. It's cash, carry and keep one's mouth shut. Illegal narcotics have been like this for over a century.

The authorities have no clue as to the existence of these. They are strictly underground and generally stay that way.  

As usual, Americans really only obey the laws they want to obey. It's funny seeing someone's otherwise law abiding grandmother get upset over a piece of legislation and mutter "Screw that! I'm not going to do it!"

The true test of a good law is how well it is obeyed. When you look at how many firearms have been ordered to be turned in as opposed to how many are it says a lot.

Yet lawmakers still enact laws that won't be obeyed.

Connecticut recently outlawed a number of types of firearms and demanded they be either removed from the state or turned in. While I have no clue how many were taken out of state, I saw that damned few were turned in. My guess is that people quietly hid them.

Add outlawing ghost guns into the equation which by definition are untraceable because they carry no serial numbers and the number increases in an unknown way. One can't really even venture a guess but a recent bust in New Jersey netted several ghost guns.

Outlawing firearms is a joke and is really a waste of the government's time and limited resources. 

Actually so is outlawing narcotics. We have made no progress in the war on drugs yet we still continue to throw billions at the problem. Then again, drugs are another story.





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