Noblesville man arrested after selling gun to juvenile
See, this is one of those cases where more law won't help. Dumbass sold a gun to a minor. Felony #1, enough to put him away (or actually, in his case, put him back) for awhile. But then they larded the indictment with a few more minor problems:
possession of a handgun with altered identifying marks and carrying a handgun without a license-prior felony, all Class C felonies. He was also charged with carrying a handgun without a license, a Class A misdemeanor.
Right.
What of any of that would have been prevented by magazine limits, black gun restrictions, or enhanced Federal background checks? Bzzzzzert. You got it. None of it. Because the dumbass didn't care, and probably was fully cognizant that what he was doing was illegal to start with. How do I know that? It's a simple calculus:
Criminals break laws.
Law-abiding citizens don't...until they're provoked.*
None of the gun-control rhetoric being spouted by anyone involved in the debate on either the left or the right is about a genuine wish to cut the amount of gun crime in America. It's about controlling people who would follow the laws in the first place, because the powers-that-be have given up on the element of the population who simply ignore the law.
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* At which point the question arises as to whether the law was reasonable and fair. Or if an actual revolution is in progress at the time.
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