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alex_antoninWe need to expand the public school system to include colleges, then slash the military budget in half and give half that money to the public school system. The other half of the money should go to Medicare, and then we should expand Medicare to cover everyone. Which should also include dental, and should no longer have any fees or deductibles.
Then tax billionaires at 99% on every cent they make past their first billion, use that money to implement Universal Basic Income of $2000 a month (as I can tell you from experience that $1000 a month is barely enough to scrape by on even with loads of help) to get rid of desperation-level poverty. This would have a chain reaction of basically forcing corporations to let people unionize, force corporations to treat employees respectfully, because the alternative to that is going out of business because they have no employees since nobody will need a job anymore. (People will still want to work to earn more than just the bare minimum to live on. Almost nobody would be content with simply living. People still would need extra money for luxuries – larger living spaces, electronics, better food, etc.)
I call that tax plan for billionaires / UBI implementation "leeching off the leeches." But I think a better name for the bill/law would be "The Robin Hood Act."
We also need to implement countrywide rental caps, because rent is getting ridiculously high. The rent was too damn high in 2010, and it's gotten so much worse since then. While we're at it, something needs to be done to reign in the real estate industry. Banning bots and website-based real estate such as Zillow is a good first step. But also it needs to be illegal to own more than two properties of the same kind at a time. That will end the proliferation of parasitic landlords buying up land to ransom it to poor people.
And, naturally, restrict cops’ duties to dealing only with actual crimes (theft, murder, etc) while passing a law that cops aren’t allowed to use guns, as we’ve seen that guns in the hands of cops are never used properly. Most injuries and deaths by cops with guns have been on innocent people or on criminals who were surrendering, and predominantly on people of color, the disabled, and LGBT people. (Honestly I think we should abolish cops altogether, but that’d be a lot harder to sell, so we take incremental steps toward that eventual goal.) UBI alone would make the rates of most crimes plummet as desperate poverty becomes basically extinct.
Of course, when cops do kill people, they need to actually go to prison for that. All bullets should be accounted for at all times, and any bullets missing / shots fired should be cause for immediate suspension and investigation by a neutral third party investigative body. If nobody got hurt, fine the officer at least $300 for every wasted bullet. If someone does get hurt or killed, the investigation should determine if it was absolutely necessary / if there was no alternative to violence. If it’s decided that the officer had no other alternative but to shoot, they still get fined for every spent bullet, plus fined an extra $1000 for every injured party, $5000 for every person killed. These fines will go towards lawsuits, thus serving both as a deterrent (hit em in the wallet, since that’s what hurts the most) and as reparations money for victims and their families.
In the case of the injury or death being found to be without adequate cause (suspect doing nothing threatening, bystanders caught in crossfire, shooting/harming unarmed suspects, or shooting/harming cooperative suspects, etc) penalty will be jail time as it would for any civilian, on top of monetary fines which quadruple from those of “with just cause,” those fines going immediately to the victim or surviving family unless there’s probable cause of it being a setup to get money out of the cops, to be determined by a trial by jury. Also, if no just cause for the injury of the civilian / suspect is found but the offense is not serious enough for jail time, the neutral third party that investigates these things will determine a punishment ranging from demotion and re-training from the recruit stage up to and including the officer being fired and blacklisted from being able to work in law enforcement in perpetuity.
Further, any officer who for any reason is released from custody and/or prison for having served their time for crimes committed, will be blacklisted from law enforcement work in perpetuity.
All cops would be required by law to wear body cams at all times. These cameras can only be turned off or on by a computer based on clocking in and clocking out, which could be done remotely. Penalties for shots fired and/or people injured by the officer while off the clock automatically triple. Basically, if you can’t be a cop without resorting to violence, you’re probably not going to last long as a cop under the new system.
UBI and the fines for cops misusing their guns will be adjusted for inflation every year or two.
Oh, and any and all training of cops must comply with federal laws against hate speech and discrimination. Any and all proposed training, seminars, visiting speakers, even YouTube videos shown to cops for reasons outside of criminal investigations must be submitted to either the neutral third party I keep mentioning and/or to the state and/or federal government for review. This is done to prevent racist policies from being taught via these kinds of training methods, which is a real problem right now and is probably the biggest contributor to racist and unnecessary violence by cops. On this note, there should also be some kind of punishment for cowardly cops who don’t act when they clearly need to act, such as with the Uvalde police. Under my system, police WOULD be required by law to serve and protect, or else they won’t be cops for long.
On that note: guns. I obviously don’t like them. But I do see there are a few legitimate uses of them. Obviously pistols for cops, while highly restricted to avoid abuse, would exist. But all automatic or semi-automatic guns would be illegal for civilians and police both; only the military gets autos or semi-autos. Shotguns and pistols would still be allowed for civilian ownership, but requiring extensive background checks, including your Internet posting history. Even with that, to own either a shotgun or a pistol you’d need to take extensive training in their use and safety, just like with cars. You would need a gun license and liability insurance as well, just like with owning a car. And just like with cars, if you get into an accident or intentionally hurt someone (except in self-defense or the defense of others) you would lose your license. Also, you’d be restricted to two guns of either type per person. (Meaning you could own two shotguns and two pistols.) Like cars, you could add other users to the gun insurance, but doing so means those guns legally belong to both of you, so whoever gets added to the gun insurance can’t own their own guns until they get taken off the insurance for your guns. Using someone else’s gun when you’re not on their insurance gets you both in trouble if you misuse it or get into an accident with it. (On this note, the makers of gun safes would be required by law to make safes that are actually safe. That is, the product will be tested by Lock-Picking Lawyer or other similarly skilled lock-pickers, and if the lock-picker deems it anything less than “only a skilled lock-picker can get into this,” the product has to go back to the drawing board until it passes muster.)
Federal rules on self-defense things other than guns (mace, tasers, brass knuckles, those stabby keychains, for some examples) would be loosened a bit as a result of the restrictions on pistols.
All drugs would be legal, with the exception of things like date rape drugs and other chemicals with few if any legitimate uses, except with a special medical license. Also, prescription drugs would remain under the jurisdiction of the FDA. While legal, employers would still be able to fire people for being high while working. Driving or operating other heavy machinery while under the influence would remain a crime. Any crime related to drug use (done while high, done for money to get high, etc) would come with a sentence not of jail time but of mandatory rehab.
While I’m on the subject of crime… crimes not related to drug use will be investigated with an aim towards finding out the suspect’s motives. If the motive is poverty (maybe they gamble their UBI away or someone is cheating them or stealing from them) or mental illness, then they will get whatever help they need to fix that situation. If the motive is something else, like they attacked someone just because they hate that person or because they love violence, only then do they get prison… which will not be the horror it is in the US. The new prison system will be like Norway’s, which will include rehab where possible. If done correctly, only serial killers, torturers, serial rapists, or other irreparably violent individuals would be in prison long-term.
Mental health issues and people whose brains are addled by drugs causing them to behave erratically and/or violently will be dealt with non-violently by specially-trained teams (NOT cops) like some cities in the US are doing now.
In fact, I think police departments should be split between violent crimes and non-violent crimes.
Oh and prostitution will be legal, but human trafficking and pimping will remain illegal. This won’t prevent people from owning brothels, but all the same laws and rules of labor and safety practices will apply to the brothels as they apply to all other jobs. (Yes, a brothel could be hit with OSHA violations.) Prostitutes and other sex workers would be encouraged to unionize as well. The obvious exception to the rules for brothels would be nobody under 18 years of age would be allowed to work there, at least not as a sex worker.
Tobacco would be legal along with other drugs, but it along with marijuana and any other drug that produces fumes that other people can inhale will be illegal to use out in public – take that shit home. (Car use is fine, as long as the windows are shut.) Further, such fuming drugs will not be allowed to be used around children; violations of this that are discovered will be deemed child abuse and you will be sent to rehab for your obvious drug problem. (Obvious because if your addiction is so bad you hurt children doing it, you clearly need rehab.) People who get lung cancer from either first or second hand smoke will be allowed to sue tobacco companies.
Also, massive steps to tackle climate change will be taken. I would make it illegal to make new gas-burning cars starting at least 3 years after the law takes effect, to give the companies some time to adapt. Possible exception for hybrids, but the ultimate goal is phasing out the use of hydrocarbons completely. On that note, all new plastics would be required to be plant-based and biodegradable within a similar time frame. Serious efforts would be made to use recent discoveries to recover as much plastic from the environment (including but not limited to landfills, recycling plants, and the ocean) and dissolving it back to petroleum for sequestering or dissolving it entirely with that enzyme found in those plastic-eating bacteria.
Coal-burning plants will be forced to find some way to scrub the air of carbon byproducts (smoke, etc) and the tiny bits of nuclear material they usually emit as well before venting anything into the environment, and sequester both the carbon and the nuclear material somehow. If they can’t do this within 5 years, they will be shut down. Same goes for any other power plants that produce greenhouse gases as a waste product – scrub that stuff and recycle or sequester it.
The small varieties of wind turbines (portable, cylindrical, single-piece bits that sit vertically and spin) will be installed wherever there is sufficient wind, even inside cities since they’re so small and much safer and more recyclable than those giant turbines most people think of; the power they generate will connect to the grid. Similar portable turbines for water will be placed in more areas, wherever doing so won’t hurt wildlife or humans. (Just in Portland alone, I could see a bunch of these being placed in Johnson Creek and in the river.) As to the small wind turbines, I could easily see a bunch of them being placed in rows along freeways or other highways/interstates, so that in addition to natural wind, they’d also be generating power from the wind that cars and other vehicles produce as they speed by.
Since concrete contributes to climate change through both its production and through creating hot spots from sun exposure, concrete will be phased out and replaced with carbon-neutral or carbon-negative alternatives like hempcrete. Exposed concrete that can’t be replaced should be covered up where possible. One example: build solar power installations over parking lots to cool down the concrete, generate power, and keep cars and other vehicles in shade no matter where they park. Another example: rip out one or more lanes of these ridiculous multi-lane highways and replace them with lines of trees, sidewalks, and bike paths that are kept apart from car traffic.
On a side note, I would make efforts to make cities more pedestrian-friendly and bike-friendly as suggested by YouTube user “Not Just Bikes.” This would include more trees, shrubs, etc as well as streets designed to slow cars down so speed limit signs won’t be as necessary. And of course reliable and cheap public transit including buses, streetcars, trains, and cheap paratransit for the disabled. As much of this public transit would be powered by eco-friendly power sources as possible. Streetcars and MAX trains running off the very “green” grid, hybrid buses burning bio-fuel made of algae but also charging batteries off the grid (maybe even with solar panels on their tops?).
Furthermore, a nation-wide system of cheap bullet trains, reducing airline traffic down to overseas use mostly. These trains would mean you could go from – for instance – Los Angeles to New York City in 8 to 10 hours depending on speed and number of stops along the way, and do it on a large and comfortable train with room to sleep if you needed to, and probably dining cars as well. These trains would also be electric, running off a third rail of some kind. These trains would connect all the major US cities together. If you wanted, you could live in southern California and commute to work in Oregon. Or live in Des Moines, Iowa and commute to work in Chicago or Lincoln, Nebraska.
Accessibility in the workplace and elsewhere would be focused on more. In the workplace, you’d be able to bring up accessibility issues with the union, and the union would help pressure the companies to obey either through traditional union methods or by pitching in for legal fees to pay for a discrimination lawsuit against the company. This could work for other kinds of discrimination as well (racial, religious, anti-LGBT discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, etc).
Oh and one other thing: the Internet would become a public utility, with prices capped to something reasonable like $40 or $50 a month. Cellular phones, if they aren’t already a public utility, would also be a public utility, and price-capped. All other utilities would be price-capped as well. Oh, and one other thing: free water, because why TF are we charging people for water? People would only be charged for water if they’re going fricking crazy with it. (“You used 75% more water than the higher end of our usual averages. You will be charged for this excess.”) Because after all, we have to discourage waste of water. On that note, companies like Nestle would no longer be allowed to sit on a city’s water supply and drain it for profit, because I would make a law that the only bottled water allowed to be sold anymore must be in nothing smaller than a one-gallon jug. Some exceptions for cheap smaller bottles of water will be made to be used during emergencies or events like Pride, but kiss your expensive Evian or whatever else goodbye. The closest you’d get to bottled water in the smaller sizes would be things like carbonated water; even then, there’d be regulations in place to keep companies from squatting and basically stealing water. I think a good regulation would be forcing corporations to pay high prices for water, since they’re using much more than the baseline.
I could probably go on, but I’ve run out of steam for now.
Then tax billionaires at 99% on every cent they make past their first billion, use that money to implement Universal Basic Income of $2000 a month (as I can tell you from experience that $1000 a month is barely enough to scrape by on even with loads of help) to get rid of desperation-level poverty. This would have a chain reaction of basically forcing corporations to let people unionize, force corporations to treat employees respectfully, because the alternative to that is going out of business because they have no employees since nobody will need a job anymore. (People will still want to work to earn more than just the bare minimum to live on. Almost nobody would be content with simply living. People still would need extra money for luxuries – larger living spaces, electronics, better food, etc.)
I call that tax plan for billionaires / UBI implementation "leeching off the leeches." But I think a better name for the bill/law would be "The Robin Hood Act."
We also need to implement countrywide rental caps, because rent is getting ridiculously high. The rent was too damn high in 2010, and it's gotten so much worse since then. While we're at it, something needs to be done to reign in the real estate industry. Banning bots and website-based real estate such as Zillow is a good first step. But also it needs to be illegal to own more than two properties of the same kind at a time. That will end the proliferation of parasitic landlords buying up land to ransom it to poor people.
And, naturally, restrict cops’ duties to dealing only with actual crimes (theft, murder, etc) while passing a law that cops aren’t allowed to use guns, as we’ve seen that guns in the hands of cops are never used properly. Most injuries and deaths by cops with guns have been on innocent people or on criminals who were surrendering, and predominantly on people of color, the disabled, and LGBT people. (Honestly I think we should abolish cops altogether, but that’d be a lot harder to sell, so we take incremental steps toward that eventual goal.) UBI alone would make the rates of most crimes plummet as desperate poverty becomes basically extinct.
Of course, when cops do kill people, they need to actually go to prison for that. All bullets should be accounted for at all times, and any bullets missing / shots fired should be cause for immediate suspension and investigation by a neutral third party investigative body. If nobody got hurt, fine the officer at least $300 for every wasted bullet. If someone does get hurt or killed, the investigation should determine if it was absolutely necessary / if there was no alternative to violence. If it’s decided that the officer had no other alternative but to shoot, they still get fined for every spent bullet, plus fined an extra $1000 for every injured party, $5000 for every person killed. These fines will go towards lawsuits, thus serving both as a deterrent (hit em in the wallet, since that’s what hurts the most) and as reparations money for victims and their families.
In the case of the injury or death being found to be without adequate cause (suspect doing nothing threatening, bystanders caught in crossfire, shooting/harming unarmed suspects, or shooting/harming cooperative suspects, etc) penalty will be jail time as it would for any civilian, on top of monetary fines which quadruple from those of “with just cause,” those fines going immediately to the victim or surviving family unless there’s probable cause of it being a setup to get money out of the cops, to be determined by a trial by jury. Also, if no just cause for the injury of the civilian / suspect is found but the offense is not serious enough for jail time, the neutral third party that investigates these things will determine a punishment ranging from demotion and re-training from the recruit stage up to and including the officer being fired and blacklisted from being able to work in law enforcement in perpetuity.
Further, any officer who for any reason is released from custody and/or prison for having served their time for crimes committed, will be blacklisted from law enforcement work in perpetuity.
All cops would be required by law to wear body cams at all times. These cameras can only be turned off or on by a computer based on clocking in and clocking out, which could be done remotely. Penalties for shots fired and/or people injured by the officer while off the clock automatically triple. Basically, if you can’t be a cop without resorting to violence, you’re probably not going to last long as a cop under the new system.
UBI and the fines for cops misusing their guns will be adjusted for inflation every year or two.
Oh, and any and all training of cops must comply with federal laws against hate speech and discrimination. Any and all proposed training, seminars, visiting speakers, even YouTube videos shown to cops for reasons outside of criminal investigations must be submitted to either the neutral third party I keep mentioning and/or to the state and/or federal government for review. This is done to prevent racist policies from being taught via these kinds of training methods, which is a real problem right now and is probably the biggest contributor to racist and unnecessary violence by cops. On this note, there should also be some kind of punishment for cowardly cops who don’t act when they clearly need to act, such as with the Uvalde police. Under my system, police WOULD be required by law to serve and protect, or else they won’t be cops for long.
On that note: guns. I obviously don’t like them. But I do see there are a few legitimate uses of them. Obviously pistols for cops, while highly restricted to avoid abuse, would exist. But all automatic or semi-automatic guns would be illegal for civilians and police both; only the military gets autos or semi-autos. Shotguns and pistols would still be allowed for civilian ownership, but requiring extensive background checks, including your Internet posting history. Even with that, to own either a shotgun or a pistol you’d need to take extensive training in their use and safety, just like with cars. You would need a gun license and liability insurance as well, just like with owning a car. And just like with cars, if you get into an accident or intentionally hurt someone (except in self-defense or the defense of others) you would lose your license. Also, you’d be restricted to two guns of either type per person. (Meaning you could own two shotguns and two pistols.) Like cars, you could add other users to the gun insurance, but doing so means those guns legally belong to both of you, so whoever gets added to the gun insurance can’t own their own guns until they get taken off the insurance for your guns. Using someone else’s gun when you’re not on their insurance gets you both in trouble if you misuse it or get into an accident with it. (On this note, the makers of gun safes would be required by law to make safes that are actually safe. That is, the product will be tested by Lock-Picking Lawyer or other similarly skilled lock-pickers, and if the lock-picker deems it anything less than “only a skilled lock-picker can get into this,” the product has to go back to the drawing board until it passes muster.)
Federal rules on self-defense things other than guns (mace, tasers, brass knuckles, those stabby keychains, for some examples) would be loosened a bit as a result of the restrictions on pistols.
All drugs would be legal, with the exception of things like date rape drugs and other chemicals with few if any legitimate uses, except with a special medical license. Also, prescription drugs would remain under the jurisdiction of the FDA. While legal, employers would still be able to fire people for being high while working. Driving or operating other heavy machinery while under the influence would remain a crime. Any crime related to drug use (done while high, done for money to get high, etc) would come with a sentence not of jail time but of mandatory rehab.
While I’m on the subject of crime… crimes not related to drug use will be investigated with an aim towards finding out the suspect’s motives. If the motive is poverty (maybe they gamble their UBI away or someone is cheating them or stealing from them) or mental illness, then they will get whatever help they need to fix that situation. If the motive is something else, like they attacked someone just because they hate that person or because they love violence, only then do they get prison… which will not be the horror it is in the US. The new prison system will be like Norway’s, which will include rehab where possible. If done correctly, only serial killers, torturers, serial rapists, or other irreparably violent individuals would be in prison long-term.
Mental health issues and people whose brains are addled by drugs causing them to behave erratically and/or violently will be dealt with non-violently by specially-trained teams (NOT cops) like some cities in the US are doing now.
In fact, I think police departments should be split between violent crimes and non-violent crimes.
Oh and prostitution will be legal, but human trafficking and pimping will remain illegal. This won’t prevent people from owning brothels, but all the same laws and rules of labor and safety practices will apply to the brothels as they apply to all other jobs. (Yes, a brothel could be hit with OSHA violations.) Prostitutes and other sex workers would be encouraged to unionize as well. The obvious exception to the rules for brothels would be nobody under 18 years of age would be allowed to work there, at least not as a sex worker.
Tobacco would be legal along with other drugs, but it along with marijuana and any other drug that produces fumes that other people can inhale will be illegal to use out in public – take that shit home. (Car use is fine, as long as the windows are shut.) Further, such fuming drugs will not be allowed to be used around children; violations of this that are discovered will be deemed child abuse and you will be sent to rehab for your obvious drug problem. (Obvious because if your addiction is so bad you hurt children doing it, you clearly need rehab.) People who get lung cancer from either first or second hand smoke will be allowed to sue tobacco companies.
Also, massive steps to tackle climate change will be taken. I would make it illegal to make new gas-burning cars starting at least 3 years after the law takes effect, to give the companies some time to adapt. Possible exception for hybrids, but the ultimate goal is phasing out the use of hydrocarbons completely. On that note, all new plastics would be required to be plant-based and biodegradable within a similar time frame. Serious efforts would be made to use recent discoveries to recover as much plastic from the environment (including but not limited to landfills, recycling plants, and the ocean) and dissolving it back to petroleum for sequestering or dissolving it entirely with that enzyme found in those plastic-eating bacteria.
Coal-burning plants will be forced to find some way to scrub the air of carbon byproducts (smoke, etc) and the tiny bits of nuclear material they usually emit as well before venting anything into the environment, and sequester both the carbon and the nuclear material somehow. If they can’t do this within 5 years, they will be shut down. Same goes for any other power plants that produce greenhouse gases as a waste product – scrub that stuff and recycle or sequester it.
The small varieties of wind turbines (portable, cylindrical, single-piece bits that sit vertically and spin) will be installed wherever there is sufficient wind, even inside cities since they’re so small and much safer and more recyclable than those giant turbines most people think of; the power they generate will connect to the grid. Similar portable turbines for water will be placed in more areas, wherever doing so won’t hurt wildlife or humans. (Just in Portland alone, I could see a bunch of these being placed in Johnson Creek and in the river.) As to the small wind turbines, I could easily see a bunch of them being placed in rows along freeways or other highways/interstates, so that in addition to natural wind, they’d also be generating power from the wind that cars and other vehicles produce as they speed by.
Since concrete contributes to climate change through both its production and through creating hot spots from sun exposure, concrete will be phased out and replaced with carbon-neutral or carbon-negative alternatives like hempcrete. Exposed concrete that can’t be replaced should be covered up where possible. One example: build solar power installations over parking lots to cool down the concrete, generate power, and keep cars and other vehicles in shade no matter where they park. Another example: rip out one or more lanes of these ridiculous multi-lane highways and replace them with lines of trees, sidewalks, and bike paths that are kept apart from car traffic.
On a side note, I would make efforts to make cities more pedestrian-friendly and bike-friendly as suggested by YouTube user “Not Just Bikes.” This would include more trees, shrubs, etc as well as streets designed to slow cars down so speed limit signs won’t be as necessary. And of course reliable and cheap public transit including buses, streetcars, trains, and cheap paratransit for the disabled. As much of this public transit would be powered by eco-friendly power sources as possible. Streetcars and MAX trains running off the very “green” grid, hybrid buses burning bio-fuel made of algae but also charging batteries off the grid (maybe even with solar panels on their tops?).
Furthermore, a nation-wide system of cheap bullet trains, reducing airline traffic down to overseas use mostly. These trains would mean you could go from – for instance – Los Angeles to New York City in 8 to 10 hours depending on speed and number of stops along the way, and do it on a large and comfortable train with room to sleep if you needed to, and probably dining cars as well. These trains would also be electric, running off a third rail of some kind. These trains would connect all the major US cities together. If you wanted, you could live in southern California and commute to work in Oregon. Or live in Des Moines, Iowa and commute to work in Chicago or Lincoln, Nebraska.
Accessibility in the workplace and elsewhere would be focused on more. In the workplace, you’d be able to bring up accessibility issues with the union, and the union would help pressure the companies to obey either through traditional union methods or by pitching in for legal fees to pay for a discrimination lawsuit against the company. This could work for other kinds of discrimination as well (racial, religious, anti-LGBT discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, etc).
Oh and one other thing: the Internet would become a public utility, with prices capped to something reasonable like $40 or $50 a month. Cellular phones, if they aren’t already a public utility, would also be a public utility, and price-capped. All other utilities would be price-capped as well. Oh, and one other thing: free water, because why TF are we charging people for water? People would only be charged for water if they’re going fricking crazy with it. (“You used 75% more water than the higher end of our usual averages. You will be charged for this excess.”) Because after all, we have to discourage waste of water. On that note, companies like Nestle would no longer be allowed to sit on a city’s water supply and drain it for profit, because I would make a law that the only bottled water allowed to be sold anymore must be in nothing smaller than a one-gallon jug. Some exceptions for cheap smaller bottles of water will be made to be used during emergencies or events like Pride, but kiss your expensive Evian or whatever else goodbye. The closest you’d get to bottled water in the smaller sizes would be things like carbonated water; even then, there’d be regulations in place to keep companies from squatting and basically stealing water. I think a good regulation would be forcing corporations to pay high prices for water, since they’re using much more than the baseline.
I could probably go on, but I’ve run out of steam for now.
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Date: 2022-07-18 03:38 pm (UTC)The rules for someone to own a full auto weapon require some very strict checks and fees, and have some serious limits on storage and transportation.
Those rules are pretty much fine as is.
Semi-auto weapons aren't the real problem. Semi-auto handguns don't shoot much faster than a revolver. Though most do hold more rounds.
Semi-auto rifles are the majority of rifles out there. And they only fire one bullet per trigger pull. Note that a lot of shotguns do the same.
High capacity magazines are the big problem with long guns (rifles and shotguns). But even shotguns can hold 8 or 10 rounds (maybe more).
Most states have magazine restrictions for hunting (mostly to keep idiots from blazing away without aiming properly. 5 rounds is the usual limit.
For some guns, that's just simply changing a part on the receiver. For one with tube magazine (a spring-loaded tube under the barrel), you have to put in a plug so the magazine can't hold more than 5 rounds.
It's possible to make a shorter tube magazine, but probably a lot of trouble and expense.
Anyway, when hunting if a game warden wants to he can check your guns, he can. and if the magazine plugs aren't there in a tube magazine, or you haze some other type of magazine that holds more than the 5 round limit, you get a fine (and likely loss of your hunting license that year).
Idiot friend got gigged that way because he took along a semi-auto pistol "for protection from bears" (like that'd work)
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Date: 2022-07-21 04:59 pm (UTC)