James over at Hell in a Handbasket wrote a great post about what happens after guns have been outlawed. In Great Britain, it is increasingly difficult to legally own a firearm. However, criminals still do what criminals do. He documents an event more than a year ago in which two police detectives who were attacked by five criminals were rescued by a citizen carrying a samuri sword. Sadly, the rescuer had to make a hasty escape to avoid being arrested just like the criminals he was protecting them from. I’ve poorly summarized in one paragraph what James covered in a dozen. Go read his version.
I wouldn’t want to live somewhere where I’d be harrassed or even prosecuted for defending myself or another victim. When those rights are taken away from me in Texas, I’ll pack up and move to a small Central American country where I can buy a little hacienda and my own rules.
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The Democrats are coming. Start packing and working on your Spanish, Don Pablo…..:)
Start packing and working on your Spanish, Don Pablo…..:)
The problem is that guns are pretty much banned in Mexico, as well. In fact, it is rather worse there than in, say, Canada.
You see, at least rifles and shotguns are pretty much legal in Canada. People can even own handguns if they jump through a bunch of hoops, pay extra money for licensing, and basically allow the government to crawl up their rectum.
In Mexico, all guns that “have a military utility” are banned. Possession of even a single round that will fit these banned guns brings a charge of treason, the justification being that some sort of rebellion could be fomented if enough arms are accumulated. Americans who unwittingly crossed into Mexico while driving down unmarked roads near the border, and who were found to be carrying even a single round of 9mm ammo, have been jailed for years!
So what does it say about a country where even Canada is friendlier to gun owners?
Anyway, there is no need to learn Spanish. Just whatever language they speak up in Canada. Canadiese?
James
There’s a fair number of gun traders in Texas who got busted for selling .38 Supers across the border, now that you mention it. They made quite a bit of money at it. I think ATF frowns on that sort of thing, however. That’s a round that apparently has no military utility to it. There was a rash of shady people at the gun shows looking specifically for 38 Supers. They really liked them if they had lots of gold filigree and engraving on them. I think that’s partially the reason that Taurus started chambering pistols for that round again.
I wonder if the .40 would count down there as a banned round? LE carries it, but I don’t think any military branch does, that I recall.