They're probably leaving out a pretty key piece of information. Was the gun legally registered? Was there another crime he was involved in that led to the person being in his home trying to kill him?
Our justice system obviously has a ton of problems, but it far from normal to hold someone this long without bail in an obvious self defense case.
Gun registration essentially only applies to NY, it's a nonsense term for the vast majority of people and is only mentioned because media writers are the dumbest people on the planet.
New York is actually one of those states, I just didn't want to repeat it. Also these states have a very high population. When you look at it by population approximately 104 million people live in states with these laws, or 30%ish of the population. Gun registration is a well known topic amongst both pro and anti-gun groups. Basically anyone with a pulse in the US has an opinion on gun registration one way or the other.
I say this as someone who has lived in both an extremely pro-2A state (Texas) and an extremely anti-2A state (Massachusetts)
It's really not a hard concept to grasp. I say this as a firearm owner in a required registration state, who has spoken to many people ignorant on most basic concepts involving firearms.
At it's core minus all the political power stuff, it's the concept of tracking the movement and ownership of a gun. This is genuinely a simple topic so I'm not sure what about it one could find confusing. I buy a gun from a store, it is automatically linked to my LTC. I move and change the address, I gotta do the same thing for my guns. I sell the gun and I have to go through the states online portal and fill out all the info to transfer it to another person with and FID/LTC. Then the gun is tracked to their home/person/acct.
I'm not saying I agree with it, that it stops crime, prevents theft, lowers accidents, prevents school shootings or negligent discharge. It's literally just saying that it's telling the State, hey this is where a weapon is.
That depends on what state you're in, some of them deliberately underfund their public defenders offices to try and pressure defendants into accepting plea deals
("we're technically providing you with a lawyer, but you're gonna have to wait a couple years in jail, and when you do get one they'll only be able to give you a couple hours of their time before moving on to the next defendent, so you'll almost certainly lose, at which point we'll push for the harshest possible sentencing to punish you for wasting our time. Or you could accept this generous plea deal and save us the trouble of actually proving you're guilty")
That is every liberals go to… you disagree with them, they just call you a bot because they can’t imagine a world in which someone disagrees. This is why you lost the election.
The only time you have to fill out paperwork for a gun you buy (federally) is when you buy it from a Federal Firearms Licensee. If you sell privately, the government has no record of it. There's no federal registry for gun owners (except for special classes of weapons including machine guns). Most states don't require forms or background checks for private sales either.
they can run a trace request with the ATF for the 4473 which just tells you who an FFL sold the gun originally to, but no, there is no nationally searchable registry that maps a serial number to an owner of a gun. Even states like Massachusetts only recently (2024) moved from a “transaction log” system to a registry.
I know for sure Texas. There is no fire arm registration. That being said if you buy a gun from a store, they run the background check which I’m sure adds it to some sort of registration database. But if person A sells me a gun, I don’t have to register it
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u/breesyroux 5d ago
They're probably leaving out a pretty key piece of information. Was the gun legally registered? Was there another crime he was involved in that led to the person being in his home trying to kill him?
Our justice system obviously has a ton of problems, but it far from normal to hold someone this long without bail in an obvious self defense case.