Widespread, unchecked small arms proliferation has been a domestic policy goal of Republicans since Reagan.

You do realize that you can get a gun pretty much any day of the week in pretty much any town in the country, right? Do you really think this opens up some major market or something that's going to have a meaningful impact on the level of firearm ownership in this country?

More than likely this will just make it easier for people to ship firearms when traveling or moving.

You do realize that's the Republican gun control policy, right?

What was the point of saying this?

Does one gun getting stolen from the mail and used in a murder tell us the whole gun control system is broken,

Why or how would one get stolen from the mail? It's not like there's likely to be a sticker on the outside saying there's a gun. Why would someone bother with the increased difficulty of stealing from the mail (and additional federal charges IIRC)?

Finally, considering how easy it is to steal a gun from a random vehicle in a smash and grab, again, what would be the point of expending the extra effort?

That's what I mean by meaningful. Our society is so awash in readily available guns, this doesn't really add any significant opportunity for someone who shouldn't have a gun to obtain one.

I've always said if the zombie. apocalypse happened, just give me a brick and an hour in a big apartment complex parking lot and I'll have enough guns to outfit a small army.
#20 | Posted by Miranda7

The most frequent crime that happens in my lily while suburb is kids from the city stealing cars and coming to the suburbs at night to rifle through random cars. They just jack a car, spend hours driving around random streets where two or three kids get out and check every car door handle on the street while the driver slowly cruises down the road after them. After a few hours, they drive back to the city, abandon the car and disappear.

Any car that's open gets tossed and anything of perceived value gets taken.

Reading the weekly crime blotter you would see, at least once or twice a week, reports of people leaving cars unlocked and losing computers, power tools, purses ect ect and usually at least one gun. Often ending with a sentence along the lines of "Victim reports doors were left unlocked." Times that by the multitude of suburbs in my metro area and you get a significant number of guns a year being easily obtained from unlocked vehicles.

It was infuriating and was what started my realization that the strongest anti-2A argument is your average gun owner.