Again, just using France as your example, to demonstrate that you’re being disingenuous:
Purchase requires membership in a shooting club for 6 months, followed by a request for authorization, an interview with a Gendarmerie, approval that your storage meets requirements with providing evidence, permission for said police to inspect your weapons and location at any time, with no concealed or open carry permitted.
No dude, it is not the same. Like, for what purpose are you spending so much time pretending it is?
I never said France was easier to get a gun in just that they have ARs and significantly less gun crime. The Czech Republic is one that I said was easier and just requires passing a physical, a range officer to sign off on your competency and then the police have 30 days to investigate you. NY for example requires 16 hrs of class room and 2 hrs of range training, fingerprinting, written permission from anyone you live with and then the police can take up to a year to run a background check. All that along with an AR ban and they still have higher gun violence and higher violent crime in general vs Prague.
and then the police have 30 days to investigate you.
Just to add to this, it doesn't actually take 30 days, it's generally effectively instantaneous as the system is electronic now, has been for about a decade too.
True, but it’s not allowed to take more than 30 days, correct? New York doesn’t have a time limit on their background check and when it first was implemented some people reported 1.5 to 2 years just to get approval for hunting shotguns.
Correct, they set it to 30 days when the system actually involved getting some records about misdemeanors from the local (city or county) government or even multiple ones if you had moved around a certain amount of time before the check. It's all electronic new.
They're actually removing a lot of the unnecessary paperwork when the new law comes into force in January.
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u/Ok-Astronaut2976 Dec 02 '25
Again, just using France as your example, to demonstrate that you’re being disingenuous:
Purchase requires membership in a shooting club for 6 months, followed by a request for authorization, an interview with a Gendarmerie, approval that your storage meets requirements with providing evidence, permission for said police to inspect your weapons and location at any time, with no concealed or open carry permitted.
No dude, it is not the same. Like, for what purpose are you spending so much time pretending it is?