Gun Grabbers Blame Federal Gun Laws For Gilroy

By Tom Knighton

When our Founding Fathers crafted the Constitution, one of their ideas was that the federal government would remain fairly weak, that the states would govern as they saw fit and that good laws at the state level would filter to other states as needed. The Constitution would remain to make sure those individual states didn’t become tyrannical, but otherwise would take something of a hands-off approach to governing.

Well, our federal government isn’t particularly weak anymore, of course, but the concept holds true even today. It’s why one state passing a law can often lead to other states doing the same.

Yet other states that feel different solutions are needed look elsewhere for those solutions. It’s the strength of the American system.

However, following Gilroy, it’s being blamed for the actions of one maniac.

California has some of the most stringent gun laws in the country, including a ban on the type of rifle that a shooter used to kill three and wound 15 at the garlic food festival in Gilroy on Sunday.

But the gunman had legally purchased the “assault-type rifle”, in the style of an AK-47, from the neighboring state Nevada on 9 July before carrying it illegally over …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms