Protect yourselves and your Trans Comrades. I hate to be a fucking nerd but if you live in a swing district this election will actually matter if they are proposing shit kind of shit; fuck the goddamn Dems for letting it get to this shit. Also find community and join any sort of Orgs you can, there is safety in numbers. If your mental health is good enough, get a gun; even if this shit doesn’t pass half the reason they do this shit is to ratchet up stochastic terrorism. Armed Queers Bash back, don’t let yourself become a statistic.
We’re talking about America. You can buy a gun from another person face to face with no paperwork what so ever.
Or you can just go to a gun shop and buy an AR. It’s not going to put you on any lists you’re not already on.
And everyone who buys a gun through and FFL has to go through a background check in the US. Again, it’s not a big deal. If you’re posting here you’re already on a list as a dirty commie.
To the best of my knowledge local police do not have any kind of database of firearms owners and they do not flag your car as belonging to a gun owner. I’ve spent years on various gun subreddits with some extremely paranoid people and I’ve never heard of anything like this happening.
Good pushback. I am a coastal elite so I think it is more strict here but idk really. My aim was to urge caution and suspicion but those can be overcome by knowledge.
If you’re posting here you’re already on a list as a dirty commie.
The ‘dirty commie poster’ list is a much longer and very different list to the ‘armed dirty commie’ list.
To the best of my knowledge local police do not have any kind of database of firearms owners and they do not flag your car as belonging to a gun owner. I’ve spent years on various gun subreddits with some extremely paranoid people and I’ve never heard of anything like this happening.
My reason for saything this was a conversation I had recently with 3 gun owners, 1 an ex-con the other 2 only minor traffic crimes in their past. They were saying that whenever they get pulled over, which happens a lot, by local or state police, and they run the plates, it pops up that they may have a gun in the car and the police always make a big deal of it. They didn’t view this as conspiracy thinking (which they had plenty of) but basic local law. They may have been bullshitting.
Good info, thanks. I suspect this may be only true for states that keep databases of gun owners, like California, but I don’t know for certain. I don’t know what mechanism local police in other states would use to see if someone is a gun owner or not (other than CCW licenses, if you have one in that specific state), unless there’s been recent developments.
This is the kind of discussion I’m hoping for so we can get more diverse experiences and opinions. It’s difficult for me to cross-apply my experiences living in a red state and give relevant advice for people in blue states.
