UpDate: Mayor Ballard Backs Registration for Indianapolis Gun Owners

[4sarge]

Mayor Ballard Backs Registration for Indianapolis Gun Owners


I kept hearing from my conservative friends that Mayor Ballard had spoken favor of a gun registration law in Indianapolis. I thought it was just an Internet rumor that had gotten out of hand. But I was wrong. On Wednesday, Channel 8 reported the exchange with the Mayor, where while talking off the cuff, he suggested that Indianapolis might consider adopting a gun registration ordinance similar to New York City.

The Republican power structure has never been particularly supportive of gun rights. I remember walking into Prosecutor's Scott Newman's office and seeing framed posters provided by anti-gun rights groups. I have also heard from conservative friends, but do not personally know, that Prosecutor Brizzi shares his predecessor's views on guns.

Mayor Ballard's proposal is supposedly an attempt to get a handle on violent crime. Those types of gun restrictions never make a dent in crime, however. People who are wanting to rob a bank are not deterred from committing that crime because having a gun is illegal. The only people who are deterred from such gun measures are those law-abiding gun owners who have done nothing wrong. Apparently after a deluge of phone calls, Mayor Ballard has backed off the suggestion and is now just advocating tougher measures to get the guns out of the hands of felons.

That's funny. My client is not a felon. The police searched his house by mistake and took his guns. Now the City of Indianapolis won't return his guns unless he agrees to fill out a form and be fingerprinted, which fingerprints then go into a national database. The man did nothing wrong, yet now the City wants to impose additional requirements on him for possessing a gun in his own house. So much for Mayor Ballard's claim he is only against felons having guns.

[antsi]

The Republican power structure has never been particularly supportive of gun rights.

Neither major* party is all-out committed to any ideal or principle. They are committed to trying to get elected. Therefore they will support whatever is popular with the biggest (or most active) slice of their constituents.

Therefore, it is incumbent upon us as gun owners to be the biggest, loudest, most politically active bloc of voters in the State.

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* sidebar - I say this is true of the major parties, and it is. Of course, there are fringe parties out there that are totally committed to some principle or set of principles - they actually hold their principles above their committment to electoral success. And that is precisely why the Green Party and the Libertarians and so on rarely ever get elected. In a contest between a party that will do anything to get elected and a party that is committed to some other principle, the party focused on getting elected is usually going to win.

[CarmelHP]

The Republican power structure has never been particularly supportive of gun rights. I remember walking into Prosecutor's Scott Newman's office and seeing framed posters provided by anti-gun rights groups. I have also heard from conservative friends, but do not personally know, that Prosecutor Brizzi shares his predecessor's views on guns.

This is true of the Indianapolis based liberal Republicans that control much of the state GOP, not the state as a whole. Credit goes to Mitch Daniels for bucking this trend.

[Turtle]

Ok don't get me wrong... I honestly believe if you dont need a permit to own a gun then that should apply to getting one returned from the state as well. And a few other places as well. An they are wrong to make him go through the printing/registration process, If ya gotta do it look at it this way....> as far as the printing and so forth.... dosent that happen anyways when you get a LTCH? Tell em to get his LTCH. Then hes complying to there request and getting something out of it.
I know from personal experiance. That if you get a gun taken.... you need a LTCH to pick it up. I had a gun taken from me about 5 years ago (I left my permit at home) (was total B.S.). I went to pick it up they told me I needed to have a permit or go get a permit and come back when its aproved. (I had it at home again..lol) SO I just went home and got it.

I Always carry my permit. And keep photo copys....lol

[rhino]

Originally Posted by 4sarge

Mayor Ballard Backs Registration for Indianapolis Gun Owners

4Sarge ... is the article you posted something you wrote? If not, could you edit your message and provide the source and name of author?

Thanks!

[Rooster Cogburn]

Originally Posted by rhino

4Sarge ... is the article you posted something you wrote? If not, could you edit your message and provide the source and name of author?

Thanks!

Click the original Article Heading, "Mayor Ballard..." and that contains the link to the original posting and author.

[4sarge]

Originally Posted by rhino

4Sarge ... is the article you posted something you wrote? If not, could you edit your message and provide the source and name of author?

Thanks!

If you Click on the Title, it is a hyper link and will connect you with the source - I'm usually tricky that way

Mayor Ballard Backs Registration for Indianapolis Gun Owners

[Chefcook]

The bottom line is simple. They will regulate us to death if we let them. Its as simple as the second you get distracted from an issue for a moment they will sneak it past like thieves in the night.

[jediagh]

More phone calls to the Mayor's office are in order as well as letters to the editor showing that NYC just like Chicago crime is high yet they have gun control and that does not work yet if you go to FL (where guns are OK or even NH where NO GUN CONTROL LAWS EXIST; you are 18 you can buy a gun no permit needed) yet they have the lowest crime? why? simple criminals want easy targets.

We need to tell this mayor NO PERIOD! He is part of that long list of city mayors with

[rhino]

Ah! Thanks for the help, Rooster and 4Sarge!