That most gun control is design to incrementally chip away at gun ownership freedoms by criminalizing harmless gun ownership activites rather than deter harmful criminal actions.

Example, the felony ban on taking a firearm within 1,000 yards of a school. If you take a protractor and draw a 1,000 yard radius around each school on a map, you will find the circles overlapping and virtually shutting off all major throughfares in a city to those who would harmlessly transport their firearms to a range or from a store to their homes.

Filling out a form incorrectly when purchasing a firearms. If you botch the address (put St. instead of Street, for example), technically the feds can charge you with a felony offense.

Exposing a concealed weapon inadvetently. If you have CHL (Concealed Handgun License) in a state and the wind blows your overgarment up to reveal the grib of your sidearm, you are guilty of a crime. (Would not a minor fine be more appropriate?)

If some angry girlfriend issues a protective warrant against you, you are suddenly a felon for being in possession of a firearm, even though you were not present in the proceedings to argue your case, not givin any opportunity to transfer your firearms out of your possession. (Are we not innocent until proven guilty? Should not only guilty parties be denied their freedoms?)

Domestic Gun Ban. If you were ever convicted of a "misdemeanor" offense of family violence, you incur a "lifetime" ban from owning firearms, and if any are in your custody at the time of the conviction, you are automatically considered a felon. (Since when did misdemeanor offenses eliminate one of the freedoms in the Bill of Rights? Would banning someone from voting for getting into a misdemeanor scuffle from a political argument be tantamount to the same? Is not the Democrats’ move to grant prior felons the right to vote a contrast to denying those with misdemeanor offense the right to self defense?).

We are incrementally losing our freedoms to legislators who continue to grow their own power.

I say gun control is more about population control than fighting crime.

Thoughts?
By "population control", I meant "societal control", not census stuff.
No, the suggestion to join the NRA is not wise. The NRA has collaborated too many times with the anti-Gun folks in Congress. Maybe joining the GOA (Gunowners of America) works.
Anti-Gun crowd: wants more gun restrictions.
NRA: wants stiffer penalties for gun violations.

Both effectively advance the cause of Gun Control.

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