Violence Policy Center Tries It Again—Consumer Regulation of Firearms

The Huffington Post wasn’t even around when Dr. Tim Wheeler and Dave Kopel exposed in National Review Online the gun controllers’ latest scheme of back door gun prohibition by consumer product regulation.

But it’s now providing the Violence Policy Center’s Josh Sugarmann a platform from which to try it again. Perhaps Huff Po editors are hoping gun owners had forgotten about the old scam. Read what Congress thought of the idea back in 1975, the first time the gun ban crowd tried it:

“Members of Congress lined up to excoriate the amendment’s authors for their attempt at back-door gun prohibition. The Congressional Record from July 29, 1975, documents the comments from outraged representatives…”

Congress isn’t likely to be any warmer to the idea now.