Take two firearms, identical, down to the last molecule (except for serial numbers), and accepted and used by law-abiding citizens for all legitimate purposes. Now add a handle to one of them. That firearm now becomes so onerous that we are willing to alienate and deprive thousands of legitimate users, jeopardize thousands of jobs, forfeit millions of dollars in manufacturing revenue and taxes paid, and incur millions of dollars for an already financially precarious state to enforce a ban on that firearm.
Also consider that a federal commission under the anti-gun government of Bill Clinton violated its marching orders and found that bans are ineffective.
Meanwhile, the unchanged firearm retains all of the functionality and ballistics of the one with the handle and can be owned and used as always. Have we lost our minds? Instead of keeping handles off firearms, I suggest we get a handle on what it is that is being proposed.
Peter Spinner
Middletown