One of the least controversial gun laws out there are those that disarm convicted felons.

While I'm not in favor of it, it's not a hill I'm that interested in dying on when it comes to gun rights. After all, felons lose their right to keep and bear arms through due process. They're found to have committed a crime beyond a reasonable doubt and part of the punishment for those crimes is a lifetime prohibition from owning guns, among other things.

A lot of other people absolutely love it and they'll die defending this particular hill. The argument is that felons are often dangerous people who have already demonstrated they can't be trusted to be lawful.

Fair enough.

But, I just have to say that if they can't be trusted to obey the law, how can they be trusted to obey gun laws?

And based on the allegations against this guy in Pennsylvania, the simple answer is that the laws don't mean jack.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Timothy Albert Brewin, age 54, of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for firearms offenses.

According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, the indictment charges Brewin with possessing approximately 40 firearms as a prohibited person and possessing two sawed-off shotguns that were not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record in violation of the National Firearms Act. 

Now, assuming he's guilty of these crimes--this is just an indictment, not a conviction--then it looks like gun control laws failed at least 40 times with this convicted felon.

The National Firearms Act failed twice with him since sawed-off shotguns are NFA items and more heavily restricted than most other categories of firearms.

So here we are, with a person who can't lawfully buy any guns walking around and acquiring not one or two, but 40 firearms, including two NFA guns, all while regular folks are jumping through hoops just to get one NFA item.

And activists have the gall to claim gun control works.

I'm sorry, this is insane. It's especially insane because this isn't an isolated case. Plenty of convicted felons get guns illegally. They get them in every state in the nation, too, so don't try to claim universal background checks, gun registration, permit-to-purchase requirements, or any of that stuff prevents it. We know good and well that they don't.

In the end, nothing stops criminals from breaking the law except being in prison already. Even then, they still break laws if they can figure out how to do it.

The only people who obey gun laws are the people who aren't a threat in the first place. None of us are going to accumulate an illegal arsenal including illegal NFA firearms.

We might have a lot of guns, but we get them lawfully because we're generally law-abiding.

Criminals get guns in every country on the planet and every state in the nation, all regardless of any laws on the books meant to prevent it. It's almost like criminals just break laws as a matter of course or something.