Politician Wants Mental Exams For AR-15 Owners… Because Of A Shotgun Crime

Dan Osborn is running for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, and his new “common sense” gun proposal should worry every gun owner.

He wants people who own so-called “assault-style” rifles — AR-15s, M16s, AKs, and anything he decides fits that category — to take a mental health exam every five years and re-register their guns just to keep what they already legally own.

But here’s the part that makes the entire proposal fall apart.

The shooting he keeps using to justify it was committed with a shotgun.

Not an AR-15. Not an AK. Not an M16. A shotgun.

So his plan wouldn’t have stopped the very tragedy he’s using to sell it.

That’s not policy. That’s emotion dressed up as “common sense.”

And it gets worse. Osborn says he checked with law enforcement and one gun owner who supposedly had no issue with the idea. One guy. A sample size of one. Meanwhile, the Nebraska Firearm Owners Association — with over 26,000 members — called the proposal an attack on individual liberty.

Because a right you have to renew every five years isn’t a right.

It’s a subscription.

And the government can cancel a subscription.

Today it’s AR-15s.

Tomorrow it’s shotguns.

Then five years becomes three.

Then the exam changes.

Then the people deciding whether you’re “mentally fit” to keep your rifle are the same people who never wanted you to have it in the first place.

This is how gun control works: pick the scary word, ignore the facts, call it common sense, and make law-abiding gun owners beg permission to keep what they already own.

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