E.g., if you get a fishing license, the game wardens and rangers don't need probably cause to check out your stuff in the field.
Probably states on the license, much like a driver’s license: “Keeping of arms constitutes consent to have your premises and person searched at any time deemed reasonable by local constables.”
This is nothing new. During the Wiemar republic, in Germany, during the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, the government ruled that every weapon must be registered. Oh, they promised that all names will be kept in a “LOCKED BOX” and the government will NEVER, NOT EVER, use those names to confiscate the weapons. Then came the HITLER ERA. All weapons were confiscated and those people that didn’t turn their weapons in, willingly, were arrested or shot. Now, it’s the U K’s turn, to do the same thing. Eventually, this will come to the United States. TO KEEP US ALL SAFE, OF COURSE. WHEN ARE THE PEOPLE GOING TO REALIZE THAT THEY CAN NEVER TRUST GOVERNMENT. ANY GOVERNMENT.
In the case of a hunting or fishing license, the idea is to conserve natural resources for everyone and for future generations.
Once they can make universal gun registration the law, this type of warrant less search is the next logical progression. Criminals can’t leagally buy guns, so they’ll steal yours. So you have to keep yours locked in a “safe place”. So of course, the law will have to check up on you to make sure you’re in compliance. For a lot of people, it won’t be worth the hassle.
Are licenses automatic? Or can they be delayed and denied?
How does that match with "shall not be infringed"?
The Brits have a history if the government attempting to take away it’s subject’s guns.
The US has a history of it’s citizens refusing to allow it’s government to take away their guns.
See mid 1770s to early 1780s for reference on how well thats worked out in the past.
With this past year’s events in CT, we’ve seen that even the gun owning residents of deep blue states will tell their own government to shove it on gun control. If the governments (local, state, fed) here in the US were to take the next step and launch confiscations, it would have regrettable, but all too predictable, results.
“the President of the United States cites England’s gun control policies as a model for America to follow.”
In his dreams maybe.
If only western governments were as hard on encroaching Islam as they are of their own liberty minded citizens.
Oh you want to check my “storage”? Sure, but it’s pretty empty since that boating accident.