Posted on 11/27/2020 8:11:51 AM PST by PROCON
Neither is going to happen.
Joe Biden’s gun-control plans have about zero chance of getting through Congress, especially if Republicans win at least one of the Georgia runoffs. That’s good, because his bright idea for restricting “assault weapons” would force America’s gun owners to choose between (a) giving up millions of their firearms and magazines to a federal “buyback” and (b) registering those guns with the federal government, paying billions of dollars in taxes for the privilege.
Any guesses as to how that would play out in this country?
As many readers may be old enough to remember, America had a ban on assault weapons for ten years, from 1994 to 2004, and it didn’t start a civil war. That’s because the folks who drafted that law were smarter than whoever is handling gun policy for Biden. The law applied mainly to businesses: It became illegal to sell brand-new semiautomatic guns with certain combinations of tactical features (think folding stocks, flash suppressors, etc.), as well as new magazines that held more than ten rounds at a time. Individual Americans who’d previously purchased the banned items were left alone, and they were even allowed to sell the items on the secondary market.
This isn’t to defend the law. I don’t think it reduced crime, in large part because rifles are not often used in crime to begin with, and also because “assault weapons,” despite some military-style features, do not differ from semiautomatic hunting rifles in their caliber or rate of fire. And I do think the ban violated the Second Amendment, for the reasons David French ably laid out in 2018.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
We will not comply.
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I took a concealed carry class a couple of years ago ... never went through to get my permit because I don’t want them to suspect I have gun(s) - they put it on your DL. I inherited my guns (one passed down several times before getting to me) so there is no paperwork ...
Heck, I’m tempted to buy a gun just so I can refuse to comply.
False. I left Connecticut as my fellow “never me, never here” pseudo Patriots lined up to register.
Resistance is a very, very small amount of people.
It will cost the lives of all those who try to take them!
“Ballot Box”,
How Quaint.
Gun control is people control, nothing else. It’s kinda like trying to stop drunk driving by making it harder for sober people to own cars.
“and Americans Complied”
Now THAT is funny.
Americans have enough ammo to kill every man, woman and child walking this planet...many times over.
We should all obey the unconstitutional law and turn in our guns... bullets-first.
That’s where “III” percent
came from.
It’s noted that only
3 percent stood for
The Revolutionary War.
That crazy
“Don’t Tread on Me”
bunch.
The old,
Tom, Dick and
Harry scenario.
Biden doesn't need Congress in order to enact at least some of this.
All he has to do is to have the ATF determine that any semi-automatic firearm is "readily convertible" to a machine gun, and poof!, all semi-autos are now machine guns, and thanks to the Hughes Amendment, cannot be registered at all.
Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in.
Super duper metal detectors, if they r seriously after you.
What is National Review doing pushing a column that purports to be conservative. Did they get Lowery’s and Goldberg’s permission for such heresy?
An civilian AR or AK is not an assault weapon.
IF they retain control of the White House they are prepared to sacrifice the Senate and/or House. We saw this with obamacare.
They knew it was unpopular and paid for it at the midterms.
Yet they retained the WH and obamacare is still on the books.
They will do the same with the 2A.
That’s Funny
Right There!
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Note to self,,,
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