Several states have already started discussing bills with secessionist language, should there be an attempt to disarm their citizenry. This is a high-stakes game, more than mere quatloos are on the table.
Posted on 02/02/2009 10:31:43 AM PST by pabianice
Several states have already started discussing bills with secessionist language, should there be an attempt to disarm their citizenry. This is a high-stakes game, more than mere quatloos are on the table.
It's over and above. Registration is required in some states, but not most. At the federal level the only "registration" is the record of sale, which is kept at the gun dealers. Private party sales, if Bob sells a gun to his coworker Jim, and doesn't do it very often, then their is no "registration". Even that isn't really registration, because the next time the gun changes hands, there will likely be no record, anywhere. Now, there is the Instant Back Ground Check, but by law that is *not supposed* to be used for registration of purchases. Although under AG Holder, I image it will be again as it was before. But even that is like the "yellow sheet" maintained at the dealers, because it only records a dealer sale, and the next sale probably won't be one.
But this bill would require a record of sales be kept by the government, and would require all sales/transfers (other than gifts and inheritances) to go into the database.
Almost all bills go to committee before proceeding to floor votes. So how do you know it's been "sentenced to death" in committee, rather than the Congress being so busy with Porkus bills and other obomanations, they may just not have gotten around to this obamanation.
That said, the provisions are more likely to end up attached to some "must pass" bill as an amendment, than to ever be passed out of committee. Just as the Assault Weapons Bill was attached to the Omnibus Crime Bill of 1994.
Joing the NRA!
Join the GOA!
I was a member of the NRA. I paid them my yearly fee. I asked them to forgo sending me any “gifts” for having done so. And so of course I got a mug, a bullet, a... I can’t remember all the trash they sent. Frankly, I want 100% of my money working on the issues.
Then I started getting phone calls, mailings,... it was non-stop. I explained that I had given to other of their causes, and I wish they would quit hounding me. It seemed as if they spent more than my donations just trying to get more out of me.
Then issue after issue would come up, and I hadn’t seen the NRA take any position on them. This really began to weigh heavily on me.
I finally jumped ship. Then about 12 months later, they got the decision in Washington, D.C., which I am very pleased to see.
I’ve considered going back. I sure hope they’ve cleaned up their act a bit. I want to support them. I’m not convinced they are as effective as they could be.
I realize that others disagree.
Then I started getting phone calls, mailings,... it was non-stop.
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I too considered another membership but if I do they will not, under any circumstances get a working phone number from me. Their non-stop calls border on harassment.
“This is a high-stakes game, more than mere quatloos are on the table.”
It’s a crying shame that the three brains doing the betting are Nance, Harry and O!
What’s with that “we” crap?
You got a mouse in your pocket?
Sounds like a plan.
They are bastards no doubt, but they are the bastards we are stuck with, unless we join a third party with no representation at all in the Senate.
I am registered to vote as “unenrolled.”
I belong to no party. I despise them all.
Thats pretty much my story too.
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