State, Local Lawmakers Rush to Enact Gun Laws Ahead of Federal Controls

Newsmax ^ | 09 Mar 2013 | Sandy Fitzgerald and Matthew Auerbach

[Cheerio]

The battle over gun control is playing out across the nation as well as in Washington D.C., with towns and states considering gun laws they say will protect their residents' rights to bear firearms at a time when many fear the federal government will enforce weapons bans.

The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence reports more than 1,100 gun-related bills have been introduced in recent months on the state level.

Several communities also are considering ordinances to make gun ownership mandatory, reports Fox News, while others recommend keeping firearms but don't go so far as to require gun ownership.

[Cheerio]

The right and left battle is going to be waged at the State level during the lame duck term of this clown in the WH.

[Paladin2]

The ‘rats are engaged in some sort of feeding frenzy.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How exactly do they expect to confiscate 400 million firearms and hundred of billions if not trillions of rounds of ammunition?

[TigersEye]

It will never happen.

The Dem/libs have been engaging in a steady push to infringe on our right to keep and bear arms for decades. And this is how it has been working out for them in the last two decades...

• The percentage of Americans who own guns has increased.
• The percentage of Americans who believe we have a right to own guns has increased.
• The number of guns owned per gun owner has increased.
• The amount of ammunition possessed per gun owner has increased.
• Concealed carry laws have spread from state to state like wildfire.
• Castle Doctrine laws have been passed in numerous states that didn't have them.
• Stand Your Ground laws have been passed in more states than had them before.
• Gun rights lobbying groups have become a cottage industry unto themselves sprouting up like mushrooms after a rainstorm.
• In the worst economy since the Great Depression the firearms industry can't keep up with orders or expand fast enough.
• 65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total

And in the last two months... (Dec. 2012 and Jan. 2013)

• Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies
• NRA membership has increased by 250,000.

If the lefties keep pushing gun control in another two decades one out of two Americans may be gun owners instead of one out of three.

MOLON LAVE! WE'LL BUY MORE. ;-)

[jsanders2001]

The Ozombie brainwashing gun has been used overtime a lot lately. The idiot liberals are just parroting what their Communsist dictator has told them to say. They don’t even know why anymore nor have they fired a gun. They truly believe the government will protect them and that they don’t need a weapon.

[Rodamala]

“Several communities also are considering ordinances to make gun ownership mandatory, reports Fox News, while others recommend keeping firearms but don’t go so far as to require gun ownership.”

I just saw on the Fox morning show an interview about a town in Georgia that has come out with a law requiring heads of households to have firearms... unless they don’t want them. I laughed out loud.

If you want to own a firearm GREAT... if the local sherrif is willing to offer FREE firearm handling classes, EXCELLENT. But don’t make this yet another product that people MUST purchase if they don’t want it. Think Obamacare...

The intent is obvious... to enact local legislation that would reinforce the rights granted by 2A... but don’t make this a matter of “I like berries and cream... they should have a law that says we get free berries and cream on Sunday...” such talk always steers towards some tyrant from the gub’mint stating, “All citizens WILL eat berries and cream”.

Sorry, my libertarian nose twitches when something like this comes about... not much that comes from any “collective” governance (the local PTA...the Federal monster... it’s all the same) passes the smell test to me.