Posted on 05/30/2015 12:41:56 PM PDT by jazusamo
I think so too.
High-powered pistol?
Let’s examine compliance shall we ?
The Connecticut modern sporting rifle ban compliance was below 10%
NY unSAFE Act....compliance was nearly zero.
You can make your rules and nobody will comply.
Ya gots to love it when anything this quota boy enacts by decree gets taken to the supremes and they slap him down AGAIN.
Amen, that ticks him off no end.
Once they got that seemingly innocuous law in place, they ratchet up the disqualifiers for buying and possessing guns. Remember when the Brady Law was first enacted? Handguns only. Then came long guns, and the background check supposedly only affected "felons, mental cases, and drug users".
Then Congress included "domestic violence or even the accusation of domestic violence".
Then Congress added "misdemeanors that could be felonies today".
They want to finish the net and then begin making a tighter and tighter net until nothing gets through.
Warn Congress to block this mess and let's get a set of elected officials who will repeal the Brady Law and GCA 68 once and for all.
They say this is because of Sandy Hook.
Even these rules would not have kept the firearms out of that whack jobs hands. His freakin’ mother bought him the weapons.
How are you going to avoid that?
How about we go back to locking down crazy people. And not just let them roam around looking for people to kill.
Couldn’t agree more, get the crazy people out of circulation.
“It’s impossible to fathom why these people keep trying to disarm Americans... But out of an estimated 400 million +/- guns, just how many do you imagine thry could actually confiscate (a few thousand maybe?... Chances of citizen compliance - two percent tops?”
Suppose the government announced today that all Americans have two weeks to turn in all firearms or face prosecution. That is it not really confiscation, merely a temporary but necessary measure due to mostly unnamed factors, and that the firearms would be returned within a short time frame. The public’s decisions would be influenced by the following:
1. Many new gun-owners own one firearm recently purchased out of fear of the unknown, and many barely know how to use it, if at all. Many have never fired their weapon, and to “temporarily” relinquish it would not be a hardship for them. This is a new thing, and all will be ok.
2. Most Americans still like to think that the government is actually there for their benefit, and that any act of “temporary gun inspection” is in their best interest. Most cling to the ideals of their youth or those of their forefathers, and still hold the US Government in high regard.
3. Many believe any real threat to national or local security can be best handled by the government.
Most Americans would willingly line up to turn in their weapons, still holding a misguided faith that all will be well. I really believe that AT LEAST half of all guns in America would be turned in, rather than their owners risking criminal charges.
Many would be hold-outs and risk the consequences, some actively resisting. The number of gun-owners who would actually resist, particularly armed resistance, would be astoundingly small compared to the bluster and bloviating done by millions of internet arm-chair Keyboard Kommandos.
Besides, what would YOU do if a SWAT team stood at your door with a warrant, or whatever is needed, to search your premises for weapons? Would you have a shoot-out with them? I doubt it. They would leave with every firearm in your house, and you would be left sitting and wondering what happened. Talk is cheap. Kudos to those who are prepared. Almost none really are.
No doubt it would be a small step from being
mentally ill and not being allowed a gun, to
wanting a gun makes you mentally ill.
Have to lock you up for the good of society...
Just a guess, but I think that refers to handguns that can fire rifle cartridges, especially the pistols based on the AR-15 design.
As proposed, the regulation makes it illegal for some who has been convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence offense to own a gun.
I thought the Lautenberg Amendment (1996) already did this?
Time is coming for this brain dead Marxist Muslim dictator to B removed, before he decides to call a state of emergency and cancels the 2016 election.
Nice Barbeque grill, put a tow hitch on it and drive around the streets of Baltimore.
FRiend, I don't think you've thought this through, nor do I believe that "most Americans" would give up their weapons as easily as you appear to be willing to do. In fact, I'd submit that most new gun owners have joined our ranks precisely because they no longer trust this government, nor hold it in high regard. Do you really believe that they'd be so quick to surrender their weapons? Note how many weapons, expensive weapons, have been purchased in an otherwise down economy, and think about the message behind that.
Of course no one with any sense would seek to have an armed confrontation in such conditions as you mention. However, think 4GW - do you really believe that those who gave such orders, who live here among us and not not an ocean away, would be immune from eventual consequences?
What makes you believe that every firearm will necessarily be stored in the same place? Maybe there are some "low hanging fruit" pieces available for confiscation in such an eventuality, but maybe some stored elsewhere too... Especially once word gets out that this is coming.
You decry the "bluster" of "internet arm-chair Keyboard Kommandos", but I suggest that Americans are an ornery, clever, independent-minded bunch, and even if some of those you seem to look down on might be all hat and no cattle, there are most certainly many who would just keep their mouths shut, and become a royal pain in the a$$.
I had that question right away as well and did a quick search for the “Unified Agenda”, but haven’t found anything yet. If these new rules have been released, they ought to be able to be found somewhere in non-abbreviated form.
If the Administration ignores the Constitution (which it has sworn to uphold and defend), then the American people can ignore whatever the Administration comes up with. The Administration will not be happy until the government and the people come to blows. Of course, such a thing would be fatal to the government, so don’t be surprised to see the government call in foreign “assistance.”.
Is that what the recent civil strife is all about? Incite rioting in the cities to promote new gun laws?
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