It is here: Court ruling paves way for mass confiscation of firearms in America

Intellihub ^ | 22OCT2015 | Alex Thomas

[chulaivn66]

Damned difficult trying to drink a cup ‘o coffee with the onset of Essential Tremor requiring a steadying effect by the off hand. Imagine the tremors if I was to get all wee wee’d up about this announcement and get my knees a knockin’, my heart a pumpin’ and my hands a shakin’. Might throw off my aim. Yep. Cool, calm and collected like a pickle in a jar. Thunder don’t bother me either and if the lightnin’ hits me I’ll never know anyway. No sense to get rankled by a conversation over the cracker barrel. Anythin’ more threatenin’ than a spoken word and I’ll have to put this coffee down, get up outta the chair and take care o’ business. I guarantee that cup o’ coffee will still be hot when I sit back down. Provided of course I’m able to sit. Hear tell Lee Marvin couldn’t sit for a while. I’ll be in good company.

[MortMan]

Incorrect, under the incorporation doctrine of the 14th amendment.

States are also not allowed to abridge the 2nd.

[TexasTransplant]

BUMP!!!!

[FreedomNotSafety]

“Congress shall make no law...”
You nailed it.

[Noumenon]

We've already failed Solzhenisyn's test:

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

The evildoers of which he speaks should have been dispatched to unmarked graves decades ago. We didn't do it then. Now, we'll all sit down to that "banquet of consequences" of which Robert Louis Stevenson spoke. As I see it now, it's simply become a matter of how many of them I'll take with me. That has a way of clarifying the mind.

[mkjessup]

This is what I don’t understand. There are at least 300 million firearms in the USA with at least 56% of the population who love having them and the right to use them against tyranny large and small. If the establishment tries to confiscate them don’t they understand it will be complete suicide for them to do so? Don’t they know they are automatically signing their own death warrants?
Are they THAT out to lunch?

Yes they ARE 'out to lunch' Jack, the fact is, the federal government has NEVER attempted a national registration and/or confiscation of all privately owned firearms, they have tried all sorts of incremental approaches to make it as difficult as possible for law abiding citizens to obtain and carry firearms as guaranteed under the Constitution, and they have relied on the more liberal States (Illinois, New York plus the District of Corruption, just to name some) to do their dirty work for them with unConstitutionally restrictive measures which become established law unless and until such laws are overturned by the courts and even then the appeals process (by the state governments) mean that the illegal laws will remain in place until the SCOTUS finally rules on it.

Because the federal government has had limited success at inhibiting our rights under the Second Amendment, they cannot believe that there could be a mass uprising of normally law abiding citizens should they attempt such a totalitarian move against We The People.

They may 'war game' for such an event but they refuse to accept not just the possibility, but the PROBABILITY that an attempt to disarm the public would be met with massive armed resistance which would likely trigger that Second American Revolution that keeps getting talked about.

Consider the people of Romania in 1989, oppressed for decades under that Communist shitbag Nikolai Ceausescu and his malodorous wife Elena, they finally rose up in December of that year and said 'enough is enough' and successfully revolted, the military forces sided with the people, and THEY had far fewer privately owned firearms than Americans do.

So to answer your post Jack, the government does NOT have a clear understanding of the situation, they very possibly WILL attempt such a damn foolish move at some future point (and IMHO, it will be sooner rather than later), and when they do, there will be holy Hell to pay and whoever gave the order to initiate 'Operation Confiscation' or whatever they call it, will end up hanging from a noose by the time it's all over.

[editor-surveyor]

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BFL

[doorgunner69]

If I make it past 70, I figure I did alright. So, you liberals got less than two years to try your crap or I figure I am on borrowed time after that until cancer or something catches up to me.

Taking out a bunch of you will be a fine way to go, rather than slowly from disease.

[Smokin' Joe]

Okay.

If they try this, it is time.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This Nazi firearms confiscation law would NOT be Constitutional at the “national level”. The “proponents” of this Nazi tactic need to step back, take a deep breath and STFU.

[kiryandil]

I don't think that they know that many of us creaking oldsters get The Warm Fuzzies from the thought of posts like yours...

They think like the felon slattern Lois Lerner - "It's all about ME, and my six-figure .gov pension..."

[WENDLE]

This mass hysteria is money driven.

[TexasTransplant]

You sound like my Dad ... making it to 70 then 80 same stuff.

Now he is 84 and still talking $hit about if he makes it to 90 there will be Hell to pay! (He is very young for his age)

He will most likely outlive me because he is just too mean to die. (nope.. he is a Sweetheart, just rough on the outside)

[oldbrowser]

Most people that I know in law enforcement would defend the second amendment. Who would the “rulers” send out to confiscate the weapons?

[TexasTransplant]

*** “Who would the “rulers” send out to confiscate the weapons?” ***

Hope they are wearing Blue Helmets, the #1 Target used for sighting in Rifles and just plain ol shooting at the Range.

[Smokin' Joe]

Today, 2015 , other than a few that the Government will make examples of, the majority will surrender.

Intangible factors: Many people who still retain their firearms have lost most else. Some have lost all they own and resent the people who have caused an environment in which that happened. A man who has nothing to lose will fight.

It is the fat and happy who have something who are disinclined to risk it.

Kids nowadays may catch a lot of flack for being college grads with a head full of mush. Some are, but from those who graduated well in a decent field who have been edged out by diversity or other policies, this is a situation to rebel against.

For those stuck in grandma's basement trying to pay off student loans in a crappy job who just can't connect to one in the field they chose, they got a raw deal, and it doesn't take long to figure out who dealt them a crappy hand. It doesn't take long to see through the hypocrisy of those who told them a line of crap about how wonderful that new world order was going to be.

You see, the problem is that the Socialists can only sell rebellion and appeal to the 'rebellious youth' when they are not the ones making the policies the youth rebel against.

The Socialists have become the de facto "Establishment".

They are the status quo kids rebel against.

Tell those youngsters they can't have something and watch and see what they try hardest to get first...and then they will do their darndest to keep it.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I know for a fact, at least 99% certain, that the feds have been pressuring the state of Kentucky to supply them with their list of CCDW holders.
This according to the instructor of my concealed carry class some years ago.

I don’t know how successful they’ve been, but I know that I don’t trust the puke Democrat we have in Frankfurt. And thanks to this piss poor campaign that Bevin has been running it looks like we’re going to get another 4 years of the same.

[Qiviut]

Step #1:

Gun Rights Advocates Have A Devastating New Argument Against Gun Control. Here It Is.

That being said .... step #2:

Low SAFE Act numbers hint at non-compliance in NY

Information ordered by the courts show that just one out of every 800 New Yorkers have registered their firearms under the requirements of the state’s 2013 gun control legislation.

Records released show that 23,847 people have applied to register 44,485 guns classified as an assault weapon under the egis of the Secure Ammunition Firearms Enforcement Act implemented two years ago. At the time of implementation, it was estimated that as many as 1.2 million guns in the Empire State would have been subject to registration.

[RginTN]

If the govt starts in the hood I’ll watch with popcorn as they go door to door demanding guns...yeah the drug dealers will peacefully hand over their weapons/s

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, now. Just as the Liberals start pushing the 'domestic terrorist' meme, just as they begin to push (again) for disarming the American public, they start publishing inflammatory articles designed to push people to that brink.

People who are already close, who are frustrated, angry with the supposed 'public servants' who have helped--helped themselves to the substance and subsistence of those who slave to support them--or simply wish they were employed.

Know these pikers for what they are and that they are seeking justification for their actions.

We'll eat their fricking cake later.