Posted on 01/14/2019 9:50:55 AM PST by rktman
The gun control currently being pushed by House Democrats is unenforceable without a national firearm registry.
On January 8, 2019, Breitbart News reported that House Democrats introduced legislation to criminalize private gun sales. They are using universal background checks as a means of criminalizing the sales, and they do not mention such checks are unenforceable without firearm registration.
Instead, the Democrats keep talking of how their bill will “prevent” or reduce “gun violence.”
But the reality is that universal background checks open the door to a gun registry inasmuch as the government has to know every gun owners’ name and the guns he or she owns in order for the checks to work.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
What guns? /s
I knew I should have fixed the leak in that damn boat! :-)
FlexSeal comes in spray or roll/brush on now. Even FlexSeal patches too. :-)
DOA in the Senate.
This is more playing political games with legislation that will never become law.
****The gun control currently being pushed by House Democrats is unenforceable without a national firearm registry.***
And this is why, back in 1962, Thomas J. Dodd and Emanuel Cellar called for “registration of all handguns. Rifles and shotguns will not be affected.”
In 1964, they were calling for the registration of all handguns AND rifles, and a ban on the import of 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles.
And that was just the beginning...
Nelson “Pete” Shields, founder of Handgun Control Inc (now the Brady Center) spelled out how he would do it in a NEW YORKER article in 1976. One little step at a time.
Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.
“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.
Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.
So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.
My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — TOTALLY ILLEGAL.”
-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58
“Yes, I’m for an outright ban [on handguns].”
-Pete Shields, Chairman emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc., 60 Minutes interview
HCI, around 1984, came out in favor of a ban on semi-auto rifles and shotguns.
***This is more playing political games with legislation that will never become law.***
That is what I thought about California back in 1982 when the voters turned down Prop 15 to register and ban new handguns in the state.
Look at California now. Ban after ban after ban. And still coming up with new bans “to prevent crime”.
It might be beneficial for everyone to take inventory of what firearms you have that cannot be traced to you. I know of several that “they” know I have, others I traded years ago and no longer have.
I’ve been saying for a while, we should meet the gun control advocates half way. No Democrat should be allowed to own a gun.
I bet these house democrats buy stock in gun mfgs before putting these news releases out. Then they legally cash in on the increase in stock value as people buy more guns.
You may not realize but that's an outstanding idea. Not only would it leave gun owners at the mercy of of those mean old guns, it would create personal "gun free zones." That would make each of them safe; after all, doesn't that work everywhere else it's tried?
Who takes a gun on a fishing trip anyway? Dynamite works a lot better.
“But the reality is that universal background checks open the door to a gun registry inasmuch as the government has to know every gun owners’ name and the guns he or she owns in order for the checks to work.”
I’ll pass.
An arc welder turned up bigly works for a short radius.
As someone else posted: “What firearms?”
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