“The mask slipped way back in 1962 when they ONLY wanted to register handguns, Rifles will not be affected!”
The Democrats have been screaming for gun registration and bans since 1962.
1962-Call for Handgun registration ONLY! Rifles will not be affected.
1963-Call for registration of All guns and a ban on 5 shot army surplus rifles!
1968-Got a ban on small foreign handguns and 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles.
1971 Call for Ban on small American handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1975 Call for Ban on all handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1981 Actress Lee Grant on ABC’s GMA yells...
“The NRA is a rifle organization! They should give up their handguns and they can keep their rifles!”
1984 Call for ban on semi-auto rifles.
1994 Ten year “ban” on “a-s-s-ault rifles”.
2000 Call to ban single shot .50 cal rifles.
Rest assured if they get a ban on semi-auto rifles, they will be back for the handguns, and more, and more and more.
1962?
Pfft, 1933!
Go read the ORIGINAL NFA-34 bill, the intent was registration and more of ALL civilian firearms.
It got “Watered down” to just MG’s, Silencers, SBR/SBS, AOW.
But the original intent has never gone away, only the time frame has been extended.
Hardly anyone even thinks of objecting to the NFA-34 anymore, after all, it’s “Long settled law”.
How long after the next draconian unconstitutional infringement before it too is unquestionable as “Settled Law”?
According to The Christian Science Monitor “Just over half of the respondents in the survey believe semi-automatic weapons should be banned. These semi-automatic weapons have long had a bad reputation, so it’s no surprise Millennials are carrying this thought forward.”
They foolishly believe the government will be able to keep thousands of guns from flooding across the borders after gun confiscation.