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Obama just got one giant step closer towards creating a national gun registry
Fox News ^ | May 27, 2016 | John R Lott Jr

Posted on 05/27/2016 12:34:49 PM PDT by richardb72

President Obama is taking a big step towards creating a national gun registry. Hawaii looks like it is about to provide the federal government with the list of all the gun owners in the state. Supposedly, keeping a list of gun owners’ names will enable the FBI to tell police if a gun owner ever gets arrested.

But a national gun registry isn’t necessary to do this check. The FBI isn’t the only organization that can do background checks on already existing gun owners. Hawaii already has a gun registry, and can regularly run its list of names to see if people have gotten arrested.

Some concealed carry states do that for their concealed handgun permit holders. For example, Kentucky checks its list of permit holders every month.

Hawaii is going to pay for entering the names in the new federal registry by charging gun owners a new fee. But, even if this registration reduced crime, it would hardly be just the gun owners who have registered their guns who would be the only ones who benefit. Economics would indicate that the people who benefit from this proposal should be the ones to pay for it.

If Hawaii officials really think that this will reduce crime for everyone and they aren’t just pushing this as a way to reduce gun ownership even further, they can pay for these checks out of general revenue. . . .

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; billofrights; constitution; cprc; fbi; fbirapback; fedgunenroll; guncontrol; hawaii; hawaiifedgunenroll; mediabias; nra; obama; secondamendment
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1 posted on 05/27/2016 12:34:49 PM PDT by richardb72
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To: richardb72

How Nazi of him.


2 posted on 05/27/2016 12:38:56 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: richardb72
Obama just got one giant step closer towards creating a national gun registry

I guess mine will just be "UNDOCUMENTED".

3 posted on 05/27/2016 12:41:08 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Memorial Day Salute to Baraq and Madam Benghazi - Two Words, One Finger!)
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To: richardb72

Gun laws are only for honest gun owners.


4 posted on 05/27/2016 12:41:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer
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To: richardb72
Come to our country illegally, get free health care, vote to boot, and own all the guns you want w/o reporting a one.

We need a constitutional reset.

5 posted on 05/27/2016 12:43:23 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: SkyDancer
Gun laws are only for honest gun owners.

That's why O$h!tface aims to make criminals out of all of them/us.


6 posted on 05/27/2016 12:44:00 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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To: EGPWS

We are in the process right now.


7 posted on 05/27/2016 12:44:13 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Be the 1st of millions of boating accidents while transporting firearms. ; )


8 posted on 05/27/2016 12:45:22 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: richardb72
Closer to a communists Nation. We are getting there. Before King Obama, the communists black Muslim terrorists, leaves office we will have very little left to freedom.

Trump for President.

9 posted on 05/27/2016 12:46:56 PM PDT by Logical me
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Trump will have a BIG mess on his hands to clean up.


10 posted on 05/27/2016 12:48:27 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: richardb72

Hawaii has never really been a US state anyway. It’s a place to park our warships and a place for the Haoles to spend money and be harassed by the locals.


11 posted on 05/27/2016 12:54:49 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: richardb72

Five states have long gun registration requirements, and eleven states have handgun registration requirements.


12 posted on 05/27/2016 1:09:35 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Sink Hawaii in the Pacific.


13 posted on 05/27/2016 1:12:04 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I like that.
Undocumented gun owner....


14 posted on 05/27/2016 1:12:37 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

YES!!!!!


15 posted on 05/27/2016 1:15:50 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

0bama is telling Colleges to stop doing background/Criminal checks of applicants because it’s racist.

Will 0bama do the same for Gun Sellers?


16 posted on 05/27/2016 1:16:45 PM PDT by Zeneta
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Hawaii has been corrupt from its very beginnings as a state.

In the beginning anyone could get a Hawaii birth certificate, whether they were born there or not. That was so they could boost their numbers and get more federal money. They didn’t care about the problems this could pose down the road as long as they got the fed gov’t goodies.

CGato


17 posted on 05/27/2016 1:20:08 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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Hope y’all have unregistered ones!


18 posted on 05/27/2016 1:24:16 PM PDT by luvie (Bah!)
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To: richardb72

Each step this fruitcake takes towards the erosion of the Constitution and our economy and lives brings this nation closer to a precipice. When that precipice is reached guess who is going to get shoved over it?

Madrid 1936.


19 posted on 05/27/2016 1:25:11 PM PDT by HomerBohn (Some moderator has removed my tagline)
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To: Conservative Gato

My favorite thing about Hawaii wanting federal money is that they have an INTERSTATE.

Pretty funny.

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20 posted on 05/27/2016 1:25:35 PM PDT by Mears
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