Posted on 01/10/2013 12:13:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
RALEIGH – Many North Carolina gun owners and gun enthusiasts are worried that new gun proposals that go far beyond an assault rifle ban would make many of the otherwise law abiding 80 million Americans who are gun owners into criminals if they do not register their weapons with federal authorities.
National and international media reports have stated that the White House under a committee led by Vice President Joe Biden is going to seek sweeping changes in how guns are registered, sold, and taxed in the wake of the Newton, Connecticut school shooting.
Under the potential proposals which have yet to be officially announced, all firearms would be required to be registered in a national database that would keep track of all guns and who owns them. The database would include all new guns but also would include all guns that have been sold in the past, as there would be no “grandfather” clause in the new proposals.
In addition, one gun shop operator told the Telegram that the proposals could basically treat all firearms as “class three” weapons.
This would mean that they would be tracked in a national database, that there would be a substantial tax on the guns, and that they could not be passed from generation to generation as they would be destroyed upon the death of the registered owner. In addition, it would be a federal crime to transfer the guns or even to own them without having them registered, even if they were legally obtained...
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From the 2008 Heller decision of the U.S. Supreme Court:
We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding “interest-balancing” approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government—even the Third Branch of Government—the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon.
The answer to the anti-gunner's desire for more infringements is not just "No", but "Hell, no". And the Supreme Court agrees. (At least until the usurper loads the Court with more communists.)
I have always maintained that anti-gunners and pro-gunners have underestimated the impact that the Heller decision will have.
So, then why are they pushing this like full-tilt maniacs?
Obfuscation.
Benghazi is out of the news.
Fast and Furious is out of the news.
The economy is out of the news.
The deficit and debt are out of the news.
The Obama corruption machine is out of the news (this is a catchall, but by this time you get the drift).
This gun legislation signifies nothing, but is an effective smoke screen for everything else.
I agree. That, and they will use their ultimate non-action to motivate idiots in the NE cities 2 & 4 years from now to vote against Republican gun-loving rednecks.
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