Posted on 01/15/2013 9:11:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Today Vice President Joe Biden is submitting his report to President Barack Obama on gun control and one thing is becoming clear - up to 50-80% of all guns in circulation will be affected by his suggestions. As we reported earlier regarding Dianne Feinstein's proposal, it will affect 50% of all long guns and 80% of all handguns.
The proposal includes the creation of a national database of gun owners, tracking who owns what guns and private gun sales would fade into history. The proposal is all gun sales will need to have a Brady Check and for most guns already in the hands of Americans, one will need to be fingerprinted, get a gun license from the federal government and undergo an FBI background check.
Interestingly, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is already barging into gun dealers shops across the country violating the McClure-Volkmer Act by violating gun owner's privacy by copying the shop's 4473s the agency does not already have an electronic copy of...
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
However well meaning any particular FFL is, one must recognize that they hold the same position as the purveyor of tax stamps prior to the Revolution.
If it was wrong to require the stamps, then it was wrong to be distributing them.
Similarly, if it is wrong to constrain the trade in arms through troublesome requirements and dangerous record-keeping, then it is wrong to be the agent of such requirements.
I would expect to see FFLs having plenty of boating accidents.
Too true for comfort. Was perusing Poor Richard's Almanac earlier and found a gem from Ben, "Well done is better than well said"
It would be a heck of a thing to organize such mass disobedience, but if the gov’t is going to abandon all the rules...
I will not comply.
Was being totally sarcastic when I said it was “easy.” I know it won’t be easy. It will be horrific and heartbreaking.
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