Posted on 05/24/2015 5:39:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Theres one refrain which the Democrat choir always breaks out whenever they propose new gun restrictions: Oh, were not trying to establish some national registry of gun owners. Perish the thought! But when you look under the covers of these various proposals, they all seem to come suspiciously close to doing just that. (Not that were suggesting anything here, mind you. Perish the thought.) And yet that same discussion has arisen once again now that Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney has resurrected the prospect of closing loopholes at gun shows. Funny how that works, eh? (From The Hill)
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday reintroduced the Gun Show Loophole Closing Act, a bill long championed by former Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.),.
The bill would subject anyone selling or transferring a gun to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and require that transfers be reported to the attorney general.
Maloney said a background check is required when a Federal Firearm Licensee wants to sell firearms at a gun show, but no such requirement exists for private sales.
At Bearing Arms, Bob Owens connects the dots.
Maloney claims her bill would specifically target the individual seller but it does so in ways that shed rather hide.
Youll note that the Lets Build An Illegal Database Of Gun Owners Bill (which is what Maloneys legislation should really be called) would require that the transfer of private property from one individual to another be reported to one of the most politicized and abused offices in the executive branch, the Attorney General.
What exactly do you think the Attorney General is going to do with that information? The AG is going to collect, compile, and begin transforming those records into a Whos Who of gun owners, which is database that would send chills down the backs of the Founding Fathers, for there is no other reason that a government needs this information, than to use it against the citizenry.
Consider how easy it is for the states with restrictive, anti-gun laws to assemble such data. In New York, it was recently revealed through a Freedom of Information request that the state government had assembled a list of more than 38K people who were at risk for owning guns because they had received mental health care. (Though not having been accused of any crime in most cases.) The newspaper which uncovered the story was then able to compare that to a list of pistol permit holders in the state and came up with a few hundred matches. Where did they get that second list?
At some point the Democrats need to simply come clean and admit that even state by state lists of gun owners are either showing up or will eventually show up in the the hands of the federal government. This is not a bug in the system
its a feature. And continuing to deny it turns a very important constitutional rights discussion into a clown show.
There is already a database on gun owners at ATF. I suppose NSA has one also.
What if we closed some Congress loopholes.
Betr, what if e closed Congress. And al the alphabet agencies.
Gun Registration is Gun Confiscation
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/gun-registration-is-gun-confiscation.html
This is the first essay that I wrote on the subject. It has been widely quoted.
When cops do a traffic stop do they have access to handgun permit data?
Here’s a better idea. How about publishing the home address of every gun-grabbing liberal pos in Congress along with every other communist in public service and putting it on the GOA website?
They have access to CHL data. First question I’m always asked when I’m pulled over, “I see you have a CHL, are you carrying now?”
“When cops do a traffic stop do they have access to handgun permit data?”
In California they do. The handgun is tied to you via your D/L through the DMV.
Yep. Here in Idaho, your CWP and DL have the same number.
In Michigan, CPL records can be accessed via the LEIN system during a routine traffic stop. So yes, they do.
Sounds good. Let’s vet the list so it only has Dem voters and Progressive activists on it.
All federal agents need SCUBA gear. All our guns are at the bottom of our favorite fishing lakes. Once Obama’s SS detail give up their guns, we’ll give up ours. though we don’t have any. They’re all at the bottom of the lake.
It’ll probably cause more boating accidents IMHO
Obviously, illegal does not mean unavailable.
Second Amendment protections were put into place so that “the people”, if need be, could shoot agents of an oppressive government....not deer.
>> When cops do a traffic stop do they have access to handgun permit data? <<
Some states (or at least Minnesota) put that information on the drivers licenses.
When I had to verify age and identity from drivers licenses, CC folks had an F printed on the list of vehicles they were allowed to operate.
The medical, debt collection and mass marketing rackets already have such databases.
Or we could build a data base of illegal contributions to Hillary and the Democrat Party.! That would do more to fight crime and corruption in this country than another gun law.
The 17 intelligence agencies pride themselves in filling in the gaps in their data, by reaching conclusions based on partial evidence.
For example, have you ever purchased a box of ammo with a credit card? This means they know you probably have a gun that fires that type of ammo. Have you have ever mentioned your ownership of a gun on the Internet? (before the unfortunate boating accident, of course).
And once they have that information, they have it for good.
No such thing as a gunshow loophole. These are just private party transfers, so when they want to close gunshow loopholes, they also mean to close all private party sales.
If you don’t have anything to hide, why be afraid? //sarc
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