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Giving the Government Power to Determine Gun Ownership
IWB ^ | Mark Angelides

Posted on 11/20/2017 6:17:11 AM PST by davikkm

Legislation is being brought to the Senate (announced Tuesday) in a cross party bid that will effectively mean the Federal government has the final say on who is and who is not allowed to buy a firearm. The measures being proposed are a clear power grab aimed at preventing citizens deemed “unfit” to be banned from making purchases.

Led by Senators John Cornyn and Chris Murphy are the architects and it is being supported by the likes of Dianne Feinstein and Orrin Hatch. Essentially, it involves all states submitting names to the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) to ensure that people wishing to purchase are not in violation of any other laws or practices.

But the reality is much more pernicious.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunownership

1 posted on 11/20/2017 6:17:11 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm
If you have to ask and be granted permission is isn't a right anymore, it's a privilege. And privileges can be revoked at any time for any reason (or no reason) Kiss freedom and the 2nd amendment goodbye.

The current background system is already infringing on the 2nd amend.

2 posted on 11/20/2017 6:24:41 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

“If you have to ask and be granted permission is isn’t a right anymore, it’s a privilege. And privileges can be revoked at any time for any reason (or no reason) Kiss freedom and the 2nd amendment goodbye. The current background system is already infringing on the 2nd amend.”

That’s a fact.


3 posted on 11/20/2017 6:27:02 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: davikkm

The privilege of the free press should be revoked for all Progressive newspapers — unless, of course, they can find some significant US legal document which somehow grants them freedom of the press as a right which shall not be infringed.


4 posted on 11/20/2017 6:27:49 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: davikkm

Can you spell A-B-U-S-E?


5 posted on 11/20/2017 6:27:59 AM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: davikkm

The 10th Amendment says NO!


6 posted on 11/20/2017 6:36:00 AM PST by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: depressed in 06

I can spell scumbag. C-O-R-N-Y-N.


7 posted on 11/20/2017 6:36:06 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: davikkm

Gun sales increase 80%.


8 posted on 11/20/2017 6:42:59 AM PST by Carriage Hill ( Life is simpler, when you plow around the stump.)
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To: from occupied ga

Ask anybody who has ever tried to get a carry permit in New Jersey how this will work.

Sure, people have that right, but that right does not apply in your particular case. Or anybody else’s particular case.


9 posted on 11/20/2017 6:53:53 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: davikkm

Any congresscritter who votes in favor of that needs to be on the receiving end of the second amendment solution.


10 posted on 11/20/2017 7:02:12 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Haiku Guy
Ask anybody who has ever tried to get a carry permit in New Jersey how this will work.

NJ now, rest of the country later. NY, NJ, MA, CT, MD, etc. have been exporting liberalism and trying to impose their values on the rest of us via their kongressional reps for as long as I can remember.

11 posted on 11/20/2017 7:05:08 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

More crackpot legislation likely to die in committee. If passed which I doubt it would not pass a court challenge.


12 posted on 11/20/2017 7:21:45 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: davikkm
"Senators John Cornyn and Chris Murphy"

Second Amendment traitors!

13 posted on 11/20/2017 7:25:17 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: carriage_hill

Followed by a record number of boating accidents.


14 posted on 11/20/2017 7:44:11 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: davikkm

More IWB trolling for hits.


15 posted on 11/20/2017 8:34:06 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: davikkm

How long before “unfit” becomes a political decision? What would Obama do?


16 posted on 11/20/2017 8:35:58 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (GrouchNewo))
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To: Dutch Boy

When the feds start to fish lakes with giant 3ft magnets, we’ll have to find another way... LOL.


17 posted on 11/20/2017 8:52:45 AM PST by Carriage Hill ( Life is simpler, when you plow around the stump.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Never underestimate the corruption of the judicial branch. I live under the yoke of the 9th Circuit court. Those clowns never saw a gun law that they didn’t like.


18 posted on 11/20/2017 9:15:40 AM PST by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: 45Auto

If by some miracle this legislation got passed which it won’t the court test would be to the Supremes.


19 posted on 11/20/2017 10:32:59 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Dutch Boy

No. If it’s time to lose your guns in a boating accident, or bury them, then it is time to use them.


20 posted on 11/20/2017 1:07:40 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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