Posted on 11/23/2020 11:10:18 AM PST by COBOL2Java
A recent article in Michael Bloomberg’s gun control propaganda arm, The Trace, detailed what it called “7 Ways Biden Could Go It Alone on Gun Violence Prevention.” The article noted that the would-be president’s own website states, “Joe Biden ... knows how to make progress on reducing gun violence using executive action.”
“Executive action” in this case means legally-binding steps the president asserts he can take without the Congress actually enacting or amending specific laws.
Of course, it’s the constitutional duty of the president to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” But that merely begs the question of what is a legitimately “faithful” interpretation of the law.
One possible clue that an interpretation of the law is not faithful is when the executive branch suddenly finds a completely novel, and notably expansive, reach to a law that has been on the books for many years. This clue is even stronger when the impacts of this reinterpretation would be felt mainly by the executive’s political opposition. Judged by these standards, the gun grabbers are clearly goading Biden to act as a monarch instituting decrees out of whole cloth, and not merely as an administrator of existing rules.
After all, then Vice-President Biden was supposedly the point man for the gun control push Barack Obama launched during his second term. Obama has made a point of repeatedly emphasizing how lack of “progress” on gun control was the most frustrating and anger-inducing aspect of his presidency. The Obama-Biden administration spent years searching for ways to unilaterally clamp down on Americans’ access to firearms. Now, however, gun controllers are suggesting that even more, and more dramatic, executive actions against firearms and their owners were somehow left on the table as lawful options.
The Trace article linked to a letter from a coalition of gun control groups suggesting various ways the “Biden-Harris Transition Team” could supposedly use executive authority to diminish the right to keep and bear arms.
Among the dozens of proposals were some that are largely symbolic and unlikely to do much of anything. But others would effectively change longstanding principles of law and even criminalize the possession of firearms that law-abiding Americans currently obtain and own legally.
Obama, for example, was heavily pressured to pursue “universal background checks” by making casual, infrequent sales of firearms subject to a federal firearms dealer’s license. Yet that was a bridge too far even for the Obama ATF. The agency instead released “guidance” on the issue that did not establish the specific numerical trigger for licensing gun controllers had demanded, instead focusing on the “specific facts and circumstances of [the seller’s] activities.”
The gun control coalition, however, hopes Biden will be more aggressive, urging him to “[f]urther clarify which gun sellers must obtain a federal firearms license from ATF.”
Their letter additionally calls for an outright ban on “ghost guns.” While it doesn’t explain or define this term, it is frequently used by the media and other gun control advocates to describe unserialized firearms, including those that Americans make for their own lawful use. Any attempt to ban such homemade firearms, which have been a lawful aspect of American gun culture since before the nation’s founding, would be clear overreach.
The Trace article goes even further, urging Biden to instruct ATF to reclassify popular firearms currently owned by millions of Americans as regulated under the National Firearms Act, which requires special government permission and taxation for making, transfer, and possession. This suggestion was based, in turn, on a proposal by the leftist Center for American Progress. The guns mentioned include braced pistols and shotguns with bird’s head-style grips like the Mossberg Shockwave or the Remington TAC-14.
Should such reclassification occur, these millions of gun owners would suddenly be in felony possession of firearms they had previously obtained legally and in good faith. While it’s possible an “amnesty” could be declared – perhaps allowing the owners to register and obtain tax stamps for their guns or even just to surrender them without prosecution – there’s no guarantee this would be the case. Yet even the best-case scenario would still have the gun owners declaring themselves as such to a hostile and disapproving federal government and paying a $200 tax for each newly-classified firearm.
Should any of these scenarios come to pass, persecuted gun owners would have nowhere to turn but the courts. Fortunately, as the NRA has noted repeatedly, one of President Trump’s most enduring legacies has been his progress in reshaping the federal judiciary with appointees who are dedicated to the rule of law and the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution.
Whether this backstop will curb the gun-grabbing ambitions of a possible Biden-Harris administration remains to be seen. But as The Trace article makes clear, their supporters and funders in the gun-ban lobby remain as insistent and unhinged as ever.
I would like to remind everyone that the biggest militia platforms where patriots gathered to organize, have been taken down or deplatformed. They are coming for your guns, it is at the top of the list and we do not have the militia culture like we did during the Revolution and the Civil War.
If they want you guns, they will get them eventually. Even if they have to turn off your utilities because they are not going door to door. They will get them.
I warned for years this moment was coming. Now we are here unless Trump wins.
I think the go after dealers and manufacturers with product liability law suits. Basically sue them out of existence. Keep what you got.
I get the sense that they’re going to end up going a step too far and finding themselves sitting at the Supreme Court listening to a far-reaching binding precedent being set against them.
Good.
Packing the SCOTUS is on the critical path to the final solution.
The Lawful Commerce in Arms act is supposed to prevent that. They are trying to get around that, such as the recent lawsuit against Walmart for selling pistol ammo to someone not old enough to own a pistol. But I’m hoping Trump’s court appointments will hold that up.
I want to see the Chicago cops go in to the south side to take away everyones guns.
Yeah, that should be entertaining.
Re Executive Orders about gun confiscation: the left may yet learn the purpose of the 2nd Amendment, but they won’t like it.
So Biden thinks he can reduce gun violence by trampling constitutional rights?
Methinks the opposite will occur.
Viable executive order:
Declare all draftable Selective Service registrants “under the authority of the US Army” and thereby eligible, per the 922(o) exemption, to purchase new M4s with suppressors - with the Form 4 $200 fees paid by the Army, directly & automatically billed by BATFE, with prepaid applications directed for immediate turnaround pursuant to only a NICS check.
Direct the DCM/CMP to procure and sell new M4s and suppressors at cost.
Notate that this is absolutely within the “shall not be infringed” clause of the Bill of Rights, and subsequent reversal of the EO (short of revocation of applicable NFA & 922(o) law) constitutes unconstitutional infringement.
_THIS_ is how 2ndA issues should be played out. Doing so would give standing to, at minimum, most 17-45yo male citizens to challenge subsequent infringement. Stop playing defense. Give the Left something to freak over.
Asking me to surrender my guns because gangbangers kill each other is like asking to get a vasectomy because welfare recipients have too many kids.
Michael Bloomberg funds several of these groups.
Bloomberg is the guy who in 2014 declared that anyone who wants a gun in their house must be “pretty stupid.”
I read about a backdoor today, that was pretty horrifying and impressive.
Imagine insurance companies can jack your insurance up for having firearms in your home. Say 1000%? So, when this happens, many will lie (boating accident, etc.). Now you have committed a felony.
With a slow and careful march forward, many will end up with Insurance Fraud Felony, usually at the worst time — when a property is flooded or burned. Not a firearm crime at all, but now you can’t buy anymore firearms (legally), and you may see prison time. Insurance is serious business and has a LOT of protection afforded it by the Law of our Land.
The same could happen for any kind of insurance (health, car, etc.).
Simply getting a driver’s license could become a felony offense for not listing all your owner firearms. Ie., the government can tie any of the gazillion hoops you jump through, using official government paperwork, to knowing about your firearms arrangement, or indicating that you have no firearms, when in fact you do.
As I said before, we will lose 2A with a whimper. Because of all the laws and regulations of our fine nation, faceless bureaucrats can run &/or ruin your life. Casually lying on a government form, can get you into a felony pretty quick!
Because of its technology, you are intimately linked to it, via surveillance, financial ties, your phone, your computer, etc.
The next 1000 years or so should be quite interesting, in terms of just how bad slavery and tyrannical rule will get.
I believe (and please note “I” and “believe”) God has decided our fate, and it is sealed. This place is going to go real bad real quick. Quicker than anyone anticipated.
I DON’T think we will fend off the Democrat senators in Georgie either, because of this.
The question will be for how long? For a century, a mellenia? We have the technology for “forever”, but God can figure out a bypass for that, no problem.
But then who knows? The Bible didn’t address how he wanted our governments to look, only how his people would act. He may give us the luxury of free worship, but pretty much nothing else in the coming future. But he could also make worship difficult. He demands worship, but the Bible says nothing about Him needing it.
The vast majority of gun homicides are committed with handguns....by criminals. Criminals, even if they could pass, will never undergo a background check. They don’t want a gun that’s tied to them.
This isn’t gun control and has little to do with crime. It’s all about people control.
Traitors creating a target rich theatre of war. It will be war.
As Robert Downey Jr. said in "Tropic Thunder," "You never go 'full retard'.
“ One thing about it, they’re not making any bones about their intentions...on anything. ”
Sham elections mean they don’t even have to lie to us any longer.
The permanent bureaucracy with unlimited resources, they can print all the money they want...China is happy to buy Biden’s debt...means that they have all the muscle needed to force 350 million into complete submission.
Shazam...just like that the American class become peasants. Brave new utopia ahead.
It used to seem kind of petty, but even when I was an NRA member, I never sent money because Wayne always looked like he never wore his suits twice.
LETS GET THE GUNS! HERE IS HOW IT WAS DONE IN THE PAST! You really want to go there?
GERMANY..1932-1945
“Anyone posting a placard the Germans didn’t like would be liable for immediate execution, and a similar penalty was provided for those who failed to turn in firearms or radio sets within twenty four hours.”—RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by William Shirer. Page 782 my copy. Simon and Schuster. 1960
Russia 1919...”COMRADS! TURN IN YOUR WEAPONS!”
https://i.redd.it/owdshcsnvtm01.jpg
Even Texas knew better!...1836 Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico...
“It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENTS.”
You want to be the lightning rod for every anti-gun scheme the dems have come up with since 1962? I’ll stick with the NRA even with all their problems.
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