Posted on 11/16/2022 4:05:06 AM PST by marktwain
The most dangerous use of a serial number on a firearm is as a registration number. In effect, gun registration is gun confiscation. It was not the intent for which serial numbers were made. They were created to track firearms with production changes and as a way for government arsenals to track the production and military use of weapons.
A federal court recently held a law passed in 1990, which makes possessing a firearm with a removed serial (registration) number illegal, is unconstitutional.
This is an important decision. It has relatively minor effects at this time. The law was a step toward universal firearms registration.
Suppose a person cannot be punished for merely possessing a firearm from which a serial number has been removed. In that case, the entire scheme for government control over legally owned firearms falls apart.
There cannot be effective gun registration if a person cannot be punished for possessing a gun with the serial number removed.
The legal ability to possess firearms without serial numbers buttresses the deterrent effect of an armed population.
If government agents demand a person turn in a firearm that is registered to them, they can remain silent.
If the firearm appears at some later date, and the serial number has been removed, it becomes difficult to connect the firearm to the person it was registered to.
It becomes difficult to punish a person for an act someone else commits with a firearm originally purchased by them.
A unique serial number is a key to efforts to register and control firearms by the administrative state. Nelson T. “Pete” Shields of Handgun Control, inc. laid out the plan in 1976:
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Bingo ...... are ghost glocks still legal ?
Underground scenarios ..... hell a good example during our covid isolation was our favorite coffee shop had a big storage area in the back of the regular cafe. City managers and cops shut down all the “Mom and Pop businesses” .....
We went underground an parked our vehicles a block away and visited our friends coffee shop in the back storage room . Sort of like a speakeasy during the prohibition of alcohol .... We started feeling like the OSS , the free french fighters , jews evading the gestapo SS ..........
Socialist Democrats will steal the votes but will never take our ability to use the 2nd amendment .......
BTW THE GHOST GLOCKS ARE LEGAL ...... HIS SERIAL # IS ... “F*UK THE ATF”
Hmmm
The only country that makes both top 10 lists is Uruguay.
The top 10 deaths list is 90% South and Central America.
So with a lack of guns per 100, they do more killing.
I suggest that is because relatively many are unarmed.
The Demorcats' dream utopia where only the secret police, police and SS are armed. Where ordinary citizens have no right, but instead exist solely to provide resources for the government.
Pretty unreal, for sure. The newest non-hand tuned iteration is selling for ~$1,500 locally. But it doesn’t compare to the fit and finish of the old ones.
If your name is on a 4473, they're going to assume you have guns. And they won't need a search warrant or probable cause to tear your home apart looking for weapons.
You may as well keep whatever guns that you purchased through an FFL. The key will be how well you can hide them. Not whether the fascists know what the serial numbers are.
See my post #47.
Yep.
Yeah you missed the point. No one is removing a serial number on a firearm to “protest” anything...
No, the only one missing anything, is you. But, carry on. Henceforth you’re speaking to ... yourself.
Oh God. When I read your comment it was as if I was hearing a Monty Python skit in my head. Try not to be too full of yourself there Skippy...
I think the key will be how effectively you can distribute them to people who will not hide them but use them.
Freedom lovers would have to decide that it is better to starve on your feet than kneel to the tyrants. Liberals would lose interest in gun control if conditions get bad enough.
The riots in our liberal cities have done a great deal for gun rights. Rittenhouse dared to be armed amid great chaos. He paid a price but not as great a price as the liberals trying to take him down. They paid the ultimate price; except for Lefty.
The lesson learned by some liberals is that it is good to be armed. That quickly translates into them being pro-gun. They may still harbor crazy ideas but it will not include ideas that would disarm THEM.
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