Disarming the Obama Administration - Gun owners need not apply.

Wall Street Journal ^ | NOVEMBER 25, 2008 | BRENDAN MINITER

[conservativeharleyguy]

I guess that means Joe Biden will have to give up his Beretta shotgun. I’m sure Dick Cheney will give him a fair price for it, and use it well.

[Lazamataz]

His questionnaire not only shows a certain disdain for gun owners but a typical ignorance of how gun ownership works in America. The vast majority of guns are not "registered" per se.

He'll fix that, right quick.

[Cicero]

and whether it has been the cause of any personal injuries or property damage."

Yeah, I'm embarrassed to say that my old rifle destroyed a lot of cans and bottles back when I was a kid.

[OneWingedShark]

>>His questionnaire not only shows a certain disdain for gun owners but a typical ignorance of how gun
>>ownership works in America. The vast majority of guns are not “registered” per se.
>
>He’ll fix that, right quick.

Indeed, by making reality match his warped unreality.

[DuncanWaring]

I’ve got several surplus military rifles.

I would EXPECT that one or more of mine has caused property damage, personal injuries and possibly even death.

[Oldpuppymax]

I don’t know, but I seriously doubt this has been heavily featured on the MSM outlets. Thanks to the media cover-up during the election, Hussein was able to scam a great many into believing he is not a raving anti 2nd amendment nut and gun confiscator. I wonder if FOX will drop its Hussein worship long enough to file a report?

[umgud]

Once he starts instituting all his “common sense, resonable restrictions” on gun owners, he doesn’t want to appear hypocritical by having gun owners in his admin.

[FixitGuy]

‘Spose he’s afraid somebody will be packin’ during a cabinet meeting?

[Ancesthntr]

Mr. Obama is skating dangerously close to reigniting the political wars over gun control.

Good. Gun owners in general need to wake up. Those lines for guns & ammo since the election are filled with those relatively few who DO follow events - but not the 90% or so for whom gun ownership is about as important as car ownership.

I welcome the political war over guns - because it'll contribute mightily to the downfall of the Dems in 2010 and Obama in 2012. Bring it on!

[bicyclerepair]

Background check=paper trail? How concerned must we be? I just bought one at the last gun show and will buy another this w/e.

[WOBBLY BOB]

notice they don’t care to ask if it’s ever been used to thwart a crime.

[brushcop]

FReepers, cheer up. Nothing is better than an unarmed government bureaucrat.

[Candor7]

Disarming the Obama Administration - Gun owners need not apply.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well they won't be able to return fire, IMHO, when the revolution starts.

[Pistolshot]

Gee...I have Bill Richardson on video saying..."I go to gunshows, I own guns."

I guess no SecCommerce for you, Bill.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"His questionnaire not only shows a certain disdain for gun owners but a typical ignorance of how gun ownership works in America. The vast majority of guns are not "registered" per se. Most long guns can be purchased by filling out a form and passing an instant background check."

This to me is the most revealing part of the questionaire. The fact that he and his administration are basically ignorant of the current gun laws. Yet, he wants to make more "sensible" laws. I wonder if he's ever fired a gun, even an air gun.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"FReepers, cheer up. Nothing is better than an unarmed government bureaucrat."

You're missing the point here. The purpose of gun control is not to disarm everyone. It's to disarm us. Don't worry, any government bureaucrat that wants a gun will still be able to get one, not matter what laws they put on us.

[stompk]

“but not the 90% or so for whom gun ownership is about as important as car ownership.”

did I misunderstand or was this a bad analogy? try taking peoples cars away and see what happens.

of course, I have heard some comparisons. registration. . . competency test. . . license required. .. coming next . . “it's a privilege”

of course when someone gets in trouble with a car, and they impound the car, they don't come to your house and take all your other cars. . . but maybe that is coming too.

[Eagle Eye]

This is great news in the sense that the administration can never even remotely appear to be anything but anti-gun.

[jonascord]

But, but, but, ALL guns on TV are "registered"! All the CSI versions depend on gun registration as a plot device, so it must be nationwide. New York, Vegas, Miami, they all check, first thing, what guns are registered to which suspects.

Are you implying that the network writers are a bunch of lying, filthy, slime ball, gun grabbing communists?