Posted on 01/19/2010 10:41:42 PM PST by Texas Fossil
Reports were coming in from forums and elsewhere that the Austin PD and the BATFE have mandated no private sales will be allowed. Thing is, there is no federal or state law giving them this authority. So I asked them if the reports were true and how they could do this:
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"We have a problem Houston"??
In further news, Texas gun owners have banned police and ATF from gun shows.
Texas has an exclusionary clause - only the state Legislature may regulate commerce in firearms. Guess Austin PD didn’t pay attention to what happened when Houston tried a similar trick.
It didn’t work out well as the promoter sued and won millions off the City Of Houston.
We shall see how this plays out, BATF had best be ready to answer some serious questions.
This is Still Texas where I live, contrary to what ∅ thinks it is.
Outrageous, they’re like cockroach zombies.
Help me to understand this.
From what I read, the Austin PD want to stop illegal aliens and convicted felons from buying guns while on the premises of the gun show (HEB owned center). In addition, they want to prevent private sales that have occurred in the parking lot in the past because, they say, those sales, in the past, were mostly the above mentioned illegals and felons.
Further, they have made an agreement with the ownership and management of the lot and gun show. The promoter of the gun show will now provide lot security and a means for private sellers to sell their guns inside the show.
If I have that correct, tell me why that’s bad. Honestly, I just don’t get it. And, yes, I am a gun owner and NRA member.
Yes, but with cockroaches it is clear what to do with them.
“Welcome to New Kenya (Africa USA)where the law of the jungle has replaced the Law of the Land.”
There are many problems with this, not least of which being that it is illegal under state law for APD to even attempt to regulate commerce in arms in any way.
Just a guess, but you don’t live in Texas or attend gun shows, right? I am not being insulting, but if this is the case it explains why you may be overlooking some very important points.
Also, the BATFE’s own numbers say that criminals mostly steal their weapons or buy them off the black market - not buy them at a show.
I know; the nation in tension.
The issue is a question of what really precipitated this. If this is a simple agreement by lessor and lessee that is one thing, but if it was "directed" by mandate of the BATF it is quite another. At this point it is not clear which is the case.
If I wanted to sell one of my legal firearms on the street to another lawful buyer, where can that be construed as anything but an infringement of my, or the buyers right, to keep and bear arms by cops restricting where I can sell the firearm?
First it’s a gun show. Then the parking lot. Next my home? Where does the infringement stop once it is started?
I don’t care what the police motives are intended to save, stop, prevent, or otherwise intrude on legal firearms transactions by private citizens. It is still an infringement on the 2nd Amendment.
There are no gray areas here that I can see.
Because you are not a FFL holder (I assume) and do not fall under FFL guidelines. Its a bad thing because you don’t want the governemnt (on any level) preventing you from selling YOUR property to who ever you choose to. If you want to sell your tv to someone, do it. You want to sell your toaster to someone... do it. Same goes for a gun, its YOURS, selling it is a private matter. It baffles me that people want government regulating MORE basic freedoms in their lives.
“in tension”
I think I would describe conditions in a bit stronger language.
Here is another article you might want to read>
Obama Administration Shuts Down Oldest Gun Show in Central Texas
http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-shuts-down-oldest-gun-show-in-central-texas/
The BATF engaged in mafia tactics in running a criminal conspiracy to shut down a gun show in Austin Texas, the Alex Jones Show heard Monday, direct from the man embroiled at the center of the Obama administration’s latest savage attack on the second amendment.
Following the staged arrest of a man by the Austin Police — subsequently released without charge — the BATF pressured lease holders HEB to shut down the oldest gun show in central Texas.
As revealed Monday on The Alex Jones Show, the BATF called the original meeting regarding the gun show and used threats and intimidation to shut down the event.
Sounds more like an excuse for the Government to further infringe upon our 2nd Amendment Right. If there's such a concern over illegal aliens buying guns... enforce existing laws and get rid of the illegal aliens.
Well, first of all, good on the guy who sent that email inquiring about it. I think that action forced them to have that meeting, based only on what the author wrote.
Perhaps they talked about mandating it, or even gave the show an ultimatum, I don’t know. But I do know that my/our gun rights are put in jeopardy of restriction and/or legislation to curb our rights, every time an illegal or convict is sold a gun or commits a crime with a gun. So, I see the agreement itself, not the actions leading up to it, as a good thing.
Now I’m wondering if some of the cops that initiated this feel the same as I do and got out of hand with the idea.
In any respect, this was a good post, and the guy who sent that email should get a pat on the back.
APD is a bunch of pansies. Everything Austin is feeble and creepy.
Austin is Scumbag Central. Isn’t that where Dan Rather and his daughter hang out?
In the middle of Texas, Austin is like a leper colony. My advice? Do the gun shows right outside the city limits the way Wal-Mart opens stores right outside the Dallas city limits. Screw ‘em,.
Well, the article says that it was shut down, then goes on a different track to talk about the show in Austin which was not shut. Both shows had the same landlord, HEB? I’m confused. LOL
I’ve got the last three or four issues of Rifleman and Freedom right here, and I don’t remember seeing one word of any of this. Has the NRA become that bad?
Short summary is that APD intimidated the property owner by the use of incorrect information to get the property owner to place restrictions on the event sponsor to place restrictions at the next show.
I believe that the best solution would be for the event sponsor to reject the terms and cancel further scheduling of the event until the property owner removes those restrictions
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