Bloomberg's aggressive stance against guns

denverpost.com ^ | 23 April, 2010 | Dave Kopel

[marktwain]

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City, has been funding a national advertising campaign to promote his congressional gun- control bill. Monday's Denver Post featured a full-page ad urging Sen. Mark Udall to support the Bloomberg bill; Colorado's other senator, Michael Bennett, is already a co-sponsor.

According to the ad, the Bloomberg bill would nationalize Colorado's rule about background checks at gun shows. But in fact, only a small fraction of the Bloomberg bill addresses the issue of background checks. The rest of the bill has a much more aggressive agenda.

For example, gun show promoters do not sell guns. The promoters just operate the shows, renting table space to the people who do sell guns. The Bloomberg bill would give the U.S. attorney general unlimited power to impose fees and regulations on gun show operators. An anti-gun attorney general could make the fees so exorbitant that no one could operate a gun show. Extremely complex and time-consuming registration forms that would have to be filled out every week could also drive gun shows out of business.

Or consider a licensed firearms dealer who never sets foot inside a gun show. He conducts all his sales from his store. The Bloomberg bill hugely increases various prison terms that can be imposed on licensed dealers. This has nothing to do with gun shows.

The Bloomberg bill takes major steps toward national gun registration. Under current federal law, when you buy a gun at a store (or from a licensed dealer at a gun show), you must fill out a form specifying your name, race, address, and so on, along with the serial number of the particular gun you bought. The licensed dealer keeps these records, which are available for law enforcement conducting criminal investigations.

[marktwain]

Dave Kopel helps educate people about Bloombergs obsession with disarming Americans.

[marktwain]

The date should be 24 April, not 23 April.

[FiddlePig]

Bloomberg is the ULTIMATE “Plantation Liberal”!!!!

http://redneckoblogger.blogspot.com/2007/01/plantation-liberals.html

[Flintlock]

Good grief!
Bloomy’s whole concept is to use various laws to drive gunstores out of business while creating a database for gun confiscation.
PERIOD.

[WKUHilltopper]

Screw these people...I think it’s very clear and evident now why they want “We the People” disarmed...

[arkady_renko]

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City, has been funding a national advertising campaign to promote his congressional gun-control bill. Monday's Denver Post featured a full-page ad urging Sen. Mark Udall to support the Bloomberg bill; Colorado's other senator, Michael Bennett, is already a co-sponsor.

What in the hell business does a MAYOR have crafting congressional legislation? I thought only Mayor Daley had that omnipotent power?

Is it any wonder your couldn't find ammo at Walmart for months on end?

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The only rational reason for gun control is for the elite to be able to rule without the consent of the governed.

[nolongerademocrat]

Just sayin’

How To Properly Shoot and Sight In A Compound Bow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQeBDwp63I4

Knife throwing 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Maq838-n1Q

Tomahawk Guy sticks all kinds of crazy stuff into board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9If2cZu1c&feature=related

How To Use a Slingshot for Hunting and Target (European Catapult)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQs6iovZhZE

How to Use Nunchucks (Speed Chucks) : How to Spin a Nunchuck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD8fTlKdIUE

[Jack Hammer]

Old stuff. Bloomberg is overly fond of beating the anti-gun drum in order, 1. to deflect voter attention from the fact that his Manhattan is a sinkhole of crime and corruption; and, 2. to convince hardcore Lefties that he’s ready for national office.

Politically, he’s going nowhere.

[I still care]

He’s also berserk on fireworks. When people go over the state line in PA to get fireworks, he’s had police just over the line watching, and if they stop you inside NY and find them, they take your car.

Fireworks, salt and fat in your food, guns. In short, Bloomberg is the ultimate nanny stater. He will “protect” you out of any personal freedom you have.

IMHO, that point of view is the most dangerous one out there.

[Waco]

If they try the terrorist in NYC, betcha the Mayor stays out of town for the duration.

[ronnie raygun]

People don’t keep people safe guns do! and the criminals know it, it’s the politicians in glass houses on the hill and don’t live in the trenches that don’t know it or rather don’t care!

[Jack Hammer]

He’s got a serious jones for calling the shots for everyone else on Planet Earth. He’s clearly troubled by massive insecurity and is over-compensating. A psychiatrist’s dream; unfortunately, good mental health isn’t a prerequisite for public office; quite the reverse, if anything.

[WKUHilltopper]

I shoot a bow already, but would like to get a good tomahawk. Thanks for the vids!

[nolongerademocrat]

You’re welcome. Gotta keep those options open.

[Red in Blue PA]

Hey bloomie, I'll give up my guns when you give up your armed security!

[Red in Blue PA]

Anyone who thinks the police or "911" will be there for them needs to Google "Brittany Zimmerman" for a wake up call.

[Red in Blue PA]

Fastest gunman ever. Unbelievable Bob Munden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLnmvseCseI

[nolongerademocrat]

Wow!

[neverdem]

Old stuff. Bloomberg is overly fond of beating the anti-gun drum in order, 1. to deflect voter attention from the fact that his Manhattan is a sinkhole of crime and corruption; and, 2. to convince hardcore Lefties that he’s ready for national office.

I'm more inclined to believe the latter. IMHO, this is just a bone to the gun grabbers to keep them from becoming demoralized. This bill is going nowhere. He's doing no favors for rat pols in CO.