here's an excerpt from an article written in 1997 regarding the australian gun grab. if it doesn't make you sick to your GD stomach and just a little bit nervous about anything that would empower our government to establish a national gun registry...well it should.
First to be visited in the government's house-to-house gun collection were those people who had registered their weapons. Gun owners who registered their weapons. Gun owners who registered their weapons but did not comply with the new regulation are now faced with the fact that their name is flagged on government computers. They are liable to four years' imprisonment and a fine in the thousands of dollars, if they don't comply with the confiscation. Those with firearms licenses and those who did not hand in their known weapons are liable for search of their person and/or premises without warrant. Even organizing against the confiscation could be considered illegal under a provision against "subverting another to commit a criminal act." Long guns being confiscated include: .22 rimfire self-loading rifles; Military style self-loading rifles, non-military; Pump action shotguns; and Self-loading shotguns. A number of Australian publication have printed eyewitness accounts putting large numbers of foreign troops -- including U.S. forces in Australia. The U.S. troops are rumored to be "assisting" in the gun confiscation as part of "urban warfare training.
we know what Democrats are all about. We know what the UN is all about. Knowing this, we know enough to oppose this ATT.
If a crook can get a gun without the government knowing about it ... so can I. I would hate for it to come to that ... but if I had to have one, I could get one.