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MILLER: Gun re-registration begins in D.C., may lead to arrest and confiscation
Washington Times ^ | 1/1/14 | Emily Miller

Posted on 01/03/2014 10:30:37 AM PST by hughesm1

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More idiocracy out of D.C., this time from the local body. The harassment of the citizenry continues.
1 posted on 01/03/2014 10:30:38 AM PST by hughesm1
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To: hughesm1

No different from a Poll tax.

Shouldn’t cost money to exercise a Right.


2 posted on 01/03/2014 10:32:52 AM PST by Regulator
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To: hughesm1

The plan is to gradually raise the price until you can’t afford it. This is a tax. Is it a legal tax on the second amendment? Can you tax free speech? If not, then you can’t tax gun ownership either.


3 posted on 01/03/2014 10:33:53 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: hughesm1

4 posted on 01/03/2014 10:36:21 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: hughesm1
Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.
--Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand

5 posted on 01/03/2014 10:36:29 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: Regulator

Amen brother.


6 posted on 01/03/2014 10:36:31 AM PST by hughesm1 (The Tree of Liberty is thirsty.)
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To: hughesm1

Another trick that will eventually be overturned, but in the meanwhile provide a leg tingle for the Left.


7 posted on 01/03/2014 10:37:30 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: hughesm1
We now break live to Breaking News in response to this stroy...


8 posted on 01/03/2014 10:37:32 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Regulator
"No different from a Poll tax. Shouldn’t cost money to exercise a Right."

Agreed, how is this possibly not an infringement.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

9 posted on 01/03/2014 10:37:51 AM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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The consequences of not knowing about this new law or missing the specific 60-day window are dire.

Offenders will be rounded up and put into train cars and taken where their kind won't be a danger to everyone else.

10 posted on 01/03/2014 10:38:48 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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finally, all the gang members will now have to legally register their guns.


11 posted on 01/03/2014 10:39:01 AM PST by willywill
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To: Regulator

The difference is that “voting” is a priviledge borne from citizenship. Legislation protects that priviledge (as you say, it does not cost money).

2A-RTK&BA is a God-given right that cannot be altered by any governing body. Legislation cannot change the “right”.

Legislation CAN change the priviledge, not the right.


12 posted on 01/03/2014 10:39:13 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: willywill

Only law-abiding citizens are that foolish...when your God given rights...let alone the mention of God...becomes a crime, embrace your inner criminal.

I believe Christians recall the cryptic advice “ be as harmless as doves but wise as serpents “


13 posted on 01/03/2014 10:45:34 AM PST by Anton.Rutter
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To: hughesm1

Never “Register” ANY FIREARM!!

(Class III exemption, due to existing law)

If you register your weapon, it will be taken from you by the very people you need to be defended from.


14 posted on 01/03/2014 10:49:53 AM PST by G Larry
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To: hughesm1

What will you Freepers do when your state implements this?


15 posted on 01/03/2014 10:52:45 AM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: hughesm1; Kaslin; All

” - - - That citizen is then in possession of an unregistered firearm, which is a felony that carries a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine and a year in jail. - - - “

Hmmmmmm - - - - ?

Now it is a felony to abide by the US Constitution?

Noted US Constitution Expert Larry The Cable Guy has been stating for years that Americans have the Right To Bare Arms.

If Larry says it, it must be right, I don’t care who you are!

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16 posted on 01/03/2014 10:52:51 AM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: hughesm1

“Gun re-registration begins in D.C., may lead to arrest and confiscation”

Shouldn’t they replace “may lead to arrest and” to “for future confiscation”?

Conn, DC, NY, it’s coming to Red States soon.


17 posted on 01/03/2014 10:53:29 AM PST by Antihero101607
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But the fact it is happening in DC makes it a bit more entertaining since DC is home to a lot of politicians and law-enforcement types.


18 posted on 01/03/2014 10:56:17 AM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers

This is Obamacare.

19 posted on 01/03/2014 10:59:53 AM PST by oldbrowser
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Every single day I see more and more deliberate, incremental erosion of our precious rights. I can’t believe it’s happening so fast. Exponential erosion. D.C. residents with firearms would be well-advised to simply leave. Now.

Aside: Twenty-five-years ago I moved out of D.C. to Alexandria Virginia for one reason: the hostile, brain-damaging bureaucratic DMV maze in which I refused to waste my any more of my time, just trying to get a D.C. drivers license. No criminal, driving or insurance issues — just a law-abiding, rational, pleasant legal resident trying to get a simple drivers license.

(Suburban Virginia DMV was only moderately better.)

Further aside: Now in Tennessee and much happier, thank you.

/rant


20 posted on 01/03/2014 11:04:26 AM PST by fullchroma
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