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Obama Requests $1.1 Billion, DOJ $382.1 Million for Gun Control
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | April 9, 2014 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 04/09/2014 9:39:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
1. Require background checks for all gun sales.

I break down gun-control proposals into three classes:

  1. Don't think will accomplish much, but don't get too wound up about, or
  2. Strongly disapprove of, and will engage in concerted political effort to oppose, or
  3. No way in hell!

Generally, I place background checks in category 1.

Universal background checks that include a record of every legal transfer I place firmly in category 3.

What this does is reverse the presumption of innocence, with regard to firearms ownership. Currently, it's legal to possess a firearm unless you or the firearm fall under some specific legal provision. If we allow universal background checks with a paper trail, we change that. Possession of a firearm will be illegal, unless the proper records exist. Yes, existing firearms will be grandfathered, but the general rule will be established, and over time more and more firearms will fall under this category.

It's hard to describe how fundamental a shift this is. And what effect it will have on the mindset of law-enforcement in general.

And what risk it places on every gun owner.

Currently, it's only the class-III owners who face the risk of length prison sentences when the BATF screws up their records. Every gun owner's freedom would be dependent on the BATF not losing these records through malice or incompetence. (And we all know that both have happened in the past.)

It'd be a clear indication that Claire Wolfe's awkward stage is coming to an end.

41 posted on 04/10/2014 11:46:37 AM PDT by jdege
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama could never pass a background check as he did drugs. Yet he seeks to impose this and more on the law abiding.

He can go F himself.


42 posted on 04/10/2014 12:04:59 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

any congress critter that would agree to this request is a trator to the US Constitution and should be shot for same.


43 posted on 04/10/2014 12:25:27 PM PDT by Big Mack (I love this country. ItÂ’s the government that scares the crap out of me)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is a litmus test for America and our republic.

Wasn't the last election litmus test enough?

44 posted on 04/10/2014 12:40:26 PM PDT by The Duke ("Forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gun prosecutions under Obama down more than 45 percent
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969934/posts

Obama’s Chicago Dead Last In Federal Gun Prosecutions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003455/posts

rotten liar he is.


45 posted on 04/10/2014 1:30:41 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Nitehawk0325
can lead a foreign army into our country and take us over.

It isnt foreign tyrant you hae to fear. It's the domestic home grown ones like 0bama, Bloomberg, Pelosi, Leland Yee, etc. And their conquering army is already here. It's called your local police and federal agencies.

46 posted on 04/10/2014 4:50:10 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The incremental creeping, fudging the line disarming of American citizens. Do these evil America haters think that Americans have gone on this gun shopping spree for the last few years to turn them in?


47 posted on 04/11/2014 8:16:57 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Vote Democrat. Once you're OK with killing babies the rest is easy. <BCC><)
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