Posted on 01/09/2016 6:08:33 AM PST by marktwain
Wisconsin Public Radio has the Joy Cardin Show that invites guests to talk on subjects of the day. On 5 Januray, 2016, the show was about Obama's potential executive orders to regulate guns through Federal Firearms License requirements, and others. The guest that was invited to the show was Timothy Noah, a journalist from Politico. Noah wrote a piece in Politico about executive orders.
An activist from Hayward, Wisconsin calls in to the show. He makes this comment:
These regulations are not necessary and are just grandstanding by the President. At one time in the Country, getting a Federal Firearms License, commonly known as an FFL, was an easy process.
A little later he adds:
In the mid 90's there were over 220,000 FFLs in the country, just what Obama wants now. We had a huge number of small time people having FFLs, because it was very convenient to have one.
For those who do not remember the history, the highest number of FFLs occurred in 1992, during the Clinton administration. In 1975, just 7 years after the enactment of the Gun Control Act of 1968, the number of FFLs (dealers and pawn brokers) was 149,242. By 1992 the number had increased to 259,113. That is when the Clinton administration announced that there were too many FFLs. It was not alleged that the small FFLs were committing illegal acts. It was acknowledged that the FFLs were extremely law abiding. The Clinton administration enacted regulations, later written into the statutes by the Congress, explicitly to *reduce the number* of FFLs.
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Yeah...I'll pass. I've already had one colonoscopy this year...so...no thanks.
I had an FFL in the 90s. Slick Willy changed the rules. He added a requirement that you had to have a business license from your local city,or county. Naturally, the city refused to issue a license to an address that was zoned residential. It was not economically feasible to rent a commercial building. No more FFL. This regulation alone put thousands of dealers out of business.
Well, if we gave obozo a Colonic he would disappear.
That may be why it became possible to get a box at one of those UPS type stores that has an actual address.
Never made that connection before. You may be right.
Uh, Clinton was not president in 1992. He did not take office until January, 1993.
You are correct, of course. Clinton was elected in 1992, and attacked the FFLs in 1993.
It’s irritating that the federal government controls the distribution of the means by which an American exercises a Constitutional right. I wonder if it would be likewise appropriate to create a federal license for schools where so-called journalism degrees are awarded. How about a federal license for schools that churn out lawyers or on facilities where abortions are advocated or performed?
You are absolutely correct. The FFL comes from the 1938 law pushed through Congress by FDR, who failed to get licensing and registration of all pistols in the U.S., which is what he wanted.
Then it was ramped up in 1968 by Johnson, who failed to get registration of all guns in the U.S., which is what he wanted.
The whole stupid scheme has not done any good in preventing crime. It was always designed as a stepping stone to registration for the purposes of eventual, incremental, confiscation.
It would be great to repeal the whole rotten mess.
Liberal
Anti Gun
Anti Freedom
Anti America
We should contact Trumps office to make this an election issue
Can you imagine if he called for a repeal of the laws that create the FFL’s? Aside from gun registration, it is the next best thing.
Liberals would lose their minds and the Gun Enthusiasts would turn out in droves (and there are 100 million of us)
How is the background check/transfer fee any different than a poll tax? Both serve to charge citizens for exercising a Constitutional right.
Why can’t our idiot representatives learn how to frame an argument - and to play offense?
The Trump method would be to demand the feds pay the transfer fee - and add to that a demand for distributing a voter registration card to every approved firearm buyer.
Put the other team on the defensive. In the process, you might actually win converts who are capable of employing logic (but haven’t thought much about the matter at hand).
And raised the cost to the purchaser, which I would suspect the reason all along.
Reduce the number of dealers, and raise the cost, a twofer. The rats win, the citizens lose.......... Again.
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