Navajo Nation considers implementing gun registration

abc15.c0m ^ | 4/5/2017 | unk

[rktman]

Navajo Nation Tribal Council officials are reviewing a proposal that would require tribal land residents to register their firearms.

The Daily Times reports the proposed bill would require residents to register firearms such as automatic guns, rifles and shotguns to the Navajo Nation Police Department.

The bill would allow the police department to maintain a registry which would include the firearm's serial number, registration date and the owner's name and address. If measure is passed, current gun owners would have 180 days from the bill's approval to register their guns with police. New gun owners would have 180 days from the gun's purchase date.

Delegate Davis Filfred says the measure would create accountability for gun owners and make identifying gun owners easier for police.

[donozark]

“I wish it to be known that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.” Sitting Bull. July 19, 1881.

[xrmusn]

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What do you mean WE are surrounded White Man?

[Dilbert San Diego]

But there are some areas in which Indian reservations make their own laws.

For example, Indian reservations in many places have casino gambling. Indian reservations at least in S. Calif. don’t follow state laws banning indoor smoking in public buildings.

I never quite understand what’s up with Indian reservations. The members of the tribes are American citizens as you and I are. They are not required to live there. They are free to leave and settle elsewhere in America as you and I are. Yet they have specific land set aside for them.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

One of the annoyances of being a gun owner in AZ is that while state gun laws are quite reasonable, every native american tribe has it’s own gun laws. And there is a lot of tribal land in AZ. For instance, while the O’Odham and Apache are generally reasonable, as long as you have a state issued concealed carry “permit” a trip to Navajo or Hualapai country is like a trip to California. The Navajo res is big and the tribal government is big time liberal. I know of a guy who had his handgun confiscated during a traffic stop when he got off the highway to buy gas - even though he had a Utah CCW permit, which is valid in AZ. He now plans his trips to AZ to avoid the Big Res.

[Vince Ferrer]

This will probably affect non-Navajo as well. There are others who live on tribal land and lease or pay property taxes to the tribes.

[VideoPaul]

I consulted an ex-girlfriend who is a VERY proud Apache. Her comments are: “Bad Idea. Any registration on native land by tribes is due to pressure from the federal government.....not to mention that is how the whites took their guns in the first place.”

That’s all the more I need to hear on the subject.

[CedarDave]

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[xtargeter]

They are in a federal enclave, like a military base. They are sovereign within the borders like a city is sovereign within the city limits. Federal law applies to them, but not city or state law.

[Michael.SF.]

Even the Italians are unhappy:

[Popman]

——if it passes, gun grabbers will be using it as an example every time the subject of gun control comes up-—

It also can show how gun control doesn’t work to reduce gun violence...

Which we know will be the actual facts...

[archy]

I guess they can do whatever the wish. Or whatever the tribal counsel decides.

Why not? They have sovereign authority over their own rez, and after all, they're not Americans.

The Navajo have always been known as *headpounders* by the neighboring tribes, [Hopi, Shoshone] since they like to use stone-head clubs and bash in skulls. No honorable little *coup-sticks* for them!

[archy]

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tounges.

Chief Ten Beers was a wise and brave leader.

[WKUHilltopper]

How’d that work out for ya last time?

[VietVet876]

When firesticks are regulated, only criminals will have firesticks.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***...and make identifying gun owners easier for police.***

Bingo!
Wonder how that will work around the Page-Flagstaff-Farmington-Gallup areas. Even the Chaco Canyon areas are a checkerboard of Indian reservation and Public lands.

[Fightin Whitey]

How’d that work out for ya last time?

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[Monkey Face]

Not gonna work. We’ve already done enough damage to Native Americans, so we really don’t need to have gun grabbers on the horizon.

[Fightin Whitey]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Interesting.
In 1864, the hostile Southern Cheyenne who came in “peacefully” as they did each fall, gave up their guns to the Army, then the army later gave them back. The Indians were camped later at Sand Creek when attacked by Chivinton who believed they were in cahoots with the Confederates. They were.
No one likes to be reminded that Chivington caught TWO CONFEDERATE AGENTS in his attack on the camp.

At the Washita, where the same Cheyenne and Arapaho were NOT CAMPED ON THEIR RESERVATION (located between the Kansas line, Cimarron river and Arkansas river at that time), the government gave the tribes 100 pistols, a similar number of Lancaster rifles, and 15,000 caps to go hunt buffalo.

Some warriors, who had left before the distribution, to attack the Pawnees in Nebraska felt left out so they started attacking farms and ranches throughout Kansas causing the US army to order Custer to hunt them down. He did.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Stupid injuns....*** From THE WAR WAGON.

Back in the 1976, when the AIM movement was causing trouble, that movie was shown on TV out of Tulsa. That line was bleeped out several times.