Report: Chris Murphy to Put Forward Universal Background Checks for Biden

Breitbart ^ | 02/18/2021 | Awr Hawkins

[ChicagoConservative27]

In coming weeks Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) reportedly plans to put forward the universal background check legislation President Biden wants to sign.

The Hill reports Murphy reacted to Biden’s February 14, 2021, call for universal background checks by making clear he will put such legislation forward.

[ChicagoConservative27]

What tough action there Chris. Was this before or after biden's afternoon nap and diaper change?

[Travis McGee]

[Levy78]

Blah blah blah millions of us won’t comply with any of this. GFY, feds.... especially those who monitor FreeRepublic!

[HighSierra5]

Buy em cheap and bury em deep.

[circlecity]

The only purpose for this to create a massive database on all guns and gun owners. A prelude to confiscation.

[ohioman]

I second your opinion. To the FBI traitors reading FR, GFY!!!

[bk1000]

If I have to “register” them, it means the govt doesn’t know about them.
If they know about them, why would I need to “register”?
If they don’t know about them, why would I “register”?
I will not comply.
Molon labe.

[showme_the_Glory]

Zactly

[Lurkinanloomin]

What they are really doing is making private sales and transfers illegal so that there will be a record of all transfers so they can build a registry.

Registration is a required step towards confiscation.

[heartwood]

But no background checks for immigrants?

[SecondAmendment]

Ask the Kiwis how Comrade Ardern (yes, she was the President of the International Union of Socialist Youth before becoming PM) and her “common sense gun safety” schemes are working out for them ...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Confiscation has always been the real goal. How it was proposed in 1976...They have SINCE added rifles to the list.

Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.(Now the Brady Center)

“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.

Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.

So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.

My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — TOTALLY ILLEGAL.”

-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58

“Yes, I’m for an outright ban [on handguns].”

-Pete Shields, Chairman emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc., 60 Minutes interview

HCI, around 1984, made a grab for the semi-auto rifles and shotguns, and missed. Then Josh Sugarmann tuned in. This has been the mantra ever since.
“ Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons —anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun— can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”

– Josh Sugarmann

[no-s]

If universal background checks are such a great idea, how about we first institute them for politicians and bureaucrats?

[Myrddin]

There is already a defacto registry in the Form 4473 records in "bound books" at each FFL. ATF can inspect anytime they wish. Recently, Form 4473 was revised to move the type, manufacturer, model number, caliber information off of page 3 to the top of page 1 of the 4473. An optical scan of just page 1 provides everything needed to efficiently "register" a firearm to a purchaser.

Private sales between individuals don't require an FFL to do paperwork on the "transfer" in many states. The net result is that the "defacto" registration validity rots over time as the paperwork trail evaporates.

[hanamizu]

But no background checks for immigrants?

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Don’t be absurd. Freedom to immigrate to the U.S. is guaranteed by the Constitution. You just can’t see it because it is hiding a penumbra; but it’s there and sooner or later a Judge or Justice will find it.

Possession of firearms is a threat to democratic government as shown by the Insurrection on January 6, a date that will live in infamy. The 2nd Amendment, included to protect slave-holders by the racist so-called Founders, is a relic of a by-gone time and has no place in 21st century America. Zhao Bi Din should cancel it by Executive Order!

/s