This has been the plan since 1962 when Thomas J Dodd and Emanual Cellar called for the registration of ONLY HANDGUNS. “Long guns will not be affected!” they said.
That didn’t last long till they were demanding registration of all firearms, then bans on small handguns, bans of ALL handguns, now bans on rifles.
And THIS is how it would be done...READ AND HEED!
Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.
“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
Around 1984, Handgun Control Inc, (now the Brady Center) came out in favor of a ban on semi-auto rifles and shotguns.
May be, but I do not intend to play their game, nor do I intend to follow unConstitutional laws. Like one of our FRiends posted a few months ago:
"No. Your turn."
"Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians." -Alexander Hope, from the novel 'Hope' by L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman