Posted on 03/10/2021 6:56:53 AM PST by COBOL2Java
Last week it was the reintroduction of legislation to criminalize private transfers, known as H.R. 8, and a few weeks before that H.R. 127 made its debut, a proposal to mandate nation-wide licensing and registration while also making one’s right to keep and bear arms contingent upon a psych test.
Oh, and it would also require one to purchase liability insurance at the cost of at least $800 per year. No lie! Check out the bill if you haven’t already.
As bad as all that sounds, sadly, we know that things are only going to get worse.
Why? Because Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Circuit Judge Merrick Garland have told us so.
Earlier this month, Feinstein announced that she would bring back legislation to ban so-called “assault weapons” in the not too distant future.
“I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass this bill and other reforms, including the assault weapons ban I will reintroduce in the coming weeks,” said the Democratic senator from California on Twitter, in response to the announcement of H.R. 8.
Garland, who has been tapped by the Biden Administration to serve as attorney general, promised to do his part as the nation’s top law enforcer.
When asked if he would back a Feinstein-style ban on black rifles at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in February, he responded, “Well, as I’m sure you know, the president is a strong supporter of gun control and has been an advocate all his professional life on this question.”
“The role of the Justice Department is to advance the policy program of the administration as long as it is consistent with the law,” he continued. “Where there is room under the law for the president’s policies to be pursued, I think the president is entitled to pursue them.”
In other words, Garland does not believe a sweeping prohibition on America’s most popular rifle, the AR-15, as well as other arbitrarily demonized firearms, would qualify as an infringement.
What other clear-cut infringements on 2A rights from the Biden Administration will Garland embrace as attorney general? The safe bet, all of them.
And it looks like Garland’s a shoo-in for the job. Even Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) endorsed Garland.
The best hope gun owners have against all this craziness becoming reality is that lawmakers don’t suddenly change the rules on how the game is played.
Meaning, that the Dems don’t blow up the filibuster, the procedure by which a lawmaker(s) can indefinitely delay the vote on a bill via a protracted debate unless 60 senators agree to invoke cloture.
Right now, pro-gun senators can still block draconian legislation by using the filibuster.
However, if Biden and the Dems get frustrated and decide to remove the filibuster, and all that is required is a simple majority to pass a bill in the Democratically-controlled Congress, gun owners are in deep, deep trouble.
If there’s any good news it’s this. President Biden has publicly come out against reforming the filibuster… at least for now.
This is why they are surrounding themselves with an army.
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The US military, National Guard, Police number about 2,500,000 men.
VS.
20,000,000 civilian semi-auto rifle owners, and maybe 75 million other firearm owners, and over 400,000,000 firearms out there. 250,000,000 high cap magazines in private hands.
And the government thinks they can “regulate” that?
She looks like a corpse in that photo.
The lies we have been told over the years...
1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.
1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!
1981, Actress Lee Grant on GMA screams...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1984, they made a grab for the rifles, and missed, but played their hand.
1988,Josh Sugarmann, of the National Council to Ban Handguns tells how to ban rifles.
“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
Gun owners now know that any time we negotiate with those who want to ban guns, we are up against a stacked deck.
Clean out Nancy’s desk and pass all the Democrat Garbage ,D’oh
Feinstein Logic worked so well for the Germans, Russian and Chinese.
Thank you for surrendering, Republicans.
I think we’re going to get some historic Supreme Court rulings out of these ridiculous and clearly unconstitutional moves.
I hope someone is keeping Alan Gura safe and well fed. We’re going to need his services for a long time. Stay busy, Alan! Keep filing!
The decisions will be historic indeed. The Bushies will vote with the Obomunists and poof. Good bye second amendment.
Not a chance. We have enough of a majority to fix the more egregious problems. I think major restrictions on concealed carry are on the table with this court. One more Trump appointee and we’d have gotten the NFA and GCA struck down in their entirety.
The pendulum is still swinging in our direction in the Supreme Court. The court was further left when it gave us Heller and Heller II, among others.
FU Fiendstone.
She does this every year. Good luck banning the most popular sporting rifle in the country with 100 million people already owning one.
This is why they are surrounding themselves with an army.
The larges standing army sn the world is China with 2.5 million.
The US Army is 1.3 million, including the Navy.
The number of gun owners screwed out of thei vote? 75 million
“She looks like a corpse in that photo.”
It will be 88 in June.😎
Wrong number.
The number of people screwed by the steal who might actually show up on a given day at a given place is the number they are defending themselves against.
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