Posted on 06/18/2023 8:46:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Maine has turned into a leftist hell hole
I seem to remember an article it might have been in Chicago where the police said it wasn’t worth their time to go after baby mammas who provided guns to their boyfreinds. I guess the baby mammas claim they stole it.
Gun control under the guise of “public safety”.
I was working a few months ago when a couple came in to the store. She was a citizen and spoke perfect English. He was an illegal alien and spoke no English. They were browsing and looking at guns. He wanted to see one closer so I asked him if he was a citizen or had hi green card. She translated and he said no. I told him that he could not purchase a firearm and he said that he could get one from a fiea market ( which has a LOT of Mexicans/south of the border types. When I told them both that he could not legally possess a firearm and I would not sell her one, they seemed unperturbed and just said that they would get one at the fiea market and left.
Maine used to be lily white and few people even knew a black person.
“How do felons get guns?”
Mainly through government hare-brained ideas like ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ or ‘Operation Wide Receiver’ prior to that. *Rolleyee*
Very informative list here, of all that’s been ‘legislated’ since 1791 (2nd Amendment ratified!) to try to control gun sales - sometimes lumping felons and Patriotic 2A Americans, together...with a few WINS along the way - usually SCOTUS strike-downs of state laws banning guns.
1791
The Bill of Rights, including the Second Amendment, gains final ratification.
The Second Amendment reads:
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
1837
Georgia passes a law banning handguns. The law is ruled unconstitutional by the state’s Supreme Court and is thrown out.
1865
In a reaction to emancipation, several southern states adopt “Black codes” which, among other things, forbid Black persons from possessing firearms.
1871
The National Rifle Association (NRA) is organized around its primary goal of improving American civilians’ marksmanship in preparation for war.
1927
The U.S. Congress passes the Miller Act, a law banning the mailing of concealable weapons.
1934
The National Firearms Act of 1934, regulating the manufacture, sale, and possession of fully automatic firearms like sub-machine guns is approved by Congress.
1938
The Federal Firearms Act of 1938 places the first limitations on selling ordinary firearms. Persons selling guns are required to obtain a Federal Firearms License, at an annual cost of $1, and to maintain records of the name and address of persons to whom firearms are sold. Gun sales to persons convicted of violent felonies were prohibited.
1968
The Gun Control Act of 1968 is enacted for the purpose of “keeping firearms out of the hands of those not legally entitled to possess them because of age, criminal background, or incompetence.”
The act regulates imported guns, expands the gun-dealer licensing and record-keeping requirements, and places specific limitations on the sale of handguns. The list of persons banned from buying guns is expanded to include persons convicted of any non-business related felony, persons found to be mentally incompetent, and users of illegal drugs.
Continues:
https://www.thoughtco.com/us-gun-control-timeline-3963620
WRONG!!!
Gun control is supposed to inhibit or prevent HONEST CITIZENS keeping and bearing arms. The gun controllers are NOT innocently trying to prevent crime; they are nefariously trying to disarm We the People.
The number one gun “crime” in New Jersey is having one without permission from the almighty state.
What do they fail to understand about “shall not be infringed”?
Execute all drug dealers, from street hustler to kingpin. Trial, sentencing, appeal and execution to be completed withing twelve months.
“They buy a pistol brace..?“
Only when they want to change the caliber of the gun into a high caliber machine gun. Says Brandon.
Were “background checks” used in 1791? Were there “prohibited people” in 1791? If you have to pass a background check before you exercise a right, then you are really having to get the government’s permission to exercise that right. If you have to get the government’s permission then it isn’t a right at all because the whole point of a right is that you don’t need permission to exercise that right. So currently we do NOT have a second amendment right and have not had one ever since background checks were put in place.
Same for voting and getting elected to public office.
shall not be infringed.
no such thing as an illegal gun.
possession is not the crime, how it is used is the crime and make the penalty fit...
if one is out, rights are restored.
“How do felons get guns?”
Step one: Get let out of jail.
If the Earp brothers and pal were alive today things would be better.
Between you and I, I don’t believe for one second reducing crime is really why the Gun Grabbers want to grab all the gunsPrecisely. And once they grab your guns and gun crime not only doesn't go away but goes up, they'll blame it on your zip code and call you a racist for it. They want the issue, not a solution.
Most were obtained from friends, family and dealers on the street — and were usually purchased or borrowed instead of stolen.... which means that if every legal gun sale were shut down and every legal gun was confiscated tomorrow, there'd still be gun trafficking amongst criminals. But we didn't need the Bangor Daily News to tell us that.
Totally agree, it’s about Control of the Law Abiding Citizen, from fighting a Trynical government. When do we start?
Read later.
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