Most of his crazy proposals are so extreme,
only few of his initiatives pose serious threat
Surrounded by child-props, Barack Obama yesterday proposed a semi-automatic ban so extreme that it could potentially outlaw up to 50% of all long
guns in circulation and up to 80% of all handguns.
Originally,
Obama's allies had announced they would reintroduce the 1994 ban on
commonly-owned, defensive firearms. That was until they found out that
they would look like fools, since that semi-auto ban was largely the law
of Connecticut on the day the Newtown shooting occurred -- and didn't
cover Adam Lanza's AR-15. After that, gun grabbers just kept adding
more and more guns until they would register (or ban) a huge percentage
of the defensive guns in existence.
So where are we now?
Obama's
crazy gun ban is now being denounced by many Democrats. And, although
you don't "pop the cork" until Congress adjourns, it will probably take
the magazine ban down the toilet with it.
This
means that gun owners' focus must now shift to the part of Obama's
agenda which poses the most danger because it is most likely to move:
the requirement that the government approve every gun transfer in
America -- the so-called universal background check.
All of you know why this is a problem. But how do you explain it so simply that even a
congressman can understand? Let's take a crack at that:
ONE: THE FBI'S "SECRET LIST" WHICH IS BEING USED TO BAR AMERICANS FROM OWNING GUNS IS INSIDIOUS
The
FBI’s database currently contains the names of more than 150,000
veterans. They served their country honorably. They did nothing wrong.
But, because they sought counseling for a traumatic experience while
risking their lives for America, they have had their
constitutional rights summarily revoked, with no due process whatsoever.
You
want to know something else? The "secret list" could soon include tens
of millions of Americans -- including soldiers, police, and fire
fighters -- with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, attention deficit and
hyperactivity disorder, and even post-partem depression. This would be achieved under the 23 anti-gun "executive actions" that Obama announced yesterday.
TWO: THE FBI REFUSES TO INSURE US THAT IT ISN'T TURNING ITS "SECRET LIST" INTO A
NATIONAL GUN REGISTRY
Our legislative counsel drafted the Smith amendment in 1998 to
prohibit the FBI from using the Brady Check system to tax gun buyers or
put their names into a gun registry. But the FBI refuses to tell us --
or even to tell U.S. Senators -- how (or whether) it is complying with
the Smith amendment. Why in the world should we give the FBI more
authority and more names if it abuses the authority it already has?
This
is the inherent problem with any background check, where gun buyers’
names are given to a government bureaucrat. Is there any way to make
sure that once a name is entered into a
computer, that it doesn’t stay there permanently?
This
concern is especially valid, considering how federal agents are already
skirting the laws against gun owner registration. Several dealers
around the country have informed GOA that the ATF is increasingly going
into gun shops and just xeroxing all of the 4473's, giving them the
names of every gun owner who purchased a gun through that shop -- and
setting up the basis for a national registration system.
This
is illegal under the 1986 McClure-Volkmer law, but that has apparently
not stopped it from being done. If every gun in America has to go
through a dealer, this
will create a mechanism to compile a list of every gun owner in America.
And, as we have seen with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has just
been legislatively handed such a list,
when that happens, the talk immediately turns to “confiscation."
THREE:
AS A RESULT, REQUIRING GOVERNMENT APPROVAL OF EVERY GUN OWNER IN
AMERICA WOULD DO NOTHING BUT CREATE A PLATFORM FOR NATIONAL GUN
REGISTRATION AND CONFISCATION.
As
alluded to above, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo now has a
comprehensive gun registry. This is the most dangerous thing that New
York legislators could have done -- as Cuomo has made it clear
he’s considering gun confiscation of lawfully-owned firearms.
“I
don’t think legitimate sportsmen are going to say, ‘I need an assault
weapon to go hunting,’” Cuomo said. “Confiscation could be an option.
Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an
option -- keep your gun but permit it.”
How
nice. He’ll let gun owners “permit” their guns for now -- so that,
presumably, they can be confiscated later, just as certain defensive
weapons were confiscated in New York City during the Mayor David Dinkins
administration in 1991.
FOUR: THE FBI
REFUSES TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW GUARANTEEING THE RIGHTS OF LEGITIMATE PURCHASERS
The
Brady Law requires that the FBI correct erroneous denials of firearms
purchases. And it requires that it reply, initially, within five days.
According to attorneys familiar with the problem, the FBI NEVER, EVER,
EVER complies with the law. In fact, it increasingly tells aggrieved
legitimate purchasers to "sue us" -- at a potential cost of tens of
thousands of dollars.
FIVE: EVEN UNDER CURRENT LAW, THE BRADY SYSTEM HAS BROKEN DOWN REPEATEDLY
Since
its inception, the FBI’s computer systems have often gone offline for
hours at a time -- sometimes for days. And when it fails on weekends,
it results in the virtual blackout of gun sales at gun shows across the
country.
According
to gun laws expert Alan Korwin, "With the NICS computer out of
commission, the only place you could legally buy a firearm -- in the
whole country -- was from a private individual, since all dealers were
locked out of business by the FBI’s computer problem."
Of course, now the
President wants to eliminate that last bastion of freedom!
Recently,
the FBI’s system went down on Black Friday, angering many gun dealers
and gun buyers around the country. “It means we can’t sell no damn
guns,” said Rick Lozier, a manager at Van Raymond Outfitters in Maine.
“If we can’t call it in, we can’t sell a gun. It’s cost us some money.”
The bottom line: Our goal is
to insure that Obama's politicized dog-and-pony show doesn't produce one word of new gun law. Not a single word.
And
the biggest danger right now is universal background checks -- which
would create a platform for national registration and confiscation.
We
would note that, in addition, Obama is attempting to illegally enact
gun control through unlawful and unconstitutional "executive actions." Click here to read about these.
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