Right now in most parts of America you can acquire a firearm, keep it and never let the government know you have it just like you can keep a sword, a butcher knife, a baseball bat, an extra television, survival food, a jar of candy, a library of books or a two liter of soda. But Harry Reid wants to end some of that.
He thinks that the government has the right to know who has firearms, and who doesn't. Now why would the government need to know such things? Sure, we need to prevent criminals and crazy people from getting guns, but the only way to be certain that those who shouldn't have them never get them is to remove all guns from everywhere, jail anybody who owns one and refuses to turn it in isn't it? I mean, if there are any guns out there anywhere and a criminal or crazy person wants to get one, they will find a way, don't you think?
So next week when the Senate begins to debate and vote on the innocent sounding "universal background check" legislation, please pay careful attention and don't get in the van with the man offering you candy. What Reid proposes is the first step toward gun registry, and of course gun registry is the first step toward gun confiscation.
Congress has attended carefully to the concern about a federal gun registry in the past. Thus, for example, section 103(i) of Public Law 103-159 (18 U.S.C. 922 note) regarding the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) provides:
No department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States may–
(1) require that any record or portion thereof generated by the system established under this section be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or political subdivision thereof; or
(2) use the system established under this section to establish any system for the registration of firearms, firearm owners, or firearm transactions or dispositions, except with respect to persons, prohibited by section 922(g) or (n) of title 18, United States Code, or State law, from receiving a firearm.
Unfortunately, the Reid legislation deviates from this strong guarantee that protects against misuse of the NICS process to start a national firearms registry.
In a departure from section 103(i) of Public Law 103-159, section 122(a)(4) of the Reid bill enacts a new section 922(t)(4)(B)(ii) of title 18 of the U.S. Code to direct Attorney General Eric Holder to issue regulations “requiring a record of transaction of any transfer that occurred between an unlicensed transferor and an unlicensed transferee.” The legislation does not define the term “record of transaction,” does not specify any limitations on who creates and who keeps the record of transaction, and does not explicitly incorporate the existing prohibition on a national firearms registry.
Thus, the loose language could be construed to allow the Department of Justice itself (or another agency specified by the Attorney General) to keep centralized records of who received what guns and where, by sale or gift from one individual to another.[Heritage.org]
People need to wake up. The concept of gun confiscation is not lost on the leaders of the left.
- Senator Feinstein: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban, picking up [every gun]… Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in.”
- Governor Cuomo: "“Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option."
- Ill. Congresswoman Schakowsky: "I don't think [a gun ban] is precluded."
- Attorney General Eric Holder: "We need to brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."
- Obama Justice Department: Gun control doesn’t work and the only way to stop gun violence is a complete ban and the universal confiscation of all firearms.
And don't think it can never happened. It already has.
Here's what you can do.
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