Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include:Read the write up on the Assault Weapons Bill that Feinstein is going to put before the Senate here.
- Background check of owner and any transferee;
- Type and serial number of the firearm;
- Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;
- Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and
- Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration
One question though.
Do these people know what they're risking here?
You can have all the impassioned liberals from both coasts screaming for a gun ban but the rest of the country is not going to take this lying down! I don't want it but I really would expect trouble if this thing is passed. I hope they realize it before its too late but if they don't then this is going to get real nasty.
I hope someone in Washington wakes up before its too late, but I don't expect it. Additionally you have companies like Troy Defense that were expecting to simply modify their weapons to fit a new ban and now that they can't you can expect tons of money to flow into the pro-gun effort.
*Syria is on fire and about to implode...
*The economy is still weak...
*We're spending money as a nation that we don't have...
*Healthcare is about to be taken over and the costs are going to skyrocket...
And many other issues that I can't recall at this time. All that and they pick a gun control fight?
They campaign like champions and govern like idiots!
Hell the Obama administration probably broke out the champagne when they heard the news of all the dead kids in the latest shooting.
ReplyDeleteYou saw how fast Obama punted it to a comitee. Reid won't touch it.Some previous Democratic freinds of the NRA are now going to have their head on a chopping lock.
ReplyDeleteStories like the one below make me feel better about the outcome of all of this. Typical media overreach.
N.Y. newspaper posts gun permit map, starts nasty online battle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ny-newspaper-posts-gun-permit-map-starts-nasty-online-battle/2012/12/26/747ae7d6-4fb0-11e2-950a-7863a013264b_allComments.html?ctab=all_&
Just think of all the criminal lives that will be save now they know which houses don't have firearms. First break in in that area and somebody gets hurt or worse killed because the crim recce'd using that list somebody should sue.
DeleteIf it comes to that, I'm not registering mine.
ReplyDeleteYou have nothing to worry about if you're not a criminal.
ReplyDeleteElaborate.
DeleteThe real question IMHO... Could any of the proposed legislation have stopped the Connecticut school shooting or saved the lives of the children, if it had been in effect?
ReplyDeleteShort answer: no
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ReplyDeleteEXACTLY! now is the time to get in shape, write your congressman and do all the stuff that you've been putting off.
DeleteThere are tens of millions of 'assault weapons', billions of full-capacity magazines. I shudder to think of the bureaucracy and enforcement techniques needed to enforce such a ban.
ReplyDeleteThis has the capacity to ignite a massive wave of civil disobedience by those who refuse to comply with any such law.
And if people start disobeying one unjust law, how many more unjust laws will people begin to question and refuse to obey? How many taxes would go unpaid?
what really kills me is the regional nature of the support and opposition of this bill.
Deleteif you live on the east or west coast you're more than likely to support it. if you don't then you won't.
additionally you can pretty much line up support and opposition behind who you voted for (or if you didn't vote who you would have).
this will never work and on reflection i'm wondering if this isn't just a massive over reach so that when they just reduce magazine capacity everyone is happy as a peach when they should still be outraged.
Well, the thought crossed my mind as well. The Feinstein bill could be a start point for negotiations so a watered down 'compromise' would be political palatable and any opposition to it painted as 'unreasonable'.
ReplyDeleteSupport is also tricky. In theory people might support 'common sense' gun-control with no strings attached. these same people might support lower taxes in theory, but start asking if they want to go without social security, paved roads or a local fire dept, and they might change their mind about lower taxes.
If we start attaching the strings to gun control, so to speak, by asking so-called ban supporters, if they willing to fund SWAT teams storming into their friends and neighbors homes to impose a ban, would they still support them? If they start killing once law-abiding citizens because those citizens refused to obey unjust laws, would they still support unjust laws?
good points and the tax argument is also an important one.
Deleteobama care is about to hit and people are going to be surprised by the rise in their rates. add to it the president always talking about revenue and i can see as a compromise a gun tax just like they did to cigarettes....but thats down the road.
i believe that most people i know just won't follow the rules and during the Clinton gun ban remember that there was a little talked about tax revolt tossed in. people always forget that part but remember the tax amnesty that came about?
this year is gonna make last year look tame and last year was wild.