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Universal Background Check | 28 | 73.68% | |
Assault Weapons Ban | 1 | 2.63% | |
Ban/limit Online Sales of Guns and Ammo | 2 | 5.26% | |
Firearm Purchase Limits | 6 | 15.79% | |
Excise Tax on Guns And Ammo | 1 | 2.63% | |
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November 13, 2020, 05:21 PM | #51 |
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"UBCs are bad and here's why, lets say you're going hunting with a buddy and you're lending him a gun to go hunting with, with UBCs your friend would have to go through a background check just to borrow your gun and then you would have to go through a background check to get it back."
Once the Socialists take over and start banning guns, do you really think they will still permit hunting? This is about power hungry condescending elitists trying to erase not only our Constitution, but our very culture and way of life. Hunting, wood burning stoves, ATV's, snowmobiles, fossil fuel burning vehicles, rural living, private ownership of land, "Freedom" as we know it... its ALL on their list. Globalization & Agenda 21, not a conspiracy theory, its happening... research it. |
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If you mean each considered the possibility, then yes every war college staff plays all kinds of "what if" games... There was a quote attributed to Yamamoto (debunked as no proof could be found he ever said it) about how "You cannot invade America, there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass" He may never had said it, but he certainly knew the possibility of our industrial capacity and military potential, once we got organized and focused. He promised his superiors he could "run wild for 6 months, after that I can promise nothing" and that is the way things worked out. Back to UBC for a moment.. Quote:
The issue with this is that since there are specified exemptions, that means the law applies all the rest of the time, right?? Like, in your home, for example?? There is no clarification of what is, and is not a transfer requiring the background check, which is one of the points the law is being challenged over. The UBC concept has a SMALL degree of merit, but the proposals we are offered of imposed on us already as law are written like crap, criminalizing common everyday LEGAL behavior due to overly vague language. SO, if you support the concept of UBC's, be sure to READ THE FINE PRINT, because you might be supporting a bill that makes you a criminal for handing a friend a gun to look at in your own home, makes him a criminal for accepting it and then moves you into FELON when he gives is back and you take your own property without both of you and the gun being sanctified by an FFL (at his location during regular business hours) running, (and you passing) the background check required by the new "holy writ" of the law. Its a BAD THING...don't be fooled by a benign title and LIES about what it will do.
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November 13, 2020, 06:17 PM | #53 |
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And never forget that these laws are the frame that an unelected bureaucracy has the power to hang regulations with the force of law upon.
Like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. Cases in point? How about the ITAR rules affecting your local Gunsmith,or AR pistol brace rulings. You can fall asleep a lawful citizen and wake up a felon due to a rule change. |
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For heaven sakes, CANADA had a 1921 plan for invading the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenc...itish%20Empire. |
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Question 5Whiskey on purchase limits:
Are we talking total number of weapons (ie.; New Jersey limit: 5 guns = prohibited arsenal) or I can only buy 1 gun a week limit?
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November 16, 2020, 06:31 PM | #61 |
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So, could any legal scholar folk tell me what could a POTUS do gun control wise with Executive Orders that would stand SCOTUS scrutiny?
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Not a legal scholar, but it's my understanding he (she) has very broad powers regarding import restrictions. And that's about it. But you are assuming the SC will hear a gun case. They don't take them very often.
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Here's two articles by Cass R. Sunstein, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, talking about Executive Orders:
"Here's How Executive Orders Actually Work-Hint: Slowly" https://www.twincities.com/2020/11/1...k-hint-slowly/ "There’s Nothing Nefarious About Executive Orders" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...-not-nefarious Just putting this out for information. I too, would be interested in what the legal folk on this site have to say. |
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For example, in Greece citizens are only allowed to own two handguns. To be allowed even that many, they must shoot in 'X' competitions every year to keep their license active. Reloading is not allowed, and if you think ammo prices in the U.S. are high now -- they ain't nuthin' compared to what ammunition costs in Greece. https://ezine.m1911.org/showthread.p...l-Focus-Greece
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I have this book that is a translation of an interview with one of the Japanese High Command during WWII. That's where I got the information.
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https://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/misquoting-yamamoto/ http://everyblade.us/ https://www.quora.com/Did-Isoroku-Ya...-grass?share=1
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What you see in Greece and most of Europe is broad acceptance of government preemption of harm through constraining liberty at the outset, instead of post harm penalty we have in the US, and as a result regulatory regime on almost all of civil and business spheres that is Orwellian in volume -- and in southern Europe -- disobeyed or end run as a matter of habit. For example I had the "fixer" at our Athens office (and any corporate office of more than five people has a full time local hire fixer to deal with beurocracy in S. Europe) handle my shotgun license. I don't know, nor want to, if or what portion of the fixing involved bribes or simply expertise in the regulations. What I do know is with EU wide "conformity: rules coming into effect gun ownership in the EU, even formerly loose enforcement places like Greece, is and will get harder and more prohibitive. Quote:
I think the antis want to stop transfer and possession alright -- they make it difficult for anyone to transfer knowledge. Why? because people who dont know about guns at all are the most likely to see them as a totemic power, fetish instead of what they are, a tool. You and I and all of us here know that demystifying firearms makes people more accepting, and for example certainly makes younger persons more safety conscious. But for the other side gun knowledge means gun acceptance and they see it as viral and therefore it needs to be prevented. In terms of another subject in this thread: Executive orders in the US, or more to the point on presidential power -- executive orders, agency appointments, promulgation of regulatory law, and longer term, judicial appointments-- there is a whole lot Biden can do. Can he do AWB with that? No. Can he do scores of things that make lawful gun ownership more expensive, complex and exposed to legal sanction? Yes. There are currently about 9,000 plum job appointments, meaning federal executive jobs given by a presidential to politically aligned persons, de facto jobs that are part of the Prudential administration. At least a hundred impact 2A to some degree or anther. There certainly can be administration decisions impacting 855, 80%, braces, whether if you ever smoked dope, even where legal, disqualifies you, whatever. On the unsourced Yamamoto quote: We should avoid repeating the quote since it is unsourced and harms credibly. But on the other side of the equation we know that potential and actual military occupiers have long (and I mean millennia) considered the level to which a subject population is armed, and in virtually every known case made confiscation of even hunting firearms owned by civilian in occupied counties a top level prohibition. We are talking summary death penalty offense. When the Nazis went in anywhere pretty much the first thing on the posters they put up were: "would all the Jews come down to the town square tomorrow," and "everyone and anyone with a firearm turn in their guns immediately, or face the death penalty." The Japanese issued summery laws on firearm possession in the Philippines, occupied China, Indonesia, malaysia etc. And even the US occupation authorities made this illegal. it is a obvious that the armament level of a civilian population was a major concern of anyone including the Japanese Imperial Staff. |
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When we say if we had to swallow one more, is the we those of us that are here and aware of what Justice Ginsburg raised as the slippery slope , or are we better off thinking what the other side can claim gun owners most accept?
If the latter it is clearly by the polls UBC. Now there is in polling here are known and often major inaccuracies, a) people answering the way they think pollster wants to hear; b) phrasing of question different over time and different polls making establishing trends difficult ands c) people being ignorant of many aspects of the issue. But in this case how much can the surveys/polls really be off in showing UBC is the least resisted of the menu of gun control? I think so much of this depends on one thing: Georgia in about five weeks. If both seats in Georgia go Democratic than there is a plausible argument that will be made that something will need to be thrown under the bus. I dont agree that anything should be, but it is a plausible argument I think we need to keep in mind that there is no workable scheme of national UBC that doesn't invovle a national registry, meaning we are not talking aobut UPC per se, but also establishing a national registry, which has several negative for us, and which is a goal of the other side even more helpful to them long term than UBC alone. WE should also be aware of the successful game our side played, twice, on killing UBC by saying ok, as long as we have quid pro quo of national reciprocity on carry, which poisoned pilled UBC nicely. so I say when we ask which will we accept, it should be -- in trade for -- in order to set the conversation as a give and take |
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Because they don't describe the actuality of the measure, usually only describing it by its title. And THAT leaves out a whole bunch of vital information. Do you think they would find the same degree of public approval if they told people everything that is in the law(s)?? I don't. How do you think people would react if they were told that in order to hand a friend one of your guns to look at, you would both have to go to the local FFL dealer, (in person, WITH the gun) and pay him "no more than $35" to process the required transfer?? AND, do it AGAIN when he gives you your own property back?? Quote:
OTHER THAN to create a registry, there is no need or point to linking the person checked with ANY SPECIFIC gun. The other side simply will not accept that, or even discuss it. THEIR PLAN THEIR WAY is the only thing they will talk about. There is no reason any govt agency needs to have on file that J.Doe (SSN, address, physical descriptors, etc) owns/ is purchasing S&W ser# 12345. They can run a full records check and determine if J.Doe is or is not a prohibited person without any gun information at all. And if you believe in the idea of UBCs, that is what they should do, and ALL that they should do. But that is not acceptable to those with their own vision of what UBCs should do, which includes the possibility of creating a national registration database. They flat out LIE about what a background check can do, and when pressed, often default to "if the regular check isn't enough then we need an enhanced/extended check" which means ... nothing, really. Because a "deeper" or "enhanced" check won't stop the things a regular check won't stop, either. When asked (as VP) why the govt didn't prosecute any significant number of people who broke the law trying to buy guns when they were prohibited, from his own lips, I saw Biden say "We don't have time for that". Does make you wonder about how much we need new laws when the Fed Govt isn't going to "waste its time" prosecuting people who break existing Fed law. It should. Its not like Federal cops are running short of things to arrest people for, is it??
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Let's say an exec had issued an EO that bump stock would be considered NFA items, but that one could avoid the tax by turning the instrument of mass death into the state. If 85% turn them in before the Sup Ct issues its decision, that EO looks like a significant harm even if everything works. That doesn't reach the issue of whether the supreme court's posture will change in a way adverse to the right.
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The OP should have added the option of: Not one step further
I will never agree or take part if any of those options. And there is already a healthy excise tax on new guns and ammo.
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