[marktwain]

This is likely to continue throughout the next two years.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Americans aren't buying 'assault weapons' just to have something to register

If the 0bama regime and other in DC were smart, (and they certainly have proven they aren't), they would look at this phenomena and see that there is much more at work here than people trying to get something that may soon become a rare commodity. They need to evaluate why.

[Perseverando]

[apillar]

Canada tried a gun registry. The gun owners of Canada sabotaged it by filing millions of "fake" registration forms and refusing to register their real guns. The registry which was originally suppose to cost less than $20 million, eventually ballooned to over $2 billion as they tried to scrub the fake registrations from the system. Last year thy finally gave up and dropped the registration requirement...

I would like to think American gun owners could do even better...

[Travis McGee]

Dear Mr. Security Agent: A letter to law enforcement concerning gun control

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2975695/posts

A decade ago I wrote the novel Enemies Foreign and Domestic, a tale about how tragic events involving the misuse of firearms can be used by an evil administration to misinform and mold public opinion to support its malign anti-freedom policies.

No, my novel was not predicting “Operation Fast and Furious” a decade before that covert policy of “pursuing gun control under the radar,” (which was President Obama’s explanation to Sarah Brady for his lack of overt political action). That inter-agency gun-walking policy, remember, resulted in the deaths of over four hundred Mexicans and two U.S. federal agents, murdered in an effort to discredit the Second Amendment and lead to more restrictive gun control laws in America. (If Nixon—or any Republican, for that matter—were in office, the intentional bloodbath would be called Murdergate, but today’s collaborating Woodwards and Bernsteins are in on the cover-up.)

[muir_redwoods]

What would prompt someone to comply with a registration law? The government would be saying, “we don’t know who has one so tell us now if you do in case we decide to take it from you later”. As an example, the vast majority of otherwise law-abiding Americans would not report as income, $500 they won in a private bet. If such an order came down it would be interesting to watch the sale of 6” plastic sewer pipe and end caps. I understand that some people have discovered that sowing bits of scrap metal on their land makes metal detectors a bit less useful. Further, burying plastic bags full of scrap metal will produce a lot of false positives. Just some thoughts.

[BuffaloJack]

Why do we use the leftist coined term “Assault Weapons”?
Until the 70s we just called these firearms centerfire rifles.

[lurk]

There will be more mass shootings, and the pitch of the discussion will rise with each one.

Leaving aside the constitutionality of any gun law, I am curious about how they would intend to go after the newly-banned firearms in the urban zones and the rural expanse. Good luck with that. This seems to be a proposed law aimed at white suburbia.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

the legislation would "merely mean registration" -- a kind of license -- which for the uninformed voter may seem fair -- and even more "fair" the license can be revoked if the owner acts "irresponsibly." The Second Amendment remains but..

I say that just as the "Fairness Doctrine" was used by liberal/progressives to restrict the First Amendment without having to repeal it --

• "You might also think that they would recall the notorious Fairness Doctrine, which was used to 'harass and intimidate' right-wing radio broadcasts, in the words of one unabashed Kennedy-Johnson operative. When that censorious policy was ended in 1987 by former broadcaster Ronald Reagan, there was an explosion of talk formats that gave voice to popular concerns (for a while, Rush Limbaugh even billed himself as equal time)."
• As reported by Fred Friendly in his book appropriately entitled The Good Guys, the Bad Guys, and the First Amendment, this was part of a "massive strategy . . . to challenge and harass the right-wing broadcasters and hope that the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited, and decide it was too expensive to continue." This strategy was said to have been successful in almost all respects.

-- the liberals today are attempting to restrict the Second Amendment by flooding the nation of uninformed voters with screams of "assault weapons" hiding under beds and everywhere just waiting to shoot them.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Everybody who plans to register their AR raise your hand. Thats what I thought. :)

[longtermmemmory]

these are politicians, they would most likely compromise anything to have their pork project funded. Even the second.

Or they do one of the “I will vote yes as long as I can save face by voting no...” sleazy deals.

[Oatka]

Feinstein's . . . bill would merely mean a requirement for registration with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE).

Ask her to explain how guns could be confiscated WITHOUT registration. You gotta know who has them and where they are.