Posted on 12/24/2012 8:40:00 PM PST by neverdem
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that she and other gun control advocates are considering a law that would create a program to purchase weapons from gun owners, a proposal that could be compulsory.
“We are also looking at a buy-back program,” Feinstein said today in a press conference. “Now, again, this is a work in progress so these are ideas in the development.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., already discussed the possibility of a buy-back law for his state, but he made clear it would be a forced buyback.
“Confiscation could be an option,” Cuomo told The New York Times yesterday when discussing semiautomatic weapons. “Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option — keep your gun but permit it.”
Australia implemented a mandatory buyback program in 1996 following a mass shooting. “The law banned semiautomatic and automatic rifles and shotguns and put in place a mandatory buy-back program for newly banned weapons,” USA Today recalls. “The buyback led to the destruction of 650,000 gun.”
Some liberal activists want the policy imitated here. “That would be like destroying 50 million guns in America today,” the Center for American Progress’ Matt Miller wrote after noting that Australia eliminated 20 percent of the weapons in the country. “The Australian ‘outlaw and repurchase’ option is one approach. But if Congress balks at banning certain weapons entirely, it could make gun owners an offer they can’t refuse. Instead of $200 a gun, Uncle Sam might offer $500.”
Feinstein also said that that former President Bill Clinton had volunteered, on a phone call, to help her get a new gun law passed.
“[Clinton] was talking about the battle back in 1993 with the bill that, interestingly enough, was introduced and passed within the year fo 1993 and went into effect in 1994,” she said. “And, of course, he was president and the White House came alive and was very very helpful in enabling the passage of that bill both in the senate and in the House. So, to have him part of the team again is really quote special for us.”
If you come for mine, better bring yours.
He could get a severe headache, thinking about that too much. It's really bad to get fixated like that.
Updated Sat Mar 3, 2012 12:15am AEDT Police say highway patrolman Senior Constable David Rixon was shot several times outside of a block of flats at Coledale in Tamworth about 8:00am (AEDT) on Friday.
Senior Constable Rixon, who had over 20 years of experience in the force, was taken to Tamworth Hospital for treatment but died soon after.
Another man who was shot is under police guard in hospital undergoing emergency treatment.
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Two women taken hostage during an armed hold-up at a Gold Coast pub, in which a police officer was shot and critically injured, are walking detectives through the crime scene.
Plain clothes Senior Constable Damian Leeding, 35, remains in a critical condition in the intensive care unit at Gold Coast Hospital after being shot in the face with a sawn-off shotgun at the Pacific Pines Tavern late last night.
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Crews is the first police officer in New South Wales killed while on duty since 2002
Australian Police continued to have a heavy presence in a western Sydney suburb today following a drug raid which resulted in the death of a colleague.
Officers from Middle Eastern Organised Crimes Squad were executing a search warrant when Constable William Crews, 26, was shot in his neck and head.
Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/Sydney-police-officer-shot-dead/tabid/417/articleID/175231/Default.aspx#ixzz2G4px6jV2
7News : Sydney home sprayed by 'machine gun' fire
News video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8vlFw9XIcY
There won't be a prosecutor left to prosecute the prosecutions.
It hasn't been fashionable, in the last 40 years, to dwell on the Revolutionary War's patriotic "cowboys", who took irregular violence to the Tories and British by stealth and opportunistic attacks.
It was thanks to them and the Militia that General Gage and other British commanders were largely confined to big towns or, on campaign, to their camps. It was worth their lives to take a pee in the woods.
“Voluntary buy-backs are fine in my book. I don’t think people should be forced to own guns, and if they already own guns, they should have a way to get rid of those guns, “
Well let them sell them on their own. The feds have no business using my tax dollars to fund this. We should be cutting spending and yet these liberals want to spend even more.
It does put the size of the debt in perspective, doesn’t it?
“You don’t think the gov’t can figure out your Internet Protocol address?”
I’m sure they can eventually find me but why make it so easy. I’m hoping to avoid the first wave of arrests.
CC
I’m on the TOR, underneath layers of proxies. Let them come and find me.
“These people are exactly the reason for the Constitution. They are the very people our founders feared.”
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“Dad, while you were taking pictures after we had lunch, Mr. Mann was telling me about what happened to him during the war.” Henry and his father were down in the workshop, where Henry was cleaning his guns. Walter Bowman looked up at his son.
“Hm.” Walter had never heard of Irwin Mann talking about that part of his past.
“He was telling me about how the police came and took him and his wife away, and he never saw her or any of his family again. He said that Hitler killed six million Jews like him, and would have killed all of them if the Americans hadn’t fought against the Germans and beat them.”
“That’s probably true.”
“He talked about how none of them had any way to fight back. He said first the police took away the guns that were like the ones the soldiers used, then they took away ALL their guns. He said he hoped I was always a good shot with as many kinds of guns as possible, in case the same thing ever happened here.” Henry looked very upset. “Dad, I love shooting, but I don’t want to kill anyone. Could something like what happened in Germany ever happen here?” he asked.
Walter Bowman, the history teacher, looked his son in the eye. Want to take this question for me, Uncle Cam? he said silently. Finally he answered.
“It probably won’t happen here,” he said, and mentally added the word again. “I certainly pray that it doesn’t. We have a nation with the kind of freedoms that people in most other countries can only dream of. But to answer your question accurately, yes, it could happen here.” And it killed your uncle.
“There are always men who want more and more power, and history has shown us that these kind of men will take all they can from the people they control. Sometimes they are finally stopped when the people fight back. Sometimes the people don’t fight back, and they slowly lose their freedoms until it’s too late.
(Unintended Consequences, by John Ross, page 151)
Out here in the country,the thugs won’t hear the shot that killed them.
Never going to happen. Cold, dead fingers.......
Molon labe
You first, Senator.
On second thought, I’m sticking with “...the cost of it would double, at least, the national debt.”
Remember, this is a federal government program we’re talking about here. When you factor in the cost of pork, graft, corruption and who knows how many new government agencies with all the trappings to carry out the mandate, your $50,000 per gun sounds a tad on the conservative side as an estimate.
At any rate, DiFi’s just flapping her gums. Her legislation would never pass, even in the Senate but it’s been an amusing topic of discussion.
Merry Christmas
“could be compulsory”
Well, good luck with that.”””
IF Di Fi is looking for the tipping point to start another civil war, she might just have found the reason that could do that.
If individual states want to do this, let them waste their
money.
if they already own guns, they should have a way to get rid of those guns, since we don’t want them to throw them out “””
Almost any decent gun shop will BUY any guns you wish to remove.
LOL. 250 million guns in America and counting. How many centuries would it take to buy back all the guns? And the bad guys won’t be selling their’s. In fact, some people will be selling their guns to the highest bidder, i.e., the bad guys.
What other than a Federal program would it take to put an armed police officer in every school?
The NRA is no friend to liberty. Given Sandy Hook, expect to see a revival of their support for the Our Lady of Peace Act. They are also on record having supported limiting magazine sizes (NRA Director says five rounds is enough).
"The National Rifle Association has been in support of workable, enforceable gun control legislation since its very inception in 1871." — NRA Executive Vice President Franklin L. Orth, NRA's American Rifleman Magazine, March 1968, P. 22
As we saw with FIST, the government willfully violates the law to use computerized background checks as equivalent to gun registration. The NRA continues to support background checks. As far as I am concerned, a background check is equivalent to national registration. So is the membership list. So is posting on this thread. Take your head out of your butt and get real.
Only if they give me enough to buy a newer model.
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