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BREAKING: Dianne Feinstein Introduces Federal Bill to Confiscate Guns
thetruthaboutguns.com ^ | 6-6-2014 | Nick Leghorn

Posted on 06/07/2014 3:05:44 PM PDT by servo1969

We all saw this one coming. Two weeks after Elliot Roger stabbed three people and shot three more, a trio of legislators from California (including Dianne Feinstein) have proposed a new federal law called “The Pause for Safety Act” which would allow anyone at any time to seek a “firearms restraining order” against an individual to prevent them from purchasing any new firearms and also confiscate any firearms they may already own. From Barbara Boxer’s website, here are the details we have at the moment:

The new legislation – The Pause for Safety Act – will include the following provisions:

• One, it would help ensure that families and others can go to court and seek a gun violence prevention order to temporarily stop someone close to them who poses a danger to themselves or others from purchasing a firearm.
• Two, it would help ensure that families and others can also seek a gun violence prevention warrant that would allow law enforcement to take temporary possession of firearms that have already been purchased if a court determines that the individual poses a threat to themselves or others.
• Three, it would help ensure that law enforcement makes full use of all existing gun registries when assessing a tip, warning or request from a concerned family member or other close associate.

The scariest part of this proposed legislation is the idea that anyone can ask for one of these restraining orders. So, for example, if a gun control activist got ahold of a sign-in sheet from a local gun range, they could start spamming the judicial system with these “gun violence prevention warrants,” claiming that they believe these individuals to be about to commit a crime, and send a squad of police officers to their doorstep to confiscate their firearms. For their own good, of course.

Now, what was that line about no one wanting to take your guns?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; abuseofpower; banglist; boxer; feinstein; guncontrol; molonlabe; restrainingorder; secondamendment; suckitdifi
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To: servo1969

This won’t pass during the current federal congress, but you can be sure CA will pass this, followed by other blues states.
And you can be sure it will be abused wherever and whenever it is passed into law.


41 posted on 06/07/2014 4:11:36 PM PDT by umgud
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To: servo1969

I am so sick of these idiots. It’s time they saw clearly what an armed populace is all about.


42 posted on 06/07/2014 4:11:40 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: servo1969

Adolf Hitler: In order to control a nation, one must disarm its citizens


43 posted on 06/07/2014 4:14:44 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: servo1969

Redundant.


44 posted on 06/07/2014 4:16:22 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: servo1969
I just glanced at the article. Sounds like PSA is coming back. Whoda thunk it? Sounds like good news to me. I miss good old PSA.


45 posted on 06/07/2014 4:20:25 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: servo1969
Next step will be to make this an ex parte roceeding.
46 posted on 06/07/2014 4:23:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: servo1969

Mark


47 posted on 06/07/2014 4:23:59 PM PDT by sport
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To: InterceptPoint

Those were the days, my friend.


48 posted on 06/07/2014 4:26:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Bryan24

As irritating as Slimestein is with her endless gun control BS it isn’t going to happen.


49 posted on 06/07/2014 4:30:07 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: servo1969; All
"One, it would help ensure that families and others can go to court and seek a gun violence prevention order to temporarily stop someone close to them who poses a danger to themselves or others from purchasing [emphasis added] a firearm."

Also, note that Congress has for years ignored legislative attempts by patriot lawmakers to require Congress to self-police itself by requiring all bills to reference constitutional clauses which give Congress the power to make a given bill in the first place.

The constitutionality of federal gun-control laws for civilians are extremely questionable for the following reasons.

First, the Supreme Court has historically clarified that one of the reasons for the 2nd Amendment is to prevent the federal government from making laws which limit citizens from using guns to exercise the natural right for citizens to protect themselves.

"The second and tenth counts are equally defective. The right there specified is that of "bearing arms for a lawful purpose." This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed, but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress. This is one of the amendments that has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government, leaving the people to look for their protection against any violation by their fellow citizens of the rights it recognizes [emphases added], to what is called, in The City of New York v. Miln, 11 Pet. 139, the "powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what was, perhaps, more properly called internal police," "not surrendered or restrained" by the Constitution of the United States." —United States v. Cruikshank, 1875.

In fact, the Supreme Court has relatively recently clarified that police protection is not a constitutionally protected right.

The Right to Self-Defense

Finally, where the constitutionally of all federal gun laws are concerned, other than having the Article I, Section 8 responsibility to maintain the armed forces, it is disturding that Constitution-ignoring socialist FDR is regarded as the father of modern gun-control laws for civilians.

Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control

The bottom line about constitutional gun rights is the following. The Founding States had made the 2nd Amendment in part to clarify that citizens were expected to provide their own police protection imo.

50 posted on 06/07/2014 4:30:51 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: servo1969

The Detroitization by the DemocRat party continues. Feinswine is a filthy fascist.


51 posted on 06/07/2014 4:32:28 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: servo1969

The other alternative of course is for you leftist to raise some decent kids who would know killing people is wrong. Apparently that is asking too much.


52 posted on 06/07/2014 4:39:37 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: servo1969

lessaiz le bon temps roule !!


53 posted on 06/07/2014 4:44:47 PM PDT by onona (IÂ’ve pretty much given up on sanity returning.)
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To: servo1969

At least if Dianne Feinstein’s law gets passed, Americans will finally be able to determine if the relatives they think are crazy really are.

All we’ll have to do is turn in a relative to the cops who we think might be a menace to society, have the cops confiscate his guns, and if the relative really is crazy he’ll be so angry he’ll start screaming and come at us with a knife and stab us to death.


54 posted on 06/07/2014 4:45:25 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: servo1969
DiFi's security detail will be exempt, of course.
55 posted on 06/07/2014 4:46:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: servo1969; null and void; Velveeta; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; Myrddin; MamaDearest; autumnraine; ...

Thanks, Nully.

56 posted on 06/07/2014 4:47:00 PM PDT by LucyT (If you're not paranoid, you don't know what's going on.)
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To: LucyT

What about knives, scissors, forks, lighters, matches, poison, ropes, shoelaces, shovels, axes.....

She’s wacko enough for people to believe her.


57 posted on 06/07/2014 4:56:58 PM PDT by azishot
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To: Bryan24

>> the liberals are pushing everything AND you never know what some idiot judge will do

Yes, but it’s the Left that is doing the pushing, and many dutiful liberals going along for the ride.


58 posted on 06/07/2014 5:03:41 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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These anti-Constitutional roaches require guns to take guns. So they’re not really against guns.


59 posted on 06/07/2014 5:04:53 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: servo1969

This bill aint going nowhere. Liberals are on the run on the issue of guns. It’s one of a couple of issues where our side is actually winning. However, we have to remain vigilant as always.


60 posted on 06/07/2014 5:06:20 PM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
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