Posted on 08/27/2018 5:02:07 AM PDT by marktwain
In the hysteria about 3D printed guns, the words “unlicensed and untraceable” are thrown about promiscuously and irresponsibly. They are used to imply disaster is upon us, that some new scary threshold has been breached.
They are scare tactics based on ignorance. Most of the 400 million plus firearms in the United States are unlicensed (unregistered) and untraceable. It has been that way for decades, hundreds of years. It has not made a significant difference in the crime rate. It will not make a significant difference in the future. Separate from gun licensing, there are background checks at retail purchase for most guns in the United States. Only a few states require background checks on private sales of guns. Background checks do not make a difference.
“Unlicensed and untraceable” is scary only if you think most guns are “licensed (registered)” and that “traceability” has anything to do with preventing crime.
National registration of guns has been illegal for decades. Only a few authoritarian states require registration of firearms. Those states are California, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York. The registration schemes in Hawaii and California apply to all guns. The requirements for registration of long guns are fairly recent. Most guns that were unregistered before registration was required remain unregistered, and are grandfathered in. New York required registration of handguns only. Recently they required registration of some semi-automatic rifles. The law has been ignored by over 80% of the people affected.
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Registration = Confiscation.
And that is as it should be with a free people! The Second Amendment is a RIGHT, it's not a PRIVILEGE! Rights are not licensed or registered!
Many grandchildren of WWII veterans have various arms in their attics, sten guns were a favored booty, along with broom handled Mausers,Luger pistols, Schmeiser MP 40 machine pistols.
Tens of thousands of WWII veterans worked out ways to return with their arms and get them home from their bases.
And almost none of them are registered.
Prophetic.
Dang,,
I’ll be checking my kids Attics!
Hundreds of Millions of U.S. Guns are Unlicensed and Untraceable
Just the way it should be, we all know how to do our part.
What you note is “the list”
rather than a confrontation with police, there will be extermination of those with names on “the list”
Kind of like people living in this country illegally and receiving freebies paid for by the U.S. taxpayers. Unlicensed and untraceable. No voter I.D. No Social Security number. Nothing!
Really ???? I’m gobsmacked !
Once VAT Value Added Tax is implemented, your unregistered guns and any other contraband will be confiscated upon discovery by your assigned IRS Personal Property Inventory Squad. Depending on party affiliations and social media activity, the occupant(s) may be arrested.
Getting home with just their weapons?
Hell, I had a friend (passed away a few years ago) who brought Hermann Göring's private dinnerware back with him to North Carolina.
It’s the end of the world and we know it...
Hey, that could be a song!
/s /s /s
No offense, but that’s not how VAT works.
Hey Dean. The biggest relief I had this morning, is the picture of all those handguns with tie-downs.
It’s a good thing, too, because those guns would just jump up and start shooting people.
That’s a feature, not a bug.
Hell, I had a friend (passed away a few years ago) who brought Hermann Göring’s private dinnerware back with him to North Carolina.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You can imagine the quantity of light arms brought back in secret.And many of them are fully automatic.
A very close friend of our family, a Spitfire pilot based out of France, brought back an MP-40 Schmeiser. His son has it today. Unregistered.Its a full auto weapon. Its safely tucked away where it can never be seized or detected.
“If armed resistance to gun control occurs, the resisters will not be hunting police. They will be hunting those who politically pushed for a disarmed population.”
The police will be very hesitant to try to confiscate them after a couple on every police force die trying. Like he said, we won’t be after the police, we’ll be after to ones who made the laws to try to disarm us.
Our enemy is not ignorant... They are wise and cunning.. If you think your enemy is a fool, your going to make serious mistakes and your going to lose.. :(
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