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S. 843-Gun registration bill threatens your rights
April 27, 2009 | Tagged anti-gun Democrats, anti-Second Amendment, New gun registration bill, S. 843 (2009) | Leave a Comment
Senator Frank Lautenberg is at it again. You remember him. He is the New Jersey Democrat whose legislation retroactively destroyed the right to legal gun ownership for anyone who was ever judged guilty of a domestic violence misdemeanor. This time, he wants to register all gun sales at gun shows in the U.S.!
The problem with registration is that it is often a necessary prelude to gun confiscation. In 1938, the Nazis used Weimar Republic gun registration records to disarm Jews. ( See Dr. Stephen Halbrook’s scholarly article, here.)
In England, Australia, New York, and California, registration records have been used to punish law-abiding gun owners by the “legal” theft of their firearms. (See my posts under the Category: “Registration.”
In 1975, Charles Morgan, Director of the Washington, D. C. Office of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Crime, “I have not one doubt, even if I am in agreement with the National Rifle Association, that that kind of record keeping procedure (gun registration) is the first step to eventual confiscation under one administration or another.” Now comes anti-gun Senator Lautenberg to offer up American gun owners as sacrifices on the altar of Left-wing Socialism. It’s a short step from registration of gun show sales to a ban on all private sales of firearms.
Please tell all your friends who own guns to oppose this dangerous bill and contact your senators and representatives and ask them to oppose it. We must politely advise the Democrats in Congress that gun registration is as unacceptable to 80,000,000 American gun owners as the outright banning of certain classes of firearms. We must make the Democratic Leadership understand that their dramatic congressional losses of 1994 will be repeated in 2010, if they further infringe America’s birthright of freedom recognized by the Second Amendment.
The Constitution may not protect us. See here Dr. Eugene Volokh’s opinions regarding the probable constitutionality of waiting periods, taxes, fees, registration and licensing with regard to guns. It is up to us to exercise our right to free speech and beat back this serious national challenge to our right to armed self-defense against, crime, tyranny and genocide.
“Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them… The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those who they oppress.” (Fredrick Douglass, famous abolitionist, author, speaker, U.S. Marshal, son of a slave.)
We must first warn the Democrats and then make them pay a terrible political price for every infraction, no matter how small, of our natural, fundamental right to firearms’ ownership.
Def Mech