There’s more than a touch of hypocrisy in the recent exploitation of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy by the MSM, Obama, and the Democrats. All the wanton murders due to Fast and Furious (estimated at 300 or more) do not appear equal to one life lost at Sandy Hook. The administration paid criminals to illegally arm drug cartels in Mexico, choosing to supply them with none other than “assault weapons”, mostly AK-47′s with some Barrett .50 caliber BMG rifles and a few hand grenades thrown in for good measure.
The result was the deaths of federal agents Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata, along with another thirteen American citizens and several hundred Mexicans. Another disgusting milepost for 2012 is the 500th homicide in Chicago, Obama’s and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s hometown. This sad statistic was achieved when Nathaniel Jackson was shot and died at the scene on December 27th at 9:00 P.M. as he stood on a street corner.
The MSM has largely been silent about these tragedies, choosing instead to concentrate on the victims at Newtown. In the process, they overlook at least 440 child gunshot victims with 60 fatalities in Chicago this past year alone.
This brings us to Senator Feinstein’s attempt to revive the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 with her recently drafted gun control legislation. She will introduce this revamped legislation to the Senate in January in an effort to resolve our supposed epidemic of violence as revealed by Obama in his Sandy Hook speech to the nation. In effect, what this darling of the left has done is reintroduce all of the weapons that were not subject to registration initially.
This is simply a national gun-registration scheme; a synopsis of the NFA follows:
The National Firearms Act (“NFA”), 72nd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236, enacted on June 26, 1934, currently codified as amended as 26 U.S.C. ch. 53, is an Act of Congress in the United States that, in general, imposes a statutory excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of certain firearms and mandates the registration of those firearms. (Note: bold emphasis is mine)
Originally, pistols and revolvers were to be regulated the same as machine guns, though they were exempted as the legislation moved its way through Congress. Feinstein’s expansion of the NFA will include all of the weapons they had the intelligence to exclude previously.
It is interesting to note that the NFA became law right after the repeal of Prohibition. Congressmen of the day were intimately familiar with how unintended consequences play out from their legislative intent. Prohibition released a murderous rampage of gang-related violence on this nation dwarfing anything we have seen since, leading to the expansion of the Mafia and other organized crime syndicates that are still with us today, another testament to a benevolent Congress.
These weapons are individually registered to the owner. You are not allowed to transfer them without the express permission of the government. Transporting the weapon across state lines for any purpose without government approval beforehand is illegal. This is also applicable to each weapon you currently own. Senator Feinstein’s draft does not discuss the waiver of the $200.00 fee to register “grandfathered” weapons in the NFA database.
To legally posses an NFA weapon requires that the chief law enforcement officer (CLEO) in your area of residence sign a BATF form that expressly allows the citizen to possess such weapons. You will also need to submit photographs of yourself, a fingerprint card, and, of course, pay the $200.00 fee and possibly a registered Class III Transfer Agent, with his fee as well.
Imagine a harried rural or county sheriff overwhelmed by the sheer volume of requests made to his office. This will probably place many weapons in limbo while the documents are in process. No doubt, they will enact some method of holding these weapons while this plays out, probably leading to many lost, stolen, or outright confiscated weapons by attrition.
Not to mention how many LEOs will be required to perform the background checks on individuals for weapons that are already legally owned, taking them away from legitimate law enforcement duties. This will probably lead many local law enforcement agencies to throw up their hands and refuse to comply with these new requirements, again leaving law-abiding citizens in limbo with lawful weapons in their possession, subjecting them to arrest and prosecution and leaving many weapons surrendered by default.
I have to wonder how many leftist CLEOs will choose this route? Los Angeles, Detroit, Newark, and Chicago to name just a few cities play host to such officials. Of course, they will excuse themselves with “legitimate” budget-busting cover stories… if only we had the funds….
You get the idea.
These tactics are nothing short of a backdoor scheme to render legal weapons illegal by redesignating them through the NFA as equivalent to automatic weapons. The result will be a national gun registration database for conventional arms. At the same time, these very same legislators (along with Obama) have encouraged untold carnage and mayhem through policies of looking the other way regarding the inner cities of this nation, Mexico, South America, and the Middle East as our government willingly supplies criminals, jihadists, and cartels with weapons.
Now in their ultimate wisdom, they wish to make pariahs and criminals out of law-abiding citizens by means of an act of Congress that will force us to reapply for our lawful and legally-owned weapons for a false premise of security from ourselves.
Discussing the real reason for the Sandy Hook tragedy is beyond the gun control mentality of the leftists currently ensconced into the media, educational institutions, and seats of power in this nation. It is simply about power and control… not guns. The action of our president in Fast and Furious, the arming of Al Qaeda in Libya and Syria, and the pipeline of illegal weapons funneled by the Mexican drug cartels back into our nation renders this clear enough.
We are in far more danger from these actions of our own government than from another Sandy Hook atrocity by a crazed killer.
The Second Amendment’s purpose is to provide for the citizens’ defense from all who would deny their natural God- given right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” against a criminal, a foreign or domestic enemy, or our own government. We will witness the end of the Republic if this proposed legislation is passed, since all of our rights flow from the citizen’s ability to defend them.
As for this citizen, I will never disarm or surrender my Second Amendment rights, much less willingly comply with such a traitorous act of Congress if enacted. It is actions like these that light revolutionary fervor in a nation and its citizens. It did so in 1776, and it will do so again.
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If l really speak my mind, l would be dead before tonite but l am not giving up my guns.
This is a country we are able to speak our feelings (use to be) and I spoke what I felt about the guns, Obama, his illegal status and gay and other things and I got kicked off of one forum which was no big thing but it just made me see how much we stand to lose and how we are losing and as long as that gay Muslim is in the White House we are losing more. Just how the hell do they think they need to take the guns of citizens when most of the bad press on shootings and guns is done by sick freaks and it is not the gun that kills but the idiot who holds the guns. I had a family member who had his head blown off by a sicko who got caught but it didn’t bring my family member back. Did I scream and freak out and want guns banned no.
I had family members killed by a drunk driver and more people are killed by drunk drivers than guns. I do not like guns, would not own one but it isn’t up to me to say ban all guns. If our elected liars and crooks can give guns to Mexico for the Cartel then how can they take them from citizens? This is a 2 tiered system and if you are a big shot with money the world is yours and if you are a poor lousy citizen you have nothing. ‘Welcome to the world of money talks and BS walks. Now I will see if I am banned from this one.
I still believe all these killings are a scheme (Plot) by Obama, Holder, Reid, and the vast majority of the Democrat (Socialist) Party to confiscate all of our rifles, shot gun, pistols, and ammunition. This is the same type of tatics that Hitler used to conterol all of the people. The ones that did not comply were assassinated ! Just think about this: (1) This is the last time Obama can be elected-thusly he will have to call Martial Law and become a Dictator, (2) Hve you notice how the Republicans are starting to bend over a kiss Obama’s A– for anything he wants, (3) Obama is guilty of supplying the weapons to Fast and Furious, the automatic weapons to the Muslim brotherhood and Terriost in Libya. (4) Giving Egypt (Muslim Brotherhood) 500 Tanks, jet fighters, automatc weapons, etc, etc.
This Thing some idiots and Traitors want to call a President is deffinitely Guilty of HiGH TREASON & MURDER!!
The thought that these massacres were part of a government scheme to grab total control has run through my mind. Each crisis is just too convenient to what obama wants to do. The first thing he wanted to do was close oil and coal mines so we have an explosion on a gulf oil rig. We have had a lot of crazies shooting people and now they killed a bunch of babies. I do know that the government has mind control drugs and deadly poisons that need only a tiny accident bump(stick) to kill someone in a short time. I just don’t put anything past obama because he is a dirty traitor. After 11 years of fighting and dying to rid the world of terrorists, obama is found to be arming them! Why he is still in office? I don’t understand it.
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He is still in office cause all the blacks and Mexicans voted him in. The people of this country threw away a really good and decent man, Romney, mainly cause Romney didnt want to smear Obama for a lot of his failures. He’s not that type of guy! The blacks and mexicans both have their hands out for what ever ‘freebies’ they knew Obama would give them… They didnt have sense enough to know he was using them to gain power. Power he doesnt deserve. He lives high on the hog like some King of the Universe and spend money like those jokers in Saudi Arabia who have nothing but gold lying around in their closets.
Obama struts like the ‘rooster’ he is in front of a ‘hen’ house.. only the ‘hen’
house is a ‘rooster’ house… as he preens himself in front of all to see that he’s the ‘cock’ of the walk!!!
Murder never stands in the way of a dictator`s rise to power. If I was the boon I would be scared toi death. A .50 cal and hit a man sized target at a mile or more. I`m just surprised a someone hasn`t tried to take him out yet.
Frankinstine along with all the other traitors in the District of Criminals should be immediately arrested, charged and tried for treason and conspiracy to commit treason, but it will be business as usual.
Welcome to the New Amerkia
“Remember that everything Hitler did was considered legal.” Martin Luther King jr.
EXCUSE ME, From what I was tought, if you attempt to enfrenge on parts of the US Constitution, isn’t that still TREASON? The Constitution says something to the effect I believe.
It seems this is a good time to completely repeal the National Firearms Act. While well intended, it is a clear violation of the “shall not be infringed” provision of the Second Amendment. The desire on the part of some is to nullify the Second Amendment. The route for doing that is clearly defined in Article V of the US Constitution. Additionally, paying a tax to exercise a right, in this case to own or possess a firearm, is just as unconstitutional as is a requirement to pay a poll tax in order to vote.
EVIL BITCH
the only way i will give up or register my gun is when someone pry it from my cold dead hands. concerning Sandy Hook, why wasn’t there any interviews with the parents of the dead children like they did at columbine and why did the media go from two handguns to an assault weapon and now back to two handguns. i only remember ABC being the only national news on sight. am i correct on this?