We had 192 years without a major gun law or 218 years without background checks in this nation and for the most part we did fine. (1776-1968), (1776-1994)
Licensing gun owners either through an endorsement on a drivers license or a "Firearms ID Card" like NJ, IL, MA is a ludicrous idea. Licensing of gun owners is done in Canada, Europe and Australia and they have little if any in the way of gun rights as we do in the U.S.
A constitutionally protected right like the Second Amendment must not be "licensed" anymore than the right to free speech or the right to vote should be licensed. Licensing is a way for government to set up 'terms' and 'conditions' for that alleged 'right' and the threat of government to invariably increase the requirement or standards to retain or acquire that license.
Thus overnight the government can deem certain sections of the population no longer eligible to hold that license in sweeping legislation if it wanted. Or the government could require people to be re-licensed under new terms and conditions. The government will compel you to comply under the threat of jail and stiff fines if you didn't get re-licensed under "new conditions". This is what what done in Australia.
Regarding Firearms ID Cards, ask a New Jersey Gun Owner what they have to put up with in order to get one. Ask them how much it costs and how long they have to wait for it.
UBC Universal Background checks are just a step away from gun registration!
Any kind of UBC proposal must be defeated. UBC is registration! If UBC ever passes nationwide, the burden will eventually be on you to prove that you didn't acquire a certain firearm illegally after UBC passed. You can always say that you received the firearm before the law went into effect, being able to prove it will be another matter.
UBC passes and the 'the next step' will be to call for all firearms to be declared through UBC and tied to one particular owner. Whatever firearms are in your possession will have to go through UBC and entered in a database and you will get a receipt 'proving you own it' .
This will be an amnesty period, and when it ends then all firearms "not tied to an owner" will no longer be allowed to be registered (tied to an owner) and cannot be sold, loaned or transferred..it will become contraband.
And the only firearms that will be available through the UBC are new firearms from the factory or all firearms that previously went through the 'amnesty' period. All other firearms will be contraband and there will be criminal penalties for having contraband firearms in ones possession.
And, it would not surprise me that when they go through the amnesty period they might refuse to enter into the UBC database a certain class of weapons. They can call it a "gun roster" like they have in Massachusetts and California. They can call up an assault weapons ban simply by not "approving" transfers of certain rifles. And since it cannot be transferred into the UBC, it is now contraband.
Thereby outlawing them (by mandate, or by column entry). This could happen on the spot while the owner is trying to have them entered in the database. But since they could not register those certain firearms, those firearms will become contraband after the amnesty.
So those who favor UBC and so called 'reasonable restrictions', have absolutely no idea, no clue where UBC will lead to. We would be a step or two away from becoming another Australia or the UK .
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Licensing gun owners either through an endorsement on a drivers license or a "Firearms ID Card" like NJ, IL, MA is a ludicrous idea. Licensing of gun owners is done in Canada, Europe and Australia and they have little if any in the way of gun rights as we do in the U.S.
A constitutionally protected right like the Second Amendment must not be "licensed" anymore than the right to free speech or the right to vote should be licensed. Licensing is a way for government to set up 'terms' and 'conditions' for that alleged 'right' and the threat of government to invariably increase the requirement or standards to retain or acquire that license.
Thus overnight the government can deem certain sections of the population no longer eligible to hold that license in sweeping legislation if it wanted. Or the government could require people to be re-licensed under new terms and conditions. The government will compel you to comply under the threat of jail and stiff fines if you didn't get re-licensed under "new conditions". This is what what done in Australia.
Regarding Firearms ID Cards, ask a New Jersey Gun Owner what they have to put up with in order to get one. Ask them how much it costs and how long they have to wait for it.
UBC Universal Background checks are just a step away from gun registration!
Any kind of UBC proposal must be defeated. UBC is registration! If UBC ever passes nationwide, the burden will eventually be on you to prove that you didn't acquire a certain firearm illegally after UBC passed. You can always say that you received the firearm before the law went into effect, being able to prove it will be another matter.
UBC passes and the 'the next step' will be to call for all firearms to be declared through UBC and tied to one particular owner. Whatever firearms are in your possession will have to go through UBC and entered in a database and you will get a receipt 'proving you own it' .
This will be an amnesty period, and when it ends then all firearms "not tied to an owner" will no longer be allowed to be registered (tied to an owner) and cannot be sold, loaned or transferred..it will become contraband.
And the only firearms that will be available through the UBC are new firearms from the factory or all firearms that previously went through the 'amnesty' period. All other firearms will be contraband and there will be criminal penalties for having contraband firearms in ones possession.
And, it would not surprise me that when they go through the amnesty period they might refuse to enter into the UBC database a certain class of weapons. They can call it a "gun roster" like they have in Massachusetts and California. They can call up an assault weapons ban simply by not "approving" transfers of certain rifles. And since it cannot be transferred into the UBC, it is now contraband.
Thereby outlawing them (by mandate, or by column entry). This could happen on the spot while the owner is trying to have them entered in the database. But since they could not register those certain firearms, those firearms will become contraband after the amnesty.
So those who favor UBC and so called 'reasonable restrictions', have absolutely no idea, no clue where UBC will lead to. We would be a step or two away from becoming another Australia or the UK .
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