When the ban happens what will you do?

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Who says they will take away the guns? I agree with some of the other statements about hitting the ammo. Doesn't it make more since to take away the ammo? "Oh, I can just make my own.", those of you will say. What happens if the outlaw powder and primers too? Kinda hard making ammo without those two huh? We can keep our guns I'm almost sure, but the ammo might be were they choose to strike. IMHO of course.
 
Who says they will take away the guns? I agree with some of the other statements about hitting the ammo. Doesn't it make more since to take away the ammo? "Oh, I can just make my own.", those of you will say. What happens if the outlaw powder and primers too? Kinda hard making ammo without those two huh? We can keep our guns I'm almost sure, but the ammo might be were they choose to strike. IMHO of course.
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Actually it has been thought of...sometime back at that. About 13-14 years ago Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed a 10,000% ammo tax that would have been prohibitive. He did this because he thought the Supreme Court might not go along with a total firearm ban.....and that if ammo were so expensive the ammo makers would stop makingi it for the private market.....he was also operating under the mistaken assumption that primer life was only about 5 years. Luckily there were enough pro gun dems in those days to stop it from happening.....they are are pretty much like Moynihan now......taking the eternal dirt nap. Very few pro gun dems in Washington these days....


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I actually remember a friend of mine took this very serious. He went out buying several flintlocks at the time saying he thought there would be a run on them. He also saidl "I can make homemade gunpowder and flints are easy to replace and I have my own bullet molds....
 
Gunowners, as a group, can have more effect on the electees to the House than to the Senate or the Presidency, although we're not impotent with the latter two.

Until third party candidates are showing some attractiveness at the local level, no third party is more than a voice of protest or a waste of one's vote. No third party candidate has a prayer at national office beyond the occasional Ron Paul--who's run as a Republican.

Our best hope is for a mix of status quo or new pro-gun electees into the House of Representatives. As long as "we" have influence in the House, it matters much less about the desires of the President or of the usual suspects in the Senate.

That's what I see as the reality of the polical scene, anyway, and that's separate and distinct from some of my "druthers".

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The whole thing about this gun armageddon bull is that its preventable. The creeping incrementalism that actually (sometimes) works can be reversed. take the 1994 assault weapons ban for instance. And the big armageddon is preventable, by activism in the political arena.

So really, the question "what will you do if" is only a question you have to ask yourself if you intend to not prevent it from happening, or have resigned yourself to the idea that you can't prevent it, thus lying to yourself. Frankly, I don't intend to let it happen, so the point is moot to me.
 
So really, the question "what will you do if" is only a question you have to ask yourself if you intend to not prevent it from happening, or have resigned yourself to the idea that you can't prevent it, thus lying to yourself. Frankly, I don't intend to let it happen, so the point is moot to me.
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I think the question is asked because people wonder what other people will do.....hard to fight tyranny as a army of one.
 
Personally, I'm going to log onto the net and complain about it a lot and then talk real big about what I'm going to do when they ban steak knives.
 
I''ll officially roll over in my grave in protest. It ain't gonna happen in my life.

There will never be a gun ban similar to UK's ban in the US aka an instantaneous outright ban and confiscation.

What will happen in the US is we get bans on the new manufacture of classes of weapons, like "assault weapons", .50 calibers, "saturday night specials", etc. Typical divide and conquer. Split the shotgunners from the hunters, from competition shooters from plinkers from home defense from gun nuts. People don't complain about things that don't affect them.

The bans will allow existing weapons to remain in the civilian hands. They will then require turning in the banned guns when the owner dies, no inheritance. A few more decades of brainwashing in the public school system (only police and miltary need guns.....2nd Amendment means National Guard) and everyone will willingly hand them over.
 
The government knows that they can't forcibly take away guns overngiht. That will create a war.

Instead, it's a gradual errosion, silently done in local, state and federal legislature rooms where no progun people are represented. It's a sad state of affairs.

First it's full auto weapons and short rifles and shotguns. If you're ever convicted of domestic abuse, any felony, etc. you can't have guns. Next it's the AWB and it's nonsense (hard to believe that just a few years ago you couldn't buy a newly made 20+ round magazine or gun with a folding stock!). That would likely still exist if it weren't for the sunset provision and leaders indifferent to the sunsetting ban.

So, there won't be any ONE measure to make gun owners revolt. It will just be the gradual errosion through registration, gradual confiscation, etc.

Even though many people own guns, most don't understand the gravity or importance of the 2nd Amendment and will sell it out for the notion of safety by the police, alarm systems, gated communities, etc.
 
Personally, I'm going to log onto the net and complain about it a lot and then talk real big about what I'm going to do when they ban steak knives.
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That quote right there is the most likely scenario I have ever seen posted anywhere in response to this type of question. Joking or otherwise.

Voters stepped up to the plate in '94. We (the people) demonstrated what could be done at the poles. The Democrats paid dearly for the AWB. Lets make sure they (and the Republicans) don't forget that.
 
I don't see a total ban occurring. With the greatest number of states now allowing ccw, I think it's going the other way. The antis are screaming, but they are losing. And my senator has told me the UN will never have the authority to ban Americans from having firearms, and he and the other Congresspeople will never allow it.

I'm not concerned about a total ban.
 
A ban? Unenforceable.

No more bullets? Some enterprising Colombian businessman will export ammo to the USA along with several tons of coke.
 
I agree once the Dems take over in 2006 then 2008 president election it is more than likley they will try to pass a complete gun ban, or at least a ban on Semi-autos, pump actions and handguns. The outcome will depend on the percentage of their majority rule, and if they can get enough Republicans to side with them.
Since all my guns are all registired with the Mass State Police, there is not much I can do. Claiming they all got stolen right before the ban takes affect would be very suspecious. I quess I would have to turn them in.
 
If there is ever a total GUN BAN, I will get my law degree and sue every Hollywood motion picture maker that picture GUNS in their movies or refer to GUNS in their movies after that...

Prolly make millions and then I will buy the big island of HAwaii and invite y'all to come live their and found our own country....
 
When the ban happens what will you do?
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If I have a dollar for every time someone asks this question, I'll be able to buy an island when it happens. Assuming I live to be 500 years old, that is. :neener:
 
Anyone foolish enough to adopt a strategy of depending on the police for protection/personal safety/etc. deserves what they get. After all, when the laws are passed it will be the police (including members on this forum) who will be knocking on the door - after all, they are "only enforcing the law".:fire:
 
What I would do remains to be seen.

What I will not do, however, is in the meantime post a bunch of "cold dead hands" macho spewing on a public bulletin board.

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Why would anyone with any survival instinct at all. Log on the internet, which they swear is being monitored by the government for every single keystroke. And then tell that same government what they plan to do when it comes for their guns?
 
Multiple military pattern rifles of the same type/compatibility - check

A stash of replacement parts that are 100% interchangeable with any of them - check

A set of specialty tools for fully gunsmithing said rifles - check.

A stash of factory-made SHTF-grade ammunition, all of which is the same caliber for all of the same rifles - check

A stash of magazines, all of which are compatible with all the rifles, and ammo - check.

A reloading set up - check.

Components for the cartridge chosen above - check.

Methods for preserving ammo, magz, tools, rifles - check.

Multiple storage locations for all of the above - check.



This thread shouldn't be about what you will do WHEN the ban happens...but what should you do BEFORE the ban happens... ;)


Truth is, we've had about 50 threads on what will people do when the ban happens, and they all get locked, because people give their honest opinions, which tend to be of the "molon labe" variety, and that isn't very High Road...which makes you wonder if the Second Amendment isn't very High Road by that standard. Not trying to stir up anything here, I can understand that the moderators do not want a forum full of death-threats, and threats of potential violence against the government when this forum's goal is to promote the RKBA to fence-sitters. That sort of talk scares off those who are on the verge of accepting the RKBA.


It is much more productive to get currently pro-RKBA folks to understand the value of owning and collecting military pattern rifles, ammo and magazines in QUANTITY. That is very High Road and very gun related in my opinion.
 
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