“Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.” – Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control, to Sen. Howard Metzanbaum, The National Educator, January 1994.
Every step the collectivist anti-gun people take should be resisted. Their arguments are not “reasonable” as they like to claim. They are, in fact, incremental steps to dismantle the Constitution of the United States and transfer all power from the people into the hands of a ruling elite minority.
“Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.” – Attorney General Janet Reno
In the US, the first major law that restricted the availability of a gun and induced gun control was passed in 1934 and it was called the Federal Gun Control Act. This law restricted the sale of fully automatic weapons, including machine guns etc. Another act followed in 1938, which said that people convicted of felony could not posses a weapon and that all sellers and dealers needed to be licensed.
I suppose those early laws made some sense and seemed reasonable… except, the 1938 law introduced licensing to the mix and therefore government control.
The Gun Control Act Of 1968 was more severe on gun control. It regulated the use of imported weapons and also broadened the gun possession law stating that anyone who was mentally unstable, who was convicted for felony, who used illegal drugs, and minors were not allowed to posses weapons. The licensing requirements for dealers were also further strengthened. In later years subsequent bans were imposed on bullets which could pierce bullet proof clothing and the use of semi- automatic assault weapons.
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, named after James Brady who was seriously injured when John Hinckley Jr. made an attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life on March 30, 1981 came into effect on February 28, 1994. The act was a result of years of lobbying by Sarah Brady, James’s wife who became a huge gun control advocate after the shooting of her husband. The act imposed a five day waiting period for anyone who wished to purchase a weapon. During these five days, the police had to carry out a background check on the purchaser. However, now the act has been revised. All dealers can now access a national computer system and perform a background check instantly. So if the person comes out clean, he can purchase the weapon instantly.
Gun registration laws are really intended more for the controlling authorities than keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. When your guns are registered, that information is also placed into a national database used by authorities to identify high risk targets.
When Child Protection Services personnel raid a home where there are registered firearms, they are more likely to be supported by armed police officers who storm the residence with overwhelming force. The pretext for the paramilitary night-time invasion and kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez was that someone in his family might have been licensed to carry a handgun under Florida law. Although a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showed a federal agent dressed like a soldier and pointing a machine gun at the man who was holding the terrified child, then Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that Gonzalez “was not taken at the point of a gun” and that the federal agents whom Holder had sent to capture Gonzalez had acted “very sensitively.”
We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans …”
Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)
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