You may recall that the Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) began their post-Newtown civilian disarmament campaign with “Demand a Plan.” As we pointed out on numerous occasions the “plan” they were demanding was . . . demanding a plan. Mayor Bloomberg’s homies didn’t crusade on ammunition magazine capacity limits or banning modern sporting (a.k.a. assault) rifles or anything specific, really. They simply waved the bloody shirt, trusting that their supporters would let Bloomberg’s backroom boyz iron-out the details. Now that a federal assault weapons ban is DOA and mag cap limits are a non-starter, MAIG has suddenly focused on a specific proposal. And no wonder . . .
“Universal background check” sounds perfectly acceptable. Why not run all gun sales through the FBI NICS to prevent firearms sales to criminals, madmen and (literally) terrorists? Forty percent of all firearms sales have no checks at all!
Truth be told, it’s not forty percent. The ridiculous claim is based on a 1997 National Institute of Justice telephone survey. Anyway, it’s not as if background checks do squat for stopping criminals from purchasing firearms. Statistically, you can round down the number of felons caught attempting to purchase a firearm through a gun store to zero.
Truth be told, universal background checks means universal gun registration for law-abiding American gun owners. As in a federal gun registry. A registry that would place additional burdens on gun owners (registration fee, future taxes) and set the stage for confiscation.
Yes confiscation. The Hurricane Katrina gun grab and New York’s ironically named SAFE Act (mandating registration of modern sporting rifles and forbidding in-state transfer of same) are all the proof you need that registration leads to confiscation. Not to coin a phrase, this shit is real.
And while we’re on the subject of irony, am I the only one who finds it funny (sad) that cops are touting universal background checks for Mayor Bloomberg’s Boyz?
Especially [Denver] Colorado Deputy Chief William Nagel, who agrees that universal background checks help preserve our Second Amendment rights [from people like him] and states that universal background checks “help us keep you safe.” Mag cap limits too, eh Chief?
Are we really at the point where the majority of Americans trust the police to protect their constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms? I don’t think so. But we shall see.
If these automatic “Personal Defense Weapons” are good enough for our government employees, then they are good enough for us civilians, period.
Maybe, just maybe the NRA should revoke the memberships of these idiots when they openly support 2A restrictions……………
Another anti-freedom video where ratings and comments have been disabled. Hmmm.
Yup, right after they disable your 2A rights, they’ll disable your 1A rights!
Keep the write ups coming Nick!
TTAG needs to highlight the “success” of Bloomie’s Stop & Frisk policy, subsequent lawsuit by civil rights groups since the target audience didn’t take too kindly to 4th Amendment violations, and that they are now creating a new office of Inspector General. Focus on why we can’t trust someone to protect our rights when they got busted violating civil rights. Just saying.
Yes, we should be able to own full auto guns, and YES, I want one of those Bizon SMGs, since I am an AK fanboy.
Hickenlooper is a stupid name
Another jackass on Bloombag’s payroll? Hizzoner has billions to spend, not millions, and seems to be poised to take over from George Soros when the old Hungarian b@stard finally croaks.
To hell with the ninnies. I hope every gun dealer within shouting distance of the Colorado border stocks up to the gills on regular capacity magazines and sells them out the wazoo. I’d like to see Uli boy and Evie girl try to moan and wail and gnash their teeth and try to take them away. I hope not a single gun owner complies with the mag ban. As for the rest of the legislation….well, the background check fee is a poll tax, pure and simple. It’s a fee to exercise a constitutional right (2nd Amendment), just the same as a poll tax was a fee that had to be paid to vote. Blatantly unconstitutional and it will be thrown out, hopefully along with Hickenlooper, Hudak, Ulibarri, and Salazar and any other traitor that voted for this asinine legislation. They should have tried to ban rope while they were at it. I do not live in Colorado, but rest assured they are not welcome in my state, not now, not ever.
Tom
For all of you wondering about the 40 s&w Nano, the BU9 is going to have an interchangeable barrel for a 40 s&w, has not been released yet, but soon. But you better use the extended mag, cuz thats going to hurt. lol
Hopefully some group will do like what was done with the Michigan Emergency Manager law last year, get an injunction to stop it until the voter referendum can be voted on, and word the referendum such that a Yes vote would be required to keep the law in effect (people tend to vote ‘no’ on ballot initiatives if they are not genuinely in favor of them).
There can’t be a referendum on it. As per Colorado law, the “immediate emergency and safety” clause at the end of these bills makes them immune to referendum.
The only “ballot initiative” which is being talked about, is that of a state constitutional amendment, to be on the ballot next year (still not guaranteed) , which (as proposed) says “ammunition caps can only be decided by the voters”. Yes or no.
The way that must be worded, for it to be a success, people would have to be ‘yes’, because it is a change. Also, the way it works in Colorado, a “Yes” is always ‘a change to the status quo’, whereas ‘No’ is always keeping the status quo. That is how ballot initiatives *must* be written here.
So we have a strange system here, but there it is. And it means the odds are against us.
Magpul summed it up…………Colorado is now “occupied territory”, but a a free thinking native, I will not comply.
Why can’t we have the opposite list? Why can’t we have a list with everyone who is prohibated from having a gun. Seems like it would be an easier list to compile and keep up to date through the court system.
A sidearm is part of my daily “dress” and has been for closing in on forty years. In today’s “urban” settings, we should all be carrying a handgun. A long gun in any form is for a really bad situation and then, as they did in the days of Earp and Masterson, it probably makes better sense to reach for the “street howitzer”.
Of course that is all personal opinion.
It’s my opinion that it makes way more sense for civilians to have full auto than military. Soldiers have to conserve ammo to use it later that day.
If I have 3 thugs breaking in my place I want to put as much lead in their direction in the 0.25 seconds it takes them to react from me popping around the corner. (yeah yeah rule 4, I’d bend it for those odds though)
Not any more. Prostaff 5 is not Prostaff, and it is not budget-line. It surpasses the Buckmaster line in light transmission and broad-spectrum lens coatings. Of course, the prices are more than double than Prostaff, too. This goes way beyond magnifications. It is a completely new line of scopes that rivals the Monarch line. Nikon is preparing a new level of Monarch, called Monarch 3, with new features. Buckmaster is the new budget line. For now.
TO: All
RE: I Agree!
It’s time to do something effective about gun violence in the US.
Considering that the vast majority of gun violence is perpetrated by so-called ‘liberals’….
….all liberals should be stripped of their 2d Amendment Rights. 😉
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The Truth will out…’liberals’ are violent when they don’t get their way….]
Keep in mind that this is supposedly happening as you awaken in your home not on the “10 yard line” We are talking 16-24 feet, anyone who thinks birdshot at 16 feet is not a viable SD load, even trap loads should produce an unedited YouTube to that effect. Futher if your married to semiautos and you simply won’t leave bed with out your AR and Super 9 then yes you should plan for a jam
Obama, Holder, et al., should avoid too much enthusiasm about a U.N. treaty on small arms trafficking. If there are criminal penalties in it, they could easily find themselves in the dock.
Chris, it’s been a year + how is that lower holding up?
COMMIERADO has joined my list of no good COMMIE states. Now the U.S. is down to 40 states, and I’m sure a few more will be joining the no good COMMIE state list.
Many assumed It was a “grandiose fantasy” of the American colonialists who rebelled against the British Empire that they would win independence.Whether they fought because they had a dream or because it was simply the right thing to do, they won. Those men were America’s greatest generation.
I hope they are giving you more than that… 1000 rounds does not go far in hard practice.
Okay, now you are just rubbing it in.
they rushed in with thousands of rounds only to kill themselves? that does not make sense.