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<blockquote data-quote="abajaj11" data-source="post: 2076344" data-attributes="member: 3553"><p>I wrote a note to my congressman explaining why UBC is a terrible idea. Many of them may not realize its repercussions. Perhaps all of us can write to our congressmen as well, and also mention when we call hem every week! </p><p></p><p>This is the gist of what I wrote. Please feel free to reuse. </p><p>_______________</p><p>Dear Rep XXX,</p><p>As an active voter and your constituent, I want to alert you to the hidden evil behind universal background check legislation. </p><p></p><p>While no one wants to sell firearms to criminals or the dangerously insane, Universal Background Checks are simply being proposed by the anti-2A crowd as a pathway to federal firearm registration which WILL lead to firearm confiscation and the end of our freedoms. </p><p></p><p>Think about how a federally mandated background check on ALL firearms will be implemented. Right now, only firearms sold through FFL dealers have to pass a background test, and in some states the state laws mandate that all transfers have to be through an FFL dealer. The feds regulate the FFL dealers and do not keep records of transactions, but the FFL dealers have to. If an FFL dealer goes out of business, those records go to ATF for storage, and are never lost. Now imagine extending this requirement to ALL buyers and sellers of firearms. Well this is impossible.</p><p></p><p>So the feds will say, well let us just require all states to do what California, for example, does already. All transfers including private sales must go through an FFL. But what to do about the millions of unregistered guns in the USA? How do the feds know who owns them? <strong>If they don't know who owns them, how will they verify that ALL guns are being sold after a background check</strong>? Well, the FEDs will come back and say: "We cannot implement your new law unless you allow us to register all firearms". So the inevitable next step to mandating background check on ALL firearm sales will be a demand to Congress that all firearms be registered, without which the law will be impossible to enforce.</p><p></p><p>Registration is a VERY bad idea. Registration will not prevent a crime since a legal gun may be stolen and used by a criminal (like in the Newtown case) and of course a criminal will never register an illegitimate gun they may already own.</p><p>So, the only reason for registration is keeping tabs on legal gun owners, and if needed, confiscation of firearms.</p><p></p><p>Since the 2A was written to provide a well regulated (trained) populace that could be stronger than any standing army that a tyrant could raise, the LAST thing the armed populace wants is for potential tyrants to know who has what firearm. That is why this insidious "background checks for all sales" bill MUST be resisted. it will open the door to registration in a year or two. </p><p></p><p>Please vote against Universal Background Checks. If the anti-2A crowd was serious about reducing gun violence, they would provide our schools with the tools they need to protect our children. Universal Background checks are simply being proposed as a pathway to creating a federal database of who owns what firearm (registration). </p><p></p><p>Sincerely</p><p>YYY </p><p>____________</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="abajaj11, post: 2076344, member: 3553"] I wrote a note to my congressman explaining why UBC is a terrible idea. Many of them may not realize its repercussions. Perhaps all of us can write to our congressmen as well, and also mention when we call hem every week! This is the gist of what I wrote. Please feel free to reuse. _______________ Dear Rep XXX, As an active voter and your constituent, I want to alert you to the hidden evil behind universal background check legislation. While no one wants to sell firearms to criminals or the dangerously insane, Universal Background Checks are simply being proposed by the anti-2A crowd as a pathway to federal firearm registration which WILL lead to firearm confiscation and the end of our freedoms. Think about how a federally mandated background check on ALL firearms will be implemented. Right now, only firearms sold through FFL dealers have to pass a background test, and in some states the state laws mandate that all transfers have to be through an FFL dealer. The feds regulate the FFL dealers and do not keep records of transactions, but the FFL dealers have to. If an FFL dealer goes out of business, those records go to ATF for storage, and are never lost. Now imagine extending this requirement to ALL buyers and sellers of firearms. Well this is impossible. So the feds will say, well let us just require all states to do what California, for example, does already. All transfers including private sales must go through an FFL. But what to do about the millions of unregistered guns in the USA? How do the feds know who owns them? [B]If they don't know who owns them, how will they verify that ALL guns are being sold after a background check[/B]? Well, the FEDs will come back and say: "We cannot implement your new law unless you allow us to register all firearms". So the inevitable next step to mandating background check on ALL firearm sales will be a demand to Congress that all firearms be registered, without which the law will be impossible to enforce. Registration is a VERY bad idea. Registration will not prevent a crime since a legal gun may be stolen and used by a criminal (like in the Newtown case) and of course a criminal will never register an illegitimate gun they may already own. So, the only reason for registration is keeping tabs on legal gun owners, and if needed, confiscation of firearms. Since the 2A was written to provide a well regulated (trained) populace that could be stronger than any standing army that a tyrant could raise, the LAST thing the armed populace wants is for potential tyrants to know who has what firearm. That is why this insidious "background checks for all sales" bill MUST be resisted. it will open the door to registration in a year or two. Please vote against Universal Background Checks. If the anti-2A crowd was serious about reducing gun violence, they would provide our schools with the tools they need to protect our children. Universal Background checks are simply being proposed as a pathway to creating a federal database of who owns what firearm (registration). Sincerely YYY ____________ [/QUOTE]
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