Any links to this statement from Schumer?
Any links to this statement from Schumer?
Did you expect him to admit that a mandated UBC will necessarily lead to a gun registry.
they are doing it one baby step at a time.
Mandated UBC checks today, then a bit of time elapses, then Obama issues an executive order that creates something like a gun registry in order to properly monitor if the law is being followed. They won;t call it a gun registry...they'll call it gun safety records or some such crap....
but it will be a registry none the less...giving the feds any more authority than they have already usurped is crazy.....especially under this administration.
No it's not a gun registry list...because the ATF has no right to access the individual paper copies of the 4473 unless a crime is suspected.
If all records were computerized and made available to the ATf any time they wanted, then it would be a gun registry.
FFL keeps them for 20 years and then they are destroyed, If FFL goes under, the records are moved to the ATF>
There is no need for a list of who owns guns...Hell this is Oklahoma, if you have a pulse then you have a gun somewhere in the house!
All they need to do is go door to door and collect the guns from every breathing citizen of the state.
If they don't have guns they get an apology for tearing up the house to search for the evil gun.
All they need to do is go door to door and collect the guns from every breathing citizen of the state.
If they don't have guns they get an apology for tearing up the house to search for the evil gun.
This. The idea of a UBC is bigger than just the 2A considerations--despite the misguided bleatings of the SCOTUS since the New Deal, the Federal gov't has no role to play in intrastate commerce (remember, if a power is not granted to the Feds in the Constitution, it's reserved to the states or the people), and allowing the to exercise yet another power that they've pulled out of their collective arse is further tilting the balance of power towards the Federal gov't and driving another nail in the coffin of the rule of law and the Constitution. There can be no compromise on this--it must be fought.
Also, if Chuckie Schumer tells you water's wet, feel it.
What I'm saying is they know who has the records and the records tell them who has a gun. When the time comes they don't have to start from scratch, they have an instant registry. And if they can add private sales to that list it makes it even more extensive. Obama doesn't care about the law, the constitution, or the courts. His NLRB appointees have been found unconstitutional by the courts. But they have been doing their job for a year and plan to keep doing it regardless of what the court says.
We have to keep 4473 forms on file for 20 years.
Schumer made this statement quite a few years ago. I remember it specifically but don't know where to tell you to find it in print today.
I do not support ubc for many of the already stated reasons and at first didn't think it would have enough support. BUT, I've been listening to Sirius Patriot radio lately and to my surprise the conservative talk guys are okay with increased background checks. They talk about supporting 2nd Amendment and gun rights BUT they don't see the problem with "reasonable" background checks. Really concerns me.
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