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Destroying the Gun Culture: Warren’s Massive Victim-Disarmament Bill

Senator Fauxcahontas Warren, the wannabe-commie dictator out for genocide through mandated “carbon-free” (not -neutral, -free) energy and housing, has decided to start with the Gun Culture. Her horrific gun people control bill ( SB 3254) has everything a police state tyrant could possibly want, including the neutered kitchen sink. How bad is it? Well, her House co-conspirator is high-on-helium Hank “Tippy” Johnson, noted loon and midget/giant cage match fan.

I could write pages about Warren’s “assault weapon” ban, but let’s just say that unless your semi-auto rifle somehow made it onto the approved list, it’s most likely banned. All it takes is that  it can accept a detachable magazine and one of several other features. The kicker is that “pistol grip” is one of them. And what, pray tell is a pistol grip?

‘‘(46) The term ‘pistol grip’ means a grip, a thumb-hole stock or Thordsen-type grip or stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip.

If you can hold it, it has a grip.

There is a grandfather clause for existing arms lawfully possessed.

There’s so much more in that bill that I cannot cover it all in less than the 260 pages of the original. But I do want to address the new universal firearm owner licensing part.

‘‘§ 932. License to own firearms and ammunition ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Except otherwise provided in this section, it shall be unlawful for any individual who is not licensed under this section to knowingly purchase, acquire, or possess a firearm or ammunition.

Elsewhere, I have written about the new tactic adopted by gun-controlling victim-disarmers: writing laws that make compliance impossible. This is yet another effing example. This license would have a training requirement, which includes a written test on law, and a “hands-on testing, including firing testing”. That “Except otherwise provided” does not include an exception for license training and testing; therefore possessing a firearm in a class or test to obtain a license would be illegal. No license =  no gun = no test = no license.

While those currently in lawful possession of firearms do not require a license for those firearms, you’ll still need to get a license for any newly acquired firearm first. But new owners? Not anymore. Gun ownership would lawfully end with this generation.

Assuming you’ve jumped through all the fake Indian’s and Georgian village idiot’s hoops, the license is still may issue. On top of all the usual prohibited person restrictions, they added another qualifier: “unsuitability.” This is… similar to “red flag” orders. If the ATF doesn’t want to issue a license, they go to a judge and tell them your aren’t suitable and -gavel bam- you’re a prohibited person.

Where “unsuitability” differs from a “red flag” order is in the standard of evidence. ERPOs require an unsubstantiated allegation — no proof required, because proof would be grounds for an arrest anyway — that a person currently poses a possible threat to himself or others.

“Unsuitability” actually manages to limbo its way below that.

other existing factors that suggest that the individual could potentially create a risk

Suggest”

“Could”

“Potentially

Did you ever criticize Warren or Johnso… Wait. Did you ever not criticize either of those moronic motherhumpers?

Or, as an astonishingly ignorant psycho (don’t click that unless you can spare the brain cells) emailed me a couple of days ago:

“Those who really really want a gun are the very ones who really really should not be able to get a gun.”
— rackjite

I’m sure you’ve heard that sentiment — that anyone who wants a gun is unsuitable to have one.

Or… I’ve publicly related stories of times when muggers decided I was a threat to them sufficient to decide to run away. I’ve demonstrated that I’m potentially a threat to the Democrats’ core constituency. No license for me.

What about you?

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Try to keep up, Fauxcahontas

Lately, I’ve seen gun people controllers repeating a factoid about crime guns, traces, and the need to crack down on evil licensed dealers: 1% of dealers are responsible for 57% of all crime guns.

As best I can tell, that’s making the rounds because Elizabeth “1/1024th Central American Cherokee” Warren included it in her plan to fight “gun” violence, “Protecting Our Communities from Gun Violence.”

Revoking licenses for gun dealers who break the rules. Only 1% of gun dealers are responsible for 57% of guns used in crimes. My Administration will direct the ATF to prioritize oversight of dealers with serial compliance violations — and then use its authority to revoke the license of dealers who repeatedly violate the rules.

And that’s a real statistic, straight from the ATF.

Nineteen years ago. In the “Commerce in Firearms in the United States 2000” report.

Just 1.2 percent of dealers — 1,020 of the approximately 83,200 licensed retail dealers and pawnbrokers — accounted for over 57 percent of the crime guns traced to current dealers in 1998. And just over 450 licensed dealers in 1998 had 10 or more crime guns with a time-to-crime of three years or less traced to them. ATF is now targeting enforcement and inspection resources at these dealers, as well as making crime gun trace analysis available to criminal investigators.

Using data from 21 years ago. And do note the bold-face portion, where they explained –19 years ago — that they were already going after those dealers, and expanded their process to make it easier for investigators to catch new potential troublemakers.

Problem solved. Warren is — as happens so often with these victim disarmers — behind the times, demanding what already is.

I did wonder if there’s an updated version of that statistic. Since the ATF is addressing the issue, it seemed like they might mention the percentage of “bad” dealers occasionally. Sadly, that statistic is not mentioned in the ATF’s annual “Firearms Trace Data” report

The 2000 report is the last time I can see that the ATF published the statistic. Since they working on the problem, I suspect any real rogue FFLs were shut down, and there simply aren’t scary enough numbers for further demonization. Hence, Warren using 21 year old data.

So the next time you see that just tell the person:

“I beg your pardon, but that stat is from a nineteen year-old report, using data from 1998. The ATF began taking action against those dealers back then. It hardly seems likely they’re still at it. Try to keep up.”

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Stung

So the talk of the town is the GAO’s Internet Firearms Sales report.

That would be the one — commissioned by anti-human/civil rights activists Elijah Cummings [D-MD]and Elizabeth Warren [D-MA] — in which the GAO attempted to purchase guns on the Internet while posing as prohibited persons.

They made 72 attempts on public sites. All failed. Twice, they thought they’d succeeded only to discover they were scammed; folks took their our money and never shipped guns.

Go figure. Gun owners who often are gun owners because they want protection against bad guys are generally not going to knowingly provide guns to bad guys.

Well, they had to come up with something for Congressional weasels, so they went to the “Dark Web,” to sites specifically set up for illegal black market transactions. They skipped the part about claiming to be prohibited persons.

And still only succeeded twice, out of seven attempts. I have no doubt that Cummings and Warren will present that as a 29% success rate rather than 2.5%.

If it’s really that high. One firearm they purchased was billed as an Uzi converted to full-auto. The report notably says, “If the firearm meets the NFA’s definition of a machine gun, the seller’s prior possession of the Uzi, and the shipment to our agent, likely violated federal law.” Which means they aren’t sure they got what they ordered.

Interestingly, while the report mentions prices paid in other online stings, they neglect to tells us how much they paid for an old AR-15 or a dubiously “converted” subgun.


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