The president of the National Rifle Association warned gun owners that they have a “good deal to fear” from President Obama’s gun-control proposals.
“They have to fear the establishment of the national registry,” NRA President David Keene said on MSNBC this morning. “You know, in the last few days, a senator from California and a governor of New York have suggested that one of their goals is what they call a ‘forced buy back.’ If you can get a record of who owns firearms, then the government could force them to sell those guns back to the government.”
Within the current package put forth, though, Keene noted that the government wouldn’t go for their solution to the “gun-show loophole” on background checks.
“We suggested that the government, if they wanted to, could have a booth at a gun show, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and require anybody that made sales on the premises have the — have that — those sales and those buyers checked. And the government said, ‘Well, we’re not interested in doing that,’” Keene said. “It becomes more problematic when you talk about the farmer who buys a new shotgun and sells his old one to his neighbor over the fence or the father who sells to the son or all of those kinds of things.”
When asked what the “rationale” is for civilians having high-capacity magazines, the NRA leader said it was tried and tested during the assault weapons ban and turned out to be a law that “makes you feel good but, in fact, it doesn’t do much.”
“If you are out there, and if you’re crazy and if you’ve got a gun like this and if you’re gonna shoot people with it, it takes a second or so to change the magazines,” Keene said.
He defended the NRA ad that highlights how Obama sends his own daughters to a school with armed protection.
“Our point was that the — not just the president, but David Gregory and others who are pictured in the ad, are people who have not just been skeptical, but have attacked the NRA and the very idea of school security while sending their own children to secure schools,” Keene said. “We believe that every parent ought to be able to be comfortable knowing that their children are safe, and if that requires armed security, it’s as good for the working man as it is for the president.”
If the government removes from the people or prevents the effective use of that which would allow them to serve as functioning members of a militia able to be used against an invasion by a peer competitor (regardless if such a militia is functioning or organized), or that which would enable them to secure the public safety in assistance of the public authorities (including in their own homes before the authorities could reasonably be expected to arrive), then the government has infringed.
David Keene needs to stand firm – if they get him to vacillate on any one thing they they will railroad him the rest of the way out of town.
As it stands, this whole push for gun control has resulted in the political equivalent of the democrats sticking their collective d*ck into a hornet’s nest and right now the leftists are confused and dazed at the reaction.
It was not the reaction they expected.
Keep on the offensive…and run that ad more often.
I own a Browning 9 mm manufactured in Belgium prior to WW II. The clip is the staggered design and will hold I believe 13 in the clip and one up the pipe. I own a lever action 30-30 that holds 7 rounds accurate out to 200 yards. I own two Remington 870 pump shotguns that hold 5 rounds each in the magazine. I own a single barrel 10 gauge shotgun that would cut a man in two pieces. I own 3 smaller pump action shotguns won at Pheasant Forever raffles years ago. While I haven’t fired any of them in a few years I am reasonably competent with all of them.
None of them are registered. They are mostly family heirlooms. I pity the dumb sonofabitch that trys to forcibly register or confiscate any of them.
They’re really going to run up the dept if they buy back such potentially dangerous items like glass bottles,window glass,butter knives,rolling pins,baseball bats,and rocks.