The Threat of Gun Confiscation — Tom Gresham Says “Wake UP”
In this essay from The Shooting Wire, Tom Gresham states that the anti-gun left seeks nothing less than the eventual confiscation and destruction of all privately-held firearms. The anti-gunners have revealed their goals, says Gresham, through radical legislation recently introduced in Congress, and suggestions that an Executive Order by a future by a Democratic Party President could halt ALL gun sales. Gresham says gun owners must wake up, and take action NOW. Otherwise our rights will be lost. We think every gun owner should read this.
They Just Showed Their Hand
by Tom Gresham, GunTalk.com
Sometimes understanding what’s going on requires us to connect the dots on things that don’t immediately appear to be connected. Looking at recent events, it’s now possible to see the plans of the gun banners.
It’s much worse than almost anyone imagined.
First, what happened?
H.R. 8, a bill in the House, would end the private sales of guns, would end being able to give a gun to someone, and would criminalize even loaning a gun to someone — unless you got the permission of the FBI each time you want to buy, sell, loan, or borrow a gun. In other words, there could be no legal transfer of a gun in the U.S. unless the government approves each transaction.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened that a Democrat President could declare a national emergency on gun violence.
A separate bill — H.R. 1112 — would (according to the NRA-ILA) “…eliminate the 3-day safety-valve provision under the federal firearms background check system that prevents the government from enacting an indefinite delay of firearm purchases for law-abiding Americans.”
Currently, if a firearms retailer submits the background check to the FBI, and it is delayed, after three days the dealer is free to legally transfer the firearm. This provision in the current law is the safety valve. It guards against the government shutting down background checks (through incompetence, technical snafu, or even political activism) and stopping gun sales from dealers. (Private sales currently would be untouched.)
Pelosi’s threat didn’t just pop into her head. This idea has been in the works.
Consider those three actions.
The expanded background check provision requires that all gun sales, and gifts, and loans — any transfers — must go through the FBI NICS system.
H.R. 1112 would kill the protection of allowing retailers to sell guns when they don’t get a “denial” from the FBI in three days.
If those two provisions were in place I fully expect a Democrat president to act after a highly-publicized shooting to declare a national emergency and shut down the NICS checks for 90 to 120 days. Maybe even a year.
That would be so that we could have a “national conversation” about gun violence. America’s gun owners would suffer a “mere inconvenience” the banners will say. Except that most privately-owned gun stores could not survive three or four months with no gun sales.
This is not happenstance.
It’s not an accident.
It’s not coincidence.
The gun ban lobby is not dumb.
This has been the plan all along.
1. Kill off all private sales, forcing all legal gun sales to go though dealers.
2. Kill the provision in current law which protect gun owners from a government shutdown of the background check system.
3. Declare a National Emergency and close background checks, which stops all legal gun sales.
Make no mistake. This is part of the larger plan to confiscate (“mandatory buy-back”) your guns.
Naturally, there would be legal challenges. The current makeup of the Supreme Court favors — ever so slightly — the hope that the high court would stop such a thing. If it took months to work its way through the courts, however, massive damage would be done. Thousands of businesses would close and tens or hundreds of thousands of people would be thrown out of work.
Naturally, to the “if it saves one life” crowd, that’s a price they are willing to pay. Well, they wouldn’t pay it. We will. And that doesn’t even touch on the subject that no one wants to talk about … [resistance].
How do we stop this?
We stop it the old fashioned way. We beat it at the polls. We beat it by speaking up in our churches. We beat it with peaceful activism in the streets. We join every single gun rights group — even those which less “pure” by whatever standard is in vogue on any given day.
We spend money. A lot of money. We stop complaining about requests for donations. We donate annually an amount equal to the price of a new gun. How about a dollar a day? We actually do call the offices of our Congressional representatives monthly and talk politely with the staff there about our concerns on Second Amendment matters. We volunteer on campaigns. We go to school board, city council, and state legislature meetings and hearings. We show up.
Two things must happen.
First, you have to look in the mirror and admit you haven’t done enough/much/anything. No one else can do this. Each of us must have the conversation with ourselves and take an honest look at what we have and have not done. And what we can do.
This is a total lifestyle change. It’s a change in where you spend your money and your time.
Second, each of us has to bring along a friend into this activism. I’m not talking about taking someone to the range, though that’s always worthwhile. I’m talking about convincing or more friends that each of you really must donate a buck a day. A lot of dough? Less than many of us spend on coffee. Times a million gun owners.
We win or we lose right here. Right now.
The solution is as close as your mirror.
— Tom Gresham
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I wholeheartedly agree with the article. But I do have to ask: Does this article tread closely to being political?
Thank you for publishing this on the site. It seems as if many are afraid to discuss politics. If we continue to be apathetic to what is going on it will soon be too late.
Do not comply, become ungovernable, raise mortal hell snd if need be put your guns to use
Any messed up human who wants to kill innocent people with a gun will do so regardless of the laws.
Murder is already illegal, therefore a gun ban will not stop innocent people from being killed by evil people. But on the other hand a gun ban will stop innocent people from having a way of protecting their lives and the lives of others.
Whatever happens, DO NOT REGISTER YOUR GUNS !!!!!! You might not be able to take your unregistered guns to the range, but you will still have them.
REGISTRATION LEADS TO CONFISCATION
Good info. relevant & references a political sea change. Gresham: “We spend money.”- pretty vague. How about supporting the NRA with a $ donation.
Insofar as the general (non-shooting folks who outnumber gun owners manyfold) public is concerned – shooting is top of mind + newsworthy only when some nut shoots people w an AR styled rifle. There is no news reported in the major media when your uncle bags a nice buck w his .270. Thus, the only information most read, hear is that all weapons are deadly, and are to be marginalized, then taken away – i.e., “common sense” restrictions- with no real consideration of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. Many persons in government have no shooting experience, are living in cities where this lifestyle is not familiar, and further, they are not comfortable with guns, so “no one needs to have them”. Support the NRA and hope that SCOTUS will honor the Constitution vs the current anti gun du jour rhetoric.
Nothing political in addressing and pointing out democrats/socialist/communist intentions of taking away our 2nd amendment rights and confiscating our firearms. If you remain silent and are scared to discuss this infringing on our right to bear arms with your friend,neighbors, a complete stranger or someone on this or any other site you are giving into their plan. This may very well be our last chance to defend our God given freedom, our liberties and the way of life that so many of our forefathers and ancestors fought and died for. Say it loudly and say it proudly, it’s a right not a privilege
Who do you think the founding fathers were, the political right??
If they had been they would have stayed under a King and not fought the revolutionary war. Claiming gun ownership is exclusively for conservatives and right-wingers is insulting to millions of Americans.
EDITOR: Your statement is totally misguided. No one is claiming gun ownership is only for conservatives. But any sane person realizes where the true threats to gun ownership are coming from.
The question is not should all Americans, regardless of political affiliation, be able to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Of course ALL law-abiding American adults should have those rights.
The issue is rather identifying real, significant threats to gun ownership and use, and identifying what forces are behind those threats. There is no question that virtually ALL the anti-gun legislation is coming from the political left, specifically one party. To ignore that fact is simply stupid. That is like worrying about a Tsunami arriving from the inland desert instead of from the ocean. Identify the REAL threat and its source. All you have to do is look at the party affiliations on the bills discussed in this article. A 4-year-old can figure it out.
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History is the witness!
The Nazis confiscated guns. The Democrats want to confiscate guns. See the similarity?
And the most interesting part of this entire anti-gun hysteria , which of course , the Lame-stream media never speaks of , is that all but one of the recent “Mass-shooters” , was a registered Democrat . Sorry ; but you can’t white-wash facts , because someone might get politically butt-hurt . Talk about your “Manchurian Candidate” scenario .