The inauguration of our new President went more smoothly than many professionals had feared, but then, those in public emergency services are paid to be pessimistic. The law enforcement network that coordinated the NSSE (National Special Security Event) was enormous, and it did its job well. You’ll get an idea of the scope of their task, and some of their obvious concerns, from the FBI’s own website, here.
In his inaugural address in its entirety if you haven’t caught it yet), President Obama said among other things, “We come to proclaim an end to petty grievances and false promises.” One hopes that he remembers the “promise” he promulgated throughout his campaign, that he wouldn’t take guns away from honest citizens.
However, his and his Vice-President’s support for making the assault weapons ban, which was a total failure throughout its decade of existence, permanent, gives one pause.
I suppose we law-abiding American gun owners must wait…and see…and hope.
I think our “bright days with sunny skies” are over in regards to firearms.
The “Ban” is just a preview, IMHO. I do not trust Obama, his cabinet or the elected majority of both houses to follow the Constitution in regards to the 2nd.
Maybe that’s my profession talking, as I do tend to be a bit of a pessimist. My motto is, “Prepare for the worst. If I’m prepared for that, I can handle anything else.”
The problem is, I don’t think I’m prepared enough.
Biker
Failing to state a known fact (Lying by ommision), is still a lie!
All while our new President was stating he would not take away our firearms, that are protected by the Constitution, his minions have been busily, state by state, arranging to take away our ammunition, that is NOT PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION!
I understand that 18 States, including California, have signed into law this new ammunition identification bill. A bill that is based upon a flawed concept that is well known to all who have signed it. The most popular opinion is that the process of identifying each cartridge, either by the fireing pin striking the primer, or identified by the manufacturer, lasts only a few thousand rounds before it becomes worn out and must be replaced. Plus the logistics are doomed to failure! A seperate identifying mark on each and every primer for the millions of shooters, whereby the government can identify the firearm and thus the shooter will become a boondogle of the highest magnitude. The cost of this identifying mark and maintaining the records will be passed onto the shooter in the form of a new tax to the shooter; thereby placing the cost of ammunition beyond our ability to afford ammunition.
No, Obama will not take away our firearms; he has already started down a path that will make ammunition too costly for the average American to buy.
Our new President speaks with a forked tounge! Why am I not surprised?
Eighteen States have already passed this bill and our Liberal Media have not mentioned a word of this to the public! A side effect to this new bill will automatically eliminate reloading as the resulting ammuntion cannot be identified. All existing ammunition will become illegal to own after varied short periods of time!
Our only hope to defeat this new threat is to band together as never before; and see that every American is aware of this, so they can scream bloody murder to each and every one of our elected representatives. Petitions, phone calls, snail mail and email, and faxes must flood our elected representatives daily.
The “Silent Majority” must speak up on this outrage in a deafening roar or we are doomed to useless firearms; for what good are our firearms without ammuntion?
Ayoob, you can start investigating this new assault on our Right to Bear Arms, and report on it to the public. Break this cone of silence that the anti-gunners and our new President are working under.
Do it before it is too late! Eighteen States have already passed this outrageous bill!
Ken Weaver
“SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES”
Ken, you might want to backtrack a little, to where this has already been discussed on the blog.
You might also want to double-check your sources. I’m not aware of this bill yet having been passed anywhere.
And it definitely needs to be fought, to make sure it DOESN’T pass anywhere.
We killed this ignorant ammo encoding bill [SB1200] in Missouri last year. It hasn’t been introduced yet this year, but rest assured it will get stomped, if it is!
I will give the President a chance to do the right thing. I hope he don’t screw it up.
Buy firearms and ammo now, if you haven’t.
If your not active in the Legislative process, you had better get that way!
Mas:
I think that too may gun owners are in a defensive crouch while they wait to see what the Democrats have in store for us. We need to stake out a strong position already. Here is mine.
A gun without ammo or a round of ammo without a gun is not much of an arm. It is only when they are combined that they become an effective arm so it must have been the intention of the founders to protect both your gun and your ammo. That goes for bullets, primers, cases and powder as well. If my memory serves me correctly, the battles of Lexington and Concord were primarily fought over a British attempt to seize the militia’s ammo, their gunpowder.
In light of Heller an assault weapons ban is flat out unconstitutional. No one can argue with any credibility that you have the right to a semi-automatic handgun but not a semi-automatic rifle. Anti-gunners used to argue that if anything, the 2A protected only long guns. They can’t now argue the opposite without embarrassing themselves.
Any “sporting purposes” test is also unconstitutional. If you have a right to arms for self defense as stated in Heller then you have the right to arms that are suitable for that purpose. Semi-Automatic rifles with detachable box magazines clearly fit that description and the AR-15 is more popular now than it was in 1993.
I’d love to see other folk’s opinions on the subject. It’s time to start to hash out our arguments and come up with a simple, clear, easy to articulate position that we can use to persuade the public.
We can win this fight, even if we lose the first round or two. 1993 brought us the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban and in 1994 the democrats got wiped out.
Anti-gunners are on even shakier ground this time around.
My hope is that any attempt to pass firearms legislation will be met with strong opposition from a significant percentage of the population. Unlike the previous administration’s dealing with Halliburton, torture and practice of holding people indefinitely, trying to pass firearms legislation will directly affect millions of Amercan voters. It’s no longer something happening to someone else a long way away.
I’m glad that folks are keeping a wary eye on the new administration. I’m certainly willing to help support lobbying to stop any anti 2nd Amendment legislation and I’m hoping that at least tens of thousands of other gun owners feel the same way.
” One hopes that he remembers the “promise” he promulgated throughout his campaign, that he wouldn’t take guns away from honest citizens.
You’ll notice he didn’t mention ammo…
He’s such a stinkin’ liar, I don’t believe a bit of that “false promise” BS.
Gotta stay one step ahead fellas, I just traded a night vision monocular for a sweet a## muzzleloader last gun show, and Midway has my bullet mold in stock….SMILE Whats jacked up is, I didn’t vote for him, But I’d die for him. ( patriotic-sheep dog ) I must agree though, our new commander-in chief seems to neither know how to ride hard, shoot strait, or speak the truth. keep the faith, hope for the best, GOD bless America.
All the tools needed to argue that the second amendment shall be restored and or not infringed are ironically right here on this web site. All the information needed is in a article titled “We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment” By John Silveira, Here’s the link: http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/silveira58.html .
With this information one should be able to come up with a spin proof, iron clad defense for our gun rights. We can then send our arguments to the NRA, GOA, ACLU anyone who is in the position to help. I’m gonna give it a go… any other takers?
~Brogan
Don’t read this unless you want to feel depressed all day – or longer. It’s Dick Morris’ Here Comes Socialism. He begins:
“2009-2010 will rank with 1913-14, 1933-36, 1964-65 and 1981-82 as years that will permanently change our government, politics and lives. Just as the stars were aligned for Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson and Reagan, they are aligned for Obama. Simply put, we enter his administration as free-enterprise, market-dominated, laissez-faire America. We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden — a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.”
“Obama will accomplish his agenda of “reform” under the rubric of “recovery.” Using the electoral mandate bestowed on a Democratic Congress by restless voters and the economic power given his administration by terrified Americans, he will change our country fundamentally in the name of lifting the depression. His stimulus packages won’t do much to shorten the downturn — although they will make it less painful — but they will do a great deal to change our nation.”
http://thehill.com/dick-morris/the-obama-presidency–here-comes-socialism-2009-01-20.html
Joshua 24:15 (KJV).And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Sotoero/Obama is not qualified to be POTUS (search Berg or Orly). We have a usurper in office for the first time in our history. Choose you this day whom ye will serve: the US Constitution, or the political winds.
It has Begun….
H.R.45
Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45
Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 – Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this Act or a state system certified under this Act and such license has not been invalidated or revoked. Prescribes license application, issuance, and renewal requirements.
Prohibits transferring or receiving a qualifying firearm unless the recipient presents a valid firearms license, the license is verified, and the dealer records a tracking authorization number. Prescribes firearms transfer reporting and record keeping requirements. Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a federal record of sale system.
Prohibits: (1) transferring a firearm to any person other than a licensee, unless the transfer is processed through a licensed dealer in accordance with national instant criminal background check system requirements, with exceptions; (2) a licensed manufacturer or dealer from failing to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements of this Act; (3) failing to report the loss or theft of the firearm to the Attorney General within 72 hours; (4) failing to report to the Attorney General an address change within 60 days; or (5) keeping a loaded firearm, or an unloaded firearm and ammunition for the firearm, knowingly or recklessly disregarding the risk that a child is capable of gaining access, if a child uses the firearm and causes death or serious bodily injury.
Prescribes criminal penalties for violations of firearms provisions covered by this Act.
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish and maintain a firearm injury information clearinghouse; (2) conduct continuing studies and investigations of firearm-related deaths and injuries; and (3) collect and maintain current production and sales figures of each licensed manufacturer.
Authorizes the Attorney General to certify state firearm licensing or record of sale systems.
That’s all for now, a more in depth look if it manages to get farther in the House.
We must all remember our LORD IS IN CONTROL!! We don’t need to understand or like what HE does but we need to remember HE is in control. As for B.O.- I will respect the office.
God helps those who help themselves… There is also this thing called free will… I’ll also respect the office, the guy in office is another thing. Respect is earned not a birthright.
Did any one else notice his middle name (Hussein)?
Anyhow, ’bout the guns, If all that stuff happens black market stuff will be cheeper than legal, I wonder whether or not there might be some combat between Obama’s new Homeland Security Force and Private citizens over this.
Also we’re gonna’ make our own guns ‘n’ ammo.
How interesting – I was here to try to find out if anyone at BHM had any news as to whether the HR I saw today was legit – and here Brogan has kindly posted it as a comment already.
I learned about it here: http://wildcraft.gaelicmysts.com/2009/01/26/guns-gone-in-2009/
So how do we fight this? The Justices didn’t tackle licensing and registration in their case in ’08….that wasn’t the point….. so now what? We can’t all move to TX and hope they secede. 😉
H.R.45
Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 has been Introduced in House. There are no cosponsors as of yet. The thing we should do now is keep an eye on it and if it moves any further it should be addressed and protested in mass.
The key for the next 4 years is to be vigilant. The tactics of the politicians is to reintroduce the same legislation a few months later under a new name if it doesn’t pass the first time.
This is an ongoing battle and we can’t relax, EVER! They are not going to and we can’t afford too either, there is no half way here… protect your rights or loose them!
~Brogan
Ryan, the “Hussein” cheap shot thing has been done to death. It didn’t work. It’s over. Let it go. I mean, by your own logic, what are you doing on a blog or reading books penned by guy a guy named “Massad” for if you find a guy named “Hussein” to be automatically disreputable?
As for the “usurper” comment from “bignflnut”, that is ridiculous. It wasn’t valid when liberals said it about Bush, and it isn’t valid now. People voted in free elections in the most free country in the world. He won. Suck it up. We all saw very well what happened to McCain’s campaign, and I’ll leave that topic there. I will respect the office and wait for this President to either make a good showing out of 2009 or fall on his face. Which it’ll be is entirely up to him.
As for the past being glorious lassez-faire and the present a new era of “socialism”, well, come off it. The bailouts were well underway on Bush’s watch, and he was a supporter of federal dabbling in the mortgage market. Some of our biggest, fattest companies have long been fed a diet of public dollars. Spending is already high. The banking industry changes have already happened. Let’s be honest and realistic about the state of things.