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Democrats Pushing Gun Registry As Precursor To Gun Ban
Burner02 Offline
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RealClearWire - Federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, but the Biden administration is making one anyway. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has collected nearly one billion firearm purchase records. The government has now created a searchable digital database containing 866 million of these transactions, including some 54 million made in 2021 alone.

This massive data collection effort encompasses information on all guns sold by licensed gun dealers, and on all legal gun transfers in states with so-called universal background checks. So, federal officials will have the name of everyone who legally obtained a gun. Now, President Biden wants to make universal background checks nationwide so he can have an even more complete registration list.

According to a Rasmussen Reports survey, Democrats support the idea by a 2-1 ratio, while Republicans oppose it by a similar margin. Two-thirds of Republicans believe the policy will lead to gun confiscation, and even 40% of Democrats believe the same. Confiscating legally owned firearms, it seems, is not merely a right-wing conspiracy theory.

Similarly, a recent Gallup poll shows that 40% of Democrats want a complete ban on civilian ownership of handguns. Countries such as Canada, the U.K., and Australia aren’t the only ones to use registration to ban and confiscate guns. California, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. have also used registration to know who legally owned different types of guns before banning them.

Conducting background checks to see if someone can legally buy a gun is different from the government keeping a searchable record of those who own guns. Indeed, federal law has always required that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System erase background check information within 24 hours of its completion.

Gun control activists push for registration as a way to solve crime. In theory, if criminals leave registered guns at a crime scene, they can then be traced back to the perpetrator. But in real life, a gun is usually left at the scene of a crime only when the gunman has been seriously injured or killed. Also, guns used in crimes are rarely registered. In the exceedingly unusual instances that they are, they aren’t registered to the person who committed the crime. However, with both the criminal and weapon present at the scene, police can solve these crimes even without registration.

In a 2001 lawsuit, the Pennsylvania state police could not identify any crimes solved by their registration system from 1901 to 2001; however they did claim that it had “assisted” in a total of four cases, for which they could provide no details.

In a 2013 deposition for District of Columbia v. Heller II, the plaintiffs recorded that the Washington, D.C. police chief

could not “recall any specific instance where registration records were used to determine who committed a crime, except for possession offenses.”

During testimony before the Hawaii State Senate in 2000, Honolulu’s police chief stated that he couldn’t find any crimes that had been solved due to registration and licensing. The chief also said that his officers devoted about 50,000 hours to registering and licensing guns each year. This is time that could have been spent on traditional, time-tested law enforcement activities.

New York and Maryland spent tens of millions of dollars putting together a computer database on all new guns sold in the past 15 years, even recording the ballistic fingerprint of each gun. But even these states, which strongly favor gun control, eventually abolished their systems because they never solved a single crime.

In 2010, Canada conducted a detailed examination of its program. It found that, from 2003 to 2009, 1,314 out of 4,257 Canadian homicides involved firearms. Of the identified weapons, about three-quarters were not registered. Among registered weapons, the registered owner was rarely the person accused of the homicide. In just 62 cases – only 4.7 percent of all firearm homicides – was the gun registered to the accused, and an unknown number of these homicide cases involve instances of self-defense. But the Royal Canadian Mounted Police failed to identify any cases where registration was integral to solving the crime.

Why do Democrats keep pushing a policy that costs so much and has no crime-reducing benefits? With so many Democrat voters supporting complete gun bans, many Republicans and Democrats believe that the registry is designed to pave the way for a ban on guns.

Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author of “Gun Control Myths.” Until January 2021, Lott was the senior adviser for research and statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy.
Speyside2 Offline
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In 1918 the Bolsheviks initiated a large scale confiscation of civilian firearms, outlawing their possession and threatening up to 10 years in prison for concealing a gun.

The only exception was made for hunters who were allowed to possess smoothbore weapons. Gun licenses, however, were strictly regulated and only issued by the NKVD, the police organization known for its role in Joseph Stalin’s political purges.
Sunoverbeach Offline
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Why is it still thought that a ban will be effective when cities with the strictest gun laws have some of the highest rates of gun violence i.e. Chicago & New York?

Anyways
My father used to say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger," until the accident.
- Jimmy Carr
Mr. Jones Offline
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Thank God for the second amendment..
Mr. Jones Offline
#5 Posted:
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The democrat party has GONE FULL MORONIC A-HOLE
TOO THE MAX....

I WAS A LIFE LONG DEMOCRAT...
MY ENTIRE FAMILY WERE UNION ORGANIZERS, HIERARCHY AND MEMBERS...
I MOVED ( PERSONNALY TRANSPORTED $$$ FOR A big FEE)
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM CLEVELAND & PITTSBURGH TO PHILADELPHIA WAREHOUSES IN NON DISCRIPT GREEN BUICKS OVER 6++ YEARS FROM 1981-87 FOR a decent renumeration ....I was a stalwart democrat....

No freakin' more...
No way ..
Plus the DNC SUPPLIED ME WITH SNUB NOSED .38'S AND
SAWED OFF 12 ga. Pumps while doing so...

The Democratic party has gone south big-time...
It is no longer the party of the union worker...
It is a commie no gun rights bunch of A-holes...
Mr. Jones Offline
#6 Posted:
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I was ...

And still am...

"Snub whitey"

The infamous D.N.C. $$$ transporter of the eastern corridor.

EXTROIDINAIRE...
Whistlebritches Offline
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Come and get em..............if ya got the balls.All.of us need to be prepared,I wouldn't put anything past this administration
ZRX1200 Offline
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Anyone catch Biden’s “cannon” mumble the other day?

They’re going after pistol braces even after they got 8-1 negative response in the comment period which they purposely moved then soft relaunched…….and they’re trying to change the definition of a “receiver”. Literally TWENTY parts on a Glock will be considered a firearm.

If you vote Democrat you should park in the garage with the car running for a few hours and the windows rolled down.
DrMaddVibe Offline
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Whistlebritches wrote:
Come and get em..............if ya got the balls.All.of us need to be prepared,I wouldn't put anything past this administration



If they act like this and we have them...imagine what they would do when we don't?

Russia and China would LOVE that day.
Speyside2 Offline
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How will any of this stop an illegal purchase of guns/weapons?

Show me a way to stop that at least say 90% and I a all for it.

Otherwise GFYS.
Brewha Offline
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Burner02 wrote:
RealClearWire - Federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, but the Biden administration is making one anyway.....


Wait - a Federal Law would not apply to Biden. "Executive Privilege", right?


Oh, but them Dems is commin' for yo guns. And knives. They even gonna take away yo nail clippers and make yo eat that tofoodie stuff....
Sunoverbeach Offline
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Happened in Britain. Took the guns, then the knives. Nail clippers aren't that much of a stretch
Sunoverbeach Offline
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when yo fall into an open sewer and die.
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