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Exactly vito. And there is increased risk from the administration aggressively prosecuting under existing laws, frequently "interpreting" the law to invent "violations" that the law was never intended to cover.

Oh, and as the saying goes "Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me".
 
There is a whole political party (I can't name it because we like to pretend it doesn't exist) whose official position is to eliminate the private ownership of firearms.
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I'm not sure which party that might be. Both major parties have elements who consider gun control to be a viable approach to social engineering, and both of those parties have elements who stand strongly with the 2nd Amendment. The issue isn't so cleanly stratified along party lines as some folks would have us think.

I would remind everyone that we don't do pure politics here, and if someone wants to rant about the "Obummer," this is not the venue.
 
Try to imagine for a moment that you are the Govt. and you are going to confiscate every gun in the country. It cannot be done.
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Maybe not, but I've often wondered about some sort of mandatory "surrender" being imposed and a federal offense for those found in violation.

Or even a law prohibiting the sales and/or possession of ammo with connections made to "explosive devices" under some homeland security law.

Yeah, I admit I'm paranoid. :D
 
One way for government to remove firearms from private ownership is via a government controlled medical insurance, own a gun no insurance,over weight no insurance,smoke no insurance, well you get the idea. All about control.;)
 
One way for government to remove firearms from private ownership is via a government controlled medical insurance, own a gun no insurance,over weight no insurance,smoke no insurance, well you get the idea. All about control.
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Funny you should mention that ...
I was asked by my health insurance company if I had any guns in my home.
I found it very odd.
 
Didn't know that.

um, Australians aren't gunless. guns are regulated heavily but people still have guns.
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I remember seeing the piles of guns the government collected ready for destruction and figured they got them all. I also read that crime there went through the roof almost immediately. But you living there would know the actual details better than I would. Can't trust the media to get a story straight.
 
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I told my Father-In-Law one day while we were in Wal-Mart looking at the prices of ammo that years ago it paid to reload your own ammo if you done alot of shooting, but now with the price of ammo you don't have to do alot of shooting to justify reloading your own. It's just going to get higher with the price of gas going up, just look at the price of brass & bullets. There's your gun control.
 
Can't trust the media to get a story straight.
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I've spoken with a few Aussies over the years, and there are a lot of unregistered guns on the continent, particularly in rural areas where enforcement is somewhat lax. The situation is somewhat similar to Canada, in which the majority of guns are estimated not to be registered.
 
In my opinion (I am not a lawyer) even explosives are a constitutionally protected right... the 2A does not say only guns or only guns and knives it says arms.


If you have the $5000. for the federal license and the training its likely you can have it.... however if the day was to come when rounds were declared to be in the same category Im sure the politicians would get run out of town...
 
All laws and regulations are intended to enforce socially acceptable and beneficial behavior. As our society changes, what is socially acceptable changes. There is virtually no place in the US where you can legally do all the things your grandfather could legally do.

We are unique as a nation, for many reasons, one of them being that our right to arms is written into our founding documents.

This makes the task of those who would deny us this right in the name of the "greater good" much more difficult. But not impossible.

Over the last few decades, we have been "taught" through media indoctrination and social pressure to be ashamed of the ownership of arms, and knowledge of their use. That guns, and hunting are bad.

Each generation growing up gets a different exposure to guns, and their uses. Used to be more people learned they were for hunting and recreation than for personal defense and battle. Today, I don't think that's the case anymore.

There are so many people who's only experience with guns and shooting is entirely from the entertainment media and local crime that it is a tough sell convince them that having a gun is anything but wrong.

There are enough like that, each with the same vote that we have, to make our "right" a practical impossibility, if and when they are swayed by emotions and false promises of safety from anti-gun public figures.

I believe it was Franklin, leaving the Constitutional Convention, who was asked "What have you given us?"

"A Republic. If you can keep it!"
 
As it stands, the idea that we own arms to oppose our government in the last ditch, final confrontation is a non-starter.

If we truly owned arms to overthrow the government by force, we would need, in 2012, anti-tank weapons, artillery, radar, all the crew served weapons the U.S. military currently deploys, and access to the satellite network, both for accurate GPS and intelligence.

Without all of that, the idea that citizens could beat the United States reaction force, let alone the entire army, is a fantasy.

Even fighting the way to a negotiation table against the first responding battalion simply is not possible.

No, Jethro, your hunting rifle isn't going to do it. Your "guerilla" cell will be hunted down and slaughtered in an alley, or you will be arrested and do life without parole as a terrorist. You will go down in history as a common felon, not as a revolutionary.

The difference between a common, run-of-the-mill criminal with a violence jacket and a revolutionary is victory.

And that's out of reach, and has been for more than thirty years.

The only way to beat the U.S. military would be if entire American units deserted, complete with their officers and weapons.

And that's a job for a pen, not a rifle.
 
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If anyone believes that overthrowing a government by force will produce the kind of government you apparently want, think again. All revolutions, successful and unsuccessful, increase the power of government. All of them. That is, unless you prefer anarchy to government. Most seem to prefer law and order. There must be order.

It is entirely possible for the United States government to be violently overthrown. It happened in other places, sometimes regretfully and sometimes only after a prolonged struggle. Whether the outcome was worth it of course depends on your own personal ideals. The rich generally suffer the most.

Let's talk about something else.

Saw a dead coyote here in Fairfax County the other evening, or I think it was. Rumors were true.
 
Over the last few decades, we have been "taught" through media indoctrination and social pressure to be ashamed of the ownership of arms, and knowledge of their use.
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Indoctrination also casts gun owners as angry men, who kill animals when they could just go to the store, are wannabe militia members, paranoid, dangerous, and irrational. The bad news is that the younger generation is "bombarded" with negative propaganda regarding firearms.

The youth of today, is tomorrow's voter. It is the youth who must be taught why the Second Ammendment is relevent today. No one should be ashamed of the ability to protect himself and his/her family. For a man to rely on someone else for his family's first line of protection is shameful.
 
Sorry, folks, but I can't go from the 2nd Amendment to my wife being able to carry a concealed weapon. Just can't do it. And one of my wife's ancestors actually had something to do with that amendment. He had his worries, too.
 
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All laws and regulations are intended to enforce socially acceptable and beneficial behavior. As our society changes, what is socially acceptable changes. There is virtually no place in the US where you can legally do all the things your grandfather could legally do.
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It's worth remembering that these changes go both ways, and that, depending on who you are, your legal rights may be a big improvement over those of your grandparents. Female suffrage and the repeal of Jim Crow laws are just two examples that come to mind...

And in fact, the current trend for firearms laws does seem to be toward less restriction, not more: toward the passage of "shall-issue" laws concerning concealed carry permits, of "stand-your-ground" laws... not to mention minor stuff like the Heller decision (;)).
 
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