Responding to a question from ABC’s Robin Roberts, Pelosi said that while Congress apparently does not want to take anyone’s guns away, “We want them registered.”How does it feel to want, Nancy?
I'm telling you right now, right up front, that I'm not registering mine.
And then...?
(H/T to Crucis.)
"Guns? Oh, no, officer, I don't own any registered firearms."
ReplyDeleteHow do you dig a plausible deniability hole when you live on the second floor?
But you already HAVE registered your guns. Well, the ones that went through a NICS check.
ReplyDeleteYou know, not to be snippy, but I know one or two things about NICS, TICS, log books, BATFE's tracing procedures, 4473's, 3310's, bound books, and the like.
ReplyDeleteI see a lot of chatter from people on the internet who have never participated in a single gun trace or BATFE compliance inspection. They always tell me how it works...
Speaking just for my own self, I'd be rather interested to hear how those wind up going in reality, as opposed to the theoretical seen most often on the tubes.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about the "We don't want them crossing state lines" bit. As another blogger pointed out, that would mean ONLY Ohioans could attend Camp Perry matches, and so forth.
ReplyDeleteAnd just WTF does crossing state lines have to do with it, anyway? How many mass shootings (which seems to be the newest impetus for this crap) were perpetrated by people outside their state of residence?
Hey Nancy, how about some real compromise for a change, instead of the "We get only 50% of what we want, and you get shafted" compromise?
ReplyDeleteYou want to register our guns? How about we trade you nationwide CCW? How about we move suppressors off NFA? How about we ditch the Nazi inspired 1968 GCA?
Let's compromise!
No and then!
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ReplyDeleteActually, we could help Nancy Pelosi realize her goal, of less fear of gun owners.
First, Ms. Pelosi, you have to make us fear and resent the government less.
- Stop spending more than collected tax revenue.
- Stop with the "regulate everything into the dirt" stuff, like H.R. 875 Food Safety Administration, PVPA see patent protection, and NAIS animal and premises registration and tracking.
- Stop interfering with businesses and leaving union contracts intact. If the head of GM has to go, so does the head of each of the unions involved.
- If you are going to regulate salaries and bonuses and other compensation, as Barney Frank has proposed - that has to go. Now.
- If the Illinois Governor did wrong in finding a replacement to fill President Obama's seat in the US Senate, then the American people deserve an open and fair investigation into how then-Senator Obama got his seat, and was able, without actually accomplishing anything as a US Senator, to get his party's nomination for President. Especially given the astonishing and blatant political payoffs from the White House the first 100 days in office.
- You have got to drop the socialist "redistribute the wealth" rhetoric. You have got to stop lying to the poor and other Democratic voters, that you can swipe money from businesses and wealthy - and come any where near to taking in what you plan to spend.
- You have got to stop demonizing people with the wealth, interest, and actual experience with creating an economy and putting people to work.
- Abandon the "loyalty to the President" orientation for the AmeriCorps volunteer program.
- Restore America's ability to defend and protect her shores, and interests abroad. For that to happen, we require a strong national economy as well as motivated and armed Uniformed Services. This is not the time to expand social programs at the expense of the Defense budget.
In short, Ms. Pelosi, act like Congress represents every American, not just big Democratic Party donors and PACs.
And then...?
ReplyDelete1000% tax on ammunition and reloading components. Registration of ammunition and reloading components. Feloney convictions for those found with unregistered weapons. Stuff like that. It's depressing. . . Is it time yet Claire?
The only way the government gets your guns is if you give them up.
ReplyDeleteJim
Tam: Chilling read at http://www.undp.org/cpr/documents/sa_control/SALWGuide_Legislation.pdf. Check out Chapter 3.
ReplyDeleteWho's following the playbook?
/sennin/
"I know one or two things about NICS, TICS, log books, BATFE's tracing procedures, 4473's, 3310's, bound books, and the like."
ReplyDeleteI wish to learn so as to have my over-active imagination reassured.
But Officer, I don't have any guns. I sold them all last year. Sold to who? Bill of sale? But that wasn't required by law.
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Smacked down by Tam... Oh dear. I'll just sit over here then.
ReplyDeleteI DO wish you had served time in Maryland shop. And tell me what the State does with the records.
MD, I don't know.
ReplyDeleteDo y'all have state-level registration?
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ReplyDeleteThere is NO state level registration in Florida.
ReplyDeleteSomething is fishy in Maryland
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=8891
I am a VA FFL. Fed has no records,except with multiple handgun purchase (3310). State supposed to destroy their NICS records. State has no record of SN, except with multiple handgun purchase (3310) SN trace must start with mfg (or 3310 database?)and then proceed ffl by ffl until private sale breaks the chain of record keeping. Then I dunno.
That is capsule of my minimal knowledge.
Looks to me like you don't want to do multiple handgun purchases if you are concerned about THE MAN. Also private sales look to be the way to go....hence their urgency to close the GSL.
A polite snail-mail letter to your own congressperson: Point out that registration prevents nothing. There is no known way to predict when any individual will go nutzoidal--whether doctor, ditch-digger, archbishop or congressperson.
ReplyDeleteAnd point out where your campaign contributions will go.
Preaching to the choir on the Internet doesn't do nearly as much good as polite, hand-written snailmail.
Art
I can't get away with the not registering bit here. MA has registration - of what was bought here after I got the license. So if they decide to collect them, they know what I have.
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Missouri, until a few years ago, required a permit from the local Sheriff to buy a handgun. You took the permit to the dealer and he added the pistol info on it and mailed it back to the Sheriff. Many dealers weren't very dutiful about their part since any followup by the Sheriff was spotty at best.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what happened to all those documents when it was abolished a few years ago. I suspect they all went into the bit-bucket.
I got a compromise for Ms pelosi: We keep everything as is, and she jumps out of her gummint plane somewhere over Chicago. Fair is fair.
ReplyDeleteMaryland has a 'list'. It's a better list than Massachusetts. Mostly pistols, but also 'Assault Rifles'
ReplyDeleteIf a gun is new AND on that list the State 5-0 need a fired shell casing from the firearm. For all I know, they get the fired bullet too, but I think it's just the brass.
I think.
Presumably, the extra state form associates my name, the guns' SN, the brass, all together in some State PoPo location and database. If they passed a "turn em in" law in the State, presumably the cops would turn to this database and pay folks a visit.
The premise of this post is that Pelosi can say something that makes any damn sense. This premise is incorrect. She spews whatever drivel her hindbrain can get past her botox, and expects people to treat it like Holy Writ.
ReplyDeleteCall Shenanigans on her every statement, get the brooms, and let's make her defend any of her statements against the premise that "Self defense is a human right not to be infringed by the government, period."
We don't want to increase taxes, we just want to have a temporary refund adjustment...
ReplyDeleteWhat with Yom HaShoah, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut coming up later this month, Speaker Pelosi can bite me.
ReplyDeleteI think there are already some states that require registration. But I'm gonna make a guess: registration did not lower crime levels a bit.
ReplyDeleteWhy?
Because very few legal gun owners commit crimes!! Duh!!
Nancy wants me to register my guns..... and I want her to go dig a hole on a cat ranch, jump in, and wait indefinitely for the resident critters to cover her up. When she does that, I'll register my guns.
ReplyDeleteHere's my view on Nancy Pelosi and what she is good for.
ReplyDeleteNancy Goes Down
I won't be registering any of my guns either.
Joe
Tam said...
ReplyDeleteMD, I don't know.
Do y'all have state-level registration?
I don't know about where MD lives, but I am required to have a permit to buy and carry handguns in Connecticut, and that permit number is given out during the background check. Couldn't we conclude that permits are simply registration, when agents of the state demonstrate their use by identifying you, and rattling off a list of the weapons you legally own, only hours after beginning their investigation?
Nancy, shit in one hand and want in the other and see which one fills up first.
ReplyDeleteOops, read that wrong. MD requires a permit for handguns and also registration of the individual weapon.
ReplyDeleteI wish my farts smelled like roses. Her wish ain't happening either!
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