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SB 1160 will give the state better data and help us understand how many firearms are in private hands and who owns them.
Anthony J. Portantino
California State Senator (D – Burbank)
February 14, 2024
Portantino Introduces Bill Requiring Annual Registration of Firearms (msn.com)
The story of the Belgium Corporal was a warning, not a how-to manual.
Also, as is fairly well know, people who are legally ineligible to own a gun cannot be prosecuted for failure to register their guns. This is because it would be a violation of their 5th Amendment rights against self incrimination.
These politicians are pulling out all the stops to infringe on our specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms. I do not think I have ever seen this fast of pace of antigun laws. I cannot believe they are under any delusion of the laws being proposed, passed, and affirmed are actually constitutional. Yet, the do it anyway:
- Biden Signs Gun Control Executive Order Regulating Firearms (msn.com)
- Hawaii’s high court cites ‘The Wire’ in rebuke of US Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights (msn.com)
- Ban on “assault” weapons is back as Colorado lawmakers target high-powered guns (msn.com)
- ATF Preparing Rule To Regulate Private Gun Sales, Requiring Background Check (msn.com)
I hope they enjoy their trials. All the alternatives will be very ugly.
There won’t be any trials. I see something akin to Madame Defarge when it all comes tumbling down. And it will.
Portantino and EVERY other politician can violate every law they could imagine and not be held to account.
Best advice is to be ready.
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They act, we play catch-up. They know what they’re doing is criminal. They don’t care. And they certainly don’t care if real gang-style criminals have, use, or register guns.
Gun control is strictly for the honest humans.
And they don’t have any trouble sending enforcement to your abode to kill or destroy you for not complying.
They know full well that it comes down to enforcement. And if they keep laws on the books, it will give them and their low IQ enforcement an excuse to go after you.
Ask yourself how many police have ignorantly obeyed illegal gun control laws in this country? Have illegally disarmed and arrested people for exercising their human rights?
And would do so all over again if asked to.
That’s what drives all these illegal laws. They’re communists. And they don’t care about legal/illegal.
So long as they control enforcement.
Something tells me their truly not going to like it when we start playing catch-up for real. And all this lopsided government by dictate crap comes to a sudden stop.
We best be wrapping our minds around a future of brutality.
The communists certainly have. Their laws prove it.
I remember that Kim DuToit wrote that in the early-mid seventies, everyone in South Africa wanted a gun the government didn’t know about.
Are we getting to that point? Remember how quickly things changed in Germany after 1932.
It is the last gasp of the desperate. They are trying to stack the deck and through clogs into the machine to keep as much bad law on the books as they can and force challenges over and over. They know, deep down, if these get back to the Supreme Court that they will most likely lose and lose big.
They are gritting up and jamming the machine in the hopes of either running out the clock on Thomas and/or taking a smackdown like Bruen and just tweak or flat-out challenge SCOTUS to stop them. Squishy Roberts want to hold to the decorum and slow, plodding steadiness of the Court without realizing the lower courts are openly challenging him. They don’t care about decorum; they care about the fact of “How dare these peons stand up to their betters?!?”
So they take a decade’s worth of their laws on the books. Especially has history demonstrates they’ll likely succeed at that or longer. It took nearly fifteen years for Bruen. What is another decade or two of “new normal” for another ruling that nibbles out the edges of what they can’t do to only tweak, ignore and do it again.
Death by a thousand cuts works both ways. Especially the highest court of the land lacks the courage to take away the knife being used to bleed the Republic slowly to death.
The terrifying part is I am a sufficient realist to realize they’ll probably get away with it absent some grave offense offered to the Court they cannot ignore. I am weakly hopeful Hawaii provided it and perhaps the litany of AWB’s being pushed forth might force their hand.
If not, I hope I don’t live to see the end of the Great Experiment. That the hot civil war doesn’t happen until after I’m gone.
Not just Bruen. It took 57 years to undo Plessey v Ferguson. There are others, The Dred Scott case, and even Wickard v Filburn which the courts simply ignore,
It took three constitutional amendments to undo Dred Scott.
Bottom line: We’re going to have to kill a lot of people to turn this around. Sorry about that, wish it weren’t so, but there’s no way around it. There’s ample evidence that those opposed to maintaining The Standards of Civilization aren’t interested in anything but its destruction.
How we kill them, though, is open to debate; my preference would be “death by lawfare and ostracization” which leaves them with pulse and respiration, unemployable and completely friendless, but not much more. They can retire en masse to remote private communities in which they employ each other at astronomical minimum wages and toast each other’s virtue signaling at wine-and-cheese soirees (aka: “California”).
I suspect, however, that employment of somewhat more stringent corrective measures will eventually be required.
Inside every deception is the seed of its own destruction. Meaning the system will self-correct.
Just as all the woke trans-communists/we rule the world/nothing bad ever happens to us rainbow elitists. Have decided that millions of low-impulse control, vibrant tribalists will be good for the new slave economy?
Are probably going to kill and eat them first. (After they have finished raping them of course.) As no good deed goes unpunished.
A truth that has suffered the ages is this; No matter what it is. It may not end well, but it always ends.
And as Joe building his bunker in Idaho exemplifies, it seems the trick is not to be in the area when it does.
Registration is a prelude to confiscation. ALWAYS.
And no…NONE of these people will face trial or penalty of ANY type
for their criminal abuse of power. Any punishment they ever suffer
would be of the extrajudicial vigilante type.
This would be an instant registration list, under penalty of haw. Fire and EMS already don’t have to respond to your address without a police escort if you have firearms registered at that address. Insurance would share that information with the state, guaranteeing a list of firearms ready made for state pickup. Insurance would t have to pay on a chain if you haven’t declared them before the loss occured, plus suffering the penalty for not disclosing your ownership.