Quote of the Day
The Declaration of Causes of Taking Up Arms of July 6, 1775, drafted by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson and passed by the Continental Congress, protested Gage’s seizure of arms as follows: The inhabitants of Boston being confined within that town by the General their Governor, and having, in order to procure their dismission, entered into a treaty with him, it was stipulated that the said inhabitants having deposited their arms with their own magistrates, should have liberty to depart, taking with them their other effects. They accordingly delivered up their arms, but in open violation of honor, in defiance of the obligation of treaties, which even savage nations esteem sacred, the Governor ordered the arms deposited as aforesaid, that they might be preserved for their owners, to be seized by a body of soldiers; detained the greatest part of the inhabitants in the town, and compelled the few who were permitted to retire, to leave their most valuable effects behind.
A Virginia gentleman wrote to a friend in Scotland on Sept. 1, 1775: “We are all in arms, exercising and training old and young to the use of the gun. No person goes abroad without his sword, or gun, or pistols.”
After the British army abandoned Boston on March 17, 1776, the selectmen returned and discovered that the surrendered arms that had been stored in Faneuil Hall were damaged or destroyed. What was left was sold as replacement parts and scrap.
Gage’s confiscation and destruction of their arms contributed to the Americans’ historical mistrust of government control of their firearms. His promise that surrendered firearms would be returned to their owners was a lie. The longstanding American aversion to firearm registration that continues today is rooted in the historical experience that it will lead to confiscation.
Stephen P. Halbrook
June 23, 2025
Gun Control Had a Lot to do With the Shot Heard ’Round the World | An Official Journal Of The NRA
The Declaration of Causes of Taking Up Arms was 250 years ago today. The lessons learned the hard way then are still valid today.
And one of the most important lessons is that gun grabbers have always lied. It is part of their culture.
“The Declaration of Causes of Taking Up Arms was 250 years ago today. The lessons learned the hard way then are still valid today.
And one of the most important lessons is that gun grabbers have always lied. It is part of their culture.”
EVERY, SINGLE, TIME. No exceptions
To me, the real problem lays at the feet of our complacence. Never tyrants have done any other. It is we that get lulled by their siren’s song of disarmament.
Or as Vox Day puts it. The word magic.
To this day we argue over the questions THEY bring to the table. Not our black letter law and the motives that are always behind the lies.
Even today a host of gun.orgs are lining up to remove the registration from the NFA over there being no more taxes levied against those arms.
But no one is ever even questioned that congress never had the power to tax rights in the first instance, outside of standard taxes levied on sales of everything else?
We wouldn’t go against the communist parl’s decision for our rights because of congresses rules.
But she had no problem going outside those same rules to enforce communist lies.
This is what has to change. Us. And the way we deal with all tyrants, great or small.
“A Virginia gentleman wrote to a friend in Scotland on Sept. 1, 1775: “We are all in arms, exercising and training old and young to the use of the gun. No person goes abroad without his sword, or gun, or pistols.”
Not only do the tyrants always lie. I would posit that it is every bit, if not more dangerous in today’s world than it was with the British occupation back then.
Never be found unarmed.
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After Dunkirk, Americans sent thousands of privately owned firearms to England, with the promise that after the emergency they would be returned.
Never happened.
The rifles were never even distributed to private citizens in England. Only “the Home Guard, a volunteer defense force that was technically part of the British military and tasked with defending the homeland in case of invasion.”
IIRC, only ONE long gun was returned to it’s USA owner, and that was due to the owner’s name and address being very visible on the stock. I don’t recall if it was carved into the stock, or a data plate being affixed to it. The rest of them got tossed into the Channel after the end of the war.
Mostly due to the advent of bomb tossing radicals around the beginning of the 20th Century, the British government decided to use that as an excuse to begin the effort to disarm the population generally. Until that time, there didn’t seem to be any real restrictions on the ownership and/or carry of weapons. By the time of ww2, that had changed dramatically. WW1 helped to make it more widespread.