People seem to think that if we give them this they'll leave us alone. Not so.
They will never stop. They are patient. They employ the tactics of communism through media infiltration, propaganda and slow and incremental concessions.
1789 - Second Amendment
1934 - National Firearms Act of 1934. The first federal gun-control law; levies a restrictive $200 tax on the manufacture or sale of machine guns and sawed-off shotguns. All sales were to be recorded in a national registry.
1938 - National Firearms Act of 1938. Requires the licensing of interstate gun dealers, who must record their sales; prohibits sales to individuals under indictment or convicted of crimes of violence.
1968 - Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and the Gun Control Act of 1968. Now the primary federal law regulating firearms. Prohibits all convicted felons, drug users and the mentally ill from buying guns; raises the age to purchase handguns from a federally licensed dealer to 21; and expands the licensing requirements to more gun dealers and requires more detailed record-keeping.
1986 - Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. Bans civilian ownership of machine guns manufactured after May 19, 1986 (weapons made and registered before that date are not affected). The small victories: limits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from inspecting gun dealers more than once a year, with follow-up inspections allowed only if multiple violations are found; forbids the government from creating a national registry of gun ownership.
1993 - The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993. Mandates background checks of gun buyers to prevent sales to people prohibited under the 1968 legislation through NCIS; On the positive side, records of such checks cannot be preserved because federal law prohibits the creation of a national registry of gun ownership; Sales by unlicensed private sellers who are not engaged in gun dealing as a business are not subject to the checks under federal law.
1994 - The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. 10-year federal ban on the manufacture of new semi-automatic assault weapons; specifies 19 weapons that have the features of assault rifles; bans several specific models said to be the preferred weapon of violent drug gangs; bans large-capacity ammunition magazines, limiting them to 10 rounds. Not much good: Did not apply to weapons that were already in legal possession, and there are easy ways to adapt new weapons to avoid the prohibitions.
2003 - Tiahrt Amendment. Prohibits law enforcement from publicly releasing data showing where criminals bought their firearms.
135 years passed between the adoption of the Second Amendment and the National Firearms Act of 1934. After the National Firearms Act of 1938, it was another 30 years (1968) before Gun Control was addressed again at the federal level. The next act came 18 years later (1986), followed by
another only 7 years later (1993).
It has been almost 20 years since their last major assault. They have been patiently waiting, working behind the scenes to consolidate media control and increase their ranks in Congress.
I was a "cold "warrior" during my 20 years of service and I am thoroughly familiar with the techniques, practices, promises and perils of communism. Promises of a utopian society where government employs, shelters and feeds the people. No one gets more than another no matter their skills nor their productivity. It promises a society without class distinction while creating the ultimate ruling class.
They cannot achieve that with an armed citizenry. And once the Second Amendment is out of the way the Constitution will become a curiosity of history.
We cannot allow that to happen. Not on our watch.
