Thursday, September 24, 2009

Toronto proves the statement - Registration leads to Confiscation

One always hears that gun registration is for our own good. The anti-2nd Amendment people just want to let the cops know who owns what guns, just in case, ..... you know.... if the guns are stolen and/or used in a crime.

Of course, all of this is unmitigated bull. Gun registration is the precursor to gun confiscation. Always. Every Single time. The police in Toronto are seizing guns from private citizens that have either lapsed registrations or have been banned (as if one type of gun is more dangerous than another)
"They used to be legal firearms, but now they're either unregistered or outright banned, and they're wanted by police before there's a chance burglars put them in Toronto's underground and underworld markets."

"What we believe is that legal handgun owners are not dangerous individuals, but we know from experience that their firearms can become extremely dangerous when they get into the hands of criminals," Blair said.
Of course, being registered magically protected the weapons from theft. And now, the law abiding citizens of Toronto that just lost their firearms are defenseless against those "extremely dangerous" criminals firearms.

Do we want similar laws in the United States? Do we want similar laws in Virginia? No.
Thank God for the 2nd Amendment and those that defend it.

When its time to bury your weapons, its time to dig them up.

h/t Sharp as a Marble

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Buying a gun at Wal-Mart will mean defacto registration

While the federal government has said that it will not register your guns and while the Commonwealth of Virginia has said that it will not register your guns, Wal-Mart has decided that anyone that purchases a gun from their stores is a possible felon and will be registered.

Wally world, which has been prevented from opening stores in NYC, wants to cooperate with Mayor Bloomberg with Bloomberg’s group Mayors Against Illegal Guns. That group, among other misguided ideas, such as interfering with law enforcement by making illegal straw purchases, advocates the closing of the (nonexistent) gun show loophole and preventing those on the "terrorist no fly list" from purchasing firearms (Ted Kennedy, give up your guns!) .

WASHINGTON - Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest seller of firearms, announced Monday it will toughen rules for gun sales, from storing video of purchases to creating an internal log of which guns they sell that are later used in crimes. (So, Wal-Mart is going to register your guns in THEIR records for later perusal by whom THEY choose is appropriate.)
  • Creating a record and alert system to record when a gun sold at Wal-Mart is later used in a crime. If the purchaser of that gun later tries to buy another gun at Wal-Mart, the system would alert the sales clerk of the prior buy and could refuse to make the sale.
  • Retaining the recorded images of gun sales in case law enforcement wants to view them later as part of an investigation.
  • Expanding background checks of employees who handle guns and expanding inventory controls.
Suarez said his company may receive some pressure from gun rights groups, but added, “This is not a signal that we’re getting out of firearms.” (He will if gun owners boycott his stores.)

So, should we boycott Wal-Mart?

h/t Gunthing

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