A Modest Proposal II

One of the unicorns of the gun-grabbing left is “universal background checks” – they want every gun transaction to have to be pre-approved by the government. They couch their version as a “gun safety” proposal to limit bad folks from getting  guns. Sort of like how the Brady bill was supposed to do it, and GCA ’68 too.  But their end goal is to make every transaction subject to government scrutiny – and to make that work, they say they need  universal gun registration – their REAL goal. The only way to effectively grab guns from citizens is to know who has them and who doesn’t. It’s an old routine, used by Russian Communists, German Nazis, Nicaraguan Sandinistas, Canadians, Chicoms, Australians, Norks, New Zealand gun-grabbers  – name an aspiring totalitarian  regime and I’ll show you a universal gun-registration-followed-by-confiscation scheme.

Now, these schemes are not always successful – note New York’s SAFE act, which demanded “assault weapon” registration and achieved minimal  (4%) compliance in its first three years. Hudson Valley One. 

But  the results are always the same… registration is followed by “we changed our minds, it’s time to turn them in.” Even here in the States, Connecticut maintains a record of sales, which has given them a de facto registration data base. And it only took them a few years before Gov. Ned Lamont started airing proposals to start confiscation:

The governor, however, did not include in his proposals a plan he talked about during his re-election campaign last year — eliminating an exception to the bans on certain semiautomatic rifles that allows people who owned such firearms before the bans took effect to keep them. AP via Yahoo

I think it’s time for a pre-emptive strike: take the gun grabbers at their word. Institute a universal background check. Everyone who aspires to buy a gun has to be background checked… but with one proviso: no record of what is purchased, no running the serial number via the 4473s (it does nothing anyway) – only check the PERSON, just like they say they want.

Say some young fella wants to shop guns – let’s call him KoB just for fun – first thing KoB does is wander down to his local FFL and get them to run a background check. KoB pays his $20, is given a clean bill of gun-buying health, with a serial numbered form valid for 90 days to prove it. Now young KoB goes out to do some shopping. He finds a fella who has a mint Singer Sewing Machine 1911A1 from WWII for sale. He shows his background check to the seller, who notes and keeps a record of the number. KoB gets his pistol, the seller knows KoB has been checked within the last 3 months.  No record of the gun’s serial number is retained in any database except the sellers,  and supposedly the gun grabbers are satisfied.

Note KoB doesn’t have to be buying a gun to get checked. Me, I’d do a check quarterly just to be able to satisfy impulse buys (and as camouflage, just to irritate ’em.) And there is even a little money to be made – right now, running 4473s is a freebie whose expense is borne by the dealers and the FBI. Let the FBI collect $5, the dealer $15, eliminate the 4473s, and everyone’s on board. Am I caving in? Possibly…but I think they are going to cram universal checks and registration down our throats as soon as they get one Squad or RINO vote to spare. Might as well take the wind out of their sails and propose something more palatable before they pass some BS universal registration scheme.

Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Gun Grabbing Fascists, Guns