Guns and Tactics Discussions - 12160 Social Network2024-03-19T11:43:46Zhttps://12160.info/group/gunsandtactics/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noFBI PUTS JAMES O’KEEFE ON NICS BACKGROUND CHECK LIST AS A 'FELON,' DENIES HIM HIS GUN RIGHTStag:12160.info,2020-08-09:2649739:Topic:20344882020-08-09T13:28:42.313ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<div id="newsheader"><h2>SOURCE:<span> </span><a href="http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61633" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CHRIS MENAHAN, INFORMAITION LIBERATION</a></h2>
<div class="div_clear">James O'Keefe of Project Veritas revealed Thursday that he was erroneously placed on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System as a "felon" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, effectively denying him his Second Amendment rights.</div>
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<div id="newsdetail"><p><br/> "I have just filed a lawsuit against the FBI for infringing upon my 2nd Amendment Right to Bear Arms," O'Keefe tweeted. "They have erroneously put me on the Federal NICS Background Check System as a convicted felon."<br/> <br/> "The problem? I am NOT a convicted felon." </p>
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<p><br/> FBI Director Chris Wray seems to have spent the majority of his tenure politically persecuting all of President Trump's supporters.<br/> <br/> Last year,<span> </span><a href="https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60671" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a 32-year-old former Marine had his guns seized at the direction of the FBI</a><span> </span>after he allegedly said he would kill antifa members in self-defense if "they start killing us."</p>
<p><br/> The FBI also<span> </span><a href="https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested members of the United Constitution Patriots after they caught hundreds of illegal aliens invading our southern border in New Mexico</a>.<br/> <br/> Meanwhile, the FBI has allowed antifa terrorists to riot all over the country and operate completely unimpeded (<a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/1077692/epstein-zorro-ranch-manager-vanished/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">they *still* haven't raided Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch, by the way</a>).<br/></p>
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<p><br/> Is it just a coincidence James O'Keefe appears to have been put on this list around two months after infiltrating and exposing Rose City Antifa?<br/> <br/> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VLR76_e_koE?wmode=opaque" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<br/> <br/> Perhaps,<span> </span><a href="https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61140" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as with the "white supremacist" group "The Base" that was exposed earlier this year for allegedly being run by a federal agent</a>, they don't like their agents getting burned.<br/></p>
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<h3>SHARE THIS ARTICLE...</h3> Democrats now blaming gun rights for violent shootings carried out by their own lawless, anti-cop, anti-White criminalstag:12160.info,2020-07-23:2649739:Topic:20315462020-07-23T10:55:11.567ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Democrats now blaming gun rights for violent shootings carried out by their own lawless, anti-cop, anti-White criminals</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">SOURCE: <a href="https://patriotrising.com/democrats-now-blaming-gun-rights-for-violent-shootings-carried-out-by-their-own-lawless-anti-cop-anti-white-criminals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patriot Rising</a></span></p>
<p>The real reason why there is so much violent crime being committed by Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa terrorists following the death of George Floyd has nothing to do with the mainstream media stirring leftists up into a hysterical frenzy but is rather the consequence of some parts of America still having Second Amendment open-carry provisions.</p>
<p>This is the position of Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms, who during a recent appearance on<span> </span><i>MSNBC</i><span> </span><a href="https://bigleaguepolitics.com/delusional-atlanta-mayor-blames-open-carry-for-rise-in-shootings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed Georgia’s open carry laws</a><span> </span>for the waves of violence that have been washing over America’s urban cores for more than a month now.</p>
<p>“What’s happening in Atlanta is what’s happening across the country,” she declared during the segment. “People are dying of COVID-19. We have witnessed the injustices that have happened in front of our eyes and it’s boiling over into our streets.”</p>
<p>Blaming lack of access to health care and high unemployment for people’s anger, Bottoms trailed off into a tirade about how law-abiding citizens carrying visible weapons on their persons is somehow the same as violent criminals storming businesses and destroying entire city streets.</p>
<p>“The irony of it is that our overall crime rate is down by 18 percent, but in Georgia, an open carry state, people are allowed to walk down the streets with assault weapons, and we don’t have probable cause to stop them,” Bottoms lamented about her state’s Second Amendment provisions.</p>
<p>“You don’t get to pick and choose which demographic you get to stop and question as to why they’re walking in our streets with open weapons. It is an issue in Atlanta. It’s an issue in other cities across this nation, and it is one that we take very seriously.”</p>
<h2>Georgia has had open carry for more than a decade and crime sprees only became an issue once the media started riling people up over George Floyd</h2>
<p>What Bottoms failed to mention is that Georgia has had open carry laws in place for many years, and never experienced a surge in crime until the mainstream media started blasting the news about George Floyd all over the airways, blaming racist cops for what happened.</p>
<p>As pointed out by William Davis from the<span> </span><i>Daily Caller</i>, Atlanta is one of many major cities that has seen a dramatic surge in new crime ever since the names George Floyd and Breonna Taylor started being plastered across every news story.</p>
<p>“From May 31 to June 27, 93 people were shot in Atlanta,” Davis writes. “According to<span> </span><i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i>, this represented over a two-fold increase from 2019. In that same period last year, 46 people were shot.”</p>
<p>In other words, Georgia’s open carry laws were never an issue until the Left caught wind of multiple alleged cases of police abuse against blacks. Only then did the crime sprees suddenly surge to unprecedented levels, implicating not<span> </span><a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-04-05-the-real-goal-of-eliminating-the-second-amendment-is-to-obliterate-the-first-amendment-and-enslave-us-all.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Second Amendment</a><span> </span>but mainstream media hate-mongering and race agitation.</p>
<p>“We’ve had open-carry for at least a decade and the shootings in Atlanta only started after she decided to fire all the police for doing their jobs,” tweeted conservative commentator Erick Erickson in response to Bottoms’ statements blaming open carry laws for BLM and Antifa terrorism.</p>
<p>Perhaps Bottoms needs to reflect on the consequences of her new anti-police policies, which have directly contributed to making Atlanta a warzone full of lawlessness and chaos.</p>
<p>“She probably wouldn’t like it here in Idaho then,’ one<span> </span><i>Big League Politics</i><span> </span>commenter responded to Bottoms’ statements.</p>
<p>“When compared to Blue States we have a pretty low crime rate. Course we are an Open carry Red State too, Several members of my Church even come armed. No one has a problem with it at all.”<br/><br/><br/>More Second Amendment-related news is available at<span> </span><a href="http://secondamendment.news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SecondAmendment.news</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://bigleaguepolitics.com/delusional-atlanta-mayor-blames-open-carry-for-rise-in-shootings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BigLeaguePolitics.com</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-04-05-the-real-goal-of-eliminating-the-second-amendment-is-to-obliterate-the-first-amendment-and-enslave-us-all.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NaturalNews.com</a></p> Introduction to Proof Marks and Other Firearms Identification (1880-1945) (Video)tag:12160.info,2020-03-29:2649739:Topic:20124082020-03-29T03:51:48.361ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p><span>This is a recording of a workshop given at the 2014 AFTE (Association of Firearm and Toolmark Examiners) conference in Seattle, on the subject of proof marks and other identifying marks on firearms, specifically arms made between roughly 1880 and 1945. I am available to present classes on this and other topics related to historical…</span></p>
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<div id="newsheader"><h2>SOURCE:<span> </span><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/gun-bill-is-unconstitutional/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">THEORGANICPREPPER.COM</a></h2>
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<p><strong>Note from Daisy</strong>: It’s the Christmas season and that means it’s time for Washington, DC to try and sneak some draconian measures past us. James Wesley Rawles posted the following article on his website, …</p>
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<div id="newsheader"><h2>SOURCE:<span> </span><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/gun-bill-is-unconstitutional/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THEORGANICPREPPER.COM</a></h2>
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<p><strong>Note from Daisy</strong>: It’s the Christmas season and that means it’s time for Washington, DC to try and sneak some draconian measures past us. James Wesley Rawles posted the following article on his website, <a href="https://survivalblog.com/manifoldly-unconstitutional-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Survival Blog</a>, on Christmas Day, outlining how the new bill, the 3D Firearms Prohibitions Act, will infringe on our rights in at least 8 different ways. (And if you think this will ONLY affect those with a 3D printer, you’re quite mistaken.) <span id="more-238503"></span></p>
<h2 class="entry-title singular-title">A MANIFOLDLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL BILL</h2>
<p>by James Wesley Rawles</p>
<p><a href="https://survivalblog.com/manifoldly-unconstitutional-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Originally Published at Survival Blog</a></p>
<p>I have a legislative alert for SurvivalBlog readers: H.R. 7115, the “<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/7115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3D Firearms Prohibitions Act</a>” is on its face perhaps one of the most unconstitutional laws ever written. It is sponsored by Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., Democrat, of New Jersey. It will most likely be reintroduced in the 116th Congress. This proposed law, introduced on November 2, 2018, is purported to ban 3D printed guns. But it is <em>actually </em>about milling (subtractive) technology rather than 3D printing (additive) technology. I have news for Mr. Pallone: <em>All guns</em> are “3D”, once they are off the drawing board!</p>
<p>Pallone’s bill goes far beyond milling machine processes. It would ban firearms parts kits, ban electronic publishing about 80% receivers offered for sale, require the owners of receiver blanks to beg the issuance of a serial number before then can be milled, and even <strong>retroactively</strong> bans unserialized receivers that have been made since 1968. It also arbitrarily sets a 90 day limit for number stamping/engraving and completion of the receiver. You can read the full text of the bill, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr7115/BILLS-115hr7115ih.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>
<p>The summary preamble to H.R. 7115 reads: “To prohibit the sale, acquisition, distribution in commerce, or import into the United States of certain firearm receiver castings or blanks, assault weapon parts kits, and machinegun parts kits and the marketing or advertising of such castings or blanks and kits on any medium of electronic communications, to require homemade firearms to have serial numbers, and for other purposes.” But even a cursory reading of Pallone’s bill shows that it is blatantly unconstitutional, in many ways. Here are a few:</p>
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<li>The proposed law violates the 1st Amendment by making it illegal to communicate to others about the availability of certain gun parts.</li>
<li>The proposed law violates the 2nd Amendment. If anything, battle rifles deserve the strongest protection of the 2nd Amendment, since those are the guns most suitable for use by the citizen militia. But Pallone’s law focuses on them and their component parts as a supposed “banned hazardous products”.</li>
<li>The proposed law violates the 4th Amendment because it eliminates the inherent privacy of citizens in assembling guns from parts of their own manufacture or that have no bearing on interstate commerce. It also violates our privacy by forcing us to beg for serial number assignments for already legally-possessed guns from Federal Firearms License holders.</li>
<li>The proposed law violates the 5th Amendment by requiring the owners of post-1968 unserialized privately-made guns (or receivers, or receiver blanks, or parts sets) to report themselves to Federal authorities, possibly incriminating themselves.</li>
<li>The proposed law also violates the 5th Amendment’s “Takings” clause, because it bans “certain firearm receiver castings or blanks, assault weapon parts kits, and machinegun parts kits” without leaving any viable market. It is a ban <em>without compensation</em>.</li>
<li>The proposed law exceeds the mandate of the Commerce Clause (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution) by creating new over-reaching Federal authority on 50-year-old gun receivers and other gun parts that can date back more than 100 years. These parts clearly have <em>long</em> been out of Interstate Commerce and thus have no Federal nexus whatsoever. (That is private <em>intra</em>state commerce.)</li>
<li>The proposed law violates the Ex Post Facto Law Clause by<em> retroactively</em> creating the crime of owning a post-1968 unserailized firearm receiver. This is a gross violation of Article I, Section 10, Clause 1, of the U.S. Constitution. That clause prohibits the enactment of<em> ex post facto </em>laws.</li>
<li>The proposed law is also void for vagueness. According the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/vagueness_doctrine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cornell Law School web site</a>, this is “a constitutional rule that requires criminal laws to state explicitly and definitely what conduct is punishable. Criminal laws that violate this requirement are said to be <a href="http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/void_for_vagueness">void for vagueness</a>. <strong>Vagueness doctrine rests on the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.</strong> By requiring fair notice of what is punishable and what is not, vagueness doctrine also helps prevent arbitrary enforcement of the laws.” In this instance the law bans “parts sets” without properly defining how many parts constitutes a “set”. The law is also horribly vague in that it does not define what percentage of completion constitutes a “receiver blank”. It is 80%? It doesn’t say. Not does it define what percentage constitutes a completed “receiver”. Is that 81%? Or 90%? Or 99%? Or 100%? Again, it is quite vaguely written.</li>
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<p>All in all, this proposed law is grossly unconstitutional on several levels and in several respects. Under the traditions and standards of American Jurisprudence, we are not bound to obey this law, and it cannot be enforced. (<a href="https://survivalblog.com/lex-mala-lex-nulla-drama/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lex Mala, Lex Nulla</a>.) It is null and void, even before passage.</p>
<p>This bill will get a new number when it is re-introduced. Be forewarned that it may be slipped into a large legislative package, such as an omnibus funding bill. Please contact your Congesscritter and Senator to mention this particular legislation. While you are at it, remind them that “universal background checks” is a gun-grabbers’ code phrase for “banning private party sales.” Also, be sure to mention:<strong> I oppose a<em>ny and all</em> new gun laws and Red Flag laws! </strong> – JWR</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Permission is granted for re-posting of this entire article, but only if done so in full, with proper attribution to James Wesley, Rawles and SurvivalBlog, and only if the included links are preserved.)</p>
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<h3>SHARE THIS ARTICLE...</h3> CONGRESSMAN THREATENS TO BOMB GUN OWNERS WHO DON'T SUBMIT TO GUN CONTROLtag:12160.info,2018-12-03:2649739:Topic:18531482018-12-03T18:30:53.775ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<div id="newsheader"><h2>SOURCE:<span> </span><a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2018/12/congressman-threatens-to-bomb-gun-owners-who-dont-submit-to-gun-control.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ACTIVIST POST</a></h2>
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<div id="newsheader"><h2>SOURCE:<span> </span><a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2018/12/congressman-threatens-to-bomb-gun-owners-who-dont-submit-to-gun-control.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ACTIVIST POST</a></h2>
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<div id="newsdetail"><p>In May of 2018, Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) wrote an <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/03/ban-assault-weapons-buy-them-back-prosecute-offenders-column/570590002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion column</a>for <em>USA Today</em> in which he called for significant increases in gun control, following the murder of Gary Jackson, a 28-year old security guard from Oakland, California, whose killer was armed with an “AK-47-style semi-automatic assault rifle.” Swalwell was the prosecutor in the case, and his exposure to Jackson’s autopsy reports emboldened him to seek significant gun control legislation at the federal level. Invoking the justification-induced power of the pronoun <em>we</em>, Swalwell writes, “We should ban possession of military-style semi-automatic assault weapons, we should buy back such weapons from all who choose to abide by the law, and we should criminally prosecute any who choose to defy it by keeping their weapons.” Congressman Swalwell pointed to gun control measures in Australia as his inspiration for a buyback program to help get these firearms off the street, though there are many who <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/10/australia-gun-control-obama-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disagree with such methods</a>.</p>
<h3>WHEN SEMI-AUTOMATIC GUNS BECAME “ASSAULT WEAPONS”</h3>
<p>There is predictably plenty of Second Amendment discussion to be had with this sort of statement by an elected official. The first debate is the gratuitous use by Swalwell and many other pro-gun control enthusiasts of the word <em>assault</em>, such as <em>assault rifle</em>, or <em>assault weapons</em>. This has been a contentious issue, to put it mildly, but according to Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson writing for the <a href="http://archive.fo/6hYUh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stanford Law and Policy Review</a>, the term “assault weapon” didn’t even exist prior to 1989. They argue that “assault rifles” were firmly understood to refer to fully-automatic weapons, meaning that multiple rounds would be fired with one pull of the trigger. The current usage of the term “assault weapon” was born from anti-gun publicists who wanted to expand gun-control legislation to include semi-automatic firearms that share any characteristics with their fully automatic counterparts. As Elaine Hays writes for the website Mic, these shared characteristics which appeared in the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban were frequently only <a href="https://mic.com/articles/23568/what-is-an-assault-weapon-nothing-more-than-a-scary-term-created-by-politicians-and-the-media#.7PUkSdoLy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stylistic or cosmetic</a>in nature, and had no effect on the lethality of the weapons.</p>
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<p>Representative Swalwell makes one dubious exception to the proposed assault weapons ban: law enforcement. It is hard to keep a straight face when arguing that “weapons of war don’t belong on American streets” considering that American streets are filled with law enforcement officers who would retain possession of such weapons in a post-Swalwell America. In fact, if the intent is to reduce deaths by firearms, then law enforcement should be the first to hand in their “assault weapons.” According to Michael Harriot at <em>The Root</em>, <a href="https://www.theroot.com/heres-how-many-people-police-killed-in-2017-1821706614" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police</a>killed more Americans in 2017 (1,129) than military combat, terrorism, airplane crashes, mass shootings, and Chicago gang violence <em>combined</em>. Furthermore, of those 1,129 slain, most were suspects in nonviolent offenses, stopped for traffic violations, or were found innocent of any crime whatsoever. The recent case of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/us/chicago-area-security-guard-police-shooting/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jemel Roberson</a>in suburban Chicago is more reason to remove law enforcement from Swalwell’s exempt list.</p>
<h3>WE’LL NUKE YOU</h3>
<p>Swalwell’s column disappeared from the news cycle shortly after it was published in May, but reappeared last week when conservative talk show host John Cardillo <a href="https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1063519164495785987" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">took to Twitter </a>to criticize the congressman’s stance on gun control, claiming, “These people are dangerously obsessed with power.” Among the respondents was gun rights advocate Joe Biggs <a href="https://twitter.com/Rambobiggs/status/1063524877733371905" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">who colorfully asserted </a>that Swalwell’s proposed legislation would lead to civil war. But it was Swalwell himself who would set the Twitter-sphere ablaze with a <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1063527635114852352" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">direct response </a>to Biggs, reading, “And it would be a short war my friend. The government has nukes; too many of them. But they’re legit. I’m sure if we talked we could find common ground to protect our families and communities.” Congressman Swalwell would claim the nuclear exchange was hyperbole on both sides, but would <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1063537935398522880" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stick to his guns</a>when it came to threatening forced confiscation with an elaborative tweet, “I’m telling you this is not the 18th Century. The argument that you would go to war with your government if an assault weapons ban was in place is ludicrous and inflames the gun debate, which is what you want.”</p>
<div class="code-block code-block-1"><p>The congressman is right that this is not the 18th century, but if he’s suggesting that a 21st century war wouldn’t bode well for a civilian population that is less armed than a national military, then there is room for debate. Swalwell believes that war resulting from a violent federal gun confiscation would be short. Given that the quip about using nuclear weapons on domestic targets was dramatic overstatement, he clearly believes that the U.S. military would quickly quell any insurrection using conventional warfare. But that would be quite the feat nationwide, as Americans are <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/19/there-are-more-guns-than-people-in-the-united-states-according-to-a-new-study-of-global-firearm-ownership/?utm_term=.8dfd32584b33" target="_blank" rel="noopener">well-armed</a>compared to the rest of the world’s civilian populations. If Afghanistan serves as any example, he couldn’t be more wrong, unless 17 years is a “short war” by Representative Swalwell’s definition. And if Congressman Swalwell thinks a domestic war would be a much simpler task, then he must believe Americans are much more easily oppressed.</p>
<p><em>Alan Mosley is the host of The Gold Standard with Alan Mosley, which talks current events, politics, and pop culture from a libertarian perspective. It is a proud product of “little L productions,” and can be found on various podcasting platforms including iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play, as well as YouTube. More info on Alan, including his social media handles (for now!) and more can be found at his website, <a href="http://thegoldstandardpodcast.com./" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thegoldstandardpodcast.com.</a></em></p>
<p><strong>This article was sourced from <a href="https://mises.org/wire/congressman-threatens-bomb-gun-owners-who-dont-submit-gun-control" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mises.org</a></strong></p>
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<h3>SHARE THIS ARTICLE...</h3> CA LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES PASS SEVEN GUN CONTROL BILLStag:12160.info,2018-08-21:2649739:Topic:18109092018-08-21T15:55:14.737ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<div class="entry-content"><p>A California Senate committee and an assembly committee passed a total of seven new gun control bills during the past week.</p>
<p>The majority of the bills expand gun controls that are already in place.</p>
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<div class="entry-content"><p>A California Senate committee and an assembly committee passed a total of seven new gun control bills during the past week.</p>
<p>The majority of the bills expand gun controls that are already in place.</p>
<p>The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) <a class="x5l" href="https://www.firearmspolicy.org/california_legislative_committees_pass_7_gun_control_bills_hold_2_back" target="_blank" rel="noopener external">reported</a> on the seven gun control bills: <span id="more-231590"></span></p>
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<li><blockquote><p>SB 746 (Portantino) – Passed by the committee with amendments. Expands firearm serial number requirements; modifies existing statutes to allow prohibited persons to transfer firearms and ammunition to a licensed FFL for the duration of the prohibition. FPC opposed the expanded serial number requirements.</p>
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<li><blockquote><p>SB 1100 (Portantino) – Passed by the committee. Restricts firearm sales to persons 21 years old and older. FPC opposed.</p>
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<li><blockquote><p>SB 1177 (Portantino) – Passed by the committee. Restricts new firearm purchases to one in thirty days (expanding existing handgun restriction to long guns). FPC opposed.</p>
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<li><blockquote><p>AB 2103 (Gloria) – Passed by the committee with amendments. Adds new requirements for CCW carry licenses. FPC opposed.</p>
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<li><blockquote><p>AB 1968 (Low) – Passed by the committee. Enacts new lifetime firearm prohibition to persons who have been admitted to a mental health facility under certain conditions more than once in a 1-year period. FPC opposed.</p>
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<li><blockquote><p>AB 2222 (Quirk) – Passed by the committee. Extends a reporting requirement concerning stolen, lost, found, recovered firearms to all law enforcement agencies. FPC is reviewing for possible support.</p>
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<li><blockquote><p>AB 2888 (Ting) – Passed by the committee. Expands categories of persons who can petition for a “Gun Violence Restraining Order” (GVRO) to employers, coworkers, and some school employees. FPC opposed.</p>
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<p>Each of the gun control bills was sponsored by Democrats.</p>
<p>The restrictions of firearms sales to persons 21 years old and older mean California law would bar 18-20-year-old citizens from buying long guns even though federal law allows the purchase.</p>
<p>The rationing of firearm purchases to one a month would mean law-abiding citizens who comply with all guns controls — i.e., acquire a safety certificate from the state, pass a point of sale background check, and pass a ten-day waiting period — would face an additional control of being barred from purchasing more than one firearm per month.</p>
<p>The expansion of the Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) confirms what the NRA has warned about again and again when voicing opposition: “Orders can be <a class="x5l" href="https://www.nraila.org/articles/20151211/no-charges-filed-but-legal-firearms-confiscated-anyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener external">abused</a> and issued in cases where the police lack sufficient evidence for an arrest and simply wish to deprive an individual of the right to bear arms.”</p>
<p>The NRA does <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/13/klukowski-second-amendment-and-due-process-allow-nra-backed-white-house-proposal-on-extreme-risk-protection-orders/">support</a> GVROs, <em>but only if they meet certain strict criteria</em>. That criteria includes that such orders must be of strictly limited duration, that they can only be sought by close contacts such as family members, and that the government bears the burden of presenting evidence to a court of the person’s dangerousness to justify the temporary seizure.</p>
<p>It should also be noted that gun controls barring 18-20-year-olds from exercising their Second Amendment rights are being challenged by the NRA in states like Florida and by private citizens in <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/10/oregon-20-year-old-sues-kroger-refusing-sell-shotgun-shells/">Oregon</a>.</p>
<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/podcasts/awr-hawkins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bullets with AWR Hawkins</a>, and the writer/curator of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Down Range with AWR Hawkins</a>, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/AWRHawkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener external">@AWRHawkins</a>. Reach him directly at <a class="x5l" href="mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener external">awrhawkins@breitbart.com</a>. Sign up to get Down Range at <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/downrange/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">breitbart.com/downrange</a>.</em></p>
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<h3>SHARE THIS ARTICLE...</h3> Epic Gun Debate With Christopher Titus (Uncut Web Extended) | Louder With Crowdertag:12160.info,2018-08-19:2649739:Topic:18102862018-08-19T18:16:29.517ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<p><span>This is the web extended segment from the heated Second Amendment debate between Steven Crowder and Christopher Titus.</span></p>
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<p class="td-post-sub-title">As the debate over 3D-printed guns wages on, most people are ignoring the implications they have against fighting oppression and tyranny across the globe.</p>
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<p class="td-post-sub-title">As the debate over 3D-printed guns wages on, most people are ignoring the implications they have against fighting oppression and tyranny across the globe.</p>
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<div class="td-module-meta-info"><p>As the debate continues about whether or not 3D-printed firearm plans should be banned, even the ostensible pro-2nd Amendment folks are worried that shooting rampages will occur as a result of these plans being published online. But the reality is far different.</p>
<p>For generations, advocates of private gun ownership have been fighting exhaustively through political channels to protect their right to keep and bear arms. Gun owners even have one of the strongest lobby groups in Washington, the highly disappointing NRA. Yet over the years, gun rights<span> </span><a href="https://thefreethoughtproject.com/gun-55-laws-26-states-control/">continue to diminish</a><span> </span>in America, despite the constant political campaigns by the NRA and politicians that claim to support gun rights.</p>
<p>However, in the past few years, one guy with a good idea has managed to do more to protect gun rights than the NRA has in decades of political involvement. Cody Wilson is the founder of “Defense Distributed” and the “Wikiweapon” project, which allows anyone with a 3D printer to create their own untraceable gun in the privacy of their own home.</p>
<p>While alarmists claim that 3D-printed guns will be the end of humanity, the fact is that these plans have been online on torrent and dark web sites for years and we’ve yet to see a single person killed with one.</p>
<p>What’s more, as the gruesome murder-suicide on a college campus in Walnut Creek, California illustrates is that people don’t even need these plans if they want to make their own untraceable gun. Scott Bertics<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/08/06/homemade-gun-in-stanford-students-murder-suicide-spurs-question-on-ghost-guns/">built the</a><span> </span>gun he used to shoot himself and Clare Orton without anyone knowing and entirely through legal measures.</p>
<p>Psychopaths who want to cause harm to others will cause harm to others using any means necessary. Limiting the ability for law-abiding citizens to protect themselves will never change this.</p>
<p>Wilson makes no secret that the intention behind distributing CAD files to create homemade guns is to make gun control measures obsolete and bolster the Second Amendment, which is under continual assault from anti-gun activists.</p>
<p>As Wilson explains, these files could be used to empower oppressed people all over the world who’ve been disarmed and ruled by criminals and warlords.</p>
<p><em>“<strong>We put a lot of world governments on notice, and I think that’s good in the history of the balance of power between sovereigns and subjects</strong></em>,” Wilson told the Brown Political Review<em>.</em></p>
<p>From the Armenian Genocide to the Nazi Holocaust to “Black Gun Codes” in America: throughout history, societies who have been disarmed by their governments have given way to massive bloodshed. This is still the case today in countries who’ve turned in their guns.</p>
<p>Depending on the current government, life in disarmed societies can go on peacefully for a while. However, in some cases, citizens — men women and children — are slaughtered by the millions.</p>
<p>Even when gun control seems to work in the short term, the scapegoatists are never satisfied. As we are seeing in<span> </span><a href="https://thefreethoughtproject.com/knife-bans-stop-crimes-judge-forcing-citizens-dull-kitchen-knives/">the United Kingdom</a>, politicians are now going after knives as the “evil weapon” that no law-abiding citizen should ever need.</p>
<p>For those who don’t recall, the disarming of citizens took place in the US and was used as a means to slaughter blacks and Native Americans.</p>
<p>Perhaps the first known attempt at disarming citizens in the new world occurred in 1751 when the<span> </span><a href="https://foac-pac.org/uploads/Cramer-Racist%20Roots%20Gun%20Control.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">French Black code</a><span> </span>was enacted requiring colonists to <em>“stop any blacks, and if </em><em>necessary, beat any black carrying any potential weapon, such as a cane.”</em></p>
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<p>This attempt to disarm blacks was repeated under United States’ rule 50 years later when the U.S. purchased the Louisiana territory. According to a<span> </span><a href="https://foac-pac.org/uploads/Cramer-Racist%20Roots%20Gun%20Control.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a><span> </span>published in the Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy:</p>
<blockquote><p>When the first U. S. official arrived in New Orleans in 1803 to take charge of this new American possession, the planters sought to have the existing free black militia disarmed, and otherwise exclude “free blacks from positions in which they were required to bear arms,” including such non-military functions as slave-catching crews.</p>
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<p>Upon the defeat of the confederacy in the Civil War, many southern states enacted “Black Codes” that barred the newly freed slaves from exercising their basic civil rights. One such example of these new laws was an act passed in the state of Mississippi that stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>no freedman, free negro or mulatto, not in the military service of the United States government, and not licensed so to do by the board of police of his or her county, shall keep or carry fire-arms of any kind, or any ammunition, dirk or bowie knife, and on conviction thereof in the county court shall be punished by fine</p>
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<p>After the passage of these laws, numerous<span> </span><a href="http://reason.com/archives/2005/02/15/the-klans-favorite-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">studies</a><span> </span>concluded that the newly freed slaves had essentially been rendered defenseless against groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Disarming them, essentially made them slaves once again.</p>
<p>Guns — in the hands of good people — level the playing field against guns in the hands of bad people. It is this simple. Just imagine the power a 3D-printed gun would give a mother in an African village as warlords come through hacking off the limbs of children with machetes. With enough of the villagers having these guns, they could effectively defend themselves against large groups of tyrants even if they had automatic weapons.</p>
<p>Sadly, the statists only see the potentially negative aspects of these 3D-printed guns.</p>
<p>“The people who make them will be state actors or well-financed criminal cartels who have the ability to execute well-organized criminal attacks in the United States and elsewhere,” said Avery Gardiner, the co-president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.</p>
<p>This protectionist attitude is self-serving and one-sided and ignores the benefits of an armed society as well as history. And, it only serves to further the oppression of those who cannot defend themselves.</p>
<p>While it would certainly be an amazing thought to be able to live in a world without guns, that is simply not the case. Until it is the case, anyone who wants to defend themselves and their family, should be able to do so in any manner they see fit — as the only other option is tyranny.</p>
<p>As Wilson notes, “I think the state should be as weak as possible relative to the individual. The proper posture of the state is one that at least is in fear of its citizen, not one that lords over it.”</p>
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<div id="newsdetail"><p>If you own a 3D printer, soon you'll be able to print something a little more dangerous than your average trinket.</p>
<p>Defense Distributed recently won the right to publish blueprints of firearms online, which would allow anyone with access to a 3D…</p>
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<div id="newsdetail"><p>If you own a 3D printer, soon you'll be able to print something a little more dangerous than your average trinket.</p>
<p>Defense Distributed recently won the right to publish blueprints of firearms online, which would allow anyone with access to a 3D printer to download, print and assemble a gun, according to a <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/doj-saf-reach-settlement-in-defense-distributed-lawsuit-300678872.html#link=%7B%22linkText%22:%22press%20release%22,%22target%22:%22%22,%22href%22:%22https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/doj-saf-reach-settlement-in-defense-distributed-lawsuit-300678872.html%22,%22role%22:%22standard%22,%22absolute%22:%22%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release from the Second Amendment Foundation.</a></p>
<p>This settlement follows a lengthy legal battle that Defense Distributed had with the State Department that began in 2013.</p>
<p>Defense Distributed initially had to pull the files from their website <a href="https://defcad.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEFCAD</a>, as they violated International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) protections. At that time, blueprints for the Liberator pistol, designed by Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson, had already been downloaded 100,000 times.</p>
<p>The organization will relaunch August 1, at which point anyone who is interested can download schematics that will let them print out the parts of the pistol, and then assemble it themselves.</p>
<p>Other lawmakers are still continuing to challenge Defense Distributed, including the New Jersey Attorney General, <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/3d-printed-gun-lawsuit-ends-after-3-years-in-gun-publishers-favor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Ars Technica </em>reports</a>.</p>
</div> GUN INDUSTRY SEES BANKS AS NEW THREAT TO 2ND AMENDMENTtag:12160.info,2018-06-26:2649739:Topic:17914412018-06-26T00:32:05.796ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<div class="div_clear">GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — With Gary Ramey's fledgling gun-making business taking off in retail stores, he decided to start offering one of his handguns for sale on his website.</div>
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<div class="div_clear">GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — With Gary Ramey's fledgling gun-making business taking off in retail stores, he decided to start offering one of his handguns for sale on his website.</div>
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<div id="newsdetail"><p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm">That didn't sit well with the company he used to process payments, and they informed him they were dropping his account. Another credit card processing firm told him the same thing: They wouldn't do business with him.</p>
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm">The reason? His business of making firearms violates their policies.</p>
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm">In the wake of high-profile mass shootings, corporate America has been taking a stand against the firearms industry amid a lack of action by lawmakers on gun control. Payment processing firms are limiting transactions, Bank of America stopped providing financing to companies that make AR-style guns, and retailers like Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods imposed age restrictions on gun purchases.</p>
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm">The moves are lauded by gun-safety advocates but criticized by the gun industry that views them as a backhanded way of undermining the Second Amendment. Gun industry leaders see the backlash as a real threat to their industry and are coming to the conclusion that they need additional protections in Congress to prevent financial retaliation from banks.</p>
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm">"If a few banks say 'No, we're not going to give loans to gun dealers or gun manufacturers', all of a sudden the industry is threatened and the Second Amendment doesn't mean much if there are no guns around," said Michael Hammond, legal counsel for Gun Owners of America. "If you can't make guns, if you can't sell guns, the Second Amendment doesn't mean much."</p>
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