[ April 23, 2024 ]
Happiness is a warm gun, sang the Beatles; but Democrats are singing registration, then confiscation, of your guns. A “Firearm Registration” bill was introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature on March 8, 2019.
Safety is the mantra of anti-gun activists, but their claim of control is a means to their goal of a gun-free society. This progressive policy can be implemented only by compliant citizens. But political opponents, the “deniers,” must be eliminated by social shaming or civil and criminal penalties. There are historical lessons of totalitarian governments, which rule because citizens have been deprived of weapons.
The Nazi policy
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In Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews, page 537, Stephen P. Halbrook observed:
“The record establishes that a well-meaning liberal republic would enact a gun control act that would later be highly useful to a dictatorship. That dictatorship could then consolidate its power by massive search and seizure operations against political opponents, under the hysterical ruse that such persons were ‘Communist’ firearm owners.”
“It could enact its own new firearms law, disarming anyone the police deemed ‘dangerous’ and exempting members of the party that controlled the state. It could exploit a tragic shooting of a government official to launch a [sic] pogrom, under the guise that Jewish firearm owners were dangerous and must be disarmed.”
“This dictatorship could, generally, disarm the people of the nation it governed and then disarm those of every nation it conquered.”
The USA’s fundamental rights
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“In the 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court held that the ‘Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.’” Reported by the Legal Information Institute of the Cornell Law School.
“The above experiences influenced perceptions of fundamental rights in both the United States and Germany,” Halbrook explained: “Before entering the war, America reacted to the events in Europe in a characteristic manner. Seeing the Nazi threat and its policies, Congress passed the Property Requisition Act of 1941 authorizing the President to requisition certain property for defense, but prohibiting any construction of the act to ‘require the registration of any firearms possessed by any individual for his personal protection or sport’ or ‘to impair or infringe in any manner the right of any individual to keep and bear arms.’” Nazi Firearms Law, pp. 536-37.
“Remember that registration of firearms is only the first step,” stated the Requisition Act’s sponsor, Rep. Paul Kilday (D-TX). “It will be followed by other infringements of the right to keep and bear arms until finally the right is gone.” Nazi Firearms Law, p. 537, fn. 289.
Analysis
A secret Nazi Gestapo Order (1941) is compared to Pennsylvania’s Firearm Registration bill (2019) in this side-by-side chart. Pennsylvania’s bill has more requirements than the Nazi’s order. In Pennsylvania, if the bill becomes law, a gun owner will be required to provide more information than a person who registers to vote.
For the right of self-defense, a person would be required annually to self-report ownership of each gun and describe it in detail. A certificate or renewal is not guaranteed because the State Police could deny the application. Partisan bureaucrats may not appreciate an applicant’s conservative politics: Allegiance to the Bill of Rights and limited government. Far-fetched? Just ask Tea Party organizations who were delayed or denied non-profit status by Obama’s IRS.
The State Police’s database could be released for official or nefarious purposes: The Pennsylvania Legislature under the guise of oversight. Freedom of Information requests by liberal media and advocacy groups.
Anti-gun zealots could dox persons who own guns. New York’s concealed weapon permit holders were posted via a map on the internet. There was proposed a multi-state map. Liberal news agencies and the social media mob have harassed law-abiding, private citizens. Identification of gun owners is not likely to deter criminals, who may have a shopping list for gun collections.
An enemy could learn that you own a gun. A related “red flag” law may be used for a fraudulent claim against you. The police will confiscate your gun pending a court hearing. Meanwhile, an enemy has an opportunity to cause injury or murder of you.
Law-abiding citizens’ registration of guns will not prevent criminals from obtaining unregistered guns. No lives will be saved. Note the bill’s absence of “whereas” clauses of findings of facts to support unidentified benefits. Also, the absence of redeeming press releases of the bill being introduced by Democrats: Angel Cruz, Mary Jo Daley, and Mary Louise Isaacson; and Democrat co-sponsors: Joseph C. Hohenstein, Joanna E. McClinton, and Benjamin V. Sanchez. The bill failed in 2009-10, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2015-16, and 2017-18.
This proposed law could be enforced only if the government is aware that you own a gun. Will the police conduct a search for guns, literally door to door?
If you are forced to use a gun for self-defense, but fail to comply with registration, could your defense effectively be an infringement of the Fifth Amendment?
Fail to register a gun, then risk a criminal penalty of 90 days in jail. The government likely will confiscate your gun; You likely will not be eligible to possess another gun; and you likely will be limited to lesser forms of self-defense.
Gun registries will lead to gun confiscation, as illustrated by Australia, Canada, and Germany; as well as the United States: California, Illinois, and the heart of liberalism: New York City.
National gun confiscation has been proposed by liberals including Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA; 2018); the NAACP (2018); and Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate (2016).
Admit it, liberals, you really do want a total ban on firearms.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, suggested that a Democrat President could declare gun violence as a national emergency.
Conclusion
Have we not learned the lesson of the Nazi policy to disarm, and then control, its citizens? Nazi gun laws facilitated the murder of political enemies, specifically the Holocaust of more than six million Jews.
What part of the Second Amendment’s independent status, “shall not be infringed,” did these legislators, some attorneys, not understand? The U.S. Constitution trumps a state statute. A first-year law student learns this principle.
Liberals ignore constitutional law in favor of an agenda of a gun-free society. Liberals use safety as subterfuge for registration leading to confiscation of guns.
I appreciate our Founding Fathers’ wisdom that the Second Amendment is a guard against tyranny, whether the enemy is foreign or domestic.
Since self-defense is a God-given right, I believe in the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates: Should gun registration become law by an act of either a state or federal government, I will not comply. Such a law would classify this patriot as a criminal.
Read relevant documents:
Pennsylvania HB768: Firearm Registration Act
Gerald Lostutter is a Florida licensed attorney, college professor, journalist, and patriot life member (endowment level) of the National Rifle Association. This article does not create an attorney-client relationship. You should consult a licensed attorney for advice.
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27 Comments
5 years ago
Only big government will have guns and we know what happens then. This is the goal of the Deep State/Shadow Government. They want power and control. They want tyranny. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao confiscated firearms from their citizens and millions were slaughtered as a result.
5 years ago
The conflict will be mighty and bloody.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dean
No it won’t, that’s a weekend warrior militia fantasy. When push comes to shove we’ll have been “progressively” regulated until only a few will still have firearms stashed. Then only a small minority of those will resist and quickly be wrapped up…
5 years ago
5 years ago
Of course you know who the real target it…. Obama’s legacy continues – you bitter clingers to guns and religion!
Obama … “they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Meanwhile … illegals, Muslims, the global elites and other criminals will be well armed…
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Obama is only the poster child, a sock puppet if you will. The real brains behind the decay aren’t going to be readily seen. There are legions of useful idiots standing by, some of whom live in your neighborhood…
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Obama’s infamous “bitter clinger” statement about rural Americans at an elite fundraiser in San Francisco in 2008 lives on –
“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Agreed. The only solution to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
5 years ago
Is that Jared Kushner waving an Israeli flag? What does Israel have to do w/gun confiscation in the USA? Am I seeing antisemitic memes in this cartoon?
5 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
LOL!
Does Jared have a British accent?
I do see a Muslim there….Obama was a puppet for them…..
Does that help?
The lefty blue and white party in Israel is giving Netanyahu the Trump treatment and could unseat him.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Obama was Muslim Brotherhood, he still is!! They love it when the Nazis blame the Jews!!
5 years ago
Just what New Zealand said their going to do. Take everyone’s guns away. History shows many times, that when a civilization or a people, have nothing to fight back with, they all die. Who are the leaders going to lead, if their people are all dead?? Dumb de de dumb..
5 years ago
Reply to
Joan C.
Agreed. The rationale used is always “public safety”. In “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”(’61), a Pulitzer Prize winner, William L. Shurer gives a good description of how this happened.
5 years ago
Two lessons from history emerge. First, shortly after Hitler came to power, he stated that the most serious threat to German national security was a Jew with a handgun. In an effort to show themselves as trusted citizens the Jews surrendered their weapons, and we know the rest.
After Pearl Harbor, the Imperial high command toyed with the idea of an amphibious invasion of the US West Coast. Their fleet admiral Yamamoto warned them, “There will be gun behind every blade of grass.” The idea was abandoned. There is your well-regulated militia.
For my part, I am part of the “cold dead fingers” crowd.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
5 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
I’m with you, Drew. I’m like a John Wayne western: I’ll go down kicking and fighting all the way before they take my guns away. Molon labe!
5 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
I also will not surrender. I live in Pa and I inquired about this bill last week to my local congressman and was told the chances of this bill even leaving committee are -0-. It is being pushed by 3 Democrats from Philadelphia. The Dems will never quit trying to relieve us of our guns. They know they can’t take over an armed citizenry but it is their goal. It’s just so transparently obvious.
5 years ago
Strangely, the ones calling for disarmament ARE THE ones that NEED to be DISARMED. Why do we get it ASS backwards all the time?
History has proven GOVERNMENT are the ones that KILL ITS CITIZENS. Go read history. They KILL them by the MILLIONS!
Especially when they DISARM them. NEVER allow them to ALLOW YOU to commit treason on yourself. Warn them that you will NOT COMMIT TREASON on yourself.
You will NOT join their sick criminal Cabal. If they want disarmament go turn in THEIR GUNS!! STEWPID!
5 years ago
5 years ago
Republican politicians are confiscators too..
Atlas Shrugs site this aint close
5 years ago
Just do not know which is coming first— a civil war over gun confiscation or a Muslim take-over???
5 years ago
So how’s that Second Amendment protection working out for you?
Could the Second Amendment be part of the problem?
Think about it: The Amendment WITH the wording “shall not be infringed” is the MOST infringed, licensed, and limited Amendment of the entire twenty seven. Furthermore, a future generation of our posterity is likely to see the Second Amendment whittled away entirely or repealed altogether. This is inherent nature and danger of optional Enlightenment rights versus non-optional Biblical responsibilities, such as the following:
“Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword [or today’s equivalent] in their hand … this honor have all his saints. Praise ye Yah.” (Psalm 149:6-9)
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house [including spiritual and physical protection], he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” (1 Timothy 5:8)
Which is more potent: 1) An optional right, or 2) A non-optional responsibility?
Which is more likely to be infringed, licensed, and eventually abolished?
Which did the pre-Second Amendment Americans look to as their authority to bear arms, with little or no infringement?
For more, listen to “The Second Amendment: A Knife in a Gunfight,” delivered at the Springfield, Missouri Firearms and Freedom Symposium, at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.com/#FeaturedMessages
At this same location, you will also find a radio interview Larry Pratt (Executive Director of Gun Owners of America) conducted with me on this same subject. I think you’ll find Mr. Pratt’s remarks especially interesting.
