Second Amendment: Schumer's Latest Gun Grabbing Idea

[Mr VJP]

Second Amendment: Schumer's Latest Gun Grabbing Idea 

While the gun grabbers have been suspiciously quiet  during the first two years of the Obama regime, there was never a doubt  that they would raise their ugly heads at some time. That time is now. 

As was detailed previously,  Barack Obama exploited the recent Tucson shootings and wrote an op-ed  about new gun-control efforts. Now it's time for the tyrants in Congress  to come forward.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), sponsor of various  anti-firearms legislation over the years including the Clinton-era  "assault weapons" ban, recently introduced the "Fix Gun Checks Act of  2011," an Orwellian-named bill if ever there was one. One of the alleged  goals of the bill is to close the so-called "gun show loophole" about  which hoplophobes are always screaming. Specifically, private gun owners  can, sans scrutiny of the National Instant Criminal Background Check  System (NICS,) sell their firearms to other private citizens they may  meet at gun shows.

However, Schumer's bill doesn't even mention gun  shows. Instead, it would require an NICS check on all firearm transfers whether commercial or private regardless of location. Under some interpretations, even lending a firearm to a friend would require an NICS check.

Naturally, all these checks would require paperwork,  and the Brady Campaign wants the FBI to keep it, essentially resulting  in a universal federal firearm registration, long a dream of the  anti-Second Amendment crowd.

Schumer's bill also includes provisions for greatly  expanding the number of people who would forever be denied Second  Amendment rights. Perhaps most Orwellian, an individual who receives any  type of mental health service would be included, regardless of whether  he poses any danger. Interestingly, the bill would also require colleges  that receive federal funds to set up "mental health assessment teams"  who would evaluate and refer students to mental health authorities for  further evaluation. Does anyone believe this would stop at colleges?  (Besides, who didn't do something in college that might make for a poor mental evaluation?)

We fear that firearms owners would be hunted down,  "evaluated," "treated," and then have their firearms forever  confiscated. While this bill's passage is questionable in this Congress,  it illustrates the tactics the anti-Second Amendment leftists will use.  Keep your powder dry.

[solon]

Schumer can't be trusted - doesn't have a clue what NY people outside of NYC want - unfortunatly nobody runs against him that can beat him