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Bang / Guns Title: Planned King County Gun Confiscations Foreshadow Larger, Wider Plans USA The catalyst for the new-found emphasis is the Texas church massacre killer, whose domestic violence conviction was not entered by the Air Force into the National Criminal Information Center database. A King 5 investigation earlier this year showed how hundreds of domestic abusers in our area hold onto their guns, in spite of court orders, anchor Lori Matsukawa assures viewers. Now, theres a new development, as Chris Ingalls is here to explain in our news room. Chris. True to form and to agenda, Ingalls repeats the conflation. A court order does not always a domestic abuser make, despite what King 5 wants its viewers to believe. Were supposed to have due process, requiring a trial, conviction and sentencing before penalties are imposed. Like the Texas maniac had. In many cases, weve seen restraining orders and firearm prohibitions based on considerably less than beyond a reasonable doubt standard. Its not like motives and incentives dont exist, including revenge, or getting an upper hand in divorce settlements or custody proceedings. And in many cases, those unfairly caught up in such orders lack the wherewithal to defend the rights theyre being deprived of. Washington enacted a law in 2014 that mirrors federal law by prohibiting gun possession by anyone subject to a protective order, the Giffords Law Center confirms. The 2014 law also requires the court issuing the protective order to prohibit the restrained individual from purchasing or possessing firearms or a concealed carry license and require the restrained person to surrender any firearms or concealed carry licenses in his or her possession. The individual must file a proof of surrender with the court. The court may require the party to surrender any firearm or dangerous weapon in his or her immediate possession or control or subject to his or her immediate possession or control to local law enforcement, his or her counsel, or to any person designated by the court, the explanation continues. These provisions apply to
Restraining orders issued upon filing of a complaint for dissolution of marriage, including ex parte orders [and] Restraining orders issued in cases where parental rights and child support issues are adjudicated, including ex parte orders
Thats quite different from being a domestic abuser and a menace equivalent to the Texas church shooter, is it not? So how will authorities know how to match restraining orders with noncompliant gun owners? Now that it's been passed, it's being used to advance citizen disarmament. For older private purchases, they might not, unless someone telling on them results in a warrant. But theres always a trail when universal background checks are required, as per Washington States Initiative 594, which also required that dealers who are facilitating gun transfers whether they are through the licensed dealer or a private seller receive confirmation in writing from the chief of police or sheriff that the purchaser in question is eligible to possess a pistol [
] and that the application to purchase is approved by the chief of police or sheriff. And the reason thats a universal gun-grabber goal is because, as a National Institute of Justice Summary of Select Firearm Violence Prevention Strategies noted, Effectiveness depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gun registration
If they know whos got em, they know where to look. And the goal, of course is to go national, including with confiscation. Pelosi knows each increment brings gun-grabbers one step close to their goal. For once in her life, Nancy Pelosi actually told the truth about guns, admitting to the slippery slope that gun prohibitionists used to ridicule as paranoid. The other thing they ridicule as paranoid is warning against gun confiscation. But we see the King County effort writ large in The Boston Globes latest Ideas submission by insulated editorialist David Scharfenberg in his plainly-stated solution ambitiously titled Hand over your weapons. Assault weapon bans wont be sufficient because they account for just a tiny sliver of deaths, he admits. And neither will background checks, because those will do nothing to cut down on the 310 million guns already in circulation. One way to make inroads could be with mandatory Australia-style buy backs (a fake term if ever there was one) like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama floated trial balloons over. Another is by doing the same thing as King County, via restraining orders and other measures designed to deprive the most dangerous people of guns like background checks and tighter restrictions on domestic abusers. If this is achieved, expect to see the collectivists start controlling in earnest. Ultimately, if gun-control advocates really want to stanch the blood, theres no way around it: Theyll have to persuade more people of the need to confiscate millions of those firearms, as radical as that idea may now seem, Scharfenberg proclaims. The logic of gun control lies, at bottom, in substantially reducing the number of deadly weapons on the street and confiscation is far and away the most effective approach. Is there any conceivable turn of events in our politics that could make confiscation happen? he asks. And what would a mass seizure look like? A political turn that might give some the inclination that its safe to try would be the aging of the existing population, reducing the numbers of activist gun owners. Add to that the takeover of the electorate via a pathway to citizenship for foreigners overwhelmingly sympathetic by all objective measures to Democrats and to citizen disarmament. Give it time and the confiscators might work up the confidence to try. Kind of like this for a hard and not insubstantial core: The only way you're going to get those people's firearms is to murder them first. Youll forgive us is we dont just wait our turn. Expect some not to go quietly. In the mean time, some understand that the old paradigm of lobbying and campaigning for politicians and measures no longer works in safely and irrevocably progressive states. That means gun owners are faced with the choice of surrender or defy, which in itself is a time-honored American tradition. And while groups vested in political access may call on the state to enforce existing Intolerable Acts, and advocate that the duty of good, honest, law-abiding Americans is to obey them, some of us have adopted a different philosophy, one that reflects the greatest schism in the gun rights movement: And we will not disarm. About David Codrea: David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating / defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. In addition to being a field editor/columnist at GUNS Magazine and associate editor for Oath Keepers, he blogs at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Basically all they need to do is wait one more generation,and almost all of us old enough to remember when the Constitution was important will have died off,and most of the population will be dependent on government approval to do anything. Once that happens,the whole Bill of Rights will disapear without even a whimper. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Once that happens,the whole Bill of Rights will disapear without even a whimper. As this story chillingly shows: Sundown at Coffin Rock " Sadly, I suspect that is true. Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)
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