You’re ignorant as to what Biden and the Democrats are proposing. It’s kind of hard for the average person to panic buy a firearm that will have a registration fee and tax on it as much as 5 grand. Also, if you don’t think this can happen within 2 years may I remind you how fast the prohibition against bump stocks happened. Less than 1.5 years.
A lot of people are ignorant of the fact that even grandpas old rifle up in the attic could make you a federal felon for possession. This needs to be publicized.
Trump, if he is around, will demand another go. The stench coming from there and the supreme court will make democrats to be more involved in the future IMHO.
What tripolar says, BTW Many Vietnam veterans and also gulf war ones are grandpas now, you bet some weapons are not supposed to be kept if the grandsons are felons or with no training.
That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about civilian semi-auto firearms that will be classified as “assault weapons” though they were bought as hunting rifles.
It’s on his campaign website. But there are already several bills that are written that go much, much further and are ready to be introduced in February…
Not really, I checked, the closest I noticed is that whatever rifle is marked as an assault weapon will fall into registration and background checks required. Hence the point made about grandson felons are the ones that need to worry about.
Nah. Biden wins and the senate flips. The left will make the same mistake they made in '94 and re-enact the assault weapons ban or some other equally stupid gun legislation. 2022 will be a repeat of '94 and for the same reason.
“Those who cannot remember (or ignore) the past are condemned to repeat it.”– George Santayana , The Life of Reason, 1905.
Which they will declare anything which functions via semi-automatic action and any that accepts a detachable magazine which includes some pump action rifles and shotguns. And as far as registration is concerned, the fee for machine guns right now is $200. They can raise that to anything they want, and close the registration process such as they did in 1986, making it impossible to legally own arms that you already own. They will strongarm states into also passing ridiculously prohibitive gun laws by using tax funds such as they did to force the national speed limit, BAC limits, seat belt laws, etc…
If the Democrats take the full Congress and White house they are not going to make the mistake like they did in 1994 and just have cosmetic changes that were easy to skirt. They are going to go full bore, pun intended.
That was for full automatic weapons in 1986. Not even the NRA thought then that allowing fully automatic weapons to be in civilian hands was a good idea.
That is exactly what they want to do with semi-automatic as well. I take it you did not research this and are just posting based on your own political positions.
But that is not the point of this thread or my response to it, so your hijacking is unwarranted. My point is when they try this there certainly will be a repeat of 1994.
'10 happened because of low Democratic turnout. If Biden can keep some excitement among the Dems, which Obama screwed up, then hopefully they’ll avoid it. But who knows this early.
pkbites, I agree with you that Republicans should go all next-level extra about Bidens Gonna Take Yer Guns. With the National Rifle Association on the verge of dissolution, the incredible gun control energy among millennials, and the fact that the president is killing people every day through his misinformation about a deadly pandemic, I can hardly think of a better gift that Republicans could give to Democrats.
I know it’s your pet issue. What you don’t seem to realize is how few people’s pet issue it is. If I were to offer analogous political advice, I’d be telling Democrats to call for the abolition of prisons, because it’s so obviously the right thing to do.
We can see now. What you are talking about is nonsense. If Republicans are in charge they could outright ban all guns just like they did with bump stocks. Despite their repeated promises not to restrict gun ownership they broke that promise without hesitation just like all their other promises. If you value any part of the constitution you should realize only the Democrats will protect your rights.
Actually “they” didn’t. The BATFE did, after decades of saying the devices were perfectly legal. SCOTUS refused to take up the issue because Roberts cannot be trusted. We will see what we will see in 2022.