Combating the ‘No One Wants to Ban Guns Lie’

Senator Feinstein has said that she wants to ban guns more than once.
By Dean Weingarten

Gun Banner Dianne Feinstein
Gun Banner Dianne Feinstein
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Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-  There are many people who advocate for bans on guns, but most of them are smart enough to know that the way to obtain such bans is incrementally, as has been done for the last 75 years.

Why can’t you walk down to the corner hardware store and buy a gun muffler for your pistol or rifle, like they do in Finland? Because a gun ban passed in 1934.

Why can’t you order military surplus rifles mail order, and have them delivered to your door, even though they are almost never used in crime?  A gun ban passed in 1968.

Why can’t you pay the $200 tax, jump through the ridiculous hoops and interminable wait the BATFE requires to buy a newly made MP5, just like the police often carry, for the police price of $1,000, instead of the current U.S. legal price of $26,000?  A gun ban in 1986.

Why can’t a Vietnam Vet, who 45 years ago signed a plea bargain about an argument with his wife, buy a shotgun to go hunting with his grandson?  A gun ban passed in 1996.  All of these laws are effective gun bans through the use of taxes, regulations, and the expansion of the classes of “prohibited possessors”.

Here are links to a couple of quotes from 2012 of politicians who openly talked of gun bans:

From Governor Cuomo,

“Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option — keep your gun but permit it.”

From Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky:

Schakowsky: We’re on a roll now, and I think we’ve got to take the–you know, we’re gonna push as hard as we can and as far as we can.

Mattera: So the assault weapons ban is just the beginning?

Schakowsky: Oh absolutely. I mean, I’m against handguns. We have, in Illinois, the Council Against Handgun… something [Violence]. Yeah, I’m a member of that. So, absolutely.

There are many more quotes floating around the Internet showing that quite a few people have advocated gun bans in the United States.   The quotes on the lists that I have seen are all before the year 2000 for a reason: the would be gun banners learned that openly talking about a ban is bad for your political career.  The best list of quotes that I have found was compiled by Eugene Volokh at gunscholar.org.

Here is the famous quote by Charles Krauthammer, explaining why the insane “assault weapon ban” made no sense, except for getting ready for future confiscation:

In fact, the assault weapons ban will have no significant effect either on the crime rate or on personal security.  Nonetheless, it is a good idea . . . .  Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

              Charles Krauthammer (columnist), Disarm the Citizenry. But Not Yet, Washington Post, Apr. 5, 1996 (boldface added).

It is the first on Professor Volokh’s List, but there are dozens more.

When some Internet commando of dubious intention indignantly proclaims: “No one wants to take your guns!”, just use the above sources to show how ignorant  they are about the facts.

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About Dean Weingarten;
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973.  He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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Lt4545

Fine swine frankenswine or whatever spelling you choose all mean only one thing FASCIST!! We do have a constitutional right called the second amendment to protect in every way we can. So please be vocal to you elected representatives as much as possible as futil as it seems,they sre blinded by the party position as communistic as it is!!! BUT. They are all motivated by their desire to be kept in office for as long as possible so as to avoid having to get a real job and work for a living like most us must do!!

james

No matter, all the anti senators and reps will die off soon from natural causes, they can not live forever. They will fade into history.

We will still have our firearms.

james

turn them all in ????

Pry it from my cold dead hand.

hippybiker

Fineswine is a complete maggot. People of California, get rid of her pronto. If you have a recall option, do it!

Buck Crosby

Bullship , Kalifornicate and New York , a suburb of the Soviet Union are ALREADY confiscating guns !

magnum

It’s people like Feinstin, Bloomberg, and Chuck want to take our firearms. But look Feinstin finger on the trigger,and a Drum in the rifle oh for got “clip or magazine” very smart woman.. Stick to scratching on paper or what ever you do to earn a living…

TSgt B

Unlike the gungrabbers, I am a realist. There is absolutely NO WAY ON THIS EARTH THAT I WILL VOLUNTARILY SURRENDER, LICENSE, REGISTER, OR RENDER ANY OF MY FIREARMS UNUSABLE. PERIOD.

I also know that when the SHTF and they come for my guns, I will most likely not survive. A number of them, certainly more than one, will meet the same fate. I will meet my God with a clean conscience.