PA Bill Number: SB1198
Title: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and ...
Description: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and .. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS
Last Action Date: May 17, 2024
Letter: Why background checks run counter to freedom :: 04/17/2015
People need to understand why it is counter-productive to freedom and liberty to allow the government to mandate background checks on "free" citizens. NICS, National Instant Criminal Background Check System, is sold as being about saving lives and protecting people. All licensed dealers (holding a Federal Firearms License) are required to do these checks.
Federal law prohibits the federal government from collecting firearms sales records in a central repository. However, dealers must maintain sales records indefinitely providing a lawless government, like we now have, a means to seize those records to confiscate guns.
This is why gun owners resist giving up more of their Second Amendment rights (an enumerated right). The first Ten Amendments to our Constitution are enumerated for a reason. They are the bedrock of our liberty.
History shows what often happens when citizens are made defenseless by so called "common sense" universal background checks, by closing what they call a "loophole" against private person-to-person or relative-to-relative sales. This provides a way to disarm the law abiding, but not stopping criminals because they get weapons illegally. Genocide often follows, subjugation at the least.
Federal law requires background check info be destroyed after 24 hours. Do you honestly believe a government that uses the IRS and NSA to spy on citizens would not keep these records? Do not trust a government we know lies. The Second Amendment is our only defense against tyranny.
God gives man the right to self-defense, our Constitution only acknowledges it.
Robert M. Ray
Richmond
