PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Registration will lead to confiscation? They told us that would never happen :: 12/16/2014
The left has repeatedly told gun owners that they want to benignly register their guns. They don't want to take them; they just want to know where they are. Yet, history has shown that this has not always been the case.
The Ottoman Turks did it in association with their 1915 genocide of the Armenians, the first of the great genocides of the 20th Century. The Nazi Holocaust was preceded first by the passage of a registration law under the Wiemar Republic, then confiscation by the Nazis.
Then, last month, the Buffalo, NY, Police Department announced they would begin to confiscate pistols from the families of deceased pistol license holders.
New York law authorizes police departments to do this, and like all bad laws, New Yorkers are stuck with it until it is either rescinded through legislation, or declared unconstitutional by a court. In review, the Fourth Amendment of the Bill or Rights states,
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The seizure of these effects (firearms) is certainly unreasonable, considering that just two amendments earlier, the Second Amendment states,
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
These seizures certainly infringe on that right, and New Yorkers have a long uphill battle in the fight to get rid of laws like that one and the so-called Safe Act. Until they get this law nullified, this official confiscatory mindset may spread, resulting in more cold dead hands giving up their guns.
All the while, widows and children who are dealing with the grief of tremendous personal loss, and sometimes charlatans attempting to con them; now have to deal with officials circling like vultures and demanding their property.
On the other coast, Washington State gun owners are now in a struggle created by the passage of I-594 in that state. That initiative points to the danger of multiple millions of dollars of Bloomberg money winning the propaganda war against gun ownership in the Evergreen State. Now that they won that one, they have gotten enough petition signatures to get a similar initiative on the ballot in Nevada. This initiative appears to be written to entrap good citizens into breaking the law by criminalizing otherwise benign behavior, such as loaning a gun to a friend.
Gun owners must be diligent in opposing any type of registration scheme. Remember the lessons of the Twentieth Century genocides. There is no upside, and potential for too much downside.
And, the status quo is nowhere to stay. Repeal of gun laws, elimination of so-called gun free zones, and advancement of Constitutional Carry must be pushed at every opportunity.
What do you think?
December 15th is Bill of Rights Day. Be sure and pause to remember, and perhaps read them. And remind your legislators and newspaper editors that they are not a smorgasbord to pick and choose from. They are a package deal for all of us.
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