"Weapons of War"

Do you want a good laugh?  

Our incoming POTUS and his Vice POTUS have promised to unilaterally write Executive Orders to make all our semi-automatic firearms illegal, and to tax them as full automatic weapons under the 1934 Firearms Control Act. That would attempt to make all current owners of what they call "assault weapons" (but cannot adequately define that term) pay a $200 annual tax for the privilege of continuing to own their "weapons of war."  The ones they already own.  And have already paid for.  Orrrrrr, the Plan goes, they may just decide to turn them in to the Government.  How nice of them...

Kind of Orwellian, doncha' think?

By the way, there are some 18 or 19 million of them in circulation.  And the fact that we don't know exactly how many, is the crux of this little rant...

The way our current background check legislation works is the key to this little discussion; it's called the "NICS" system, and it's been in force since 1998.  This "National Instant Criminal System" has been keeping firearms out of the hands of those who shouldn't have them for more than two decades.  Didn't know we had background checks, did you?  

Anyway, the way it works now is you plunks down your money for the gun and some of it goes to pay for an FBI check to see if you're okay to own one.  The dealer electronically sends off a request to the FBI and gets back an approval (or occasional disapproval) within minutes.  The gun dealer is then required by law to keep the resultant "DEROS" (Dealer Record of Sale) for 20 years.  Buuuut, the Federal Gummint is required, by law, to destroy the official request within 30 days.  Hmmmmm.  Soooo, fellow Pilgrim, it seems that the Feds don't know who has what!  18 or 19 million so-called "assault weapons" circulating out there and the Feds don't know who has them.  And it's bothering them no end!  And that's the real fun in this situation!

Soooo, just exactly how is Sleepy Joe going to fine us for owning something if he doesn't know who owns it?  And how is Carmella going to enforce her promise to confiscate "assault weapons" within 100 days of her taking orifice if she doesn't know who has them?  He won't!  And she won't!

And that's why, fellow Pilgrims, they want so desperately to pass the so-called "Universal Background Checks."  This little jewel corrects the "oversight" in the NICS system by making it law that the Federal Gumming must keep a record of all firearm sales....FOREVER!  Get it?  GET IT?  I knew you would...

The Democrats are a bunch of flim-flam artists.  They are doing their best to disarm America any way they can.  The key question is, exactly why?  Why are they so dead set on taking away out guns?  After a Summer of Destruction, where many of our fellow citizens have been in fear for their lives, or actually lost them, where anarchists have been deconstructing America before our very eyes, the Democrats still want to take our firearms.  Do they have s**t for brains, or what?  

I have a question: just exactly how many of those 18 or 19 million "assault weapons" do you think will be willingly turned in by American gun owners?  Just exactly how many Americans will choose to pay an exorbitant tax, created for fully automatic weapons, in order to keep the guns they already own?  I'd say maybe 13.  Or 28.  Not more than 100, nationwide, in any case.

Good luck, Democrats!  Good luck in your never-ending quest to turn Americans into a bunch of fearful, quaking, nervous dolts who need the help of Gummint in order to continue to exist.  Here's a hint:    

We don't...