Yes, They Are Coming for Your Guns
Itâs not paranoia if theyâre really gunning for you.
January 25, 2016
Mark Tapson
Progressives love to ridicule Americans who are concerned that their Second Amendment rights are being threatened by a gun control-obsessed Obama administration. âNo one is coming for your precious guns,â the hoplophobes taunt. âWe just want commonsense gun laws.â Except that the pursuit of âcommonsense gun laws,â which already exist, is just a smokescreen â President Obama and his crew really
are coming for your precious guns.
Obama has made it no secret that he intends to push hard for stricter gun control in his final stretch in office. He emphasized that determination by appearing to be overcome with emotion when discussing the Sandy Hook shooting in
a speech on gun control on January 4. That tearful moment â staged or not â spoke powerfully to his fan base, because leftists are all about
feelings rather than facts; they
feel for the children lost to gun violence, and if you object to âcommonsense gun lawsâ then you are obviously a heartless right-winger who doesnât care if children die. Never mind that the measures they want to implement not only would not have prevented most mass shootings, but â like the impotency of âgun-free zonesâ â they are more likely to prevent law-abiding gun owners from defending themselves and their loved ones
from mass shooters.
Just prior to that speech, Obama issued executive actions expanding background checks on people buying firearms online or at gun shows. âThis is a dangerous level of executive overreach, and the country will not stand for it,â
Speaker Paul Ryan responded. âThe president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will.â
Also at the beginning of the year, the Obama administration
finalized a rule allowing health care providers to report the names of mentally ill patients to an FBI firearms background check system. Now watch the definition of âmentally illâ begin to expand to include any belief or behavior that the left would like to stamp out â fervent adherence to the Constitution, homeschooling, and climate change âdenial,â for example â enabling the government to categorize those gun owners as mentally ill and disarm them.
Thatâs not all.
The Washington Examiner announced that Obama plans to build a new gun control force of 430 agents, more than eight times the size of the team of commandos he is sending to the Middle East to take on ISIS.
And yet in a televised townhall meeting a few days later, Obama treated concerns about gun control overreach as paranoia.
CNN moderator Anderson Cooper asked the President about worries that his administration wants to seize all firearms as a precursor to imposing martial law. He blamed that notion on the National Rifle Association (NRA) and others who worry that âsomebody's going to come grab your guns.â
Obama dismissed that concern as crazy talk. âYes, that is a conspiracy,â he said, then added unconvincingly: âI'm only going to be here for another year. When would I have started on this enterprise?â
Actually, the legal groundwork for that enterprise has long been underway, and it is picking up momentum, especially in California, which is always on the cutting edge of progressive lunacy. Already this month,
three separate gun control bills attempting to categorize just about every firearm as an âassault weaponâ have been introduced in California, which already has the strictest gun laws in the country and nothing to show for it except increasingly fed-up, law-abiding gun owners.
Senate Bill 880, authored by Democrat Senators Isadore Hall III and Steve Glazer, would change the definition of âassault weaponâ to include any semi-automatic, centerfire rifle, or even semi-automatic handgun that does not have a âfixed magazineâ but has any one of a list of âevil features.â The bill defines âfixed magazineâ as one that âcannot be removed without disassembly of the firearm action.â This would include potentially millions of firearms, including handguns, that would then need to be registered as âassault weaponsâ with the Department of Justice.
âSenate Bill 880 is another bill representative of the gun control frenzy weâre seeing from big-city Democrats these days,â says Brandon Combs, president of the Firearms Policy Coalition. âLegislators like Hall and Glazer absolutely want to take your guns one bill at a time.â
That goes for Californiaâs fifteen-year-old Unsafe Handgun Act, which includes a roster of handguns that meet the stateâs increasingly stringent safety requirements; that roster
is getting gradually smaller. The Calguns Foundation estimates that âat the current rate the number of approved handguns will dwindle to practically zero within the next six years⌠leaving a state of some 38 million unable to purchase new semi-automatic handguns.â
As Eugene Volokh
puts it at The Washington Post, calls for bans on the sale or home possession of semiautomatic weapons in general are increasing. âThese arenât calls for restricting supposedly narrow categories of guns that are allegedly used predominantly by criminals,â he writes. âThese are calls for banning the sorts of guns that tens of millions of law-abiding Americans have in their homes.â
California Attorney General and anti-gun extremist Kamala Harris recently announced that over the last two years her Department had âdoubled the average number of guns seized annually.â She is now
backing a separate bill that would require all rifles sold in the state to have
permanently fixed magazines. âThe devastation wrought by gun violence on innocent victims, children and families in this country, is an international embarrassment,â Harris
said in a statement.
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Hillary, who travels with a phalanx of armed guards, can mock all she likes, but if she, Obama, and the radical left continue pushing this issue, they will discover that, like
Brooke Shields and her Calvin Klein jeans, Americans wonât let anything come between them and their guns. If it comes to a showdown over gun confiscation, American gun owners will have a firm answer for the government:
Molon labe.
Yes, They Are Coming for Your Guns