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<blockquote data-quote="abajaj11" data-source="post: 2066708" data-attributes="member: 3553"><p>Sen. Coburn on radio today indicates he wants to "listen to what the anti-2As have to say re: Universal Background checks". </p><p>I sent him a letter reproduced below. PLease consider also sending something similar to his office so he knows what we, the constituents, feel. </p><p>__________</p><p>Dear Sen. Coburn, </p><p>While we all agree that guns should not be sold to criminals or dangerously insane people (less than 1% of all mentally ill people BTW), I have a serious concern about a Universal background check (UBC). The concern is that a UBC will require firearms and ownership registration at the national level in order to allow any kind of monitoring whatsoever. </p><p></p><p>Think about how a federally mandated background check on ALL firearms will be implemented. Right now, only firearms sold through FFL dealers have to pass a NICs (Form 4473) test in all states, and in some states the state laws mandate that all transfers have to be through an FFL dealer. The feds regulate the FFL dealers and do not keep records of transactions, but the FFL dealers have to. If an FFL dealer goes out of business, those records go to ATF for storage. Now imagine extending this requirement to ALL buyers and sellers of firearms. Well this is impossible.</p><p></p><p>So the feds will say, well let us just require all states to do what California, for example, does already. All transfers must go through an FFL. But what to do about the millions of unregistered guns in the USA? How do the feds know who owns them? If they don't know who owns them, how will they verify that ALL guns are being sold after a NICS check? Well, the FEDs will come back and say: "We cannot implement your new law unless you allow us to register all firearms". So the inevitable next step to mandating background check on ALL firearm sales will be a demand to Congress that all firearms be registered, without which the law will be impossible to enforce. An Executive Order may be signed requiring a National Firearms Database in order to implement this law. </p><p>Registration is a very bad idea and always leads to confiscation. In any case, the intent of 2A is to allow the citizens to withstand tyrannical takeover by a central power with a central standing army...in today's parlance: the federal government. Registering firearms with them is like having the coyote guard the hen house. </p><p></p><p>For the reasons above, I strongly urge you to not vote for UBC, and to inform your colleagues about the potential dangers of this "reasonable" sounding Bill. </p><p>Sincerely</p><p>____________________</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="abajaj11, post: 2066708, member: 3553"] Sen. Coburn on radio today indicates he wants to "listen to what the anti-2As have to say re: Universal Background checks". I sent him a letter reproduced below. PLease consider also sending something similar to his office so he knows what we, the constituents, feel. __________ Dear Sen. Coburn, While we all agree that guns should not be sold to criminals or dangerously insane people (less than 1% of all mentally ill people BTW), I have a serious concern about a Universal background check (UBC). The concern is that a UBC will require firearms and ownership registration at the national level in order to allow any kind of monitoring whatsoever. Think about how a federally mandated background check on ALL firearms will be implemented. Right now, only firearms sold through FFL dealers have to pass a NICs (Form 4473) test in all states, and in some states the state laws mandate that all transfers have to be through an FFL dealer. The feds regulate the FFL dealers and do not keep records of transactions, but the FFL dealers have to. If an FFL dealer goes out of business, those records go to ATF for storage. Now imagine extending this requirement to ALL buyers and sellers of firearms. Well this is impossible. So the feds will say, well let us just require all states to do what California, for example, does already. All transfers must go through an FFL. But what to do about the millions of unregistered guns in the USA? How do the feds know who owns them? If they don't know who owns them, how will they verify that ALL guns are being sold after a NICS check? Well, the FEDs will come back and say: "We cannot implement your new law unless you allow us to register all firearms". So the inevitable next step to mandating background check on ALL firearm sales will be a demand to Congress that all firearms be registered, without which the law will be impossible to enforce. An Executive Order may be signed requiring a National Firearms Database in order to implement this law. Registration is a very bad idea and always leads to confiscation. In any case, the intent of 2A is to allow the citizens to withstand tyrannical takeover by a central power with a central standing army...in today's parlance: the federal government. Registering firearms with them is like having the coyote guard the hen house. For the reasons above, I strongly urge you to not vote for UBC, and to inform your colleagues about the potential dangers of this "reasonable" sounding Bill. Sincerely ____________________ [/QUOTE]
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