If You Like The Second Amendment, You Don’t Want John Cornyn Anywhere Near Senate Leadership
If gun control is gaining steam in Congress, chances are Sen. John Cornyn is nearby, working on a 'compromise' with Democrats.If gun control is gaining steam in Congress, chances are Sen. John Cornyn is nearby, working on a 'compromise' with Democrats.The ATF’s new ‘loophole fix’ is going to BOIL YOUR BLOOD
A new rule has been proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in order to fix a so-called “gun show loophole.” The rule will crack down on gun owners who sell their guns at gun shows by increasing what is already required to obtain a federal firearms license for gun sellers across the country.
According to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach, “an increasing number of individuals engaged in the business of selling firearms for profit have chosen not to register as a federal firearms licensee, as required by law. Instead, they’ve sought to make money through the off-book, illicit sale of firearms.”
Glenn Beck knows what they’re doing, and he doesn’t like it.
“They are clearly going after and saying ‘These people are trying to make money,’” Glenn says.
"They’re really working hard to keep us safe.”
The ATF has also issued rules that would apply to more security checks on gun owners and sellers who use unregulated stabilizing braces to effectively transform pistols into more deadly rifles.
Glenn believes that in order to enforce a rule of this kind, the ATF would have to implement a federal gun registry — which Congress has opposed since the founding of our nation.
“To be able to enforce this, they have to have a gun registry. And the ATF has started a federal gun registry,” he says. “Congress has been against that since 1791.”
Despite the history, Glenn doesn’t have much faith in Congress any more.
“Congress has stopped doing their job, and I’ll tell you why they did it: because they just want to be re-elected. That’s it. They don’t want to do anything unpopular, they just want to be the ones that you call up and say ‘Hey, good job,’ or ‘You gotta stop these guys,’ so they can be the police,” he explains.
However, even if Congress was doing its job, Glenn believes these new rules are purely “inflammatory.”
“They know what this causes. This causes all kinds of agitation, this causes all kinds of distrust, and they’re never going to come for guns,” he says, before asking co-host Stu Burguiere if he thinks they’ll actually go door to door to take Americans’ guns.
“God, I hope not,” Stu responds.
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Biden’s State Of The Union Promise To ‘Fund Police’ Was Pure Lip Service
President Biden pledged to support police during his Tuesday address, only to then aim his fire at gun owners, not criminals.Report: Biden admin stockpiling millions of records on US gun owners; some fear it could be the precursor to a federal database
The Biden administration is quickly amassing millions of records on U.S. gun owners in what some gun-rights advocates fear could be the precursor to a federal registry, the Washington Free Beacon reported over the weekend.
According to an internal document obtained by the news outlet, under President Biden's direction, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has collected more than 54 million out-of-business records detailing gun transactions and other private firearm information in the past year alone.
Since 1968, U.S. law has required licensed firearms retailers that go out of business to transfer their private records detailing gun transactions to the ATF's National Tracing Center Division repository in West Virginia — a site that stores so many paper records that a floor recently collapsed under the weight.
This data-collecting practice is touted as a crime-stopping tool that has assisted law enforcement agencies in countless criminal investigations. But many gun-rights advocates are concerned that the practice will ultimately be abused by the Biden administration given the president's enthusiastic support for widespread gun reform.
Specifically, the advocates fear that the information will be used to create a national database of all gun owners, something that is strictly prohibited under the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 but has long been floated by anti-gun groups.
Currently, gun retailers are not required to keep records beyond a 20-year period. But the Federalist reported that the administration and its anti-gun partners "want to change that and are largely in favor of heavier federal oversight that mandates a digitized registry that can be searched."
If such an action were taken, it would enable federal authorities to undermine the Second Amendment rights of millions of Americans.
"If a national database is created," the Federalist warned, "thousands of gun owners could be sought out by the administration to 'register or destroy' any firearms or related equipment that the Democrat administration seeks to restrict or even ban."
But the Biden administration insists that the creation of a digital federal registry is not in its plans despite the concerns of gun-rights advocates.
In response to the Free Beacon's request for comment, an ATF spokesman confirmed the agency's "National Tracing Center processes millions of out of business records each month" but said that "those out of business records do not constitute an initiation or continuation of any federal gun registry."
Democratic bill would create public registry of gun owners, their guns, and where they keep them
A Democratic bill introduced in the House of Representatives this year aims to create a mandatory and publicly accessible registry listing the names of gun owners, how many guns they have, and even where they keep their firearms.
Additionally, the bill, H.R. 127, would ban several types of commonly used ammunition .50 caliber or greater, require gun owners to purchase firearm insurance costing $800 per year, and force those seeking to buy a gun to complete a psychological evaluation and a government training course prior to the purchase.
Should gun owners fail to adhere to the new restrictions, they could face an harsh penalty of 10 years in prison and fines of $50,000 to $150,000.
Sponsored by Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas), the bill is one of the most aggressive attempts yet by progressive lawmakers to curb Americans' Second Amendment rights and is already drawing intense scrutiny from gun rights groups.
"All gun control bills share the same basic goal: a world in which fewer people own firearms," the National Rifle Association wrote about the legislation. "Some bills simply ban certain types of firearms or ammunition outright. Others place obstacles in the path of owning firearms or ammunition to make them more difficult and expensive to obtain, thereby shrinking the market for them ... H.R. 127 combines both failed approaches."
"It bans common types of ammunition and original equipment magazines for most self-defense firearms. And, it makes all firearms more difficult to obtain and possess through a punitive licensing and registration scheme," the group continued.
Speaking with the Washington Times, the leaders of several retired police officer groups also slammed the bill as a brazen attempt to curtail Second Amendment rights — and a hazardous one at that. Under the legislation, retired officers would not be exempt from the public registry.
"This is very dangerous, especially for retirees," Kevin Hassett, president of the New York's Retired Police Association, told the outlet. "Things have gone so downhill with this level of hostility towards cops and we are out there with the label that we are no longer cops. Retired cops don't have partners or backup. We are out there on our own."
Association of Retired Police Officers president Gerald G. Neill Jr. expressed concern that a registry would lead to the targeting of former cops.
"There is danger in having this as part of the public record," he said.
While the bill has a long way to go before becoming law — it has no co-sponsors and has yet to be scheduled for a committee hearing — its mere introduction demonstrates the confidence of anti-gun lawmakers under the Biden administration and in a Democratic Party-controlled Congress.
"H.R. 127 is so outrageous, persecutory, and unworkable that its main function is simply to display the hostility of its author and supporters toward firearms, those who own them, and those who want to own them," the NRA added in its blistering writeup.
Biden has yet to comment on Jackson Lee's bill, but he appears set to make gun control a major issue of his presidency, as this week he called on Congress to enact "commonsense" reforms such as banning "assault weapons." The White House has not ruled out using executive authority to push Biden's gun control agenda.
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