Re: Disarming America, how to do it.
Posted by:
plain old pearson
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Date: March 22, 2018 05:04PM
Bill Brady Wrote:
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> Once the 2nd amendment is modified we will have to
> disarm the American population. First of all,
> federal or state laws would need to make it a
> crime punishable by a $1,000 fine and one year in
> prison per weapon to possess a firearm. The
> population would then be given three months to
> turn in their guns, without penalty.
>
> Hunters would be able to deposit their hunting
> weapons in a centrally located arsenal, heavily
> guarded, from which they would be able to withdraw
> them each hunting season upon presentation of a
> valid hunting license. The weapons would be
> required to be redeposited at the end of the
> season on pain of arrest. When hunters submitted
> their request for their weapons, federal, state
> and local checks would be made to establish that
> they had not been convicted of a violent crime
> since the last time they withdrew their weapons.
> In the process, arsenal staff would take at least
> a quick look at each hunter to try to affirm that
> he was not obviously unhinged.
>
> It would have to be the case that the term
> "hunting weapon" did not include anti-tank
> ordnance, assault weapons, rocket-propelled
> grenade launchers or other weapons of war.
>
> All antique or interesting nonhunting weapons
> would be required to be delivered to a local or
> regional museum, also to be under strict
> 24-hour-a-day guard. There they would be on
> display, if the owner desired, as part of an
> interesting exhibit of antique American weapons,
> as family heirlooms from proud wars past or as
> part of collections.
>
> Gun dealers could continue their work, selling
> hunting and antique firearms. Dealers would be
> required to maintain very tight inventories. Any
> gun sold would be delivered immediately by the
> dealer to the nearest arsenal or the museum, not
> to the buyer.
>
> The disarmament process would begin after the
> initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of
> police would be formed and trained to carry out
> the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no
> advance warning, city blocks and stretches of
> suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and
> searches carried out in every business, dwelling
> and empty building. Thoroughness would be at the
> level of the sort of search that is carried out in
> Crime Scene Investigations. All firearms would be
> seized. The owners of weapons found in the
> searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year
> in prison for each firearm.
>
> Clearly, since such sweeps could not take place
> all across a city, county, state or the country at
> the same time, guns would move. But fairly quickly
> there would begin to be gun-swept, gun-free areas
> where there should be no firearms. If there were,
> those carrying them would be subject to quick
> confiscation and prosecution. On the streets it
> would be a question of stopping and searching
> anyone, even Grandma with her walker, with the
> same penalties for "carrying."
Years ago our federal government tried to take away our alcoholic beverages. That went well.