Obama and the White House are looking the other way as Sen. Lautenberg (D-NJ) seeks to ban guns from 1,000,000 US citizens on a secret FBI terrorist watch list. Obama has deliberately and repeatedly lied to America's 90 million gun owners across the country when he insisted that he would not try to take away anyone's firearms. Now Obama's silence endorses Lautenberg's latest attempt at banning guns.
Dem. Senator Lautenberg (D-NJ) proposes "Extraordinary Powers" be given to the U.S. Attorney General to limit gun sales.
Lautenberg has now introduced bill S. 1317 that would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales to people on terror watch lists. One must wonder, when did the U.S. Attorney General become the "Gun Czar"? This appears to be yet another bill requiring an effort by concerned Americans to defeat. If passed this bill will give extraordinary powers to limit gun sales exclusively to the U.S. Attorney General.
Lautenberg To Reveal Names on Secret List
The names of the people on the watch list are secret, and Lautenberg said he was frustrated by the F.B.I.'s refusal to disclose to investigators details and specific cases of gun purchases beyond the aggregate data.
Sen. Lautenberg requested the gun grab study from the Government Accountability Office. He is using statistics, compiled in the report that is scheduled for public release next week to invade US citizen's privacy and put more restrictions on the Second Amendment.
Sen. Lautenberg said he wanted "a better understanding of who is being allowed to buy guns." Riiiight.
How you ask? Trial by innuendo and misinformation that has put 1,000,000 Americans and maybe even you on a terrorist watch list without your knowledge by saying: people placed on this government's terrorist watch list can be stopped from getting on a plane or getting a visa, and will also be stopped from buying a gun.
It is decidedly convenient to have had DHS give justification for placing anyone who disagrees with Obama or the Marxist-style administration he runs into the category of potential "terrorist". With the DHS memo leaked earlier this year, remember, Napolitano only apologized to and removed the veterans, she left, in tact, the groundless accusations of all the rest of the Americans who hold dissenting opinions. This makes way for any one of those "right-wing extremists" to be placed on the government's terrorist watch list. Or, possibly, anyone "flagged" as "fishy" on the "Spy on your neighbor" white house website?
Sen. Lautenberg wants gun purchases stopped for just being on the list. Current law states federal officials must find some other disqualification of a would-be gun buyer, like being a felon, an illegal alien or a drug addict.
Is your name on the list and can you get it removed?
The government's consolidated watch list, used to identify people suspected of links to terrorists, is reported to have grown to more than one million names since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Although government sources insist that it "isn't likely" that the FBI list is more than 400,000, no one will comment on the various departments consolidated list. It also has drawn widespread criticism over the prevalence of mistaken identities and unclear links to terrorism.
A CNN story raises questions about mistaken identities on the list - James Robinson is a retired Air National Guard brigadier general and a commercial pilot for a major airline who flies passenger planes around the country.
James Robinson is a retired brigadier general and a commercial pilot. His name is on the terrorist "watch list."
He has even been certified by the Transportation Security Administration to carry a weapon into the cockpit as part of the government's defense program should a terrorist try to commandeer a plane.
But there's one problem: James Robinson, the pilot, has difficulty even getting to his plane because his name is on the government's terrorist "watch list."
That means he can't use an airport kiosk to check in; he can't do it online; he can't do it curbside. Instead, like thousands of Americans whose names match a name or alias used by a suspected terrorist on the list, he must go to the ticket counter and have an agent verify that he is James Robinson, the pilot, and not James Robinson, the terrorist.
"Shocking's a good word; frustrating," Robinson -- the pilot -- said. "I'm carrying a weapon, flying a multimillion-dollar jet with passengers, but I'm still screened as, you know, on the terrorist watch list." Robinson also commented "There's going to come a point in time where everybody's on the list"
History Repeating Itself?
The 1938 German Weapons Act, the precursor of the current weapons law, superseded the 1928 law. As under the 1928 law, citizens were required to have a permit to carry a firearm and a separate permit to acquire a firearm. Furthermore, the law restricted ownership of firearms to "...persons whose trustworthiness is not in question and who can show a need for a (gun) permit."
Recently Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Jack Reed (D-RI) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have joined Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and victims and family members of the Virginia Tech tragedy, to introduce legislation to eliminate the private transfers of firearms and close the nation's "gun show loophole."
This Senate bill is in the Judiciary Committee, chaired by anti-gun liberal Democrat Leahy. Lautenberg's gun hatred is well documented and he joins in the current trend of elected officials calling Americans derogatory names by stating you are irrational if you support private gun sales.
"There is no rational reason to oppose closing the loophole. The reason it's still not closed is simple: the continuing power of the special interest gun lobby in Washington" Sen. Lautenberg said ignoring the Constitution.
Lautenberg and the other anti-gun politicians in the Senate now seem to be attempting to use the GAO to justify putting Americans on a secret gun ban list.
LAUTENBERG'S MOTIVES
Motives for his latest gun ban to are twofold:
- First, he is taking small steps to enact gun control legislation, of which this is just one step.
- Second, eradicate the gun culture altogether.
All that seems to be on the minds of the Anti-Gun Senators and at the offices of gun control extremists is figuring out how to invade your privacy to erode and eventually destroy the right, and the means, of self-defense. They seem determined to shred the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in the Bill of Rights. Apparently these politicians confuse the term "Right" with "priviledge". One which is inherent and cannot be "revoked" or infringed by legislative means, the other is only available as long as certain requirements are met.
This seems a dangerous inability, that is to make the distinction and should be immediately corrected. Perhaps a reasonable replacement bill should be introduced, one that makes ineligible for any public office an individual who has either attended law school, received a degree in law or is or has been a member of any Legal Bar Association. It seems that lawyers are more dangerous to our Constitution, our rights, our freedom, than ever any gun owner has been.
Now the Anti-Gun Coalitions are trying to use a self supporting GAO study to destroy the right of all Americans to keep and bear arms to protect themselves under the law. They are attacking and hiding behind an Anti-Terrorist Agenda while getting political and financial support from a number of liberal benefactors, the primary source being George Soros, a Hungarian-born billionaire, bank rolling efforts with his check book and spending more that $100 million to destroy the Constitution, his efforts visible in many of the liberal organizations and foundations.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (CA) admitted that "guns would be banned and confiscated" if she could have her way.
The United Nations actively pushes globalism seeking to disarm all Americans.
Like all other threats against our freedoms, like so many others in just this past 6 months, Americans would be well advised to defeat this bill. The general citizenry needs to protect itself and prohibit legislation from giving extraordinary powers to limit gun sales to the U.S. Attorney General.
There is an urgent need to stop this sort of Constitutionally destructive legislation. Americans interested in protecting and preserving their Rights need to communicate with your Senator, your Representative, and the President to let them know your stand regarding your Right to Keep and Bear Arms (which is not to be infringed).
Americans understand what our Founding Fathers envisioned for our nation...and need to be willing to take action to defend our Constitution and for what it stands.
Keep calling your Senators today, toll free numbers include 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121 and register your opinion, your stand regarding this attempt to strangle the 2nd Amendment.
CALL PRESIDENT Obama, 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414 expressing your disdain and rejection of any legislation designed to infringe the Constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms.
For more information about organizations fighting efforts to deny Americans their 2nd Amendment rights go to:
CCRKBA (Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms) www.ccrkba.org
GOA (Gun Owners of America) gunowners.org
NRA (National Rifle Association) www.nra.org
SAF (Second Amendment Foundation) www.saf.org
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