There's a time and place to be condescending, and a time and place to show some proof... minus the the atypical Hitler/Stalin comparisons of course. My idea of the NG wasn’t etched in stone.... I was merely looking at a some type of umbrella organization that trains everyone to be more proficient with their guns, offers mental health programs (or information, or screening), and logistics to quickly mount a militia against that tyranny you guys are so adamant about.... it doesn’t have to be at the federal level... it could be state run.... heck even municipal.
It's called the CMP.
In February 1903, an amendment to the War Department Appropriations Bill established the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice (NBPRP). This government advisory board became the predecessor to today’s Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety, Inc. that now governs the CMP. The 1903 legislation also established the National Matches, commissioned the National Trophy and provided funding to support the Matches. This historic legislation grew out of a desire to improve military marksmanship and national defense preparedness. President Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary of War Elihu Root and NRA President General Bird Spencer were among the most important supporters of this act.
So you think it’s ok for the quote unquote “good guy” to buy a dozen guns and sell them to the bad guy? .... I say “bad guy” because responsible folks can easily get their guns from any gun shop without said middleman. If you want to sell guns in that fashion than open up your own gun shop.... otherwise show some goddamn responsibility and think where those guns might land.
and running private sales of regular people through a government registry is going to stop the people that are breaking the law already how?
and yet you guys have all those guns to prevent your dystopic tyranny, and you haven't used them to set your government strait. You rather do nothing.... well... except argue with some crazy canuck over “teh internets” while – as you’ve alluded to – your country is falling apart.
think long term. or in the short term think fiscal collapse and chaos. It's not just tyranny that we should be prepared for. Where's the government going to be to take care of people when it collapses. Oh sure, that will never happen...
Our government hasn't even produced a proper budget in the last 4 years, do you really think I can trust them to not screw up our economy into a giant recession?
Do you honestly think the US government has the capacity take 300million guns away from Americans.... they can’t even tie their own shoelaces.
You can if you write bans that don't allow for transfer, or if you control all of the transfers. The ATF issues FFL's solely at it's own discretion. You're asking gun owners to put a bureaucracy with very little accountability in charge of every firearm transfer. What happens when they just stop issuing licenses? now you've got no legal way to transfer a firarm, so when you die it must be destroyed. So in a few generations you've got no firearms.
They did mention that allot of guns are getting into, Chicago, for example via straw purchases. They mentioned that the original buyer can claim their weapon was stolen if it’s ever traced back to them. I mentioned Chicago because it’s often used by the NRA as an example of gun laws gone wrong.
Again, straw purchases are already a felony. The local dealers have the 4473 on file and must surrender it to any law enforcement. It's easy to track down firearms sold through a dealer, but people still do straw purchases. money motivates them to take the risk.
How about we stop the war on drugs instead? Wouldn't it be easier to stop the gang funding that finances most straw purchases?
Registered vehicles don’t completely eliminate accidents, but it certainly makes life easier for law enforcement to trace perpetrators (hit and runs, etc...). That form of accountability keeps allot of people honest. Hey, registries aren’t such a foreign concept either; the NRA did want to make a database of the mentally ill.
As I said, it's possible to find a firearm sold through a dealer already. There are already federal laws prohibiting a registry. Even if that manages to pass, how many owners do you think would participate? The Canadian long arm registry failed miserably and cost your nation a lot of money.
