A bill to federally encourage handgun licensing at state level.
Sebastian wonders.
I find it odd that Van Hollen would go after handguns. Going after rifles is the latest vogue in the gun control movement post-Heller.
Just So You’re Aware What’s at Stake
Let us remember that the National Firearms Act’s first goal was to ban or highly restrict handguns, but they could not do it at the time. Gun Control Act of 1968 did target handguns with the “sporting purpose’ idiocy and then the tag from the media about the “Saturday Night Specials” which led to banning the importation of handguns under certain barrel length.
The problem as the Liberals see it is that a handgun is concealable. An AR-15? Not so much. Open carry of an AK 47 will attract attention immediately even in full Open Carry states. A concealed pistol? Well, there are an approximately 15 million Americans right now about their business, mingling about legally carrying concealed and nobody knows who they are or what they carry.
And that scares the shit out of Left Wing politicians. The idea that they cannot be as fascist as they can be because there are unregistered weapons about that can be used to curb their thirst for power just is too much for them.
And yes, that means that Concealed Carry must be eliminated.
So no, I am not surprised one bit they are going after handguns.
It’s very puzzling that Sebastian is surprised. The simple answer is that the enemy hates all guns in civilian hands. From day to day they will focus on a subset, but that doesn’t change the underlying goal which is to see us totally disarmed.
Absolutely – they will go after any and all ‘evil’ guns at every opportunity – and use any means fair or foul – or even made up to attain civilian disarmament.
The Soviet Rookies in WW2 were pretty concerned about handguns as well.
As soon as they could get the production numbers up, they had most people, except for some well vetted officers and commissars, swap them for submachineguns. Those are harder for some disgruntled kulak to hide.
Judging by the bunch of pro gun stuff thats been happening and the record breaking gun sales…..good luck with that..they will never quit but niether will We the People.
I predict an epidemic of tragic boating accidents.
I guess this answers my question. Guns will cause Civil War 2.0 first.
Interesting that the article mentioned 11k gun homicides and not the commonly used 30k gun deaths.
They are still using the numbers in a misleading way. The 11K (give or take) counts all homicides – line of duty by LE, self-defense – take those out of the mix and just about all of the rest are gang/drug related. And what they will NOT tell anyone is that even with that number, the USA ranks relatively low on homicide RATES worldwide.
Many gun owners know how to manufacture machine guns. The only thing stopping them is that they do not want to become criminals. Once you make them criminals, then there is nothing to worry about. Once you have committed your first felony, the rest are free.