In what is certainly a sign of things to come, California’s Governor Moonbeam Brown has signed a bill to “send the army” to confiscate guns from those deemed disqualified by state government agencies.
Briefly quoting the FOX news report linked above:
The bill authorizes $24 million for the state Department of Justice’s Armed and Prohibited Persons program. The money will go to hire more agents to confiscate the weapons and reduce the backlog over the next three years.
The program, which is unique to California, cross-checks five databases to find people who bought weapons they are no longer legally allowed to own.
[…] Many of those accused of domestic violence are innocent victims of divorce lawyers milking the last dollar of alimony from a discarded spouse. And very few of those on the “mentally unstable” list were formally committed in a court of law.
[…] Those who feel they may be on Moonbeam’s list will dump their guns at any price rather than see them confiscated by the State. And that will put even more guns in the underworld armories.
The solution for that lies with Congress and the courts. But remediation through the courts takes so long that many of the victims of unjust gun seizure will die of old age before justice is done. And remediation through Congress is unlikely as long as more than 100 “Democrats” hold House or Senate seats.
Obviously, we have our work cut out for us.
As geoff B notes in an email, “From “universal background checks with government deciding who should and who should not be allowed to buy a firearm the next steps will be universal registration and expansion of the classes to be denied permission to buy. Then comes confiscation of firearms that any denied person might conceivably have access to.”
Exactly right. This is backdoor, incremental confiscation. Your best bet, as a law-abiding citizen, is ironically to become an outlaw and hide the fact of your gun ownership. Because the groundwork for declaring you mentally unfit, be it through ObamaCare and your prescriptions, domestic dispute litigation, or your “fetishizing” of the Constitution and your “extremist” ideas about smaller government, is already being laid. And remember: a man had his guns confiscated in California because his wife had been placed in a mental facility for a brief period, the argument from the state being that her proximity to the firearms was justification for taking away the husband’s Second Amendment protections.
We are getting close, historically speaking, to that proverbial spark. Leftwing governments are notorious for wanting their subjects disarmed. For the good of the collective.
— Which only ever ends in a paring down of the collective such that its support is, at least on the surface, homogeneous.
Recall the Weathermen discussing how many people they’d have to murder or retrain to finally bring about a workable Utopia. To them, that’s just removing damaged intellects from the civic pool, cutting loose those who don’t have the state’s best interests at heart. An evil, but a necessary one, with the ends justifying the means.
Think on that. And take it seriously. Because just as nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition or the Holocaust, too few give the ego of man enough credit for the breadth of evil it allows itself to justify.
Wow there’s a lot of deep, unfathomable lakes out here. You could lose a Sherman tank in them and never find them again.
During Weimar, they granted gun permits only to “those who needed them.” Just like they do in NYC. Beck says that while he lived there, not even his bodyguards “needed” a gun, according to crazytown law.
He said this morning that there’s a bulletin board next to his fridge with the faces of people who have made credible threats against him. He has to teach his kids to memorize their faces and then to run if they ever see them.
Serves him right, you know? He made Van Jones resign.
We’re going to need to spin up low-tech document production and prepare to reproduce Jeff’s archives in samizdat format once the SHTF.
Because before the phoenix can rise from the ashes, there has to be a certain amount of “I told you so” and “I saw it coming” going on.
Remember to use acid-free paper so it will last for a long while.
So glad I gave up civilization for the windswept prairies of outer Jesuslandia. Sure, you have to put up with the godbotherers and the cousin-humping, and the mashed potatos they serve with everything. But the price of civilization was gettting too high.
Unbelievable.
What recourse does a gun owner have after some new thing has been determined to prohibit gun ownership? Can the gun owner sell their gun(s) (to a family member?) or will the gun owner be informed at the same time they show up to confiscate their private property? And what happens to all of these confiscated guns?
Move your guns out of state now. And maybe yourself and the rest of your property along with them.
this looks likely to affect a brother of a friend of mine
he really should move away I think since he’s still sorta looking for his career path
he could move to america and keep his guns and have a much better quality of life than california will afford him
We don’t want any ex-pat Californians out here bringing their fascist ways to the Great Plains.
Screw that. If it weren’t for mashed potatoes I’d be stuck with eating poi or some shit.
Sure, you have to put up with the godbotherers and the cousin-humping, and the mashed potatos they serve with everything.
Inbreeding gives you gum infections. The stuff I learn here.
As a Californian, you wound me, Leigh.
Anyway, I can hardly wait for the first story that comes out where someone with connections, but should not have a gun, according to the new law, commits a crime.
I think I’ll have to hit a city council meeting and ask the city council if they think we have too many cops.
From there, I’ll have to ask if the city council if we can really afford to have cops going house to house, collecting firearms and, perhaps, creating a few widows along the way.
Eric Holder will make sure they get out of the country. Fastly and furiously.
just in time for nra
Man kills self at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport, authorities say
Oh, Blake. I’m a Californian myself.
I even have trouble keeping track of the number guns we own, good luck Jerry.
Another link about the Houston Airport shooting.
Now Moonbeam and Co. just need to implement something along these lines but with just a bit more active response and then they can get all those nasty guns put somewhere very safe, like Mexico’s cartels.
Give me a million for violence prevention. I will rent billboards that say, “Hey, knock it off!”
That will be just as effective as anything else.
From a recent article by Holly Case* on Thomas Szasz:
I guess you could consider the Walker and Goldwater cases trial runs for what we’ll be subjected to in the near future. Also, I’m sure the Left In America has studied how the Soviets carried-out this method.
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*Warning: She’s no Right Winger.
“Fact magazine”
What is it with these people and “fact”, “truth”, etc.? factheck, truthout, pravda…
If they say it often enough, then it just is Spies.
Ah, yer learnin boyo.
I left the skimming and kickback parts out because I thought it ruined the flow. I was pretty sure it was understood.
Plus, the gun and ammo and exotic car industries would be stimulated, so win-win.