FW: Secret Gun Ban Plan (Brady)
Date: Jan 10, 2006 5:10 PM
This is why we need a political “divorce” from the liberals (trade ‘em
to
Canada) because we have to throw them a bone every time we pass good
legislation, and sooner or later it comes back to haunt us and take away our
rights. We have to make our state and our country so conservative that they
start immigrating to Canada and Europe in hordes. We would be so much
further ahead if every piece of legislation our conservative leaders pass
didn’t have to be watered down to appease the slease. Pancho V.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1/10/06 — full contact info at end

New Brady Anti-Gun Strategy Revealed
New Brady Anti-Gun Strategy Revealed
New Brady Anti-Gun Strategy Revealed

“Decommissioned” Guns Nearly As Good As Confiscations

by Alan Korwin, Author
Gun Laws of America

The Brady group and its congressional supporters are proceeding, and making
headway, with a below-radar effort to ban operating firearms from the
general public, without having to actually disarm America’s 80 million gun
owners.

The plan is now evolving around an innocent-sounding new legal term. It was
tucked deep in a 400,000-word spending bill under president Clinton (law #
P.L. 105-277), and it is now spreading throughout federal gun laws. Its
latest use, the eighth, is in the frivolous-lawsuit ban just enacted (The
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, law # P.L. 109-92; S.397).
Described at the end of this report, it accents a liability all Americans –
not just gun owners — are increasingly under, a tightening legal noose few
people realize is around their necks.

The phrase is “secure gun storage or safety device.” It includes almost
anything that will keep a gun from working. At its simplest, it’s gun locks.

This and closely related tactics are sometimes called “decommissioning
schemes.” Gun-control advocates — the mainstream ones who seek to disarm
the public — will essentially win their cause if they can require guns to
be disabled, disassembled, locked up or turned off by remote control.

This approach is already working in National Parks where possession of a
working gun subjects you to immediate federal arrest, confiscation of your
property, and endless aggravation. No criminal act of any kind is required,
just legal possession of personal property — any firearm. However, a gun in
pieces so it cannot be fired, locked in your car trunk is allowed.
Interestingly, no statutory authority for this denial of civil rights can be
found. And of course, statutory denial of civil rights would be
unconstitutional on its face.

Washington, D.C., is currently under a similar “decommissioning model”
too,
though its registration system gets more attention. In addition to a full
ban on handgun registration since 1976, firearms that were owned before that
date cannot be assembled, or even carried — at home. It’s almost as good as
taking the guns away, from a gun-ban perspective. Any gun use, including
legitimate self defense, implies assembly and carriage, and is banned.

Even the widely hailed federal “Firearm Transportation Guarantee” (law
# 18
USC 926A) relies on decommissioned guns. It was enacted as part of the
Firearm Owners Protection Act in 1986, to help counteract high levels of
federal abuse under the 1968 Gun Control Act. It guarantees a person the
right to transport a firearm from any legal place to any other, anywhere in
the country. However, the firearm must be unloaded and locked in the trunk,
rendering it useless. If you bear it in any manner while you travel, the
protection does not apply.

Under Brady-supported decommissioning schemes, you can keep your guns, but
if they’re ever workable, or available, you become a criminal and subject to
arrest. It’s pretty clever actually. And it has been working, even though
forced decommissioning is infringement of the right to keep arms and the
right to bear arms.

The Byrne Grant program (law # 42 USC 3760) provides federal money for
law-enforcement firearm training and other purposes. Changed under president
Clinton, it now authorizes federal funding to train the public in the use
of… gun locks. Under a gun-unfriendly administration (anti-rights
advocates believe they will have this one day), little prevents this funding
from going into large-scale campaigns to convince people to only possess
decommissioned guns, “for safety.”

While on one hand, who could rationally argue against making guns safe, gun
guru Col. Jeff Cooper has succinctly pointed out that, “A gun that’s safe
isn’t worth anything.”

And that turns out to be the very heart of this gun-ban plan — a gun that’s
safe isn’t worth anything. But gun-rights advocates know guns are dangerous,
they are supposed to be dangerous, and they’re not any good if they’re not
dangerous. Anything requiring guns to be “safe” is the true danger, and
the
secure storage device has now become “incentivized.”

The Republican party, in control for half a decade, hasn’t used Byrne Grants
for their other authorized purpose: training the public in “the lawful and
safe ownership, storage, carriage or use of firearms.” Will Republican
failure to use this law (for gun-safety training) also deter Democrats from
using it (to promote gun locks)? Nah. And now, with gun locks slipped into
the gun-industry protection bill…

As the subtle tactic of decommissioned guns continues, the right to keep and
bear arms is at risk. The next time the anti-rights factions slip in the
phrase “secure gun storage or safety device,” you had better look very
closely. All it will take is one use, with the word “required,” to wipe
out
our cherished Second Amendment rights. And they won’t have to take your guns
away to do it.

OCCURRENCES of “secure gun storage or safety device” (SGSSD)

18 USC 921(34). The “secure gun storage or safety device” is defined.

18 USC 923(d). Dealers are required to carry SGSSDs, unless they are
unavailable due to supply-chain problems outside the dealer’s control.

18 USC 923(e). Dealer’s license can be revoked for failing to carry SGSSDs,
unless they were unavailable due to supply-chain problems.

42 USC 3760. The Byrne Grant law is amended to allow training the public in
use of SGSSDs, and use of firearms.

18 USC 922(z)(1). Dealers now required to provide SGSSDs with every firearm
sold.

18 USC 924(p)(1)(A). Stiff fines and license suspension added to penalties
for dealers who fail to provide SGSSDs.

18 USC 922(z)(2). Proper authorities at every level of federal, state and
local government are exempt from the SGSSD laws. Someone should write a
paper just on that.

18 USC 922(z)(3)(A). This was inserted by Brady-backed anti-gun-rights
legislators. It went into the gun-industry-protection, frivolous-lawsuit ban
(Oct. 2005): A person who uses an SGSSD on a gun has liability protection if
a criminal steals the gun and then uses it in criminal activity.

Providing an “incentive” to decommission your firearms, as this law does,
is
sinisterly clever. In the name of safety, you are threatened with legal
nightmares that are little more than corrupt abuses of the justice system.
These are the actions of a resolute and unprincipled enemy of the human and
civil right to keep and bear arms.

———-

Note: When a criminal steals your property, and then uses it to harm someone
or violate the law, the criminal — not you — should be liable to the
victims. Because the court system is broken (I’m being nice), such cases
often proceed, even if they have no legal footing to come after you, or
grounds to win. Their main purposes are the huge costs they inflict, the
aggravation factor and the chance for a settlement, all shameful abuses of
the court system. Protection from such abuse is the very thing the gun
industry just got under the lawsuit bill (the public was not included in the
protection). All Americans, not just gun owners, are increasingly under this
abominable legal corruption. A man sued Ford because his daughter had a
flat. He lost of course, but frivolous cases used to get their attorneys
disbarred. They no longer do.

Contact:
Alan Korwin
BLOOMFIELD PRESS
“We publish the gun laws.”
4718 E. Cactus #440
Phoenix, AZ 85032
602-996-4020 Phone
602-494-0679 FAX
1-800-707-4020 Orders
http://www.gunlaws.com
[email protected]

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