If there is any doubt what the gun control advocates are planning, this
> should clear it up. >
> —-
>
> “We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is
> necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest. .
> . . [W]e’ll have to start working again to strengthen that law, and then
> again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. Right now,
> though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our
> ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is
going
> to take time. . . . The first problem is to slow down the number of
> handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to
> get handguns registered. The final problem is to make possession of all
> handguns and all handgun ammunition-except for the military, police,
> licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun
> collectors-totally illegal.”
>
> Richard Harris, A Reporter at Large: Handguns, New Yorker, July 26, 1976,
> at 53, 58 (quoting Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc.)
>
> ****
>
> “In fact, the assault weapons ban will have no significant effect either
on
> the crime rate or on personal security. Nonetheless, it is a good idea . .
> . . Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize
> the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate
> confiscation.”
>
> Charles Krauthammer (columnist), Disarm the Citizenry. But Not Yet,
> Washington Post, Apr. 5, 1996
>