Virginia Gov. Northam Seeks Gun Registration as Down Payment

[Elderberry]

Ammoland 12/15/2019

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) must think that Old Dominion gun owners are stupid. After months of Northam and his Michael Bloomberg-backed General Assembly allies advocating for the enactment of gun confiscation legislation, the governor has told the Virginia Mercury that he will support a gun ban bill that would grandfather currently possessed firearms but require owners to register the newly-prohibited firearms with the government. As astute gun owners know, gun registration facilitates gun confiscation. Northam wants law-abiding gun owners to register their guns with the same people who have already stated that they want to confiscate them.

The evidence is clear: Virginia politicians want to confiscate your firearms

On June 4, an embattled Gov. Northam announced a special session of the General Assembly in order to enact a raft of gun control legislation. During his remarks, the governor expressly said that “I will propose many of the same ideas that we have proposed before… A ban on assault weapons…”

On July 8, Del. Mark H. Levine (D-45) delivered for Northam and pre-filed gun ban bill HB 4021. The legislation garnered 23 cosponsors. That same day Sen. Adam P Ebbin (D-30) pre-filed the identical SB 4024, which attracted 16 co-sponsors.

The legislation would have banned the importation, manufacture, sale, transfer, and possession of what it termed “assault firearms.” The term was defined to include any semi-automatic centerfire rifle with a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 10 rounds or any semi-automatic centerfire rifle that has the ability to accept a detachable magazine and has one of several enumerated features. These features included, a folding or telescoping stock, a pistol grip, a thumbhole stock, a second handgrip, a bayonet mount, a silencer, a flash suppressor, a muzzle brake, a muzzle compensator, or a threaded barrel. The legislation also would have banned commonly-owned semi-automatic shotguns and centerfire pistols with any one of several prohibiting features.

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[sneakypete]

For those of you who don't understand what is going on,the "trap"  here is the lie they just want to register them,not confiscate them. EVERYBODY understands this is a lie. EVERYONE. The "trap" is he gets enough people to sign up to make it appear the gun-owning public supports this,then a couple of years down the road declare the current law isn't working,and they need to confiscate weapons. They then take the lists that people volunteered to put their names and addresses on and list the weapons they have,and start the confiscation. Any address they go to that has missing weapons that are on the list earns the homeowner an arrest for violating state firearms laws.

As for the people who refused to sign up for it,they become Target Number One by the state BECAUSE THEY OWN ILLEGAL WEAPONS. An illegal weapon is,by that time,ANY weapon the governor declares is illegal,but unregistered weapons makes it a felony.

So,you become a criminal if you register your weapon and then sell or give it away without notifying the authorities of the name and address of who you gave or sold it to,and you automatically become a criminal if you didn't register your guns when the law was enacted.

Registration is merely "Step number 1" in the gun confiscation program.

[Smokin Joe]

For those of you who don't understand what is going on,the "trap"  here is the lie they just want to register them,not confiscate them. EVERYBODY understands this is a lie. EVERYONE. The "trap" is he gets enough people to sign up to make it appear the gun-owning public supports this,then a couple of years down the road declare the current law isn't working,and they need to confiscate weapons. They then take the lists that people volunteered to put their names and addresses on and list the weapons they have,and start the confiscation. Any address they go to that has missing weapons that are on the list earns the homeowner an arrest for violating state firearms laws.

As for the people who refused to sign up for it,they become Target Number One by the state BECAUSE THEY OWN ILLEGAL WEAPONS. An illegal weapon is,by that time,ANY weapon the governor declares is illegal,but unregistered weapons makes it a felony.

So,you become a criminal if you register your weapon and then sell or give it away without notifying the authorities of the name and address of who you gave or sold it to,and you automatically become a criminal if you didn't register your guns when the law was enacted.

Registration is merely "Step number 1" in the gun confiscation program.

Roberti-Roos in California https://www.level-headed.net/2013/05/gun-confiscation-in-america/

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[sneakypete]

Roberti-Roos in California https://www.level-headed.net/2013/05/gun-confiscation-in-america/

scroll down for more info at link.

@Smokin Joe

No discussion on this subject is complete that doesn't mention the first (the first I know of,anyhow) firearms confiscation bill. It was passed in Hawaii shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese. Seems like there were a lot of Americans in Hawaii that looked "suspiciously Japanese",so "confiscating guns helps the war effort!"

Being non-racist due to many of them having Asian ancestors,the goobermint in Hawaii decided to confiscate ALL guns of all types in the possession of residents,and given they had mandatory registration in effect before the war,the cops knew just what homes to go to.

That's bad enough. What tops this story off is NONE of these guns were returned to the owners after the war ended. AFAIK,to this very day this remains true,despite the fact the promise was to hold them until the end of the war,and then return them to their rightful owners.

In short,by the time the war ended in 1945,every one of those confiscated weapons had been stolen by cops or someone else in government,and most likely sold.