It's Not Hard to Figure Out Why Bernie Sanders Is Now 'Mr. Confiscation' On Gun Policy

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It's Not Hard to Figure Out Why Bernie Sanders Is Now 'Mr. Confiscation' On Gun Policy
Matt Vespa

Posted: Feb 19, 2020 12:30 PM

Sen. Bernie Sanders caucuses with a party that is anti-gun. We all know this. The Democratic Party is for gun confiscation. They’re for destroying Second Amendment freedoms. They’re for shredding the Constitution. For years, Sanders remained in line with his constituents. Vermont is a heavily armed state. It’s constitutional carry and for all you anti-gunners who don’t know what that is, it’s what should be a national law. It simply states you don’t need a permit to conceal or open carry. Yes, Vermont, in deep-blue New England, has such a law on the books, along with a gun ownership rate that hovers around 70-75 percent. If you enter a Vermont resident’s home, there’s a high chance that they own a gun. One of Sanders' most criticized votes is his vote to protect this freedom from endless litigation.

In 2005, the Bush White House signed into law one of the most pro-gun bills in recent memory, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which barred frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers. If Democrats and anti-gun liberals couldn’t confiscate all the guns, they were going after the makers of them through endless lawsuits from victims’ families. The law simply states that no lawsuit can be filed against gun manufacturers whose products are unknowingly and unwillingly used in crimes. The push to sue the Second Amendment out of existence was topped. Sanders voted “yes” on the bill. You bet, in 2016, that this was brought up by the Hillary Clinton campaign—and media outlets reported on his 2005 vote as well (via Mother Jones):

    In October 2005, Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), granting sweeping legal immunity to the gun industry. Gun manufacturers who lobbied for the bill warned that suits like New York’s were a scheme hatched by activist lawyers and judges to bankrupt the gun industry. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), named the New York case on the Senate floor as an example “of the predatory lawsuits” that the PLCAA aimed “to provide for the dismissal of.”

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     More than a decade after its passage, the PLCAA is at the center of a fierce debate over gun control between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. As a senator from New York in 2005, Clinton voted against the PLCAA; Sanders, then in the House of Representatives, voted for it, as he had done for an earlier iteration of the measure that failed in 2003. Recently, Clinton has accused Sanders of bowing to the National Rifle Association on this key piece of legislation. Sanders, who hails from a rural state with lax gun laws, has defended his vote as a way to protect the “small mom-and-pop gun shop” in Vermont from frivolous lawsuits.

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It's Not Hard to Figure Out Why Bernie Sanders Is Now 'Mr. Confiscation' On Gun Policy

Sanders holds the same position as his mentor, Vladimir Lenin.

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Sanders is Mr. Confiscation about most things. Land, IRAs, Savings Accounts over a certain amount, Paychecks over some arbitrary amount, Capital gains from investments, Farms, Factories, Banks, All media outlets, etc.

Guns are just one thing on a list of dozens of things that Commie Bernie believes should be State property. His policies are modeled on the old failed Soviet Union, word for word, and step by step.