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May 14, 2013 19:23:50 #
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1) Possession of an unlicensed gun should never be considered a felony or illegal. Such a law could be interpreted as a violation of the 2nd amendment. A person having a gun should never have to provide evidence of how they obtained it. Guns may be handed down in the family, willed to another person, or otherwise traded without law enforcement being involved as long as the volume of such trades does not exceed a reasonable number of t***sactions and a reasonable number of guns per t***saction. Law enforcement should only be involved when it is clear that a person is selling firearms or wishes to obtain a license to do so.
2) Conduct of a background check for any person to buy a firearm from a dealer, should be at the discretion of law enforcement. A reasonable waiting period of time (not to exceed two weeks) should be given for law enforcement to conduct wh**ever type of checks it wishes to conduct. If the background check results in a decision on the part of law enforcement to deny the person the right to purchase the firearm, law enforcement must provide complete information on the reason for the denial and a copy of all evidence used to reach this conclusion. The buyer may then appeal the decision and if stilled denied may demand their right to be heard in a court of law.
3) If a firearm is determined to be illegal for wh**ever reason, the owner must surrender the firearm. There should be no penalty under law for having an illegal firearm. Penalties may be awarded by a court of law for failure to surrender the illegal weapon. If the illegal weapon is legal in any other jurisdiction of these United States, and the violation was simply a matter of t***sport of the weapon to a jurisdiction where it was illegal and failure to surrender the weapon after due notice was simply due to the desire on the part of the owner to return the firearm to a jurisdiction where it is legal, then the jurisdiction that has declared that it was illegal and desired confiscate the weapon, may issue a warning, such that if said weapon is ever returned to the illegal jurisdiction, the weapon may then be seized.
4) Any weapon used in the conduct of a felony may be seized and the disposition thereof be dealt with in a court of law.
5) If law enforcement believes as the result of a background check, or as the result of unsafe conduct, of any gun owner that said owner should not be permitted to own firearms within that jurisdiction, they may request that the gun owner surrender the firearm and await trial in a court of law as to the disposition of the firearm.
6) All firearms that have received a final disposition in a court of law that law enforcement may confiscate them become the property of the state and my be disposed of by the state in any manner it sees fit, including the sale to gun dealers.
7) A gun owner may voluntarily register a firearm at any time, but need not do so at no penalty to the owner.
8) The state may require registration of a firearm in order for a gun owner to use that firearm at a state facility such as the right of the state to require all gun owners to only use registered firearms when hunting on state lands.
There is a lot more that could be said here. Firearm registration is a difficult subject and should be approached with all cautions so as to ensure that ordinary citizens with firearms do not fall victim of over zealous law enforcement efforts or suffer any penalties for weapons currently owned. Waco is a good example of what we want to protect against.
If a jurisdiction wishes to ensure that all weapons owned in that jurisdiction are registered, it need only make it illegal to t***sport an unregistered firearm off of private property, but there should be no penalty for the first time that the unregistered weapon is discovered. Instead, the weapons should simply be registered by law enforcement upon discovery.
Changes in laws can make a legal weapon suddenly become illegal. Grace periods are crap. Discovery of the illegal weapon by law enforcement should initiate a process to confiscate the weapon or otherwise modify it to bring it into compliance. Discovery itself should not result in penalization. Only willful non-compliance should be penalized. Penalties should never be administratively imposed by law enforcement and should only come as a result of court action.
2) Conduct of a background check for any person to buy a firearm from a dealer, should be at the discretion of law enforcement. A reasonable waiting period of time (not to exceed two weeks) should be given for law enforcement to conduct wh**ever type of checks it wishes to conduct. If the background check results in a decision on the part of law enforcement to deny the person the right to purchase the firearm, law enforcement must provide complete information on the reason for the denial and a copy of all evidence used to reach this conclusion. The buyer may then appeal the decision and if stilled denied may demand their right to be heard in a court of law.
3) If a firearm is determined to be illegal for wh**ever reason, the owner must surrender the firearm. There should be no penalty under law for having an illegal firearm. Penalties may be awarded by a court of law for failure to surrender the illegal weapon. If the illegal weapon is legal in any other jurisdiction of these United States, and the violation was simply a matter of t***sport of the weapon to a jurisdiction where it was illegal and failure to surrender the weapon after due notice was simply due to the desire on the part of the owner to return the firearm to a jurisdiction where it is legal, then the jurisdiction that has declared that it was illegal and desired confiscate the weapon, may issue a warning, such that if said weapon is ever returned to the illegal jurisdiction, the weapon may then be seized.
4) Any weapon used in the conduct of a felony may be seized and the disposition thereof be dealt with in a court of law.
5) If law enforcement believes as the result of a background check, or as the result of unsafe conduct, of any gun owner that said owner should not be permitted to own firearms within that jurisdiction, they may request that the gun owner surrender the firearm and await trial in a court of law as to the disposition of the firearm.
6) All firearms that have received a final disposition in a court of law that law enforcement may confiscate them become the property of the state and my be disposed of by the state in any manner it sees fit, including the sale to gun dealers.
7) A gun owner may voluntarily register a firearm at any time, but need not do so at no penalty to the owner.
8) The state may require registration of a firearm in order for a gun owner to use that firearm at a state facility such as the right of the state to require all gun owners to only use registered firearms when hunting on state lands.
There is a lot more that could be said here. Firearm registration is a difficult subject and should be approached with all cautions so as to ensure that ordinary citizens with firearms do not fall victim of over zealous law enforcement efforts or suffer any penalties for weapons currently owned. Waco is a good example of what we want to protect against.
If a jurisdiction wishes to ensure that all weapons owned in that jurisdiction are registered, it need only make it illegal to t***sport an unregistered firearm off of private property, but there should be no penalty for the first time that the unregistered weapon is discovered. Instead, the weapons should simply be registered by law enforcement upon discovery.
Changes in laws can make a legal weapon suddenly become illegal. Grace periods are crap. Discovery of the illegal weapon by law enforcement should initiate a process to confiscate the weapon or otherwise modify it to bring it into compliance. Discovery itself should not result in penalization. Only willful non-compliance should be penalized. Penalties should never be administratively imposed by law enforcement and should only come as a result of court action.
May 14, 2013 18:14:08 #
I served in the Military as an officer for 17 years. During the Reagan Administration, I served as the Information Architect in a Black Operation dealing with what US News and World Report called the National Program Office or Continuity of Government Program. As a result, I became very interested in national government and politics. I remained a Republican until George Bush took office after which I became so disgusted with the GOP that I switched to the Democrat Party and worked in support of Obama in both his first e******n and his re-e******n as President. I believe we should trust in God to do what needs to be done and that those who pretend to speak for him should just shut up. I offer my own opinions many of which may seem conservative and many of which may seem liberal. Regardless of what you may think they are, they are my opinions and not necessarily aligned with what the majority of people think or what is politically correct.
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