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| − | '''Ammunition control''' is [[progressive]] [[police state]] [[gun control|gun grabbing]] [[legislation]] that seeks to track, [[surveillance|monitor]] and [[gun control|control]] the [[private property|ownership]] and use of [[firearm]]s by [[law]]-abiding peaceable [[citizen]]s by requiring mandatory tracking and monitoring of [[ammunition]] sales by both the [[retail]]er and the [[Department of Justice]] in centralized databases. | + | '''Ammunition control''' is [[progressive]] [[police state]] gun grabbing [[legislation]] that seeks to track, [[surveillance|monitor]] and control the [[private property|ownership]] and use of [[firearm]]s by [[law]]-abiding peaceable [[citizen]]s by requiring mandatory tracking and monitoring of [[ammunition]] sales by both the [[retail]]er and the [[Department of Justice]] in centralized databases. |
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| | ==Conservative Veterans, Patriots, Gun Enthusiasts and Preppers See Police State Behaviors== | | ==Conservative Veterans, Patriots, Gun Enthusiasts and Preppers See Police State Behaviors== |
| − | Many [[Conservative]] [[veteran]]s, [[American]] [[Oath Keepers|Oath Keeper]] [[Patriot]]s, [[gun enthusiast]]s and [[:Category:Survivalists|preppers]] see the ammunition control and [[gun control]] in general as [[tyranny|tyrannical]] [[police state]] behaviors. | + | Many [[Conservative]] [[veteran]]s, [[American]] [[Oath Keepers|Oath Keeper]] [[Patriot]]s, [[gun enthusiast]]s and [[:Category:Survivalists|preppers]] see the ammunition control and [[gun control]] in general as [[tyranny|tyrannical]] police state behaviors. |
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| | Ammunition control, at least as it was attempted both in 2010 and again in 2014 by [[Left Coast]] [[California]] [[Democrat]]s, would: | | Ammunition control, at least as it was attempted both in 2010 and again in 2014 by [[Left Coast]] [[California]] [[Democrat]]s, would: |
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| | * Ban all loaning or gifting of ammunition to a friend, colleague or family member, even in an emergency such as [[home security]] for [[self-defense]] during an active [[shooting|shooter]] [[home invasion]]. | | * Ban all loaning or gifting of ammunition to a friend, colleague or family member, even in an emergency such as [[home security]] for [[self-defense]] during an active [[shooting|shooter]] [[home invasion]]. |
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| − | * Ban [[handloading]] of ammunition by [[gun enthusiasts]] and law abiding [[citizen]]s in general. | + | * Ban [[handloading]] of ammunition by gun enthusiasts and law abiding [[citizen]]s in general. |
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| | * Require an ammunition purchase [[license]] with mandatory background check for each purchase creating a large new police state [[bureaucracy]] including greatly slow down purchases at retailers, many of whom would simple stop selling ammunition. | | * Require an ammunition purchase [[license]] with mandatory background check for each purchase creating a large new police state [[bureaucracy]] including greatly slow down purchases at retailers, many of whom would simple stop selling ammunition. |
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| − | * Ban all [[internet]]-based sales of ammunition by online retailers such as [[Cheaper Than Dirt]]. Interestingly, the Democrats re-added this provision to the 2014 ammunition control bill even though it was declared [[unconstitutional]] by the California [[Supreme Court]]. This would have cost the taxpayers and the [[NRA]], [[Gun Owners of California]] and the [[Second Amendment Foundation]] a lot of money re-defending this issue in the court system. | + | * Ban all [[internet]]-based sales of ammunition by online retailers such as [[Cheaper Than Dirt]]. Interestingly, the Democrats re-added this provision to the 2014 ammunition control bill even though it was declared [[unconstitutional]] by the California [[Supreme Court]]. This would have cost the taxpayers and the [[NRA]], [[Gun Owners of America]] and the [[Second Amendment Foundation]] a lot of money re-defending this issue in the court system. |
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| − | Despite passing almost unanimously in the [[left-wing]] [[Democrat]] controlled California State [[Legislature]], it was surprisingly vetoed by [[elitist]] [[liberal]] [[gun enthusiast|gun collector]] [[Governor]] [[Jerry Brown]] in 2014. Governor Brown has a long history of voting for, supporting, and as governor in the 1970s and 21st century, signing gun control legislation despite himself being a gun collector. Governor Brown said on his veto that ammunition control would do little to stop crime.
| + | If ammunition control had passed in California, as it did in the gun-grabbing, high crime, liberal bastion of [[Chicago]], California would have been the first state to pass such draconian law. It wouldn't have been long before the other most of the current 16 unfree states (such as [[Massachusetts]], [[New York]], [[New Jersey]], [[Illinois]], [[Maryland]] and [[Colorado]]) tend to follow the trend-setting California when it comes to liberal [[nanny state]] legislation. |
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| − | The ammunition control bill was originally sponsored by [[gun control|gun grabbing]] [[Leeland Yee]], the [[corruption|corrupt]] leftist Asian-American [[San Francisco values|San Francisco]] state [[senator]] who is now in [[prison]] for being involved with bribery and gun running of [[assault rifle]]s with [[Chinese]] [[gang]]s. Yee had strongly supported the banning of so-called [[assault weapon]]s including the [[bullet button]] on [[AR-15]]s and [[AK-47]]s. | + | Despite passing almost unanimously in the [[left-wing]] [[Democrat]] controlled California State [[Legislature]], it was surprisingly vetoed by [[elitist]] [[liberal]] gun collector [[Governor]] [[Jerry Brown]] in 2014. Governor Brown has a long history of voting for, supporting, and as governor in the 1970s and 21st century, signing gun control legislation despite himself being a gun collector. Governor Brown said on his veto that ammunition control would do little to stop crime. |
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| | + | The ammunition control bill was originally sponsored by gun grabbing [[Leland Yee]],<ref>[https://hotair.com/archives/2014/03/27/we-hardly-knew-yee We hardly knew Yee], Accessed January 14, 2015</ref> the [[corruption|corrupt]] leftist Asian-American [[San Francisco values|San Francisco]] state [[senator]] who is now in [[prison]] for being involved with bribery, drug trafficking and gun running of [[assault rifle]]s with [[Chinese]] [[gang]]s.<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/2014/03/27/we-hardly-knew-yee Accessed March 28, 2014</ref> Yee had sponsored and strongly supported legislation banning ''all'' [[semi-automatic]] [[rifle]]s (leaving only [[bolt-action]] [[hunting]] rifles left for [[home defense]]) especially the [[AR-15]] and even the diminutive [[Ruger 10/22]]. When that failed he and most California Democrat legislators attempted to reinstate the 1994 to 2004 [[Clinton Administration]] so-called [[Assault weapons ban]]. When that failed Lee attempted to ban the [[bullet button]] on [[AR-15]]s and [[AK-47]]s. |
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| | ==Criminals by Nature Never Follow Laws== | | ==Criminals by Nature Never Follow Laws== |
| − | Ammunition control, gun control and [[gun free zone]]s have always been absurd [[left wing]] "[[unicorn]] [[utopia]]" [[pollyanna]] [[fantasy|fantasies]] of the [[:Essay:Anti-self-defense movement|Anti-self-defense movement]], for the simple reason that [[criminal]]s by their nature ''never'' follow laws. | + | Ammunition control, gun control and [[gun free zone]]s have always been absurd [[left wing]] "[[unicorn]] [[utopia]]" [[wishful thinking]] [[pollyanna]] [[fantasy|fantasies]] of the [[:Essay:Anti-self-defense movement|Anti-self-defense movement]], for the simple reason that [[criminal]]s by their nature ''never'' follow laws. |
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| − | A huge campaign of [[propaganda|disinformation]] on guns is pushed daily on our TVs and Internet devices. It has nothing to do with [[:Category:Safety|public safety]] or preventing [[young mass murderers|mass shootings]] of innocent people. No law against "guns and ammo" would have stopped the [[evil]] [[Muslim]] [[Jidadist|jihad]] [[terrorist]]s murder 12 people at the [[gun free zone]] in [[Paris]] at [[Charlie Hebdo]] or [[Adam Lanza]] at [[Sandy Hook]] Elementary school – [[violence|violent]] [[crime|criminal]]s will always break laws and be violent with all kinds of devices – they don't need guns (as evidenced by the high amount of knife crime and knife murders in "gun free" [[United Kingdom]] and [[Australia]]). | + | A huge campaign of [[propaganda|disinformation]] on guns is pushed daily on our TVs and Internet devices. It has nothing to do with [[:Category:Safety|public safety]] or preventing [[young mass murderers|mass shootings]] of innocent people. No law against "guns and ammo" would have stopped the [[evil]] [[Islam]]ic [[Jidadist|jihad]] [[terrorist]]s from murdering 12 people at the [[gun free zone]] in [[Paris]] at ''[[Charlie Hebdo]]'' or [[Adam Lanza]] at [[Sandy Hook]] Elementary school – [[violence|violent]] [[crime|criminal]]s will always break laws and be violent with all kinds of devices – they don't need guns (as evidenced by the high amount of knife crime and knife murders in "gun free" [[United Kingdom]] and [[Australia]]). |
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| − | [[Thomas Jefferson]] said, "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are [[citizen|neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes]]... Such laws make things worse for the [[victim|assaulted]] and better for the [[criminal|assailants]]; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent [[murder|homicides]], for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” | + | [[Thomas Jefferson]] said, "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are [[citizen|neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes]]... Such laws make things worse for the [[victim|assaulted]] and better for the [[criminal|assailants]]; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent [[murder|homicides]], for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." |
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| | If we truly wish to increase public safety, then we should make laws whereby immediate [[self-defense|armed responses]] by good civilians are allowed and encouraged – now that will save our children and stop these senseless massacres by madmen. President [[James Monroe]] said on November 16, 1818, "The right of [[self-defense]] never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals." | | If we truly wish to increase public safety, then we should make laws whereby immediate [[self-defense|armed responses]] by good civilians are allowed and encouraged – now that will save our children and stop these senseless massacres by madmen. President [[James Monroe]] said on November 16, 1818, "The right of [[self-defense]] never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals." |
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| | Jefferson said, "The [[constitution]]s of most of our [[State]]s assert that all power is inherent in the [[citizen|people]]; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed;..." (Thomas Jefferson letter to Justice John Cartwright of the [[Supreme Court]], June 5, 1824. 1824. ME 16:45). | | Jefferson said, "The [[constitution]]s of most of our [[State]]s assert that all power is inherent in the [[citizen|people]]; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed;..." (Thomas Jefferson letter to Justice John Cartwright of the [[Supreme Court]], June 5, 1824. 1824. ME 16:45). |
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| − | No, this [[progressive]] [[police state]] "[[gun control|gun grabbing]]" movement is more ominous in nature, and it ties into an alarming political change in the United States – the exact kind our wise [[Founding Fathers]] worried about. "To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to [[slave|enslave]] them…" ([[George Mason]], 3 Elliot, Debates at 380, June 14, 1788) | + | No, this [[progressive]] police state "gun grabbing" movement is more [[Communism|ominous]] in nature, and it ties into an alarming political change in the United States – the exact kind our wise [[Founding Fathers]] worried about. "To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to [[slavery|enslave]] them…" ([[George Mason]], 3 Elliot, Debates at 380, June 14, 1788) |
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| | ==Unfree States Attempting Ammunition Control== | | ==Unfree States Attempting Ammunition Control== |
| − | In 2008 there were 18 [[unfree states]] seeking to impose some form of '''ammunition control''' over lawful owners and users of guns:<ref>http://ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm</ref> | + | In 2008 there were 18 unfree states seeking to impose some form of '''ammunition control''' over lawful owners and users of guns:<ref>http://ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm</ref> |
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| | *[[Alabama]] | | *[[Alabama]] |
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| | *[[South Carolina]] | | *[[South Carolina]] |
| | *[[Tennessee]] | | *[[Tennessee]] |
| − | *[[Washington]]. | + | *[[Washington]] |
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| − | ==See Also==
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| − | * [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]] as [[Gun control]] agent
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| − | * [[Second Amendment|Second Amendment Defenders]]: [[National Rifle Association]], [[Gun Owners of America]], [[Second Amendment Foundation]]
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| − | * [[MSSA v. Holder]]: [[Montana]] and [[Second Amendment Foundation]] versus [[Eric Holder]] over [[intrastate]] [[ammunition]] commerce
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| − | ==Bibliography - Further Reading==
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| − | * [[Boston T. Party|Party, Boston T.]], [[Boston's Gun Bible]]. [[Wyoming]] [[American Redoubt]] [[Javelin Press]], 2008. Contains several chapters related to [[gun control]] and ammunition control
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| − | * [[Boston T. Party|Party, Boston T.]], [[Molon Labe!]]. [[Wyoming]] [[American Redoubt]] [[Javelin Press]], 30 January 2004, 454 pp (first edition, paperback), ISBN 1-888766-07-7 - Conservative [[Christian]] [[Libertarian]] [[dystopian]] fiction novel entirely based around the issue of [[States' rights]] and the [[Tenth Amendment]]'s connection with the [[Second Amendment]] right to [[firearms|armed]] [[citizen]] defense against federal [[tyranny]]. Contains several chapters related to the gun control and ammunition control.
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