Gun Registration

[depusm12]

right but my understanding of that is no record is kept of that check. Is this not right?

"In cases where the NICS background check does not locate a disqualifying record, information about the individual will only be retained temporarily for audit purposes and will be destroyed after eighteen months. The system will not contain any details about the type of firearm which is the subject of the proposed transfer (other than the fact that it is a handgun or a long gun) or whether a sale or transfer of a firearm has actually taken place.)"

The last infomation I heard was they (the FBI) are keeping records of weapons sales in violation of the law. IIRC it was in a article from the NRA.

 

[Semper Fi]

The idea of owning a gun to protect yourself from the government is relatively scattered save for extreme survivalists like at Ruby Ridge.

"Extreme survivalists"....our government shot and killed a 14 year old boy and his mother! Hardly what I would call extreme survivalists. All because of a trumped up minor weapons charge on Randy Weaver. Rhetoric such as this is used at the beginning of the demonization process which the government must do each time it destroys an individual or class of individuals.

Since the government is "all powerful" why not just give up up our guns? NEVER! "From my cold dead hands" to quote Charleton Heston.

 

[depusm12]

The FBI has been ordered to comply with the law. Those NCIC checks should be gone.[/QUOTE

I read an article IIRC from the NRA which stated the FBI was keeping the records of NCIC checks in defiance of the law. Longer than the 18 months allowed by law.

James

 

[munk]

The last I heard of this was that the records were being allowed to stay for a few months, but then were destroyed.

The last time an agency defied Congress in this manner their budget was cut to the tune of the time and expense of their defiant actions. That happened to the BATF and it was only recently the monies were restored.



munk

 

[hollowdweller]

The last I heard of this was that the records were being allowed to stay for a few months, but then were destroyed.

The last time an agency defied Congress in this manner their budget was cut to the tune of the time and expense of their defiant actions. That happened to the BATF and it was only recently the monies were restored.



munk

That's what I thought.

They need to just go back to their offices and:jerkit: (couldn't resist using that emoticon:thumbup:

 

[Fiddleback]

I was thinking that too a while back, but after doing a little math and totaling up all the people in the armed forces and federal law enforcement my estimate was only about 800,000 armed federal employees. Assuming they all went along with some federal program to turn us into subjects, they would still be outnumbered by armed citizens 20 or 30 to one, and this would vary by location. Some places they would be looking at Custer-type odds.

So, the old rationale may still apply, and that could be why registration/control/confiscation is such a big issue for some of our "elected employees."

Many Many of them would desert their posts rather than use these weapons against a mass uprising. Which is what is protected. The ability for Americans to say "enough is enough." Many of these soldiers would turn those weapons on the "oppressive regime." AND, and this is no small and, the dirty grass roots militias of this nation have defeated the most powerful government on earth before!!!!!!!!!!! And we dayumed well could do it again for all our own resources and technology. That is what being an American means. And, as you said in the beginning of this post, no offense, but that's not the situation in Canada!