WHY I THINK ALL ASSAULT WEAPONS WILL BE CONFISCATED

In my previous blog, I wrote that, "' IF THE FEINSTEIN BILL PASSES, THOSE WHO NOW OWN "ASSAULT RIFLES" & CLIPS THAT HOLD MORE THAN 10 ROUNDS WILL HAVE TO TURN THEM IN, NO GRANDFATHERING-IN! THEY WILL BE ILLEGAL TO OWN, PERIOD! I'"

Some have taken me to task on this, saying that the present proposed legislation allows current owners to REGISTER their weapons, pay the fee, and go on with life.
Let me present you with one or two quotes since THE LAST TIME we had a ban on these weapons, and some facts about ADDENDUMS, and how few read entire bills before voting on them. The CURRENT proposed legislation will go through as many CHANGES as the bill-makers deem necessary, and the legalese used in these bills taxes even those schooled in law, those who ACTUALLY READ THEM.  Congressmen, by their own admission, seldom, if ever read those proposed pieces of legislation! The current proposal WILL NOT be what passes Congress, I can guarantee you that.
You think about these and see what you come up with.

<<When the ’94 ban went into effect, everything that had been manufactured to that point was grandfathered in. So if you already owned a firearm covered by the ban or a large capacity magazine, you could keep it, sell it or whatever, but you couldn’t purchase any newly manufactured magazines or guns that were covered by the law. Manufacturers were required to mark newly made weapons and mags as ”For LE/Military use only” or words to that effect.>>

Similar articles, many articles, pointed out the fact that "grandfathered weapons" would be readily available to CRIMINALS.
In the 2004 "Banning Assault Weapons: A Legal Primer (available here: http://smartgunlaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Banning_Assault_Weapons_A_Legal_Primer_8.05_entire.pdf ) we read what ALL gun control advocates think about the 1994 act that ALLOWED grandfathering.

<<Unfortunately, even in the case of firearms as lethal as assault weapons, Congress has not yet established a loophole-free, permanent ban to ensure that these weapons are not available for civilian use.
LCAV ...empowers advocates and governments to pursue effective measures that are legally defensible.
Realizing that the federal ban dealt with just some of the assault weapons being produced or imported-and did nothing about the several million assault weapons already in civilian hands, LCAV has continued to support efforts to strengthen assault weapon bans at the local, state, and federal levels.>>

Now, this little group is but one of thousands out there backed by very big money and very good lawyers who seek to TOTALLY remove over 120 NAMED weapons from civilian hands. That doesn't include, as Feinstein puts it,  the "'Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one or more military characteristics; and semi-automatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds" which Feinstein adds to her pot.
Can you see that this language is already FULL of sweeping generalizations? "Open to INTERPRETATION", as always, this can easily be expanded to anything, or everything some attorney, some judge INTERPRETS as falling into these categories. We've seen every year how "INTERPRETATIONS" of the Constitution and long-held laws have robbed us of previous RIGHTS...seen freedom and privacy go right out the window with the Patriot Act and the NDAA.
Can we honestly and intelligently dare to imagine that the Feinstein bill will be the ONLY one, so far, that will not be subject to new definitions and interpretations by those opposed to gun ownership in America, who want NO guns in homes, period, or that it will glide through both houses of Congress unchanged, unamended, with no NEW 'definitions' riding on it?

Let me ask you...would YOU, if you wanted to remove the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms, openly advertise that's what you mean to do? Would you offer a bill that INITIALLY states that is the goal? If you've tracked Congressional bills AT ALL, surely you've seen how some start out as 'harmless', as "good for the people", go through several 'committees', several 'revisions', an addendum here, another one there, and come out looking like monstrosities that, SURPRISE!, have robbed us of rights, of privacy, of prosperity, of even our right to legal defense in some instances, should we be declared "enemies of the state/potential terrorists". If you track bills you HAVE seen that quite often! TOO LATE, when they're already passed by Congress and signed by the Prez, do we see what's gone on! TOO LATE we read what's happened to us while we were NOT reading bills and NOT forcing our Congress to read the entire bill and make crystal clear what's IN those bills BEFORE they vote on them!

Let me ask you something else: Have you ever wondered WHY it became mandatory for us to REGISTER firearms? CRIMINALS NEVER REGISTER THEIRS! The Congress surely knows that criminals will NEVER comply with ANY laws, right? So why are LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS
required to register guns? There can be but ONE logical answer...so that our government knows where OUR guns are, who among us has such weapons,  so they can keep track of how many of us are armed...and therefore DANGEROUS.
You don't think John Q. and Jane Citizen are considered "potential terrorists" because they are armed, because they support the Constitutional right to be armed? Then you haven't read this:
"Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970 to 2008"

(find it here: http://start.umd.edu/start/publications/research_briefs/LaFree_Bersani_HotSpotsOfUSTerrorism.pdf )
Several websites went a bit ballistic on what is NOW considered "potential terrorists", but I liked the brevity of the one done by The Blaze, so here's the link to that article:  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/homeland-security-funded-study-lists-people-reverent-of-individual-liberty-as-extreme-right-wing-terrorists/

<<Are you “reverent of individual liberty”? Are you “suspicious of centralized federal authority?” Do you think there is a “grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty?”
Well, then you fall into the category of “extreme right-wing” terrorist, according to a new study out of the University of Maryland, which was funded in part by the Department of Homeland Security. The study...was conducted by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the university. The organization has received roughly $12 million from DHS and is set to get another $3.6 million in future funding. It is also listed as one of DHS’s “Centers for Excellence” on the agency’s website.
The study says right-wing extremists are “groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent.”
Further, right-wing extremist groups “believe in the need to be prepared” by taking part in “paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism.” Groups may also be “fiercely nationalistic” and “suspicious of centralized federal authority.”
Other terrorist groups include “entho-nationalist/separatists” (think New Black Panther Party) and “single issue” organizations, such as “anti-abortion” advocates.
Further, taking a look at the START dataset’s codebook, (click on that for the link tohttp://www.scribd.com/doc/96751145/Profiles-of-Perpetrators-of-Terrorism-in-the-United-States-Codebook) two subgroups of “right-wing extremism” were identified as “gun rights” and “tax protest,” according to PJ Media.>>

BUT WAIT, THERE'S WORSE!
A Department of Justice-funded TRAINING MANUAL, entitled 'Terrorism Training For Law Enforcement' and  marked “law enforcement sensitive” tells all law enforcement agencies what to be on the lookout for...and YOU are most likely on THAT list!

Under the category of “Special-Interest/Single Issue Terrorism,” it characterizes people who hold political opinions that “represent a fairly popular point of view” as terrorists. Anti-abortion activists are also listed as terrorists under this category.

It also lists people who are “anti-genetic engineering” as terrorists. Presumably, that includes people who are concerned about a new study which found that rats fed with genetically-engineered Monsanto corn suffered premature deaths.

Apparently, the Department of Justice considers Americans who have a good grasp of the Bill of Rights, are concerned about the food they eat, those who politically oppose the United Nations, and even those who hold “fairly popular” opinions, to be likely terrorists. Perhaps the DOJ is drawing inspiration from the Department of Defense (DoD), who in 2009 characterized the First Amendment right to protest as “low level terrorism”.

These documents are by no means the only instance in which displaying political bumper stickers has been characterized as a suspicious and potentially terrorist activity by the federal government.

 Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display bumper stickers of same, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag, are labeled as potential terrorists. The DoD, in its Anti-terrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course,  advises personnel that political protest amounts to “low-level terrorism”.
ARE YOU GETTING THIS?
Download your own copy of the training manual, read it !
http://publicintelligence.net/slatt-terrorism-training/

Can you grasp what this is all leading to? Our own Departments of Justice and Defense, our own Homeland Security forces see the above-named as POTENTIAL TERRORISTS! They are all agreed on this!
Will any of those departments, or even law enforcement, want to see such DANGEROUS civilians ARMED, armed AT ALL?
Will our brain-dead Congress even bother to read the bill BEFORE they vote?
“No one — not one single member of Congress — has read the (stimulus) bill that Democratic leadership is bringing up for a vote today,” Michael Steel, said in an e-mailed statement. “We expect it may take a while, but members of Congress, and — more importantly — the American people have a right to know what the House is voting on.”
BUT THEY DON'T READ!
It is typical for Congress members to carelessly pass mammoth bills that none of them have read. Sometimes printed copies aren't even available when they vote. Also members of Congress typically do not even write the laws they pass. Most laws are written either by special interest lobbyists or by bureaucrats. And they routinely pass unpopular measures by combining them with popular bills that are completely unrelated.

• Often no one knows what these bills contain, or what they really do, or what they will really cost.
• Additions and deletions are made at the last minute, in secrecy.
• They combine unpopular proposals with popular measures that few in Congress want to oppose. (This practice is called “log-rolling.”)
• And votes are held with little debate or public notice.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

Now the NRA has listed what it calls a summary of the proposed bill, and if you read it carefully, this alone should raise the hackles on your neck:

Bans the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacturing of:
        120 specifically-named firearms;
        Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one or more military characteristics; and
        Semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds.
    Strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and various state bans by:
        Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test;
        Eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test; and
        Banning firearms with “thumbhole stocks” and “bullet buttons” to address attempts to “work around” prior bans.
    Bans large-capacity ammunition feeding devices capable of accepting more than 10 rounds.
    Protects legitimate hunters and the rights of existing gun owners by:
        Grandfathering weapons legally possessed on the date of enactment;
        Exempting over 900 specifically-named weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes; and
        Exempting antique, manually-operated, and permanently disabled weapons.
    Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include:
        Background check of owner and any transferee;
        Type and serial number of the firearm;
        Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;
        Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and
        Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration.

I'm no lawyer, but even I see a lot of loopholes in this "summary", and those loopholes will be filled by things we may not like to think about, but we must!

SO, GIVEN THAT SO MANY, MANY GUN OPPONENTS, FINANCED BY SOME VERY RICH PEOPLE, POPULATED BY VERY GOOD LAWYERS, HAVE FOR DECADES TRIED TO FIND A WAY TO "'establish a loophole-free, permanent ban to ensure that these weapons are not available for civilian use", AND GIVEN THAT EMOTIONS ARE RUNNING RAMPANT AFTER THIS LATEST SHOOTING, AND GIVEN THAT CONGRESS JUST DOESN'T READ THE BILLS, AND GIVEN FEINSTEIN'S RABID DEDICATION TO A SWEEPING GUN BAN, LET US ADD THAT OBAMA IS SERVING HIS LAST 4 YEARS, AND THAT THE ATTITUDE OF MOST, IF NOT ALL, 2ND TERM PRESIDENTS IS "ALL AHEAD FULL AND DAMN THE TORPEDOES!", SO THAT ANYTHING HE CAN DO TO CARRY OUT HIS OWN PERSONAL AGENDA AGAINST GUN-OWNERSHIP IS ONLY GOING TO BE "GRAVY" FOR HIM, I STAND BY MY REMARK THAT WE WILL MOST LIKELY SEE PEOPLE WHO CURRENTLY OWN "ASSAULT WEAPONS" BE REQUIRED TO TURN THEM IN, NOT JUST REGISTER THEM.  WHO WANTS TO REGISTER WEAPONS THAT WILL MAKE CERTAIN ALL WHO OWN THEM ARE  ADDED TO A TERRORIST WATCH LIST BY LAW ENFORCEMENT ANYWAY, EH?
IF THE FEINSTEIN GUN BAN DOESN'T EVENTUALLY TURN INTO A TOTAL ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN, WE'LL MEET BACK HERE AND I'LL EAT CROW.
CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE, OR ANYTHING ELSE...BUT CALL YOUR FOOLS UP ON THE HILL AND TELL THEM NOT TO VOTE FOR THIS ABOMINATION! GO SEE THEM IN PERSON, ALL WHO CAN! RAISE YOUR VOICES! STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES, FOR ALL WHO KNOW THAT OUR CONSTITUTION DOES INDEED GIVE US A RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS, AND THAT WHATEVER ARMS WE HAVE NOW MUST BE ALLOWED TO STAY IN OUR POSSESSION, AND CONTINUE TO BE MANUFACTURED AND SOLD IN AMERICA.
CRIMINALS NEVER OBEY LAWS! WE DO! BUT WHEN A LAW THREATENS OUR FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS, IT IS MANDATORY THAT WE EXERCISE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, THAT WE , AS THE ELECTORS OF OUR CONGRESS DEMAND THEY HEAR AND OBEY THE VOICES OF WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES!