VCDL begins "The Dangers of Universal Background Checks"

[OakRidgeStars]

VA-ALERT: VCDL begins "The Dangers of Universal Background Checks" campaign

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UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS - A LONG TERM THREAT TO OUR LIBERTY

Gun-grabbers are pushing hard to get what they call “Universal Background Check” (UBC) legislation passed at the state level. They have recently been successful in Washington State and Oregon.

Universal Background Checks (UBC) are where all gun sales, including private sales, must be run through a government background-check system.

While that seems innocent enough, it isn’t.

You will no longer be able to sell a gun at will to a relative, friend, or acquaintance in your living room, a parking lot, or anywhere else, except in a gun dealer’s business location during normal business hours, after you pay a fee and fill out paperwork. Oh, and a gun dealer can choose not to handle private sales at all!

In Washington State, under their new UBC law, a gun owner can’t loan someone a gun at a range without both persons going through a background check!

UBC legislation poses a very real threat to our right to keep and bear arms and, ultimately, to our liberty itself. Your ability to sell your guns will become cumbersome and more expensive. Worse, UBC laws will lead to gun registration schemes as a means of enforcement, home “compliance inspections” to ensure that those registration schemes have been followed, and, finally, confiscation (which has already occurred in other states).

The antis couch UBC laws as being "common sense” and as closing a “loophole used by criminals to get guns." Those who take that on face value and who don’t realize the full implications, including many gun owners, too often agree.

Of course criminals can easily get around any background check by simply stealing them or getting someone else to buy the gun for them (called a straw purchase).

Millions of dollars were poured into advertising in both Washington State and Oregon, by people like Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates (Microsoft owner), to trick the population into supporting UBCs and, sadly, it worked.

(The antis in Washington State, lying as usual, bragged that the overwhelming majority of people in Washington wanted UBC laws. If that was so, why did they waste so many millions of dollars on a vast advertising campaign?)


GUN HATERS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO BRING UBC LAWS TO VIRGINIA FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS OR SO

The good news is:

1. While there have been many UBC bills introduced in the General Assembly, VCDL has been able to soundly defeat all of them so far.

2. SO FAR, no serious money from people like Michael Bloomberg has been used to buy television, radio, and newspaper ads in support of UBC bills in Virginia, as has happened in some other states.

3. Virginia does not have ballot initiatives like Washington State and some other states. Such initiatives allow an anti-gun media coupled with big money interests (Bloomberg, et al) to mislead the populace into overriding the state’s legislators and forcing passage of UBC laws.

The bad news is that Virginia is in the crosshairs and the attacks here will begin in earnest at some point and we need to prepare now if we are to prevail.


THE BEST TIME TO STOP A FIRE IS WHEN IT IS SMALL, NOT WAIT UNTIL YOUR HOUSE IS ENGULFED IN FLAMES

Right now, time is on our side. That is not so for some of our brethren in other states.

VCDL needs YOU to start educating all of your friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, and anybody else you interact with, be they gun owners or not. Do NOT let any comments about UBCs being acceptable stand unchallenged, including statements made in the media.

I am going to ask that our gun show coordinators pass out copies of the flyer, below, at all gun shows to make sure that gun owners, of all people, understand what is at stake.

Working together, NOW, to educate people, will allow us to stand strong and prevail on this issue.

To download the flyer, click here:

https://www.vcdl.org/sites/default/files/UBC_Flyer.pdf



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[WRW]

It never fails to amaze me how millionaires, and now billionaires, are so bent on copping a squat in the very sandbox where their castles are built. More disturbing, to me, is the way their waste is welcomed by those of lesser stature.

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[WVUBeta1904]

Another ploy that will ultimately lead to the eventual confiscation of guns in the end. Same old song-and-dance, different venue.

[MarcSpaz]

I had a debate with a co-worker the other day. He said that both he and his wife have VA CHP's and both carry pistol, but he said the Second Amendment is outdated and should be repealed. He said that there is no reason why anyone should have a rifle for self defense, especially AR's, automatic weapons or suppressors.

I tried to explain that the founders knew we needed arms in the hand of citizens to maintain peace and to keep the power to govern in the hands of the citizens, enabling the people to seize the government back from a tyrant if needed. He completely contested all of that. He even went on to say "You don't have tanks, planes, machine guns or training. There is no way a rebellion would every survive against a modern army. Even talking about it is stupid."

I just about lost my mind. And like most people who say stupid stuff like that, I could not get him to stay on subject. Every time I tried to defend our Second Amendment, explain its need and purpose, he would try to segue the conversation to another argumentative anti-2A direction.

How can you successfully debate a position when someone is totally unwilling to stay on topic and adamantly believe the most, if not, the entire Constitution is outdated?

[wittmeba]

From this link/story:

http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.s ... rcefu.html

When I read the above I feel you could replace words - emails, servers, Benghazi with words of guns, gun safety and confiscation. And yes, it is about politics.

She is using our arguments for anti-gun laws to her benefit to excuse her actions with secret information of emails.

Snip..."They'll try to tell you it's about Benghazi, but it's not," Clinton said, pointing to Republican-led congressional inquiries that she said had "debunked all the conspiracy theories."

"It's not about emails or servers either. It's about politics," she said....

[SHMIV]

@Marc: If the 2A was being properly observed, we WOULD, in fact, have tanks, hand grenades, and any other weapon that is available to the military. It's not that the 2A is outdated, it's that we have allowed our government to infringe upon it.

Your coworker is an idiot. And, judging from his reaction, it seems that he is aware of that fact.

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[WRW]

@Marc: If the 2A was being properly observed, we WOULD, in fact, have tanks, hand grenades, and any other weapon that is available to the military. It's not that the 2A is outdated, it's that we have allowed our government to infringe upon it.

Your coworker is an idiot. And, judging from his reaction, it seems that he is aware of that fact.

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Remember the Liberator pistol. The same principle applies, should it come to that.

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[SHMIV]

Ahh, yes. The Liberator.

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[MarcSpaz]

I'm with you H. It says "Arms". No limit to the type of arms.

And he is an idiot. He's one of those guys that insist you are wrong, no matter what you say, until you provide undeniable proof you are correct, and then argues about though factually correct, you are some how wrong in opinion and/or application of that fact.

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