Fairfax, VA -(AmmoLand.com)- On January 19, anti-gun advocates collected the required number of signatures for the Bloomberg gun control initiative in the November general election.
Now, the Secretary of State will have to validate those signatures which could take several weeks. If enacted, this initiative would potentially criminalize all currently legal private transfers.
Despite the rhetoric, this radically misguided ballot initiative will not reduce crime. As seen in Oregon and Washington, this initiative is another attempt by former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg, to push his New York City ideas that restrict the freedoms of law-abiding gun owners.
Currently, it is illegal to knowingly sell a firearm to someone who is a prohibited person. Likewise, it is a felony for a prohibited person to buy, own or possess a firearm. However, this initiative seeks to make drastic and unnecessary changes to current laws that will place excessive restrictions on law-abiding citizens rather than addressing the true problems associated with straw purchases and the lack of enforcement of current laws.
This initiative would do nothing to prevent criminals from breaking the law and getting their hands on firearms. Criminals will continue to use the black market, straw purchasers and theft in order to obtain firearms. This initiative would only turn law-abiding gun owners into criminals. Simply loaning a firearm to a friend could turn a law-abiding gun owner into a criminal overnight.
According to a Department of Justice report from January 2013, laws like this would be entirely unenforceable without requiring a full gun registration. With limited resources, this deeply flawed initiative would simply place a burden on law enforcement.
Don’t let Michael Bloomberg and his out-of-touch bank account control your state and its politics! We urge you to speak out against the Bloomberg gun control initiative in Maine. Your NRA-ILA will continue to update you on any further developments on this issue.
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This is the same crap he pulled in Wash. state. The bill had to be watered down so much to make it enforceable, but even then most law enforcement won’t enforce it. It does NOTHING to stop crime and only makes the law abiding citizen jump thru hoops. I used to get my Garands from the CMP delivered to my door, now they have to go to a dealer. I solved that problem by getting a C&R License for less than the added cost of going thru a dealer. Just one more TYRANT who wants to disarm America. Paul Allen… Read more »
@Dave – Go read the Laws on Treason.
“I wish that jew would move back to Israel”…? When a “Christian” like Bill Gates pushes gun control do you wish he’d move “back to Europe”?
That’s good news. He will split the Democrat vote.
@Jimmy – Laws are for people who can’t responsibly exercise their personal freedom. In other words – Freedom is for people who don’t need Government, and Government is for people who can’t responsibly exercise their Freedom. So Jimmy, which group do you fall into?
Hi, ammosexuals. You guys sound really brilliant with your talk of executing those who have a different opinion from you. I love your argument “Criminals don’t obey laws, anyway.” I guess we should get rid of ALL laws, then, since criminals don’t obey them. Also, if you are stupid enough to lend your gun to someone, you better pray to your Gun God that they don’t use it in a crime, otherwise you’ll go to jail right along with them. Sheesh! I have guns my own self and I think you’re all paranoid idiots.
More bad news. A local CBS radio station announced that Bloomberg may announce his campaign for President as an Independent in March.
Lets make a billionaire tax 40% and no deductions. Lets start collecting signatures.
TRUTH BE TOLD says:
January 23, 2016 at 1:20 PM
Well it is ALWAYS OPEN SEASON on traitors and sooner I hope than later…..
Hey if you go against the right of the people you should die for it….. your a traitor get over it
THIS IS THE KIND OF TALK THAT GIVES GUN OWNERS A BAD NAME AND MAKES THE UNDECIDED DECIDE!
The commie/socialist/progressive movement kicked into drive when the principles had Kennedy assassinated and got the sniveling, guilt-ridden, drunken, womanizer Lyndon B Johnson into the top spot of power in the US. He started the Vietnam War to hide the mass movement of uneducated blacks into the northern white republican voter realm. Since then the ‘gerrymandering’ of America has been the main objective of the American commies. Putting the mindless minions in the right places to over populate and overpower any Right-Wing backlash. There actually is no Democratic Party any longer! Patriotic Americans need to voice the truth to their friends… Read more »