You attempt to buy a gun at a gun shop, present your “Red Light Identification” and the cops get a call. It’s off to the mental ward or back to jail for you, pal.

Jews For The Preservation Of Firearms Ownership

Washington, DC --(Ammoland.com)- Is America going to return to a pre 1968 levels of “gun control” policy?

Realistically we have to acknowledge that the consensus isn’t there yet. Maybe someday. And even better would be pre 1934!

In the meantime, let’s take a pragmatic look at how to actually attempt to, quote: “Keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the insane”.

Mind you, what follows is NOT an official JPFO stance. We’re opening this to debate. We would like to solicit your comments.

Here’s one proposal.
If you are a lawfully adjudicated dangerous nut (and for some strange reason still walking amongst us), or a convicted violent felon who has served his time, your driver license, or MANDATORY CITIZEN IDENTIFICATION CARD, has a red border. Red means “stop”. Got it? This is your “Red Light I.D.”

You attempt to buy a gun at a gun shop, present your “Red Light Identification” and the cops get a call. It’s off to the mental ward or back to jail for you, pal.

The rest of us (the other 99.999 percent) have green bordered Citizen Identification Cards. These are called “Green Light Identification”.

Now before all you Libertarians jump down my throat, here’s the deal. You are not required to carry you Citizen I.D. card at all times. But, just like buying a beer in a quick stop market, and you look underage, you had better be able to produce that Green Light I.D. if you want to buy a gun.

IMPORTANT: No recording of the firearm serial number along with your name!

No expanding database waiting for our own homegrown Lenin, Stalin, Hitler or Mao to make good use of the gun owner registry.

Show your Green Light I.D. and buy a gun as simply as buying a fishing reel. Obviously, if you are under 18 it’s a “no go”.

Green border is okay. Red border is not okay. Just like buying beer or cigarettes.

Ah! I hear howls of dissent from some of the Law Enforcement folks. “We won’t be able to trace crime weapons!”

So what?

That red herring is way, way overblown. Like criminals shoot people and then drop the gun at the scene of the crime like someone tosses a chewing gum wrapper? Gun Owners of America, and even the NRA, have probably done exposés on “gun trace” stat puffing (ala Mexican scamming of late).

BOTTOM LINE: What’s the actual gun trace to conviction ratio?

Friends, this is just more bureaucracy building at the expense of our personal liberties.

I now seriously suspect that gun traces are likely an overblown crock. Most of the aura is television and movie script blather, promoted by a liberal controlled entertainment industry that is massively anti-gun. You’ve got to realize that the Cultural Marxists will use ANY tactic or technique to manipulate us towards their goal: Near complete citizen disarmament like in the UK.

Also: The authoritarian cops in our nation want us to buy into anything that lessens our power and strengthens theirs. (As I’ve written recently, this is only five percent of law enforcement, but far too many of these control freaks are in high positions of power.)

Nope, I’ll gladly present my Green Light I.D. when I want to buy a gun. What’s wrong with that? No BATFE Forms to fill out. No “background check”. I’m green, I’m clean.

Yes, it is a “National Identity Card”.

So what?

Do any of you really think you’re living some kind of secret life here in present day America? Give me a break.

Sure, illegal aliens won’t like it (at all). Open borders, and the present mass illegal invasion of America, are key tactics of the Cultural Marxists.

Convicted violent felons won’t like it. Nut jobs (if they can even understand the situation) won’t like it. Underage kids who want a .22 to go plinking, or a 9mm to stick in their saggy pants won’t like it.

So what?

The country kid can use his dad’s .22. The gang banger can get a gun the old fashioned way: steal it or buy it on the street.

Let’s face it, we’ve all basically had “National I.D.” since Social Security cards. Get real. Give me my “Green Light Card” and let me get on with my life with a bit more freedom, thank you.

And then remove the names of ALL American gun owners from the BATFE databases, and send those evil gun registries to burn in cyber hell.

The above is one potential improvement. Again this is NOT JPFO’s official stance.

Please use our survey system and give us your opinion. Your responses may be kept anonymous if you wish.

Frequent JPFO contributor and strategist, Kirby Ferris collaborated intensively with Aaron Zelman over the last two years. Ferris is now the Public Affairs Director of JPFO.

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Jews For The Preservation Of Firearms Ownership Mission is to destroy “gun control” and to encourage Americans to understand and defend all of the Bill of Rights for everyone. Those are the twin goals of Wisconsin-based Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO). Founded by Jews and initially aimed at educating the Jewish community about the historical evils that Jews have suffered when they have been disarmed, JPFO has always welcomed persons of all religious beliefs who share a common goal of opposing and reversing victim disarmament policies while advancing liberty for all.

JPFO is a non-profit tax-exempt educational civil rights organization, not a lobby. JPFO’

National Association for Gun Rights

Washington, DC --(Ammoland.com)- Call me cynical, but whenever I hear anti-gun politicians talk about these issues nowadays, I’ve come to expect a new thinly-veiled assault on our Second Amendment freedoms.

Either they want to ban our guns, track our guns . . .

. . . Or track us.

Well, after years of watching our illegal immigration problem grow steadily worse — and watching our elected officials refuse to lift a finger in response — the politicians’ “fix” is finally in.

It’s a new Federal Biometric ID card.

That’s right. Instead of controlling our borders, the politicians want to control you and me. They want to give amnesty to illegal immigrants and make us prove we’re not criminals!

And President Barack Obama, Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are all working hand in glove to ram this new scheme into law as part of their new “comprehensive immigration reform” package.

That’s why it’s vital you sign the petition to your Congressman and Senators IMMEDIATELY.

If passed, the Federal Biometric ID card included in the new amnesty bill will:

• Include a “unique biometric identifier” — like fingerprints, retinal scans or even a scan of the veins on the back of your hand; and,
• Allow bureaucrats to watch your every move, as the Federal Biometric ID card will almost certainly be produced with RFID tracking technology; and,
• Include virtually unlimited amounts of personal information about you — like what guns you own, for instance.
• And this new Federal Biometric ID would be required for any person wishing to hold a job legally in the United States.

So I guess the welfare recipients don’t have to get one. I don’t know about you, but I’m outraged.

It seems that whenever politicians are using terrorism, crime, illegal immigration or something else as their excuse, it’s really you and me in their crosshairs.

Just remember those Department of Homeland Security memos listing pro-gun, pro-constitution activists as “domestic extremists.”

How would you like to be told you can’t board a plane because your new Federal Biometric ID Card told a TSA agent you supported some political candidate the new anti-gun regime thinks is too “pro-constitution?”

Even if you place complete 100% trust in the intentions of all federal government bureaucrats, what if there’s some “accident?”

After all, you and I have heard the news stories of government officials “losing” laptops chockfull of hundreds of thousands of records including folks’ names, social security numbers, addresses and birthdates.

And, of course, you and I cannot ignore the fact that since ID cards are required to purchase a firearm, the Federal Biometric ID scheme will likely create a de facto national gun registry.

Unfortunately, this fight will not be easy — just take a look at the makeup of Congress. Anti-gun, anti-freedom Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an enormous House majority.

Throwing party labels aside in the Senate and counting EVERY anti-gun Senator leaves you and me with a steep hill to climb. And, of course, we can’t forget about President Obama.

He’s already come out publicly in favor of Senator Lindsey Graham’s and Chuck Schumer’s “bipartisan” bill — so you and I must expect he’ll do whatever it takes to enact the Federal Biometric ID scheme.

There’s no doubt about it — our backs are against the wall.

But there is good news.
Coming on the heels of the Healthcare fight — and all the lies, smoky backroom deals and outright bribery employed to ram the bill into law — there’s not a real cozy feeling of “bipartisanship” right now in the U.S. Senate.

That’s a HUGE plus.

It could be that with the exception of Senator Graham and perhaps a couple of others, you and I may not have as much difficulty in keeping even marginally pro-gun Republican U.S. Senators in our fold as we would normally.

Also, many key Democrat Senators come from states that have recently REFUSED to comply with the original DANGEROUS ID Bill.

As we move deeper into this election year, many of these Democrats are going to grow even more nervous about voting AGAINST their state legislatures to pass the similar new Federal Biometric ID Scheme.

That means we can win this fight, but it won’t be easy. The anti-gun politicians believe their best shot at passing the Federal Biometric ID scheme is to move FAST.

That’s why your IMMEDIATE help is so vital.

You see, I’ve already prepared a massive targeted mail, phone and e-mail program that I’m ready to launch as soon as I can pay the up-front costs. And then if I can raise the resources, I’d like to run hard-hitting radio, TV and newspaper ads, as well.

The goal is to start a grassroots fire against a new Federal Biometric ID scheme in the states represented by key Republican and Democrat Senators. We’ll point out that there’s an overwhelming majority of citizens in their states who are opposed to a Federal Biometric ID card.

We’ll also mention these voters are ALL watching these Senators’ votes very carefully this election year.

Believe me, these Senators WILL get the message. This could be the major, knock-down, drag-out fight we’ve been waiting for ever since President Obama was elected.

Until now, we’ve beaten the gun-control crowd to the punch — publicizing and mobilizing a firestorm of grassroots opposition to the gun-grabbers radical schemes before they could even get them off the ground.

Iowa Gun Owners

Iowa – -(AmmoLand.com)-Besides promoting and working to pass the REAL Right-to-Carry bill in the upcoming session, Iowa Gun Owners is also working on repealing Iowa’s permit-to-purchase laws as well.

The permit-to-purchase law requires you to seek approval from the government, in the form of a government issued card, before you can purchase a handgun for self-defense. The criteria for this permit are similar to the criteria for a permit-to-carry: you can not be a felon, can not be addicted to drugs or alcohol, you can’t have a history of acts of violence, etc. Should you be approved for the permit, it is good for a period of one year.

While many assume that obtaining a permit-to-purchase is normal and just a part of doing business, you should know that 36 other states DO NOT have this tyrannical requirement.

That’s right – Iowa is one of only a handful of states that require people to get a permit to purchase handguns for self-defense. Delaware, Maryland, and New Hampshire are just some of the states that do NOT require law abiding citizens to get this type of permit.

The argument most commonly offered in defense of this permit goes something like this: this permit is needed to ensure that criminals and the mentally deranged don’t have access to firearms. Gun control advocates usually toss in examples of a school or church shooting at this point to silence opposition. This argument is so emotionally charged that sometimes even gun owners accept this at face value.

However, federal law already prohibits felons, fugitives from justice, illegal aliens, those addicted to narcotics, and those considered mentally deranged from owning firearms. There is no need for additional state language.

More to the point, as everyone already knows, criminals and the mentally deranged don’t buy weapons from a gun dealer or at a gun show anyway. They steal them or buy them from other criminals. In fact, a Justice Department study concluded that over 90% of criminals who use handguns in the commission of their crimes obtained the gun from some source other than a licensed dealer.1

So this argument is obviously wrong.

But worse than that, this argument gets innocent people killed. Sensational? Hardly. By requiring law abiding citizens to go through all the hassle and expense of obtaining a permit to buy a weapon for self-defense, the government ensures that many people just won’t go through the headache. How many elderly people or young single women (the kind of people who most need to be able to defend themselves) find this process intimidating? Many, I know, because I talk to them often. So these people, who want to have the means of self-defense, are being denied this option due to bureaucratic red tape.

And again, don’t forget that 36 other states don’t require a permit to purchase. The crime rates in those states are not higher than states that do require this permit – in many cases the crime rates in those states are lower! If this permit could somehow ensure public safety than all those states without a permit to purchase should have drastically higher levels of violent crime.

In fact, the opposite is true. California, Washington D.C., and Illinois all have permits-to-purchase amongst other anti-gun regulations. But according to the FBI’s ‘Uniform Crime Reports’, released in September of 2008 and based on 2007 data, Los Angeles had over 380 homicides, Washington D.C. had over 155 homicides and Chicago had over 440 homicides!

Clearly these permits are not stopping crime at all.

So if a permit to purchase does nothing to reduce crime what does it accomplish? In a word: registration. (The information below comes from Gun Owners of America located at www.gunowners.org.)

In 1994 the Justice Department gave a grant to the city of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University to create a sophisticated national gun registry using data compiled from states’ background check programs. This attempt at registration was subsequently defeated in the courts.2

In 1996, computer software distributed by the Justice Department allowed police officials to easily (and unlawfully) register the names and addresses of gun buyers. This software — known as FIST — also kept information such as the type of gun purchased, the make, model and caliber, the date of purchase, etc.3

In 1998, despite prohibitions in federal law, the FBI announced that it would begin keeping gun buyer’s names for six months. FBI had originally wanted to keep the names for 18 months, but reduced the time period after groups like Gun Owners of America strongly challenged the legality of their actions. GOA submitted a formal protest to the FBI, calling their attempt at registration both “unlawful” and “unconstitutional.”4

Of course, we can use a mid-western example as well. The government in Illinois has gone so far down this road of regulation that our friends in Illinois now can’t even own a handgun or long gun without first obtaining a government issued firearms owner identification (FOID) card!

That’s right, to even own a hunting shotgun in Illinois you must first be approved by the state. As bad as that is, it gets worse. You see, in Illinois, to even buy a single round of ammunition you need to possess a FOID card – otherwise a dealer can not sell ammunition to you. Further, if you move into the state already owning weapons, you have a limited amount of time before those guns too must be registered with the government.

Of course, we’ve not even mentioned the idea of concealed carry in Illinois, which is totally prohibited.

And again, as mentioned above, despite all these onerous gun laws Chicago had over 440 homicides in 2007! This does not count rape, aggravated assault, robberies and other types of violent crime.

Just think how many of those innocent victims would have been able to defend themselves had they been carrying weapons for self-defense.

This is what will happen in Iowa if we don’t start to fight back. If the state of Iowa can tell you when you are eligible to buy guns, carry guns, and shoot guns (all areas that they currently regulate) then it’s a short hop to the kind of total registration that gun owners in Illinois deal with.

So this session, as Iowa Gun Owners begins to promote a bill repealing the permit to purchase law in Iowa, we hope that you will do your part. Email and call your elected officials, come down to the capitol on an Iowa Gun Owners lobby day, donate to Iowa Gun Owners via our website, and tell your family and friends about us.

The time to act is now. Our rights are under attack.

Footnotes:

1. Department of Justice, “Survey of Incarcerated Felons,” p. 36.
2. Bureau of Justice Assistance, Grant Manager’s Memorandum, Pt. 1: Project Summary (September 30, 1994), Project Number: 94-DD-CX-0166.
   
3. Copy of “FIST” (Firearms Inquiry Statistical Tracking) software at GOA headquarters, Springfield, VA. See also Pennsylvania Sportsmen’s News (Oct./Nov. 1996). The default in the “FIST” computer software is for the police officials to indefinitely retain the information on gun owners-despite the fact that the Brady law only allows officials to retain this data for 20 days.
   
4. FBI’s Final Rule printed in the Federal Register (October 30, 1998) at 58311. After the FBI submitted its proposed regulations on June 4, 1998, Gun Owners of America submitted written comments (in September of 1988) to challenge the FBI’s regulations.

Aaron Dorr is the Executive Director of Iowa Gun Owners, a non-profit organization in Iowa dedicated to overturning Iowa’s abusive laws when it comes to the purchasing, carrying, and using firearms for self-defense. He can be contacted at director@iowagunowners.org.

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Iowa Gun Owners (IGO) was formed in January of 2009 to combat the oppressive gun laws in the State of Iowa. IGO does not believe that you, as a law abiding citizen, should have to beg permission from the government to be able to defend yourself and your family. That’s why we are working so hard to get a Vermont/Alaska style carry law passed in Iowa. In these states, unless you are a convicted felon or otherwise barred from possessing weapons, you don’t need a permit to carry a gun for self-defense! Join us now!

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Orlando, FL --(AmmoLand.com)-If you believe in the sanctity of human life, religious freedom, traditional family values, supporting our veterans, the right to bear arms or a limited federal government, you might be considered a right-wing extremist by the Department of Homeland Security. DHS has removed the offending April 7, 2009 report from its web site after a public outcry, but has not repudiated its contents. We are protesting the fact that DHS is trying to associate patriotic Americans with individuals who choose to commit violent acts.

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