There’s Lead In The Amnesty Ointment
By Alan Korwin


PHOENIX, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- Immigration reform being debated in Congress will have a major unintended consequence on gun rights in America.
Neither political party has anticipated the effect. With the stroke of a pen, millions of people will suddenly find themselves eligible to buy guns.
The law that currently bans them from gun ownership or possession only affects them as illegal aliens. With citizenship that disability evaporates. The freedom to keep and bear arms, which the Bill of Rights guarantees the rest of us, will instantly be theirs. This will cause a reordering of the political landscape beyond anything Congress has imagined.
When the Minutemen brought the illegal-alien problem to our attention in 2004, we were led to believe their numbers exceeded 20 million. They were members of a class, one of nine groups of federally prohibited possessors, banned under 18 USC §922(g) from owning or using firearms.
Illegal aliens are the largest single class of people banned from exercising the Second Amendment right to arms, with mental cases and convicted felons in second and third place.
The 20 million illegal aliens somehow became 11 million as fluidly as the “news” media changed watermelon juice (what Trayvon Martin bought one fateful night last year) into ice tea, a politically correct beverage that had absolutely nothing to do with that case. The media has become unapologetic and unconstrained by reality when dealing with facts.
Whatever the actual number, democrats, with media in tow, presume the illegals are theirs, and are salivating at the prospect of acquiring this massive voting bloc. That would deliver an impenetrable hold on Congress for, well, forever. Have they jumped the gun?
Republicans are stressed out, awash in fear that democrats have locked up the Hispanic newcomers’ loyalties, as champions of amnesty, which is a main reason republicans can’t get behind immigration reform — their base won’t stand for it. But the hidden hole card is this gun thing. Democrats can’t lay a hand on that deadly third rail without alienating their essentially anti-gun-rights base.
Suddenly, these teeming masses yearning to be free will discover the awesome power of personal sovereignty and with it, the ability to enter licensed dealerships and purchase liberty’s teeth.
Whatever postures politicians and the media take, free markets will be sprouting signs in Spanish to encourage… shopping. The NRA — and every local gun-rights group — will suddenly discover a need for entire Spanish-language divisions.
Gun ownership and the shooting sports are decidedly conservative right-of-center pursuits, anathema to the left and democrats, generally speaking of course. When voting on gun issues, party-line votes are the norm, that’s just a fact. Republicans will discover a driver’s seat they didn’t know they had.

This may encourage democrats and amnesty supporters to suggest some form of limitation on gun rights for new citizens, preventing these amnestizos full access to all the guns and ammo their hearts desire, in an effort to (canard alert!) protect the children and increase public safety. It’s only reasonable, we will hear, since they are unaccustomed to the dangers of so-called assault weapons and the madness we crazy Americans pursue, defying the rest of the civilized world.
But this is a dreadful Dred Scott solution, granting partial citizenship to newly freed Americans. Making them three-fifths of a person, with only some of the Bill of Rights “for their own good” is not a position even the Sharpton-Jackson takings coalitions can successfully defend.
These people have already been virtual slaves in their home countries. They walked across miles and miles of blazing snake-infested desert seeking freedom to get here. They deserve better.
Alan Korwin, PublisherOld wisdom says you can’t arm slaves and expect them to remain slaves.
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The majority of them have guns already 85% of all gun crimes in America are committed by Illegal Alien Mexican Drug Cartel Members.This was a 2009 report,imagine how bad it is now!
What a mess and all because the framers failed to establish government on Yahweh’s immutable morality as codified in His perfect law and altogether righteous judgments (Psalm 19:7-11)and because they forfeited God-expected (non-optional) responsibilities for optional rights: “But if any provide not for his own, and pecially for those of his own house [including spiritual and physical protection], he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” (1 Timothy 5:8) Think about it: the Amendment with the wording “shall not be infringed” is the most infringed, licensed, and controlled Amendment of the entire twenty seven. Furthermore, a future… Read more »
Lived in Mexico and they love guns and knives so expect the crime rate to rise even further. Talk about stupid. We do NOT want the amnesty crap and yet they ignore the Americans who are legal in this. Recall and non-re-election in their future, if we will even have one.
Do you really think this will make a difference to them ? They are already lawbreakers, what does “ILLEGAL” mean but the against law? They laugh at the existing laws they are breaking. Do you really think they might be concerned about this ? GET SERIOUS!!!!
If true, this would also guarantee the ammo shortage would get horrendous for quite some time…
“That would deliver an impenetrable hold on Congress for, well, forever.”
You’d be astonished at all the things a 7.62×39 can penetrate.