Universal Background Checks – A Long Term Threat To Our Liberty
Covington VA –-(Ammoland.com)- 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 Universal Background Check law, a gun owner can’t loan someone a gun at a range without both persons going through a background check!
Universal Background Check 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 Universal Background Check 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 who too often agree.
Of course criminals can easily get around any background check by simply stealing them, buying them wher they buy their drugs 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 Universal Background Checks 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:
- While there have been many UBC bills introduced in the General Assembly, VCDL has been able to soundly defeat all of them so far.
- 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.
- 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.
Virginia Citizens Defense League 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
The Dangers of Universal Background Checks
About:
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right. Visit: www.vcdl.org
the trickery of universal back ground checks is in the UN small arms treaty that Obama signed onto…he couldnt get it confirmed by the Senate so confiscators are pouring millions into fooling the voters.
Universal background checks reverse the presumptions of innocence with respect to firearms ownership.
If every transfer has to have gone through a dealer and had a paper trail created, then simple possession of a firearm becomes a criminal act, for which the proper trail would be an affirmative defense. And lots of luck, if the government loses you data.
COME ON ALL YOU “GOVERNMENT PENCIL PUSHERS” GET REAL ABOUT GUNS.IF GUNS ARE OUTLAWED, OR MADE MERE DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN,ONLY OUTLAWS WOULD HAVE GUNS. THE ONLY OUTCOME WOULD BE RICHER A.T.F. GUN DEALERS AND THE GOVERNMENT HAVING MORE POWER OVER THE PEOPLE..THEY CALL THAT SOCIALISM. THE ONCE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD,THE U.S.A. WOULD NOW BE CALLED ‘THE UNITED STATES SOCIALIST REPUBLIC” .IS THAT WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS ? I DO NOT THINK SO 111111
This was implemented here in Kommiecticut (CT) in 2013 with the post Sandy Hook passage of the most unconstitutional, intolerable acts against firearms ever imposed on the citizens. It has also been ignored by the majority of formerly law-abiding citizens (now known simply as “Peaceable Citizens”) making it NULL & VOID. In Kommiecticut, every time you buy a firearm from a licensed dealer, a copy of the sale goes to the state police firearms unit, creating a registration database. It is my belief that the database is now totally out of whack, as the “underground” (read FREE) gun economy is… Read more »
They keep using that phrase “common sense” … I don’t think they know what it means. Because “common sense” says that “Gun Free Zones” are failures and should be abolished. Common sense indicates that an armed citizenry is safer than a disarmed one, especially in, oh, movie theaters. Common sense indicates that the anti-gunners aren’t about reducing gun violence, just making citizens more vulnerable. Common sense indicates, from study after study, that good people don’t commit crimes with guns. Criminals and the insane, but your average citizen..nope. Common sense indicates that Liberals should not be trusted with guns, given their… Read more »
If it were not for the initiative process the State of Washington would have had a state income tax forced upon taxpayers by our legislature years ago. Oregon had its background check law passed by their legislature. It would have passed the Washington legislature also.