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In reply to the discussion: Universal Background Checks for firearms [View all]petronius
(26,677 posts)11. No, because I don't think that structure would do any good
If you don't define the criteria for confiscation, then all the due process and appeals won't matter if laws can be changed to make the confiscation legal. (That said, I would like an amendment restricting and controlling seizure and confiscations in general--asset forfeiture and eminent domain and the the like.)
I think what you are going for would be a law/amendment specifying that any firearms currently legal at the passage of the UBC law will remain legal permanently. That I would support, although I think it would make more sense attached to registration (perhaps you're expecting that in the context of UBCs?) rather than UBCs themselves. UBCs without record or registration don't seem to raise a confiscation risk...
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Giving Gun Worshipers another Amendment to further Sanctify their Religion is not an step forward.
stone space
Oct 2015
#3
Sounds like my experience with describing Chicago gun laws as Jim (large, raucous black bird).
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#32
This is a reasonable proposal for this gun owner...Controllers? Not so much.
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#27
I am skeptical because much of the rhetoric here and elsewhere is characterized...
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#49
"...believe drugs should be illegal?" From The Anti-Ammosexual Handbook of Reality?
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#33