{"id":82320,"date":"2017-11-16T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=82320"},"modified":"2017-11-16T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:53:17","slug":"boston-globe-on-confiscation-hand-over-your-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/boston-globe-on-confiscation-hand-over-your-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe on Confiscation: Hand Over Your Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_82436\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/remote.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"boston-globe-on-confiscation-hand-over-your-weapons\" title=\"Boston Globe on Confiscation: Hand Over Your Weapons\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82436\" title=\"Boston Globe on Confiscation: Hand Over Your Weapons\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-82436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/remote-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Boston Globe on Confiscation: Hand Over Your Weapons\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/remote-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/remote-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/remote-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/remote.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-82436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: NRA-ILA<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a lengthy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2017\/11\/10\/hand-over-your-weapons\/6IxJLanMKGak7RvCLipwbN\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"boston-globe-on-confiscation-hand-over-your-weapons\" title=\"Boston Globe on Confiscation: Hand Over Your Weapons\"> column<\/a> published by the Boston Globe Saturday, staff writer David Scharfenberg made the argument for nationwide gun confiscation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The logic of gun control lies, at bottom, in substantially reducing the number of deadly weapons on the street \u2014 and confiscation is far and away the most effective approach,&#8221; wrote Scharfenberg.<\/p>\n<p>Like many other gun grabbers, he points to the national &#8220;buyback&#8221; in Australia that followed the shooting at Port Arthur in 1996.\u00a0 The Aussie government was able to seize an estimated one-fifth of the country&#8217;s firearms, in addition to banning almost every gun under the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Scharfenberg concludes by suggesting what many won&#8217;t, at least publicly, that for the anti-gun agenda it&#8217;s confiscation or bust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, if gun-control advocates really want to stanch the blood, there\u2019s no way around it: They\u2019ll have to persuade more people of the need to confiscate millions of those firearms, as radical as that idea may now seem,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Talk of confiscation is growing ever more common.\u00a0 In the mainstream media, in Hollywood and even in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Remember when Hillary Clinton, on the presidential campaign trail in 2015, was asked this by a voter at a Town Hall meeting in New Hampshire:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently, Australia managed to get away, or take away tens of thousands, millions, of handguns. In one year, they were all gone. Can we do that? If we can\u2019t, why can\u2019t we?\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/virgin-island-gov-signs-confiscation-order-ahead-hurricane-irma\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"boston-globe-on-confiscation-hand-over-your-weapons\" title=\"Boston Globe on Confiscation: Hand Over Your Weapons\">Virgin Island Gov. Signs Confiscation Order Ahead of Hurricane Irma<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>You recall her response?\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t, &#8220;That would be infringing on our Constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms,&#8221; nor &#8220;You&#8217;re crazy to even mention that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton said, \u201cI think it would be worth considering doing it on the national level, if that could be arranged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If that could be arranged it&#8217;s worth considering?\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Clinton&#8217;s always been anti-gun, but never before had she acknowledged the truth.\u00a0 The end game &#8212; as\u00a0Scharfenberg rightfully identified &#8212; is confiscation.\u00a0 It is seizing lawfully owned firearms from law-abiding citizens.<\/p>\n<p>You may be saying, well, talk is cheap.\u00a0 Billary lost the election, she&#8217;s no longer a threat.\u00a0 We have Trump now.\u00a0 We&#8217;re good.<\/p>\n<p>But what about what Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said after the Vegas shooting? When talking about legislation that would ban the mere possession of bump stocks, the House Minority Leader said that she &#8220;certainly hopes&#8221; that it would lead to more gun control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re going to say, &#8216;You give them bump stock, it&#8217;s going to be a slippery slope.&#8217; I certainly hope so,&#8221; she told a reporter during an October news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The bill that Pelosi was referring to was the one spearheaded by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) known as the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.feinstein.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/a\/7\/a7493ca2-0cd7-416a-8d1f-929d89e71572\/0141802AFBB99AC5EA299D5B71B98A52.automatic-gunfire-prevention-act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"boston-globe-on-confiscation-hand-over-your-weapons\" title=\"Boston Globe on Confiscation: Hand Over Your Weapons\">Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act<\/a>.&#8221; That bill included no exemption for current owners of bump stocks.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wisconsin-bill-impose-storage-regulations-gun-stores\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"boston-globe-on-confiscation-hand-over-your-weapons\" title=\"Boston Globe on Confiscation: Hand Over Your Weapons\">\u00a0Wisconsin Bill Would Impose Storage Regulations on Gun Stores<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>When the government makes lawful property suddenly unlawful it&#8217;s a defacto form of confiscation.\u00a0 Most bans on black rifles or accessories usually contain a grandfather clause for current owners.\u00a0 This one did not.<\/p>\n<p>What I fear is that all this talk of confiscation will lead to action.\u00a0 In some ways it already has.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/everytownresearch.org\/erpo\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"boston-globe-on-confiscation-hand-over-your-weapons\" title=\"Boston Globe on Confiscation: Hand Over Your Weapons\">Many states<\/a> are considering enacting &#8220;extreme risk protection order&#8221; (ERPO) schemes that allow accusers to petition courts to strip citizens of their 2A rights.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said in the past, these ERPO laws are an affront to due process. A way for the government to confiscate today and litigate tomorrow.\u00a0 California, Connecticut, Oregon, Washington, and Indiana already have ERPO laws on the books.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m just hyper-sensitive nowadays. Maybe the threat of confiscation isn&#8217;t higher today than it was in years past (On that note, we can&#8217;t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20150821\/a-decade-later-remember-new-orleans-gun-confiscation-can-and-has-happened-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"boston-globe-on-confiscation-hand-over-your-weapons\" title=\"Boston Globe on Confiscation: Hand Over Your Weapons\"> forget what happened in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I&#8217;m not going to fall asleep at the wheel because the Don&#8217;s in office. I want to make sure confiscation remains a radical idea.\u00a0 Not something &#8220;worth considering&#8221; under any circumstances. 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