Psychological And Character Test For Firearms Ownership
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 2 months ago
Via David Codrea, JPFO.
A plain reading—not “analysis”—of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s gun bill, now in both houses of Congress, will require current and future gun owners to pass psychology and character tests to continue owning the firearms they already legally possess. When asked, legal experts have been unable to describe how this would be legal, Biden has not commented. America has 100 million gun owners by most estimates. That has grown dramatically by sales to people terrified amidst urban rioting, who can’t get police protection, during the corona-virus pandemic.
The first line of the identical bills, HR5717 and S3254, requires a federal license for any American to legally “purchase, acquire, or possess a firearm or ammunition.” This is de facto infringement.
To obtain this license you would need to prove to unelected officials that you are of “sound mind and character,” you do not “potentially create a risk to public safety,” and you meet “any other requirements the State determines relevant.” No standards or guidelines are provided. Assuming anyone could qualify, authorities, “make a determination of suitability,” for your possession and ownership of firearms, including any you currently own.
Ah, I see we’re back to this again. In order to defeat the second amendment, they’ve renewed their fealty to the community witchdoctors, except that the community witchdoctors are just bureaucrats, and thus, communist witchdoctors.
On September 8, 2020 at 12:29 pm, Bad_Brad said:
Man, if Trump doesn’t get re elected say good bye to the Second and your guns. Next step will be re education camps for conservatives. And yes that has been mentioned.
On September 8, 2020 at 12:58 pm, George 1 said:
Of course if you can’t conclusively prove that you fully support the goals of the communists, then obviously you are insane and ineligible to own firearms. You may be ineligible to live at all.
On September 8, 2020 at 1:16 pm, Hudson H Luce said:
The Second Amendment is a *right* predating the Constitution and the form of government it established. Rights do not come with prerequisites other than that of being possessed by a being created by God, rights are inherent and inalienable. Governments grant *privileges* which can be withdrawn at the instance of non-compliance with rules or the whim of the government. The Second Amendment is not a privilege.
On September 8, 2020 at 2:04 pm, s said:
Joe Biden…character test..psychological fitness test…that’s rich!
On September 8, 2020 at 2:13 pm, DJMoore said:
Show me that every person on the next ballot passes the same standards…and everyone elected passes an in-depth psychological profile, including three or four days of confinement in a psychiatric institution with continuous group therapy sessions, and pass an eight hour test on constitutional law with a 95% minimum score before taking the oath–and if you pass this law, you will have nevertheless proved yourself unfit for office, subject to immediate high velocity removal.
On September 8, 2020 at 2:46 pm, X said:
Psychological fitness, release of your medical records to the state, a police investigation, and the sworn testimony of at least four “character references” are required to own a handgun in New York State. That’s been the law for over 100 years. It has never been overturned by the Supreme Court.
That’s just to get government permission to own a handgun on your own private property — not CCW in public. Some jurisdictions also require the consent of former spouses or girlfriends, and disclosure of all long guns and bows and arrows possessed by the applicant.
If you are “approved” — which is discretionary — all handguns must be registered and may be confiscated by the state at any time for any reason without due process. Carrying a handgun without a permit is a felony that can get you seven years in prison and disbar you from owning firearms for the rest of your life.
That’s what the Democrats want to do on a national level.
Sometime soon, within our lifetimes, we will all be faced with the very real question of whether we are going to “live free or die.” You are going to be given the choice of either complying with these laws, going to prison for years, or dying when the SWAT team kicks in your door at 3 a.m. during the confiscation raid and hits the full-auto switch on the MP5.
This ain’t no fucking joke, kids. You do not live in a free country and it’s gonna get a whole lot less free next time these people gain control.
On September 8, 2020 at 3:17 pm, Fred said:
The mainline Right, having left the way of Christ, supports this kind of thing.
On September 8, 2020 at 4:34 pm, John said:
Let’s see Biden’s psyche evaluation test results before election day.
Every time the question is brought up, he squirms like a rat being swallowed by a snake.
On September 8, 2020 at 4:41 pm, xtphreak said:
@X
1) Have a door SQUAT teams can’t kick in.
You’ll sleep better.
They’ll wake you up trying to get in.
2) Have security cams recording so you can hear IF they identify themselves prior to the assault.
3) If you live in NY, CA, NJ or other oppressive states.
Move.
On September 8, 2020 at 4:49 pm, CT Ginger said:
If we reach the point where we have to bury them or hide them, we’ve reached the point where we have to load them and use them.
On September 8, 2020 at 7:09 pm, Richard Roma said:
That will probably also be the point at which large numbers of Americans begin emigrating to East Asia and South America… Some will stay and fight, many more will read the writing on the wall and head for greener pastures
On September 9, 2020 at 6:26 am, Roger J said:
They forgot to add “party membership” and “political reliability” as criteria. Does anyone really believe it will be impossible for a BLM or Antifa activist to possess a firearm? Those are “class allies” according to the old Soviet criterion.
On September 9, 2020 at 7:54 am, William said:
Oh goody! If they want a psychological test for the right to keep and bear arms, then why not a psychological test for the right to vote?
In for a penny, in for a pound, I always say!
On September 9, 2020 at 2:59 pm, X said:
“If you live in NY, CA, NJ or other oppressive states.
Move.”
Um… this point I was trying to make, dude, is that the Left is planning to impose the NY, CA, NJ bullshit NATIONWIDE, on YOU, and when they do THERE WILL BE NO PLACE TO MOVE.
Does that ‘splain it for ya?
On September 9, 2020 at 4:01 pm, Hudson H Luce said:
A license is permission from the state to do something which is generally prohibited. Licensing gun possession means that possession of guns is generally prohibited, and this is legislative nullification of the right to keep and bear arms. It’s nullification of the Second Amendment, and is unconstitutional ab initio, from the beginning. This is the line in the sand. When crossed, it’s a declaration of war, a breach of contract, and the remedy is to alter or abolish the government which was first to breach.
On September 9, 2020 at 4:06 pm, Hudson H Luce said:
For those who would tuck tail and run, you might be well advised that the countries to which you propose running to, if they were to have you, do not recognize the right to keep and bear arms. Two apposite quotes – “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
and
“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
― Samuel Adams