[TheForge] Criminal Background Check

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Obviously, the registration of firearms is in contradiction to the right 
to keep and bear arms against a possibly tyrannical govt, as per the 
constitutional intent.
\As i've written before, this was in the context of the times.
So, inarguably, a citizen has the right to carry a hand made, muzzle 
loading, black powder firearm anywhere, any time.
That will make most folks more respectful and polite...police included.

Andrew Vida wrote:
> 
> Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
>> The nasty principle here isn't that someone's out to get you.  It's
>> that once data is collected, it will be used, saved forever and used
>> in whatever manner looks good at the time, legal or illegal, ethical
>> or not, private or public good, profit or not.  There will always be a
>> justification available along the same lines as the recently
>> shitcanned DC cabal justifying torture because, well, you know, we really
>> *really* needed to do it.
> 
> 	This is called "leverage".  Just look how it plays in politics. 
> Someone runs for office that doesn't meet muster for some interest.  The 
> next thing you know, that joint they spent a night in jail for back in 
> '73 makes headlines.  Remember Gary Hart and "Monkey Business"?  Of 
> course, in that case it was a good thing, but the principle is never 
> good, as far as I am concerned.
> 
>> OTOH, I have to have a license with a photo (but no fingerprints) to
>> own long guns.  At least it was a physical photo, not an automated
>> digital database photo.  (Not that it makes a lot of difference in the
>> long run.)
> 
> 	But do you have to register your arms in  the GWN?
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