Sipsey Street Irregulars: The Founders must be spinning in their graves.

Monday, January 21, 2013

The Founders must be spinning in their graves.

Provisions in the bill include . . .
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Requires that all large capacity weapons and grandfathered assault weapons must be stored at gun clubs or target ranges. . .
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Imposes 25% sales tax on ammunition, firearms, shotguns, and rifles; dedicates funds towards firearms licensing, police training, mental health services, and victim’s services.

8 comments:

GA Patriot said...: It would be well to remember that the first little skirmish with tyrrany started in MA. Perhaps history repeats itself once again. NYS may not be far behind.; January 21, 2013 at 7:03 AM
Pat H. said...: Someone in Massachusetts will have to file a law suit citing the McDonnell case and this one:

Minneapolis Star vs. Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue

A special tax on ammunition is un-Constitutional beause it's a tax on a supply used to exercised a right.

I'll also say that the US government may not follow the law, we know that it often doesn't, but it may.; January 21, 2013 at 8:01 AM
Anonymous said...: It's time for these folks (and the ones from NY) to vote with their feet.

Moving to Montana soon,
Gonna be a dental floss tycoon.; January 21, 2013 at 9:29 AM
Anonymous said...: Even *if* you buy into the stateist concept of central storage facilities, such regulations create a deeply attractive target for theft.
Better have deep physical security and armed guards. (But of course the legislators will make no provision for that.)

Business as usual :-(; January 21, 2013 at 10:58 AM
Anonymous said...: The headline should read, "238 years later, Gen. Gage finally wins at Lexington and Concord"; January 21, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Sail Man said...: "Imposes 25% sales tax on ammunition, firearms, shotguns, and rifles; dedicates funds towards firearms licensing, police training, mental health services, and victim’s services."

I suggest they also impose a 25% tax on all sports related equipment to be used for mental health services and victims services as well. Lots of those worthless over-paid prima donna athletes in our world that kill or injure themselves, their SO's, and innocent bystanders with their actions both on and off the fields of play. And while we're at it, lets also attach that tax to makers and purveyor's of alcohol and automobiles as well. Oh, and bow and arrow's as well, seems to me there was a murder suicide in Wyoming a few months back. Hell, why don't we throw in an ugly tax so that those that have seen my ugly mugg can get mental health counseling as well.

Jackasses.; January 21, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Anonymous said...: "Requires live shooting as part of the curriculum for a basic firearms safety course; this is not a current requirement."

That bit should not be too difficult to comply with - seems the 'targets' are being setup well in advance!

Insure by S&W and no need to worry about sales tax on everything already bought ...

Duh, Homer!

III; January 21, 2013 at 5:15 PM
Ed said...: A perceived "enemy to the rights of Americans" in the period around the American Revolution traditionally was treated to a coating of pine tar and feathers.

http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays/irvin.feathers.html; January 21, 2013 at 7:31 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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The Founders must be spinning in their graves.

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