The fight for gun control is strenuous and constant. While the mainstream liberal narrative will ebb and rise in fervor for seizing guns, the dedicated sects within never relent. They have seized firearms in cities and states across the country for decades. Worse, no defeat ever seems to discourage them. They just try again.
While that tenacity deserves praise, their goals are wholly destructive to the security of this great nation. Within that battlefront, 2nd Amendment advocates have seen a win and loss within the last few weeks.
The Win
Oregon shocked the world. The Supreme Court killed a proposal that wanted to regulate most semi-automatic guns in the state. It was a proposal named IP 43, and it needed to meet a signature/petition requirement by July 6 to make it to state ballots. The state’s Supreme Court kicked the referendum back to the Attorney General because they found multiple problems with the language used.
The primary focus of the proposal was to regulate “assault weapon” sales and ownership in Oregon. The Supreme Court rightly ruled that this language is too vague. Voters could draw wildly different conclusions as to what constitutes an “assault weapon” and thus it is not ballot-appropriate.
Along those same lines, they also identified loose language with the term “high-capacity magazine.” Once again, generalized definitions are not clear, and a high-capacity magazine has no exact number of rounds.
The best news of all is that the kickback happened at the worst possible timing for this referendum. They have to rewrite the proposal and gain a brand new 80,000+ signatures by the 6th. If they can’t, then the proposal will not be on Oregon ballots this year. That’s a big win for gun owners in one of the most liberal states in the country.
The Loss
But, it isn’t all good news. Delaware just past a disturbing gun-seizure law. While they aren’t the ultimate bastion of freedom in the country, Delaware has clearly crossed a line. The governor signed the new law at the end of June. It expressly allows law enforcement to seize firearms from anyone “deemed a danger to themselves or others in Delaware.”
That’s already problematic, but the way the law works is downright frightening. Family members and/or law enforcement can file an order to seize guns from an individual. When that happens, the guns can be legally seized right away. Only after this occurs do targeted individuals have the right to petition against the seizure.
Let’s clarify. If someone wants to take your guns in Delaware, they need only accuse you of being dangerous. As soon as that happens, you get raided. You have no opportunity to defend yourself in a court of law. You have no rights. Due process is completely ignored.
After the fact, you can petition to get your guns back, but the law enforcement agency that took your guns is under no obligation to comply. The law protects them from forfeiture liability, so if the weapons are damaged or “lost,” you have no legal recourse.
Looking Ahead
Oregon’s victory will be short lived. The liberals still own the state and they’ll try again with a reworded petition. It’s only a matter of time before another outrageous anti-gun proposal makes it to the ballot.
As for Delaware, we can only hope that the law will be challenged and pushed to higher courts. No one in the state legislature had any qualms with destroying due process — much less assaulting the 2nd Amendment. If that law is eventually brought before the Supreme Court, there’s a fair chance it will die, but that’s no excuse for complacency.
It’s easy for gun owners to feel safe when Congress and the President are on their side. We can’t trust that protection. First, we need to vote in November. The Democrats have promised wholeheartedly to come for our guns if they win.
Even if they don’t, they’ll push this war in every state and local branch of government. They’ve had success in pockets all over the country, and they will never abandon their determination to fully dominate your life.
The only way forward is to continue to battle them at every juncture. Stay active in your community. There are some truly great organizations working to assemble 2nd Amendment advocates throughout the nation. Use them. If not, the police state of Delaware will only be the beginning.
~ American Gun News
Delaware: Biden Country… Pedophile country.
You forgot to include Vermont in the losses column. For hundreds of years we were the shining example of American GUN rights, we finally have governor willing to give in to the grabbers and start chipping away at our 2a rights in the name of “safety”. Were not being silent about it, wish us luck!
Can’t forget N.Y. State either. We have a CORRUPT “governor” that believes he is a “KING”, and his “court” of jesters bow and scrape to his every anti-gun “royal decree” (usually in the dead of night) He and his “followers” to me, are COMMUNISTS…PERIOD. The “mayor” of N.Y. city also thinks he too, is a “KING”. Both these fools are trying to “out-king” the other one to see who can CONTROL the people the most.
NY, CA, All the Blue State Gun free zone States are wrong and their power over the 2nd is null and void.#1 Their laws violate Commerce act laws and the Fed firearms protection act, prohibit State’s too overly controlling Private Citizens in the business of Buying selling manufacturing or tax overburden ammo sales. that Reagan Signed into law as he was educated by the NRA about Gun Control laws. and the 1902 Dicky act., if the American CO sheriffs would revise that law and create Citizen Militias within their Counties. the law under Federal protection that no Govt Supreme Fed or state can take or regulate any guns,
All this gun grabbing will backfire in one way or another. Even when these stupid laws are overturned, those who fight to do so will not forget WHO created these laws and who was an accomplice in getting these laws passed. So there goes those careers!!!
If the government breaks down, society fragments, we have civil war or infighting, those who are responsible will not be safe. They will be found, taken and incarcerated as traitors to the United States and violating the Second Amendment and whatever other illegal acts they may be guilty of.
People will choose to buy and sell and acquire firearms any legal way they can without paperwork or a paper trail. Guns will go underground. Guns will be stowed and hidden and we will see increased crime by criminals who will always have their guns available and always have more they can buy or sell. They will feel more confident about breaking into homes or robbing banks and stores. I just hope they choose to visit the rich people who abhor guns and violence and left us unarmed.
Anyone who wants to register and confiscate guns is someone who wants to, ultimately, disarm the public so that the public will be “sheep” to be led to the slaughter.
Look at the facts: It is, and has been for decades, illegal for a convicted felon to own a gun. Look at statistics, how many already convicted felons commit another crime with a gun. NO, a reputable Dealer will not sell to them. The “Black Market” doesn’t give a hoot, they will sell to anyone with the cash.