THEY ARE COMING FOR OUR GUNS
MichaelConnelly.Jigsy.com
It
is official. 2015 is the year that progressives will
make an all-out push to quash the Second Amendment
and disarm the American people. I have been
reporting on my blog for the last several years
about the ground work that has been laid including
the escalating efforts to disarm our veterans, the
issuing of illegal Executive Orders by Obama to
limit gun rights, the movement to get individual
states to pass and enforce unconstitutional limits
on gun ownership, and the signing of the UN Small
Arms treaty.
Now
they are ready to make their move and I predict it
will consist of a number of assaults on the American
people. In fact, some of them are already in the
works:
1.
The
DOJ is floating the claim that the UN Small Arms
Treaty is now the law of the land despite the fact
that it has never been submitted to the U.S. Senate
for ratification by a two thirds majority as
required by the U. S. Constitution. This means that
Obama plans to enforce the provisions of the treaty
without ratification and despite the fact that in
1957 the Supreme Court ruled that no treaty, even if
signed by the President and ratified by the Senate
can override the protection of individual rights
guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution.
2.
Obama’s enforcement of the UN treaty will include
prohibiting the importation of firearms or
replacement parts from other countries into the U.S,
and providing a list to the UN of all American gun
owners, importers, and exporters. In order to
legally facilitate this, Congress would have to
repeal the ban on funding of a national gun
registration. However, I believe Obama plans on
doing this by another illegal and unconstitutional
Executive Order.
3.
To
continue and escalate the effort to disarm American
veterans. The private medical records of veterans
are being turned over illegally to the FBI so that
they can be put on the NICS list of people who
cannot legally purchase firearms because of mental
illness. However, mental illness of these veterans
is based on minor PTSD, suffering from minor
depression, or even letting their spouses pay the
family bills. There is no adjudication of mental
illness to the point of being a danger to themselves
or others as required by law.
4.
Veterans are also being required to tell the VA if
they own firearms, how they feel about the federal
government and/or the Obama administration and in
some cases forced to submit to a strip search to
determine if they have any “radical tattoos”. No
definition of what constitutes a radical tattoo is
provided.
5.
Obama has by an illegal and unconstitutional
amendment to the Affordable Care Act overridden the
prohibition on doctors to question their patients
about gun ownership. Obama has called on
pediatricians to question children about whether
their parents have a gun in their home. Just
recently I have also learned that seniors newly
enrolling in Medicare are being required, when they
go to a doctor for a routine physical, to take a
test to determine if they are showing signs of
Alzheimer’s disease. The questions include repeating
a sequence of numbers and letters and other memory
type questions and then there is the question about
whether they own a firearm. Obviously, this
information is then sent to the Federal government.
6.
Obama has also issued an Executive order that is
being enforced by new HHS regulations that virtually
set aside the HIPP law that protects the privacy of
medical records. Under these new regulations, if
your records contain anything indicating you have
ever been depressed, had PTSD or taken certain
medications your records will be turned over to the
FBI and you will be put on the NICS list. This will
apply to everyone, not just veterans.
7.
Obama also has the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms changing the definition of mental illness
to provide that anyone can be declared mentally ill
to the point of being a danger to themselves or
others for any reason without an adjudication of any
kind, and therefore can be prohibited from owning
firearms. This is already happening in states like
New York that have adopted similar laws and
regulations. A citizen of New York has been declared
mentally ill and had his guns seized because he was
seeking treatment for insomnia.
8.
In
the meantime, we have a Republican Senator casting
the deciding vote to confirm Obama’s appointment of
a Surgeon General who believes that gun ownership
constitutes a health threat. We have the EPA moving
to control the manufacture of ammunition because it
claims that the use of lead in ammo produces a
threat to the environment.
9.
The
Department of Justice will continue its campaign to
force banks to deny loans and even bank accounts to
firearms dealers and will continue to harass them in
other ways to force them out of business.
In
other words, multiple resources of the Federal
Government and some state governments are going to
be used to take our firearms, but we can and must
fight back. As the Executive Director of the United
States Justice Foundation (www.usjf.net)
I plan on taking the following actions to:
A.
Contact members of the U.S. Senate and urge them to
refile the “Veterans Second Amendment Protection
Act” that will stop the efforts of the VA to disarm
America’s heroes. This law was previously defeated
by Democrats in the Senate.
B.
Continue our representation of individual veterans
in their fights to reverse declarations that they
are incompetent to handle their own financial
affairs and cannot own firearms. We have won some
recent victories in this effort.
C.
File
suits against the VA, FBI, DHS, and DOD to force
them to comply with our Freedom of Information Act
requests to gain documents about the attacks on
veterans by these agencies.
D.
Continue
our involvement in lawsuits against states that are
implementing and enforcing unconstitutional gun
control laws.
E.
Offer our support to any members of Congress who
file suit against Obama to stop his use of illegal
Executive Orders to implement gun control and other
unconstitutional actions.
F.
Continue to support the Constitutional Sheriffs and
Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) in their efforts
to recruit law enforcement leaders around the
country to pledge that they will not allow
unconstitutional laws or regulations to be enforced
in their jurisdictions.