Universal Background Checks & Waiting Periods

This is what happens when you drop your guard!

There's been a bit of a kerflunkle on the Internet regarding superstar trainer Pat MacNamara's apparent support of a waiting period and universal background checks. So much so that MacNamara's video publisher, Panteao [with whom I have occasionally produced video, so be aware of that] felt obligated to answer the charges on AR15.com.

Frankly, we crucified Dick Metcalf and Jim Zumbo for a lot less.

Without going into MacNamara's sterling service to America as a legend in special forces, I want to, rather, specifically address what is wrong with "universal background checks" and "waiting periods." Let me sum it up very clearly — there is no such thing as "universal background checks" or "crimes of passion" prevented by a waiting period of any length. Both concepts are purely the creation of our blood enemies to incrementally rob us of our rights.

Regardless of who you are, if you accept the premise of either of those comments, you are playing into the hands of people who wish to destroy us. It is no different than saying, "You know, ISIS has a few good points if you look hard enough." Maybe they do, and there are indeed people who like cockroaches, too.

The concept of a "universal background check" has been thoroughly co-opted by what one might call the "Bloomberg Model" antigun legislation. We have extensive legal experience with the Bloomberg Model from our ultimately unsuccessful fight against it in Colorado. The Bloomberg Model, which is quite literally the only thing on the table, has nothing to do with "universal background checks." Instead, it seeks to criminalize numerous activities that gunowners have engaged in for decades, maybe centuries. The intent is to is a major attack on the gun culture itself. It does this by first off changing the definition of transfer.

Since its inception, ATF has defined a "transfer" as a "transfer of ownership," essentially the dictionary accepted definition of a transfer…I sell, trade, transfer ownership of a weapon to you. The Bloomberg Model replaces the common sense meaning of "transfer" with a completely different definition of of the word, "transfer of possession." Under the Bloomberg Model, if I hand you a gun, I have completed a "transfer;" to do so legally I need to have that simple action performed by an FFL. When you had the gun back to me, it needs to be done through an FFL. If we fail to include an FFL for both "transfers," we are guilty of Federal felonies.

This is a brilliant attack on the gun culture. Typically, we spread the culture by contact…I say this as the creator and manager of the NSSF Media Education Program, where I took antigun journalists to the range and taught them to shoot. It works, and it is how we spread our culture. By criminalizing that simple act, we find ourselves stymied, prevented from doing the very activities. we all took for granted the day before. "Universal background checks" are a weapon to destroy us!

To the best of my knowledge, every single "universal background check" initiative is based on the Bloomberg Model. Let me say that again — EVERY UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECK INITIATIVE IS BASED ON THE BLOOMBERG MODEL AND FUNDED BY BLOOMBERG SHELL ORGANIZATIONS. It clear enough for you? If you support such an initiative, you are siding with the Bloomberg machine against the NRA, against gun owners and ultimately against your own self-interest.

Ditto for the "crimes of passion" argument. The idea of a "crime of passion" is that a perfectly normal person is suddenly turned into a killer by the sudden rush of hormones, grabs (or races to the LGS, obtains a gun and shoots up, murders, whatever. In looking at the so-called "crimes of passions" over the years, especially examining them for THE BEST DEFENSE, instead of "perfectly normal people," what we repeatedly see is felons doing what felons do. In scratching the surface of crimes of passion we instead see long-term histories of petty crime, spousal abuse, escalating violence. "Crimes of passion" was originally a phrase applied to "hot-blooded peoples" like Hispanics and blacks, who allegedly were unable to control their passions. It was a lie then and it is a lie now.

Once again, to buy into the enemies' argument, to agree to the ememies' warping of language, is to play the enemies' game. If you play the enemies' game, you lose. We lose.

We have stopped losing in recent years because we have stopped playing the enemies' games. We choose the fight, we choose the battlefield, we reject the language of the enemy. That is how we win.

Because the pressure has been lifted with the election of Donald Trump and the seating of Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, there's a tendency to drop our guard.

I would ask any one of my friends who served in special forces on any one of the far-flung hellholes we sent them to, what are the consequences of dropping your guard?

Hi! I'm Back!

Well, sorta…for the next couple of months I will be in and out of the country like a yo-yo on a very long string. Every place I'm going says they have wi-fi…more or less…often less than more. I'll do my best, either here on on Facebook (https://m.facebook.com/michael.bane.395), which is sometimes easier from a phone.

On London…I got nothing…if you choose to be sheep, you will be led to the slaughter. London is probably my favorite city in the whole world; I have my favorite restaurants, my favorite pubs, the British Museum. But let's be honest here. England is a country that made a profound choice, to make violence the exclusive property of the State. Even in clear-cut incidences of self-defense, the State has maintained that monololy. ONLY THE STATE CAN EXERCISE VIOLENCE, and there are no exceptions.

The problem with this mindset, this legal determination, is that it requires everyone to accept that ruleset. Enter Islam, a 7th Century warrior sect whose founding principle can be summed up as "Islam or death." When 2 rulesets collide, the most vigorous — the most violent — will inevitably prevail.

The endless "We can't let the terrorists win by changing our lifestyle, our ruleset," memes are patent nonsense. Islam's violence has already changed us and changed our country and our culture…every time we step though the security theatre of TSA, every time we go to a public place, we feel those effects.  And in England, we see the effects of cascading failures.

I thought this article from John Moody at Fox is telling:

For far too long, Western societies, including in the United States, have tried to rationalize what has now become an avalanche of violent hatred of democratic freedom, basic human rights, and freedom to choose if and how to worship. We have asked if some of this is our fault, if we haven’t listened to the voices of religious extremism, or if we have failed to understand their message. The result in Britain: government officials estimate there are more than 20,000 jihadists living among the population. 

Here’s their message: We hate you and want to kill you.

That's why I got nothing on London, or Manchester, or the other Ramadan deaths around the world. The International Left, regardless of country, has made there choice to stand with the terrorists, the murderers of children, the beheaders, the destroyers of our shared past. Illegal immigrants now have a legal status higher than American citizens Don't believe me? Here in Colorado our Governor, always mentioned in the same breath as a potential Democratic Presidential candidate, pardoned a violent felon to keep him from being deported.

Why?

I'm pretty sure Governor Hickenlooper would not take such a drastic action in my behalf. Yet we have the spectacle of mayors and even governors around the country standing up and saying they are will to bend, or ignore, America laws in favor of people who shouldn't be here at all.

Islam in its most violent manifestation is an existential threat to our lives specifically because it bends the State around its bloody fingers. It allows the State to grow in the direction it has always desired — more intrusion, more surveillance,  more control. The reason we see statements like the Muslim mayor of London or Barack Obama or the French leaders that terrorism is "just one of those things," like a tornado or a garbage strike, is that terrorism ultimately works in their favor, e.g., they get what they want by having a small percentage of their citizens slaughtered by the ghosts of Islam's past.

For those of us wandering around the slaughterhouse who may take issue with that prevailing wisdom, there is but one certainty — WE ARE ON OUR OWN!

Don't worry…the power of the State will be arriving in 8 minutes...