The Brady Campaign's shopping list revealed

After Barack Obama won election in November, gun owners and potential gun owners were mocked by many anti-gun people for stocking up on firearms and ammunition that they believed an Obama Administration, in concert with a Democratic Congress, would attempt to ban or restrict.

Paul Helmke, the head of the Brady Campaign, went so far as to label the fact that gun-owners were frantically buying weapons they feared would be outlawed "ridiculous", and stated that "We just want to make it harder for dangerous people to get dangerous guns."

Oh, really?

Here's the table of contents from a memo, pulled directly from the Brady website, that outlines just what they want to have happen in the first months of Obama's term:

THE CASE FOR COMMON SENSE GUN LAWS............................................................1

PART ONE: REVERSING THE DAMAGE DONE DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION..............................................................................................................2

REPEAL THE TIAHRT AMENDMENT’S UNWARRANTED RESTRICTIONS ON ATF............2

REPEAL RESTRICTIONS ON DISCLOSURE OF CRIME GUN DATA..............................2

REPEAL THE 24-HOUR BRADY RECORD DESTRUCTION REQUIREMENT................2-3

REPEAL THE PROHIBITION ON ATF’S POWER TO REQUIRE DEALER INVENTORY AUDITS.....................................................................................................................3

REPEAL NEW RULES ALLOWING CONCEALED CARRY IN NATIONAL PARKS...............3-4

REPEAL OR AMEND THE FEDERAL GUN INDUSTRY LEGAL PROTECTION STATUTE
TO RESTORE EQUAL JUSTICE FOR GUN VIOLENCE VICTIMS...........................................4

PART TWO: MOVING FORWARD TO REDUCE CRIME AND PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE............................................................................................................................5

EXTEND AND STRENGTHEN BRADY BACKGROUND CHECKS TO KEEP GUNS FROM DANGEROUS PURCHASERS.................................................................................................5

EXTEND BRADY BACKGROUND CHECKS TO ALL GUN SALES, INCLUDING ALL
GUN SHOW SALES....................................................................................................5

FULLY FUND THE NICS IMPROVEMENT ACT..........................................................6

CLOSE THE "TERROR GAP" TO DENY FIREARMS TO TERRORISTS..........................6

PROHIBIT GUN POSSESSION BY VIOLENT MISDEMEANANTS AND PERSONS
CONVICTED OF VIOLENT ACTS AS JUVENILES........................................................7

STRENGTHEN ATF AUTHORITY TO REGULATE DEALERS, CRACK DOWN ON
CORRUPT DEALERS, AND FIGHT GUN TRAFFICKING........................................................7

RESTRICT LARGE-VOLUME HANDGUN SALES TO REDUCE TRAFFICKING...............7

GIVE ATF STRONGER AND MORE FLEXIBLE AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE THE
LAW AGAINST CORRUPT DEALERS...........................................................................8

STRENGTHEN ATF’S ABILITY TO CRACK DOWN ON GUN DEALERS WHO SELL TO STRAW PURCHASERS................................................................................................8

REQUIRE GUN OWNERS TO REPORT LOST OR STOLEN GUNS...............................8-9

REQUIRE LICENSED DEALERS TO ADOPTMINIMUM SECURITY SAFEGUARDS TO PREVENT GUN THEFTS............................................................................................9

REQUIRE LICENSED GUN MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS TO PERFORM BACKGROUND CHECKS ON THEIR EMPLOYEES.......................................................9

PREVENT DEALERS FROM LIQUIDATING THEIR INVENTORY WITHOUT
BACKGROUND CHECKS AFTER THEIR LICENSES HAVE BEEN REVOKED...........9-10

STRENGTHEN TRACING OF CRIME GUNS TO HELP LAW ENFORCEMENT SOLVE
CRIMES.............................................................................................................................10

REQUIRE ALL NEW GUNS TO HAVE MICROSTAMPING CAPABILITY BY A DATE CERTAIN ................................................................................................................10

REQUIRE DEALERS TO REPORT INFORMATION ABOUT GUNS SOLD TO MANUFACTURERS TO STREAMLINE TRACING OF CRIME GUNS.............................10

RESTRICT MILITARY-STYLE WEAPONS..........................................................................11

REQUIRE CONSUMER SAFETY STANDARDS AND CHILDPROOF SAFETY FEATURES
FOR FIREARMS..................................................................................................................11

REQUIRE MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS FOR HANDGUN OWNERS AND IMPROVE RECORDKEEPING OF HANDGUN TRANSFERS..............................................................11-12

IMPROVE NATIONAL VIOLENT DEATH REPORTING SYSTEM DATA, AND RESTORE FIREARMS RESEARCH FUNDING FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION.....................................................................................................................12


Still with me? That's quite a list from people who only wish for us to adopt a few "sensible" changes.

Repeal, repeal, repeal, strengthen, expand, require, "improve" and my favorite, "restrict", which is just the Bradyites' fancy term for "ban".

Yep, just a few "common-sense laws on guns". No draconian and onerous, freedom-sapping changes here whatsoever. Keep on moving, citizen.

Laughably, Helmke et al claim in the memo's introduction that all of these proposed new regulations "pose no threat to the interests of law-abiding gun owners".

Sure, sure. Unless one wishes to own a semiautomatic rifle, or wants to sell a firearm to a law-abiding friend or relative without expensive and intrusive government involvement, or who plans to buy a firearm without identifying technology such as "microstamping" that has been proven to be unworkable, or who vacations in public national parks and desires to retain the right to self-defense in remote areas where law enforcement isn't present, or who wants a firearm without a malfunctioning child-proof lock, or who sees the danger and folly in giving even more money and power to the original "Jack-Booted Thug" government agency, the BATFE.

Nope, no threat to any law-abiding gun owner's interests in that exhaustive list whatsoever. Oh, and in case anyone thinks that this is all the Bradyites wish to enact, you would be quite mistaken. They admit right in the introduction that this is just a jumping-off point:

"This memo is not intended to present an exhaustive list of effective measures that can be taken to reduce gun violence, but does provide a starting point for consideration"

A starting point to what? Mandatory registration of all firearms, and then eventual confiscation, which has already happened in England and Australia and is currently underway in Canada. That's the ultimate goal of the Brady Campaign, no matter what lies they'll state right to your face.

Please get ready to fight back against this coordinated attack on everyone's natural-born and Second-Amendment protected right of self-defense. It's coming soon, folks.