Fella's;
I see a number of threads on the site that constantly ask what was the last gun you bought? What did you find? Whatcha got? And I understand the desire of many members to simply talk about & exchange information about their guns. But, in today's information enviroment, I avoid these threads. There's verifiable information that our government is aquiring mind-boggling quantities of data storage space, and the whole NSA domestic information gathering isn't somebody's tin-foil cap idea either.
Quite frankly, if you've got a pre-GCA68 firearm that there's probably, or certainly, no Federal record of, there's no need to tell the world about it these days. If you just purchased a modern firearm face-to-face, you've broken the paper trail, provided you didn't sign anything with the seller. Why create the possibility that the record can be picked up through your own actions on the internet?
If you think that the whole idea of firearms registration/confiscation is hokum and I'm straining at gnats, go ahead. But do realize that in the past, our Federal government has specifically stated that no records shall be made of firearms transactions. That was seriously eroded by the Gun Control Act of 1968 of course. For many of our members, GCA-68 is the norm, never having experienced firearms ownership without it. And therefore they don't see the form 4473 as a big deal. However, it is a very big deal in that it directly compromises the intent of the founders of this nation concerning citizen firearms ownership. Don't think so? Study the Federalist Papers, an interesting set of documents that gets very short shrift in our public schools these days.
So what's your opinion? Tell all, or say nothing?
900F
I see a number of threads on the site that constantly ask what was the last gun you bought? What did you find? Whatcha got? And I understand the desire of many members to simply talk about & exchange information about their guns. But, in today's information enviroment, I avoid these threads. There's verifiable information that our government is aquiring mind-boggling quantities of data storage space, and the whole NSA domestic information gathering isn't somebody's tin-foil cap idea either.
Quite frankly, if you've got a pre-GCA68 firearm that there's probably, or certainly, no Federal record of, there's no need to tell the world about it these days. If you just purchased a modern firearm face-to-face, you've broken the paper trail, provided you didn't sign anything with the seller. Why create the possibility that the record can be picked up through your own actions on the internet?
If you think that the whole idea of firearms registration/confiscation is hokum and I'm straining at gnats, go ahead. But do realize that in the past, our Federal government has specifically stated that no records shall be made of firearms transactions. That was seriously eroded by the Gun Control Act of 1968 of course. For many of our members, GCA-68 is the norm, never having experienced firearms ownership without it. And therefore they don't see the form 4473 as a big deal. However, it is a very big deal in that it directly compromises the intent of the founders of this nation concerning citizen firearms ownership. Don't think so? Study the Federalist Papers, an interesting set of documents that gets very short shrift in our public schools these days.
So what's your opinion? Tell all, or say nothing?
900F
