Public Safety – Rifles and Shotguns – Transactions
FOR the purpose of providing that a person who is not a certain licensee may not complete
4 the transfer of a certain rifle or shotgun in a certain role, except under certain
5 circumstances; requiring, before a certain transfer is conducted, the transfer or and
6 transferee to meet jointly with a certain licensee and request that the licensee
7 facilitate the transfer; requiring a certain licensee to take certain actions when
8 facilitating a certain transfer; authorizing a certain transfer or to remove a certain
9 rifle or shotgun from certain premises under certain circumstances; prohibiting a
10 certain licensee and transfer or from completing a certain transfer if a certain
11 background check has a certain result; authorizing a certain transfer or to remove a
12 certain rifle or shotgun from certain premises if a certain background check has a
13 certain result; authorizing a certain licensee to charge a reasonable fee for
14 facilitating a certain transfer; establishing certain penalties for violating this Act
15 and for providing false information while conducting a transfer under this Act;
16 excluding certain transfers from the scope of this Act; prohibiting a licensee or any
17 other person from selling, renting, or transferring a certain rifle or shotgun for a
18 certain period of time following the execution of a federal firearms transaction
19 record; requiring a person who sells, rents, or transfer a certain rifle or shotgun to
20 forward a certain written notification of the transaction to the Secretary of State
21 Police within a certain amount of time; requiring the Secretary to maintain a
22 permanent record of all notifications received in the State; prohibiting a person from
23 purchasing more than one certain rifle or shotgun in a 30–day period; providing for
24 certain exceptions to the prohibition on purchasing more than one certain rifle or
25 shotgun in a 30–day period; requiring a certain person who moves into the State to
26 register certain rifles and shotguns with the Secretary within a certain period of
27 time; requiring the Secretary to prepare and provide a certain application for
28 registering rifles and shotguns; providing that certain registration data is not open
29 to public inspection; prohibiting a certain person from selling, renting, or
30 transferring a certain rifle or shotgun unless the person presents a long gun...
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36 comments:
Hey Hogan what say U ???????????????????
This better get SHOT down by Republicans and Hogan .....and why is Mike Lee on this Bill ????
Certain lawmakers should be locked in a certain jail.
This should be on top.
Dave T: Pack this bill with any survival gear you may have in case you run out of toilet paper! The only thing better would be photos of our politicians. I can think of no better purpose for such garbage.
Maryland is just a little commie California
Gibberish
WHO doesn't think a revolution is in order and desperately needed to rid this nation of these Gestapo wanna-be's???
They absolutely no respect for the Constitution, individual liberty, or limited government.
"We, the people" are not even on their radar as they continue to press their boot upon our necks.
Millions cheer.
I'm getting ANOTHER gun today AND a crate of ammo.
And I'm not complying with any of their sh**.
I highly recommend you do the same.
I also recommend opening fire on anyone knocking loudly on your door at 4AM.
This has gotten totally out of control.
Start the hanging. Now.
imclain, you do realize the government tracks everything you say and do? every credit card purchase, everywhere you go (phone). every website you visit, every call for revolution? They know who you are and they will make sure when the time comes you are one of the first they silence. See houston, waco, ruby ridge! Better to keep your mouth shut and prepare. to late for you! but not for others!
There are certainly are some idiots in the Md. senate. Politicians who write bills like that have only one thing in mind,complete disarmament of the citizens. It's time the Democrats who control Md. politics take a long hard look at reality.
This will pass just as the Handgun Qualification Licence did in 2013. Look at history. The goal is registration of all firearms so that, when the time comes, the state police, local police and others can kick your door and the confiscations begin. Once the guns are only in the hands of the powers that be, you will be absolutely controlled, maybe imprisoned, maybe killed. Imclain is right in that hard change may be on the horizon. In the meantime, if you are inclined, buy firearms anonymously, buy them in common calibers, i.e. 9mm, 5.56, 12 guage. Buy 80% complete firearms and build them yourself. Three a year are (permissable) Buy ammunition and cache these items away from your home. Better yet, vote with your feet and move somewhere they wouldn't dream of trying this nonsense.
8:55 is right, but some must speak up in order to inspire others to think for themselves.
I have a 22 caliber rifle that has been in my family almost a hundred years and those stupid Democrats don't want me to hand it down to one my kids with the government being involved.BULL S#IT.
I'm hoping they see what I write and say.
I want to see which short little hero wants to be the one knocking on my door and I want to be the one who is waiting for them with a greeting they deserve.
My dogs will let me know they are here before they get within 20 yards.
SOMEONE has to stand and fight.
The people on their knees who think we can vote our way out of this are delusion and dreaming. We will need to fight our way to freedom again, just like it's always been.
I bet they get REALLY angry at my phone conversations.
And all - ALL --- of my weapons and ammo are purchased IN CASH.
Want them??
Come and get them.
The Mathematics of Countering Tyranny
James Wesley Rawles May 15, 2018 Print This Post Email This Post Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit Google LinkedIn LinkedIn
Introductory Proviso: The following essay on possible gun confiscation is a purely conjectural gedankenexperiment about the future that extrapolates from recent history and current trends. Nothing herein is seditious (per 18 U.S. Code § 2384), nor a call to arms, nor a threat to our government or to any individual, agency, or group.
The Collectivist Dream
The current mass media-driven “debate” on firearms (actually more like paternalistic lecturing or chiding) seems to be leading toward greater restrictions by Congress. The collectivist gun grabbers have the dream of ignoring the Second Amendment and somehow magically removing all detachable magazine semi-auto rifles from civilian hands. But it is just that: a dream. If they think that they can disarm us, then they are thoroughly deluded. I’ll explain why, with some simple mathematics.
The United States has the world’s first or second most heavily-armed populace, per capita. (It’s possibly second only to Yemen.) The number of FBI firearms background checks for transfers by Federally-licensed dealers from November 1998 to April 30, 2018 totaled 287,807,015. That isn’t all new guns. It of course includes many second-hand sales that cycled back through FFL holders. But it is still a staggering number. And it does not include any private party (“not through a dealer”) sales of used guns. That is thankfully legal in most states. Nor does it include guns that are legally made at home. (Typically made with 80% complete receivers.) Those home “builds” are becoming quite popular. Their ownership is mostly opaque to any would-be tyrants who might covet seizing them.
There are somewhere between 370 million and 420 million privately-owned firearms in the United States. Let’s just call it 400 million for a nice round figure. Most of those guns are not registered to particular owners. That is why there are only rough estimates. It makes me feel good to know that Big Brother has no idea where those guns are, and who owns them. When I last checked, the total U.S. population is 327,708,500. So that is about 1.2 guns per person. The adult population is around 249,500,000. And according to Wikipedia, the “Fit for service” Military Age Male population (men, ages 16-49) of the U.S. is just 59,764,677. That equates to 6.6 guns per Military Age Male in the United States.
Of the 400 million American guns, roughly 20% are single-shot or double-barreled, 60% are manually-operated repeaters (e.g., bolt action, lever action, pump action, or revolvers), and 20% are semi-automatic. There are only about 175,000 transferable Federally-registered full autos. That number would have been much larger by now but production was sharply curtailed by a hefty $200 tax (starting in 1934) and then there numbers were effectively frozen in 1986. It is noteworthy that if it were not for the National Firearms Act of 1934, selective fire guns would by now be in what the Heller decision calls “common use“. After all, it costs only a few dollars more to manufacture a selective-fire M16 than a semiautomatic-only AR-15.
With every passing year, the predominance of semi-autos is gaining for both rifles and handguns. (In sheer numbers produced, revolvers are becoming almost passé.) The biggest-selling handgun in the country is the Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm, followed closely by the Glock Model 19 9mm. Gaining rapidly is the highly modular SIG P320, which was recently adopted by the U.S. Army. All three of these are semi-automatic. Standard magazine sizes for autopistols range from 13 to 20 rounds. And the most popular rifles of the decade are AR-15s and their clones. Their standard capacity magazines hold 30 cartridges. (That isn’t “high capacity”.)
The Math On AR Clones
AR-15 and AR-10 variants are truly generic and have been sold under more than 120 brand names. The number of ARs (AR-15s, M4s, AR-10s, and variants) sold from 2000 to 2014 was approximately 5,672,900. Since then, AR-15 clones have become even more popular and ubiquitous with approximately 1.2 million more produced in 2015, 1.6 million in 2016, and 1.5 million in 2017. At least 1.2 million will be produced in 2018. It can be assumed that 99% of the ARs produced since the year 2000 are still functional. There were more than 2.3 million other ARs produced for the civilian market between 1962 and 1999. It is safe to assume that at least 95% of those of that vintage are still functional. So the total number of functional ARs in private hands in the U.S. is somewhere around 11 to 12 million. (As of May, 2018.)
Some Math on Other Semi-Autos
Next we come to the more fuzzy math on the wide variety of other models of semi-auto centerfire rifles in private hands. They include detachable magazine, en bloc clip, and stripper clip-fed designs. Here are some rough estimates. (Some of these estimates are based on my own observations of the ratios of different models I’ve seen offered for sale):
Various semi-auto hunting rifles (Remington 740/7400 series, AK Hunter, Browning BAR, Winchester 100, Valmet Hunter, Saiga Hunter, HK SL7/SL8, HK 630/770, et cetera): 2 million+
Ruger Mini-14 and Mini-30: 1.2 million
M1 Garand: 800,000+ (With many more being imported, soon.)
AK Variants (imported and domestically made, from all makers including Valmet and Galil): 2 to 3 million
M1 Carbine: 1.5 to 2 million
AR-180 and AR-180B: 35,000
M1A and other semi-auto M14 variants: 360,000
SIG 550 series: 80,000+
Thompson Semi-Autos (West Hurley and Kahr Arms): 75,000
HK variants: CETME, HK91/93/94 series, PTR91, etc.: 600,000 to 700,000
FAL variants: FN-FAL, FNC, and L1A1: 425,000
SKS variants: 1 million
Steyr AUG: 110,000
IWI Tavor & X95: 70,000
Various semi-autos assembled from military surplus full auto parts sets (M1919, BAR, Sten, M2 Browning, M3, Etc.): 75,000+
Assorted Other Models (These include: Kel-Tec, Barrett, Leader, FAMAS, Uzi carbines, Wilkinson, Feather, Calico, Hi-Point, SIG AMT, SIG PE57, SIG MCX, SIG MPX, Johnson, BM59, HK USC, TNW, Demro Tac-1, Calico Carbine, ACR, SCAR, Chiappa Carbine, SWD (MAC), Robinson, Hakim, Ljungman, Beretta AR-70, Beretta CX4, CZ Scorpion, Kriss Carbine, FN-49, SVT-40, SVD, PSL, Gewehr 41 & 43, Daewoo, FS 2000, Ruger PCR, Marlin Camp Carbine, et cetera): 2+ million.
The Aggregate GUN Math
Totaling the list above and adding it to the preceding estimate on ARs, there are 20 million semi-auto centerfire rifles that are in civilian hands here in the States. And that number is increasing by nearly 2 million per year. (More than half of which are AR-15 or AR-10 clones.) Again looking at the Military Age Male population (men, ages 16-49) of 59,764,677, that equates to roughly one semi-auto rifle for every three Military Age Males.
If a production and importation ban requiring registration were enacted, there would surely be massive noncompliance. For example, the registration schemes enacted in the past two decades in Australia, Canada, The Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, and the States of California and New York have been well-documented failures. They have been met with noncompliance rates ranging from 50% to 90%.
Even with an optimistic 50% registration compliance rate, that would mean only 10 million of the nation’s 20 million semi-auto rifles would have a current name and address attached, to allow eventual gun confiscation.
Let us surmise that following several years of a registration scheme there were an outright “turn them all in, Mr. and Mrs. America” ban. I predict that even if $1,000 per gun were offered, no more than 11 million would be turned in, by compliant and history-ignorant Sheeple. (An aside: They’ll probably call this a “Buy Back”, but that will be a lie. They can’t “buy back” something that they’ve never owned.)
But that would still leave at least 9 million in circulation, as contraband.
The SWAT and ATF Manpower Math
So let’s suppose that a full Federal semi-auto rifle ban were enacted with a gun confiscation order issued.
This is where the math gets very interesting: There are only 902,000 sworn police officers in the United States. At most, about 80,000 of them have had SWAT training. There are only 5,113 BATFE employees–and many of those are mere paper shufflers. As of 2017, there were just 2,623 ATF Special Agents. The FBI’s notorious Hostage Rescue Team (HRT or “Hurt Team”) has a cadre strength that is classified but presumably less than 200 agents. Together, they comprise the pool of “Door Kickers” that might be available to execute unconstitutional search warrants.
If they were to start going door-to-door executing warrants for unconstitutional gun confiscation, what would the casualty rates be for the ATF, HRT, and the assorted local SWAT teams? It bears mention that the military would be mostly out of the picture, since they are banned from domestic law enforcement roles, under the Posse Comitatus Act.
The Division Equations
Next, let’s do some addition and then divide:
80,000 SWAT-trained police
+ 2,623 ATF Special Agents
+ 200 FBI HRT Members
= 82,863 Potentially Available Door Kickers
… presumably working in teams of 8, attempting to seize 9,000,000 newly-contraband semi-auto rifles.
Before we finish the math, I’ll state some “for the sake of argument” assumptions:
That every SWAT-trained officer in the country is pressed into service.
That there would be no “false positives”–meaning that 100% of the tips leading to raids were accurate. (Unlikely)
That no local police departments would opt out of serving unconstitutional Federal gun warrants. (Unlikely)
That all raids would be successful. (Unlikely)
That each successful raid would net an average of three contraband semi-auto rifles. (Possible)
That every Door Kicker would get an equal share in the work. (Very unlikely)
That every Door Kicker would be alive and well through the entire campaign of terror–with no incapacitating injuries or deaths of SWAT officers, no refusals, no resignations, and no early retirements. (Very unlikely)
A lot of those are not safe assumptions. But for the sake of completing a gedankenexperiment, let’s pen this out on the back of a napkin, as a “best case” for an unconstitutional gun confiscation campaign. Here are the division equations:
9,000,000 ÷ 82,863 = 108 (x 8 officers per team) = 864 raids, per officer
Let that sink in: Every officer would have to survive 864 gun-grabbing raids.
Those of course are fanciful numbers. There will be a lot of false tips, and there will be many owners who keep their guns very well-hidden. Each of those raids would have nearly the same high level of risk but yet many of them would net zero guns. And it is likely that many police departments will wisely decline involvement. Therefore the “best case” figure of 864 raids per officer is quite low. The real number would be much higher.
How long would it be until mounting law enforcement casualties triggered a revolt or “sick-out” among the rank and file Door Kickers? For some historical context: Just four ATF agents were killed and 16 wounded in the Waco raid, and that was considered quite “devastating” and “traumatizing” to the 5,000-member agency.
Here is some sobering ground truth: America’s gun owners are just as well trained–and often better trained–than the police. There are 20.4 million American military veterans, and the majority of veterans own guns.
Resistance Strategy and Tactics
Rather than meeting the police one-at-a-time on their doorsteps, I predict that resisting gun owners will employ guerilla warfare strategy and tactics to foil the plans of the gun grabbers:
1.) They will successfully hide the majority of their banned guns. This is just what many Europeans did, following World War II. There are perhaps a million guns in Europe that were never registered or turned in, after the war. Particularly in Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Spain, and Greece, there is still massive noncompliance. It has now been 73 years since the end of WWII. So the gun registration noncompliance in Europe is now multi-generational.
2.) They will form small, fully independent “phantom” resistance cells. This is commonly called leaderless resistance. Such cells are very difficult to detect or penetrate. These resistance cells will carefully choose the time and location of their attacks, to their advantage.
3.) They will individually target the legislators who voted for unconstitutional gun ban legislation. This will make it almost suicidal for these legislators to return to their home districts.
4.) They will individually target any outspokenly anti-gun police chiefs.
5.) They will target all BATF agents and FBI HRT agents–first with intimidation, and then with targeted killings.
6.) They will pillage or burn down the facilities where confiscated guns are being stored and destroyed.
7.) They will anonymously phone in false police reports about gun control advocates. (This is commonly called “SWATing.”)
8.) They will use time-delayed explosives, time-delayed incendiaries, time-delayed bursting toxin containers, cell phone-triggered IEDs, computer program worms and viruses, and long-range standoff weapons to minimize the risk of being detected, apprehended, or killed. Likely targets will be Federal buildings, courthouses, SWAT training facilities, police training ranges, and especially the private residences of anyone deemed to be a gun-grabber.
9.) They will use anonymous re-mailers and VPN to encourage others to resist by forming their own leaderless resistance cells.
10.) They will begin a War of Attrition on the Door Kickers, with tactics such as these:
A.) Ambushing SWAT vehicles while in transit, rather than waiting for the SWAT teams to set up raids.
B.) Ambushing individual SWAT team members at unexpected times and places–most likely at their homes.
C.) Sabotaging SWAT vehicles, most likely with time-delayed incendiaries.
D.) Targeting SWAT teams or individual team members while they are at home, in training, or when attending conventions.
E.) Harassing and intimidating individual SWAT team members and their families. The systematic burning of their privately-owned vehicles and their unoccupied homes and vacation cabins will be unmistakable threats.
11.) They will individually target “gun control” advocates, organizers, and group leaders.
12.) They will individually target the judges that issue gun seizure warrants.
13.) They will individually target journalists who have vocally advocated civilian disarmament.
14.) Some owners of M1 Carbines, AR-15s and HKs in the resistance movement will convert them to selective fire. (They will assume: “Well, if it is now a felony to possess a semi-auto, then what is the harm in making it a full auto?”)
15.) They will be willing to wage an ongoing guerilla warfare campaign using both passive and active resistance until the collectivists relent. This would be something like “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, but on a larger scale, with greater ferocity, and with far more weapons readily available. Unlike the IRA, which had to import arms, all of the the firearms, magazines, and ammunition needed for any American resistance movement are already in situ. It is noteworthy that the agreed “Decommissioning” the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was delayed for more than five years because of their remaining caches of arms, which by then included only around 1,000 battle rifles!)
The Gun Confiscation End Game
I believe that once it was started, the whole affray would be settled within just a few weeks or months. American gun owners clearly have the numbers on their side. Once the shooting starts, the gun-hating politicians will quickly feel isolated, vastly outnumbered, and incredibly vulnerable. And when they realize they’ve lost their Door Kicker shock troops, they will capitulate. After some horrendous casualties in a brief but fierce civil war, the politicians would be forced to:
Declare a cease fire and stand-down for all gun confiscation raiders.
Repeal all Federal gun laws.
Order the destruction of all Federal import, purchase, transfer, and registration records
Issue unconditional pardons for all convicted Federal gun law violators.
Declare a general amnesty for all involved in the resistance, and drop all pending charges.
Disband the BATFE.
Without all six of those, the hostilities would continue.
But There’s More
The foregoing math on the roughly 20 million semi-auto rifles is not the full extent of the problem for the gun grabbers. Additionally, there are at least 50 million centerfire handguns that would be suitable for resistance warfare. (And another 3 million being made or imported each year.) There are also perhaps 40 million scoped centerfire deer rifles in private hands. The vast majority of those have no traceable paper trail. Fully capable of 500+ yard engagement, these rifles could be employed to out-range the tyrants and their minions.
Then there are the estimated 1.5 million unregistered machineguns now in the country. Except for a 30-day amnesty in 1968 that generated only about 65,000 registrations, they have been contraband since 1934. Their number is particularly difficult to accurately estimate, since some semi-autos such as the M1 Carbine, HK91/93/94 series, and AR-15 are fairly easy to convert to selective fire. Similarly, nearly all “open bolt” semi-auto designs are easy to convert to full auto. Large numbers of conversion parts sets have been sold, with little recordkeeping. Some guns can be converted simply by removing sear springs or filing their sears. Just a trickle of unregistered full autos are seized or surrendered each year. This begs the question: If Federal officials have been unable to round up un-papered machineguns after 84 years, then how do they expect to ever confiscate semi-autos, which are 15 times more commonplace?
As evidenced by the 1990s wars in the Balkans, when times get inimical, contraband guns get pulled out of walls and put into use. We can expect to see the same, here.
Now, to get back to the simple mathematics, here are some ratios to ponder:
NRA members (5.2 million) to Door Kickers (82,863) = 63-to-1 ratio
Military veterans (20.4 million) to Door Kickers (82,863) = 249-to-1 ratio
Unregistered machineguns (1.5 million) to Door Kickers (82,863) = 18-to-1 ratio
Privately owned semi-auto rifles (40 million) to Door Kickers (82,863) = 485-to-1 ratio
Unintended Consequences
The mathematics that I’ve cited don’t bode well for the gun-grabbing collectivists. If they ever foolishly attempt to confiscate semi-auto rifles, then it will be “Game On” for Civil War 2. I can foresee that they would run out of willing Door Kickers, very quickly.
I’ll conclude with a word of caution: Leftist American politicians should be careful about what they wish for. Those who hate the 2nd Amendment and scheme to disarm us have no clue about the unintended consequences of their plans. If they proceed, then I can foresee that it will end very badly for them. – JWR
End Notes:
Again, the preceding is a purely conjectural gedankenexperiment about the future that extrapolates from recent history and current trends. None of the foregoing is seditious (per 18 U.S. Code § 2384), nor a call to arms, nor a threat to our government or to any individual, agency, or group.
Permission to reprint, re-post or forward this article in full is granted, but only if credit is given to James Wesley, Rawles and first publication in SurvivalBlog (with a link.) It must not be edited or excerpted, and all included links must be left intact.
Come get them snowflakes and that goes for ANY Snowflake police chief !
Bottom line, JW??
The Gestapo THINKS they are very bad-ass and hard core. Outnumbered and out gunned, their crying would start quickly.
I would also add to the above analysis that if they start this, who will be at home protecting THEIR families???
If THEY are willing to go in hard to citizen's homes and are ready and willing to kill EVERYONE in that house for the slightest resistance (the 10 year old girl ran from the room and we thought she was going for a gun and we were so afraid we shot her too), then they better be ready for the elimination of their bloodline, too.
THAT is how civil wars go.
History shows it will happen.
Look around. You see things IMPROVING??? lol.
When we finish with the hard rock enforcers, politicians are next.
Bring your own rope.
or
Keep cheering your subjugation. And that's exactly what it is.....
snowflake coward back to mommy's shivering basement.
CARL ANDERTON IS A RAT TRAITOR AS IS HOGAN ...HOWANY WEAPONS DO U HAVE CARL UNREGISTERED ??????
Joe
Please do a post on asking where WCSO SHERIFF LEWIS his thoughts on this.?????????
WHAT SAY MIKE LEWIS ?
Man ur a bore
I agree what say u Mike ,????????
call and email your representatives and the House Judiciary Committee members and let them know you do not support these bills. Most importantly get yourselves to Annapolis on the 25th, The hearings start then. The place needs to be crawling with Pro 2A citizens. You can find info on MSi...Maryland shall issue. Of possible they need to be killed before they leave committee. Make those calls and send those emails.
After having read all those comments I seriously doubt any politician who has read them will vote to grab Marylander's guns. Maybe some of of the Democrats in the counties surrounding Wash DC,they are pretty stupid.
Carl ANDERTON is a treasonous POS.
Contacting your reps or even demonstrating will do no good, our government here in MD has been taken over by communist, even the leader of the MGA has signed in support of killing newborn babies.....you think they care about violating their oath or your BoR's? We MUST convince the Fed Gov to intercede with the executive order on Humanitarian rights. They. the MGA push these unjust laws because they fear no prosecution for destroying the US Constitution.
imclain, they will just burn your house down with your family inside it. stun grenades, robots etc, no need to enter and take any risk of one of their paramilitary police officers getting hurt! see waco, and many other deeds performed by the gestapo!
good luck with that!
Heads and Hips.
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