JPFO Gun Confiscation Clock Loses 2 Minutes

The JPFO Gun Confiscation Clock has moved two minutes closer to midnight, as Democrats vote on a pair of bills that attack citizens but ignore criminals. At nine minutes to midnight, rights Americans have always had and enjoyed are rapidly shrinking, with confiscations planned and written into bills waiting in the wings.

"Democrats and the hard-core leftists pushing them have no understanding or respect for the Constitution and its safeguard limits on legislative actions," said Alan Gottlieb, CEO and Board Chairman of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, jpfo.org. "They act as if they are under no constraint, and with the power they now wield, they pose a direct threat to our Republic and way of life," he said.

"Forcing decent Americans to wait for increasingly long times to purchase legal property will not affect armed criminals, who are the real problem," added Alan Korwin, a widely published author and consultant to JPFO. "Criminals remain armed and are ignored by these bills, while regular people are infringed, making matters worse," he observed. First-time criminals looking to get arms at retail will be forced to shop elsewhere—the black market—which they do already. Armed criminals are ignored by these illegal federal infringements. JPFO believes if any action is needed it should encourage finding and removing hardened armed criminals from society, not more paperwork for the bureaucracy.

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