Anti-Gunners Want to Change the
Past to Take Away Today's Freedom

Here we go again! Just months after an election in which advocates of the right to keep and bear arms swept to victory at all levels of government, a bunch of 'gun-control' advocates in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives have convened to pen one of the most radical federal 'gun-control' proposals in recent memory.

The resultant bill—the "GOSAFE Act"—has it all. It has a snappy and misleading acronym for a name. It is being sold to the public based on a flagrant lie: Their proposal, its authors insist, "protects Americans' constitutional right to own a gun." It is sufficiently vaguely written to allow for all sorts of interpretative shenanigans. Oh, and it represents a frontal assault on the Second Amendment, as well as on the three major U.S. Supreme Court decisions that protect that unalienable right.

The bill's co-author, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), says that his law would prohibit "inherently dangerous and unusually lethal mechanisms." By this, he means that it would ban the most commonly owned rifle in the United States, that it would outlaw all rifles that can accept magazines, that it would interdict all standard-issue magazines (and, possibly, given how it is written, it would ban all magazines) and that it would grant the federal government unlimited authority to compile an exhaustive, perpetually updated, "pre-cleared" list of firearms that it considers acceptable for civilian sale.

Indeed, as Heinrich openly concedes, the core purpose of the "GOSAFE Act" is to empower Washington, D.C., to micromanage which types of firearms may be sold—and to do so on the assumption that the government knows better than the people what the people need for their self-defense. . . . .