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Oct. 29, 2012 8:07pm Jason Howerton

Glenn Beck and Cam Edwards Discuss Americans Gun Rights During State of Emergency

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As superstorm Sandy was preparing to pound the Eastern United States, Cam Edwards, of NRA News, joined Glenn Beck on his television program Monday to discuss Americans’ gun rights during a state of emergency.

“You need to know your rights,” Beck said. “This is what happens when people’s rights are trampled in an emergency…Somebody takes advantage of that situation,” he later added.

Beck went on to air part of a news report about a woman who was disarmed and forced from her home during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Patty Konie explained to officers back in 2005 that her home was dry, she had plenty of food and she wanted to stay in her home with her dogs. However, police did not respect her request and forced her to leave. Further, when she revealed to officers that she had an unloaded handgun, officers tackled her to the floor and confiscated the gun — even though it was a legal firearm.

“I said, ‘it’s not even loaded,’ while I dropped it on the floor and they punched me in the face,” Konie says in the video report. “They dragged me out of here. I really thought they were going to kill me. I really did.”

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Edwards said it is important that gun owners know their rights, especially ahead of potential disasters like Hurricane Sandy. In 2006, then-President George W. Bush signed an executive order called the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act that strengthened individual gun rights during a national emergency.

“What that bill did…it basically says to law enforcement across the country, that you cannot violate the rights of American gun owners, even in a state of emergency, you can’t violate federal law, you can’t violate state law,” Edwards said. “If that happens, then the punishment for those law enforcement agencies is a loss in federal funding.”

“What we saw locally was the mayor and police chief in New Orleans saying, you’re not going to be armed,” Edwards added.

The state of Louisiana also passed their own law that specifically forbids law enforcement agencies of disarming law abiding citizens.

So, if you find yourself in the same situation as Patty Konie in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Edwards said there are a few things you should be mindful of:

“You cooperate, you get the names [of the officers], you get all the information that you can, you hire an attorney and you have that attorney contact the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund,” he said.

Shockingly, some gun owners still have not been reunited with their firearms that were confiscated during Katrina roughly seven years ago, Edwards said.

“The last time I talked to the attorneys that were working with the NRA on the case, there were barrels of firearms that were rusting away in the New Orleans Police Department,” he added. “We had a city in Katrina that decided that law abiding gun owners should be defenseless.”

When deciding whether to travel with your gun during a state of emergency, consider where you will be going. If you are traveling to somewhere like a public shelter, you may not be able to have a firearm, said Edwards. As always, be smart and utilize caution when handling and traveling with your firearm.

In CONTROL, Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us. Find out more HERE.

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Comments (423)

resme
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:40pm
If you think about it the “feds” can just turn off electricity,gas,internet,water and the American people would give their guns up in flocks.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:56pm
  Hi Resme,
  
  Feds can’t turn off gunpowder…..
  
  It’s a rock-paper-scissors situation for some.
  
  My gun still works without water, lights, electricity or gas…. or Internet.
  
  Seems you know different people than I… that’s when guns are needed most.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:58pm
  Do you say “Feds” because they are actually a Private Corporation?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhxrazdGyyo
  
  I have researched this for over 3 years and have all the hard evidence.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:03pm
  Yep, and they might not have a right to take your guns, but they will and Americans will cave. Do you know why you’ll cave? For the same reason that many Americans have dogs in their house that hold a higher precedence and better treatment than a neighbor who lives in your same neighborhood.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:07pm
  The-Monk,
  They can control gunpowder. All they have to do is pick another industry that uses the same chemicals that go into making gunpowder, and regulate the chemicals in that other industry, and by default gunpowder also gets regulated. Why not? They do it with lead, and other minerals.
- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:09pm
  Now that’s a prime example of your American Exceptionalism right there: Dogs getting better treatment than humans.
  
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- WAKEUPUSA2012
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:15pm
  Hell yea they can take our guns. Everyone must learn, they are not following the constutition anymore, even if we are. We have been signed onto globalist banker law. Thats why us KooKs wanted RP so bad. You just wait, we havent seen anything yet.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tta1qhQZWSE
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:15pm
  .
  Do you want the real answer and not some mumbo-jumbo legal theory?
  The cops can do whatever they want. You can say no and pay the price.
  And believe me, they would enjoy using what they call, “pain compliance”.
  It’s all over by the time a court decides you were right.
  
  During Katrina, cops illegally took guns.
  The same can happen anytime.
  
  The best protection is electing politicians who don’t want to trample your rights.
  ……..or the constitution.
  
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- resme
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:18pm
  @monk, I agree, Some Americans won’t give up their guns. When it comes down to food and water, Americans will cave. Me and you will just be hauled off in black bags. 50M people on Food stamps suddenly cut off. That’s the world I don’t want to live in. Police will crack down and guns will be rounded up for “safety”.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:19pm
  @ILIKEPEOPLE
  
  I like people too. I also Loathe other people. That is my right.
  I respect animals and hold them in a higher regard more than a lot of humans. Get over it.
  I Respect a Slug More Than Obama.
  I Respect a Pig more Than Bush. ( Both of the POSs )
  I would stop on the Road to help a vulture in need, but would gladly leave a Clinton stranded.
  
  Take your self-righteous, troll-like, politically correct @$$ down the road for a rock pounding session.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:21pm
  From my cold dead fingers.
  
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- echo216610
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:25pm
  if they want my guns “come and take them”
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:26pm
  Stand Your Ground, cueballs turn into red balls.
  
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- Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:28pm
  Confiscate is theft. Your rights are not negotiable. Your property is nonnegotiable and worth fighting for.
  
  Any emergency is just a notice to lock and load.
  
  The Answer……..
  Approximately 300+ hollowpoints backed by snipes could bring alot of peace to the world. The choice is 300 cutting off the head off the globe or 6 billion dead due to population control.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:28pm
  And most Americans will go to church or pray at home and they will say “Oh God, please save our country, we don’t deserve this”, and then on their drive home they will scoff at their neighbor, and drive by humans who care, love and feel. They will go home, and love on a dog who would never bring them a morsel to eat, and would gobble down a steak without you in mind. Meanwhile, you will gossip and despise that neighbor who doesn’t quite see things they way you do, or they might look a little unkempt with bad hygiene. That neighbor who would give you a morsel to eat if you were laying in a ditch starving, but your damned dog wouldn’t do that.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:29pm
  ProbIemSoIver,
  Likewise it’s the Lord God’s right to crush your nation.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:47pm
  History shows what happens shortly after civilians surrender their guns
  
  80 MILLION people have died becaused they turned in their guns !!!!!
  
  Stalin, Mao, Hitler and more !!!!!
  
  PEOPLE DO YOUR HISTORY !!!!!!!
  
  I know why they want our guns. It is the last line of defense for Americans from the UN’s Wrath.
  
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- Fecal_Matters
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:54pm
  Wow…they can have it when it’s empty.
  
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- coldnorth
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:56pm
  Good luck turning off my well, LP tank, and Generator. Might as well try to turn off my reloading bench too.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:56pm
  Hi Resme,
  
  Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I’m calling people I know up North to see how they are doing.
  
  I hear you.. I’m in food stamp central. Right next to downtown Tampa, Fl. But there are two things I know from experience…. and that is that I’m a better shot than the local police and as a Monk… I have a few tricks up my sleeve that they will never be prepared for. 12K hours to be, well, what can I say, unprepared for…..
  
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- Absalom
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:57pm
  Bunch of pansies if you cough up your guns because the government turned off your favorite TV show. I have lived off the land before, and I do not need their handouts to feed myself and my family. If the government turning off your water and your power is enough to make you give in, then I have no respect for you.
  
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- dawghowse
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:01pm
  Have a generator, and I live on well water……hmmmm my gun still works without anything from the government. Won’t be giving it up.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:09pm
  “…resme
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:40pm
  If you think about it the “feds” can just turn off electricity,gas,internet,water and the American people would give their guns up in flocks….”
  You might be that big a coward, Reme, but you probably shouldn’t be projecting that cowardice onto people who don’t need ‘electricity, gas, internet, water’ provided by dotgov or private enterprise. Not that the fed woulod go so far as to do that en masse in the country- it’d sure as heck might be one good way to get everyone who owns a gun irate enough to do something about it.
  
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- OlderCowGirl
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:12pm
  @ RESME and MONK: I think you are both correct. There are many Americans who blindly obey…anyone who seems to be in charge. But the beauty of it all is that guns don’t need all those new-fangled things like electricity and internet. Besides, if they could take our guns…there will always be bombs and swords and blow-guns and hammers, etc. Nothing stops courageous, creative thinkers.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:13pm
  “You cooperate, you get the names [of the officers], you get all the information that you can, you hire an attorney and you have that attorney contact the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund,” he said
  
  So basicly lay back and enjoy the rape, and then later trust the law enforcement friendly corrupt courts to give you justice against the State. ..
  
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- resme
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:13pm
  @monk, I hope everyone you know up North is doing OK. Storm missed me here in Virginia, Just light drizzle most of the day with cold wind.
  
  Thoughts and prayers go out to you and your friends/family.
  
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- Mich9Bran
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:20pm
  No Warrent, Let them break in then Head Shots Only
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:21pm
  “You cooperate, you get the names [of the officers], you get all the information that you can, you hire an attorney and you have that attorney contact the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund,”
  
  What he means to say is you are screwed and will never see your guns again, and you will be left powerless to protect yourself and your family. In an emergency do not open your door to police goon squads, and give them hell if they kick your door in. If you hear them assaulting your neighbors, help them repel the invaders.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:24pm
  “…Look at family households around the nation who can’t create a budget, usually when the wind blows the least bit… … And at some point the wind usually blows…”
  And it seems that wind here on the Blaze is ILIKEPEOPLE.
  “…Now that’s a prime example of your American Exceptionalism right there: Dogs getting better treatment than humans…”
  What’s your gripe against dogs, ILIKE? Most dogs I’ve met are more loyal, honest, obediant, God lovingly happy than 99.99% of the people I’ve met.
  As for your comment about dogs not sharing- you don’t know dogs at all. Probably don’t know people at all, either, so you shouldn’t be commenting on dogs. I like people, too- from a distance. Haven’t met too many I’d be willing to lay my life down for- which is probably why I’m not Jesus, thank God!
  As for the homeless you acclaim passing by on the streets- again, you don’t know people, so don’t be telling them what they’re doing, either at home, in church, or on the street.
  Just put your money and actions where your mouth is at, then SD&STFU.
  
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- For my Liberty!
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:26pm
  Let em turn them off….NOT ME…
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:30pm
  @ILIKE PEOPLE — You like them, while I shall love them. As a Christian, it is my responsibility to love my neighbor as I love myself. I am part of a congregation that spends considerable time and effort in helping others move beyond simple survival. We do bring essentials to them, but we also are actively working in ESL and adult literacy in our own neighborhood. We dig water wells in Latin America and teach hygiene that goes with keeping the well clean. We do other medical and dental missions in Latin America as well.
  
  I suggest you apprentice yourself to such a congregation where you live. You will quickly find out how good it feels to love your neighbor as yourself. You will quickly find out that there is more going on to help others than you seem to think. Just because most of us don’t “blow our own horns” does not mean the Church is not out on the front line working for Christ Jesus.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:47pm
  Hi Resme,
  
  What part of Virginia if you don’t mind me asking? I’m from Northern Va originally…
  
  George Washington’s home town more precisely.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:52pm
  Wait, I don’t understand. I thought cops protect us. I thought they were the thin blue line that keeps us safe. I thought they protect our rights. Cops would never follow orders that conflict with people’s rights. Just because they are unionized government muscle doesn’t mean that they don’t have a “line”. When the time comes that the order is given to disarm people cops will never obey it. /sarc
  
  Tell you what, takes a few folks who resist and a few cops in body bags and maybe we can find detante’. As long as cops see us as sheep there is nothing to stop them from enforcing tyranny. Raise the cost in human toll and maybe…just maybe…cops will think twice before kicking in doors.
  
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- resme
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:56pm
  @monk, Southern Virginia, Roanoke.
  
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- cannon12pdr
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:06pm
  the best way if they are acting outside the basic understanding of the constitution then you have every right to treat them as you would any thief. Shoot them.
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:08pm
  Hey ! ILIKEPEOPLE -
  I imagine some gun owners have one or two pieces unknown to authorities, maybe even hidden someplace. When the ‘authorities’ come knocking they’ll take whatever they can find – unless you choose to resist, in which case they’ll do whatever it takes to take whatever they can find.
  
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- Dbiggs24
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:10pm
  “Yes, officer. Here is my gun (singular), take it.”
  
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- FormerLEAcademyInstructor
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:15pm
  For those who have read and digested the book One Second After you know that the large cities will be the first to throw any semblance of law and order swirling down the toilet bowl. Smaller communities will band together to 1) cleanse themselves of the Takers who will loot themselves into a frenzy, then 2) organize to defend themselves against the hungry hordes who leave urban wastelands to feed on outlying communities who are trying to survive past the 3-day margin of food that most people have in their homes. If you don’t know your neighbors well enough to band with them for mutual defense then it will be everyone for themselves because eventually you will need to sleep.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:33pm
  @resme
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:56pm
  @monk, Southern Virginia, Roanoke.
  
  Hear you guys are gettin snowed on, some of that
  Global Warming…..not even Halloween yet….
  Hope your Power stays on..GOD BLESS !!!!!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:41pm
  Hi Resme,
  
  I know that area… Southern Virginia, Roanoke.
  
  Nice place. Nice woods. Nice Country. Reminds me of back home….
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:42pm
  This is how it ALWAYS goes down. First go the weapons and then go YOU!!!!!!! A very sobering video.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDivHkQ2GSg
  
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- scarydave
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:53pm
  ScaryDaves rules-to-live-by # 3:
  On the subject of firearms confiscation… They can’t take what they can’t find. ( hint – hint )
  
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- resme
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:17am
  @monk, It’s gotten terrible, lately. My local grocery store has started to put everything in cases ( because of shoplifting). I’ve seen so many people with EBT cards….
  
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- happygranny
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:29am
  Not me. I have seen that happen after WWII when the russian troops marched in to occupy Hungary. They established a hand picked pro soviet government and the next step was all firearms were confiscated, leaving the population with no ability to fight back. I’ll bury my guns and ammo before I hand it over to anyone.
  
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- mecanic
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:59am
  Dead hand hot barrel,empty magazine. live free or die.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:12am
  Take there names and hire an attorney (at your expense). Just like they admit these gun owners are still trying to get their firearms back from Katrina. A lot of good that’s done.
  
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- ObamaForward_OverTheCliff
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:15am
  So-o-o-o, how’s that whole Police “standing army” Department-thingy working out for everyone? America’s Founders knew what they were talking about when they warned us of it, eh?
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:15am
  http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/19/how-special-rights-for-law-enforcement-m
  Why Firing a Bad Cop Is Damn Near Impossible
  
  A brief history of the “law enforcement bill of rights”
  
  The corruption is disgusting. The cops are not there to protect you, they are there to enforce the government’s edicts and to protect their own. If you think the system will give you justice against a the police you are making one heck of long shot.
  
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- ConstLaw
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:23am
  This article is not accurate. It was not an executive order that was sign itwasa bill passed into law…
  
  42 U.S.C. 5207
  
  SEC. 706. FIREARMS POLICIES.
  
  (a) PROHIBITION ON CONFISCATION OF FIREARMS.
  
  No officer or employee of the United States (including any member of the uniformed services), or person operating pursuant to or under color of Federal law, or receiving Federal funds, or under control of any Federal official, or providing services to such an officer, employee, or other person, while acting in support of relief from a major disaster or emergency, may
  (1) temporarily or permanently seize, or authorize seizure of, any firearm the possession of which is not prohibited under Federal, State, or local law, other than for forfeiture in compliance with Federal law or as evidence in a criminal investigation;
  (2) require registration of any firearm for which registration is not required by Federal, State, or local law;
  (3) prohibit possession of any firearm, or promulgate any rule, regulation, or order prohibiting possession of any firearm, in any place or by any person where such possession is not otherwise prohibited by Federal, State, or local law; or
  (4) prohibit the carrying of firearms by any person otherwise authorized to carry firearms under Federal, State, or local law, solely because such person is operating under the direction, control, or supervision of a Federal agency in support of relief from the major disaster or emergency.
  
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- ConstLaw
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:24am
  Continued…
  
  (b) LIMITATION.Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any person in subsection (a) from requiring the temporary surrender of a firearm as a condition for entry into any mode of transportation used for rescue or evacuation during a major disaster or emergency, provided that such
  > temporarily surrendered firearm is returned at the completion of such rescue or evacuation.
  (c) PRIVATE RIGHTS OF ACTION.
  (1) IN GENERAL.Any individual aggrieved by a violation of this section may seek relief in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress against any person who subjects such individual, or causes such individual to be subjected, to the deprivation of any of the rights, privileges, or immunities secured by this section.
  (2) REMEDIES.In addition to any existing remedy in law or equity, under any law, an individual aggrieved by the seizure or confiscation of a firearm in violation of this section may bring an action for return of such firearm in the United States district court in the district in which that individual resides or in which such firearm may be found.
  (3) ATTORNEY FEES.In any action or proceeding to enforce this section, the court shall award the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney¹s fee as part of the costs.¹¹.
  
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- Salamander
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:28am
  Uh, I hate to tell you, but ALL the gunpowder is made in few hands! It would be easy for the government to halt the distribution of ammunition!
  
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- chazzyok
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:37am
  What you sheeples don’t understand is that this same government has done this before with success. As an american Indian, I can give you some history from not that long ago. Our peace loving people gave up their weapons and ways, then their land, and then were forced into detention. This was done with the full support of the (this) government, with military enforcement. This is what happens to sheeple. This government did it while the ink was still wet on the constitution. Now government is so big, they have declared all of America as a land of sheeples. Hopefully it is not too late to use your voice, vote, strength, numbers, and love of freedom to make changes. Live free or go down fighting.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 6:38am
  He’s talking black mail…people would turn in their guns in order to get the services turned back on. It wouldn’t work for me…i’ve primative camped before. They’ll get my gun over my dead body.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:04am
  RESME has it figured out.
  
  Lot of tough talk out there. When the average American is 72 hours without power, water, and the zombies (welfare folks) are running around raping, killing, and stealing, the average American will scream “Obama save us!”. For police protection from the zombies, and thier water and power back on, they will give up the guns, and will turn in their own family members and neighbors. After the guns, will be the Bibles.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:10am
  Lorriane
  
  “They’ll get my gun over my dead body”
  
  That is the wrong way to think. Study communsit take overs. They have no problem making you dead. If the feds come for your guns, give them what they came for, and live another day. The ones you have burried in the woods are the ones you use later.
  
  Study counterinsurgency. The fed will want you to fight in the open. They will drive into your hood with armored vehicles. If you fight, they will put a rocket through your front door from a drone or helicopter. The person that is smart will smile and give up their guns. Look at Afghanistan. American troops love when the insurgents will stand and fight. They are easy to kill. It is that insurgent that looks like the average civilian who then blows up the police station that is hard to deal with.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:12am
  The republicans gave our government the authority to take AMERICANS away based on suspicion…..Therefore, they will have no problem taking our guns away either
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:22am
  Your best bet is to take a page out of Castro’s handbook. Yes Castro. He defeated a much better equiped army backed by the US. It is called Guerilla Warfare. “Strike when you know you can win, withdraw when the enemy has the advantage”. Live and fight another day. Rambo charges are for movie buffs. Also, go for infrastructure-communications, electricity, cameras, vehicles, fuel and lines of re-supply. It takes a while to win, but it is doable.
  
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- atechgeek
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:26am
  @RANGERSKIPPY :
  You are what Americans have become .. yellow cowards who would rather save their own hide than stand for freedom and honor. They will come to take my guns some day, and some of them will die in their efforts. I will stand my ground and fight to death for the Constitution as will a lot of other people (not you of course). Did you know that the Civil War was fought by about about 10% of the population. ? You choose to stand on the sidelines. Our founders and our armed forces gave you that right. I will not stand on the sidelines. Neither will many of our armed forces. If you want to see a serious battle right here in the United States, try to outlaw guns. There is more fire power in my neighbor hood than you could ever imagine. We the People will live in Freedom forever because of what we do for you.
  
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- markprice
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:28am
  You are so right
  
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- southernORcobra
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:38am
  Maybe you would I will not.
  
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- KENTUCKIANAPATRIOT
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:48am
  YELLOW in YOUR flag. NOT in MINE.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:00am
  Skippy and Mil,
  
  I agree with your sentiment. However, I’m not sure people grasp the hardship of guerrilla conflict. For example, we would have an advantage that could be exploited. Each of those cops and soldiers and bureacrats has a family that live among us. To your point, don’t attack head on the APC. Rather, you can burn down the homes of soldiers and cops. You take the war to them on terms that they can understand. Nobody wants to do that, but the point that forming up to look down the barrel of a tank is suicide can’t go without saying. So how do you win? Sure you can go Wolverines. You may or may not win. You can appeal for foreign intervention. Who knows what strings come with that. You can become what you despise by doing what I mentioned above. You can fight in the open and lose. Or you can be a subject/serf. None of those are good choices. But, if the goal is to win, then you have to make the conflict as horrible for the enemy as you can imagine.
  
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- Brushjumper
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:06am
  Over my DEAD BODY and ONLY if I am out of bullets = FOOLS to suggest something like that…
  
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- atechgeek
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:11am
  @MIL-DOT :
  This is precisely what the islamists / muslims are doing to us. There is no way they would survive if they took us head on … so they pick and poke and strike when the getting is good.
  
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- TOPNOTCH286
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:19am
  This is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. Not sure where you are from, but if the “feds” turned off power, water, gas & internet in an attempt to force Americans to relinquish their firearms, they would have a blood bath on their hands. Is the mass chaos that would derive from this failed attempt at disarming the American people, many would be seaching out these items that many of us will still have. The “feds” phsyically CANNOT “turn off” my access to power, water or gas and I can live perfectly fine without the internet. I can promise you one thing… it would be a grave mistake on the part of the federal govt. to make any attempt at disarming the great State of Texas, especially during a scenario such as that.
  
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- THX-1138
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:23am
  They’ll get my ammo first. One round at a time…
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:28am
  Problem Solver listed I believe 80 million who have been slaughtered after turning in their guns..this was the list prior..
  
  In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  · In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  · Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  · China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  · Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  · Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  · Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million “educated” people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  That places total victims who lost their lives because of gun control at approximately 56 million in the last century. Since we should learn from the mistakes of history, the next time someone talks in favor o
  
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- IsThereADifference
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:17am
  Long story short. You are fully within your rights to own and keep a firearm right up until the government decides to take them away from you….at which point you have the right to hire an attorney.
  
  Land of the FREE, Home of the Brave, Yada yada yada
  
  You get the picture…
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:28am
  atechgeek
  
  You missed what I am saying, and are looking at this wrong.
  
  As for me being a coward that is afraid to fight, I have three combat deployments to include Panama Iraq, and Afghanistan- How about you? Fighting is not the issues.
  
  This conversation is about what to do in the event of some sort of communist, Marxist take over of the gov, where they want to get rid of the constitution, and do away with our bill of rights.
  
  In such an event, the dumb people will stand at their front door with that colt .45, and try to fight. They will die in place, and die in vain. The smart person may just give up that gun in the night stand, but will retain that one buried in a state park, on the back 40, or elsewhere. He will fight, but his mind will be primary weapon.
  
  The corrupt government will not have a shoot out with you at your front door. The will roll in the dark, using thermals, night vision, and air power. If you fight, you will get a rocket through your house, killing you, and your family.
  
  The smart person will know how to blend in with the population, and take the fight to the government. They will have studied the Viet Kong, counterinsurgents in the Middle East, and they will fight on their own terms, and in a way that they can win.
  
  Fight smart, not stupid. The old clichés about prying cold dead fingers from a hand gun, brief well, but is stupid. You will not pry my fingers from a gun in my own living room. You may have to sweep up piece
  
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- jnobfan
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:36am
  A. I’m not opening the door without a warrent
  B. I will have more hidden outside for when they leave
  C. Why the hell do they think we have guns? This is why – to protect our families
  
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- black9897
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:14pm
  Hmm…let me ask myself……….NO.
  
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- atechgeek
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:38pm
  @RANGERSKIPPY
  
  Respect.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:00pm
  Brothers Roth and ATechG,
  Make no mistake, the Ranger and I are not going to sit anything out. We are merely suggesting that there are better ways to take the fight to the enemy without getting you and your family killed. The govt targets young punks with attitude problems to employ in their goon squads. These are brainwashed public school taught teenagers and twenty somethings that will murder people in a second as revenge for being marginalized a children. Be smart. You will not do the cause any good if you are at room temperature. Keep a decent arsenal at home and spread other parts of it around. Also, when you are delivering your equipment to your safe site, take the batteries out of your cell phones. The goons use that data to track your paths and movements and will find your stash. There will be plenty of opportunity to take out the trash in due time. Don’t rush things.
  
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- fightingforfreedom
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:17pm
  excuse me you may But that would just piss me off more. RES I’ll protect you come and stay with me ok. I say “bring it on” they can pry my dead fingers off my guns and my bible. keep your lights and gas…..we have enough to keep us going for a while. just be prepared like Mr. Beck is trying to tell all of you. be prepared. This guy is not going to lose gracefully. get my drift.
  
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- dogmeat
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:21pm
  NOT this AMERICAN!
  
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- CS_GUY
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:45pm
  Turning off my services is the same as trying to kill me……….result, lock and load.
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:54pm
  resme, not bloody likely! that’s when we’d need out guns the most.. your’s wins the asinine statement of the day on the blaze,.. congratulations !!
  
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- NewAmericaNow
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 4:19pm
  There are a few things you should be mindful of, since police have been told they can’t confiscate weapons and the Bill of Rights and specifically the Second Amendment is the highest law in the land, all those engaged in confiscation are breaking the law and as we all know police do not break the law. Those pretending to be police will be shot until they are considered not to be a threat. If it is found after such self protective action that they were in fact police officers, the department must fill out a form and investigate why a police officer would be breaking such an important law.
  
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- mlimberg
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 4:48pm
  Not mine ny friend…. I can live without utilities, but i will never part with my arms… Period.
  
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- DenverKitty
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:56pm
  Rezme, you are incorrect. There are lots of things that could be turned off…and I still wouldn’t give up my guns.
  
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- yarply
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:58pm
  Monk. But what he say’s is true, except I would have qualified the statement with most or a vast majority of Americans
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:28pm
  You might be right about a large number of gun owners, but it only took 3% of the population to actively support the colonists during the American Revolution. If only 3% of the gun owners in this country were to decide to fight back, the odds would NOT be in the favor of the government forces. With over 100 MILLION gun owners in this country, even a small percentage is all it takes for the resistance to be far too large for any government to put down. There is a reason why I would like to avoid any idiotic actions by the government that might blow up in their faces. The loss of life could end up in the hundreds of thousands or millions depending on the level of the government’s response. Considering their level of competency at Waco, does anyone doubt that the whole thing could escalate out of proportion, especially with the racial tensions that have come from the growing radicalization of the New Black Panthers and Nation of Islam, and the increasing number of black mobs randomly attacking whites?
  
  I saw a near riot develop after a police officer in Dallas shot a repeat offender felon drug dealer who was beating the crap out of him trying to get away. His Momma was out there stirring up trouble screaming to the reporters that her son wasn’t that bad and didn’t deserve to die. Sorry but the cop wasn’t bad at all and didn’t deserve to have the crap beaten out of him either. Then the “black community” complains that the police won’t patrol their neighborhoods.
  
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- wntsmallgov
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:15pm
  That is why you need to be ready for the dirty tactics of a dictatorship.
  
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- dlanod
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:17pm
  people if the &^^%$ hits the fan they got more ways that you know.. to make us do their biding. lot of people have guns but only a few will have the resolve to keep them. most of the police will do their biding cause they will be promised all that their needs will be took care of. me i.m too old to kneel if this goes down it ain’t going to be perrty
  
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- kettererbg
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:22pm
  You go ahead and believe that crap that just spewed out of your pie hole.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:26pm
  Think about this…!!!!!!
  IF we were to have a major emergency….”Could we take the Police’s guns from them???”
  Sounds crazy but, which would be more right?
  
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- cpoe
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:40pm
  It’s quIte obvIous your not from around here. Maybe you should have been raised in the country and would understand exactly how little we need electricity, gas, piped water, and especially the govenment for!
  
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- madasblazes
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 1:55am
  Patriots,
  What none of your are considering to us here is what to do with the bodies.
  The government is flying in Chinese soldiers.(met them on airplane flights, dressed as military in UN uniforms and hardly speaking English). UN soldiers to this dirty work.
  Obama does not trust our local police to disarm us because they know us, most believe in the Constitution and know we are law abiding citizens.
  
  I know you are ready to fight to defend your property, your family, your Country.
  Answer the question:
  What to do with dead bodies?
  So…what will you do in the suburbs with a few dead bodies?
  
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- singingcowboy674
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 2:48am
  If you are talking about predicting what many people would or might do, you might be right. But let’s be honest. If you are a serious gun owner it is likely that you also have a generator, a well from which you can draw water, “no cook” food. So, though many might, I don’t think flocks would. If you can’t live without what you stated, then you are in a rough spot.
  
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- madasblazes
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 4:02am
  Remember, 1500 people went into the sea from the Titanic; only one boat came back.
  
  Prepare accordingly.
  
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- drphil69
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 2:39pm
  @Resme –
  
  Many Americans would give up their guns. Others would rather die with gun in hand. That is a personal choice, and any idiot that gives up his rights for a little security in the end will have neither. I do not feel sorry for morons, especially the ones that spout liberalism, trying to tell me what I should and should not be allowed to own. Let them kill each other in the aftermath. I will still have my handguns, shotguns, rifles, and yes, ASSAULT WEAPONS. And it will be a long long time before I run out of ammo.
  
  If the police want to break down my door without a warrant or probable cause, either I die or they do. My life, my property, my rights I will defend to my death. As Charleton Heston famously said, “FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS…”
  
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- TwoMinuteMan
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 5:54pm
  This is why hunting and fishing are still valuable skills and not just hobbies. If you depend on someone else for your food there is always a possibility that they can deprive you of it. It doesnt matter if it is the government, local thugs or natural disaster that is limiting your food supply. As long as you know how to hunt and fish, what is edible and what is not you will never have to depend on anyone else for your life.
  
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ProbIemSoIver
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:39pm
I didn’t need goofball George W.s Executive order to affirm My Second Amendment Right.

I am 100% sure the Bill or Rights does not state that this right is “not to be infringed unless it’s too windy and rainy”
Or “Not to be infringed unless some socialist bureaucrat makes an arbitrary decision to the contrary.”

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- dd41
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:44pm
  When they pry it from my cold dead hands
  
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- U.N.hater
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:51pm
  This os off topic. send this to everyone you know.http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obama-accepts-osama-bin-laden-donations/
  
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- DeOppressoLiber
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:25pm
  A good police organizations would set up an armed neighborhood watch program base off the Village Stability Operations that we are trying to do in Afghanistan. So instead of working against our liberties they work with the people use their liberties to help fix the emergency situation while maintaining the trust of the people.
  
  They could triple their size of the police force. Kind of like what Special Forces does as a Force Multiplier. One 12 man ODA trains up a 500 man guerrilla unit. It is run and lead by the LE authorities. You have the local people helping maintain the law and order in the local area. Who would not want that.
  
  A smart government, in a state of an emergency, would use a concept of Continuation of the Constitution instead of the Continuation of Power or Continuation of Government. The federal government is ready to enact COP and COG through FEMA.
  
  One is built on trust and the others are built on consolidation of power and distrust. One fixes the problem the others make it worse.
  
  Our liberties are our greatest assets, not liabilities, even in a time of a great emergency.
  
  http://www.examiner.com/article/generals-confront-obama-s-ndaa-say-it-s-a-victory-for-bin-laden
  
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- stifroc
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:35pm
  Here’s the problem. The people knocking on your door are not jack-booted Chinese soldiers, or arabs or guerrilla fighters. They will be local law enforcement, people like our neighbors. Could you really shoot somebody not that far removed from yourself? Maybe. What if you have a wife and kids to look after? Would you still go down in a blaze of glory with your guns blazing and put them at risk? As a 2nd Amendment loving gun owner these are very real questions and scenarios you need to consider and weigh. Will they REALLY have to pry it from your cold dead hand? Or will you lay it down to calm the terrified children screaming in the next room? Troubling times… troubling times… I pray none of us are ever faced with those 2 options.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:38pm
  I don’t think they will take my guns in the small town I live in. Heck, the Police Chief’s wife graduated with my wife and babysat our children for years. Thank God for small town America.
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:52pm
  @ Stifroc, If you are really questioning whether you should stand up for your liberties and the ability of your children to live in a nation founded upon Liberty, or whether you should put your gun down to ease the tension of the moment to bring momentary peace to your children instead of a lifetime of Liberty… Then maybe we don’t need you in our cause. Extremism in the pursuit of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of freedom is no virtue.
  
  If you don’t agree, then you need to just get rid of your guns now and get on the federal dole because that kind of wishy-washy attitude will not win you your Liberty in any form.
  
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- glacialhills
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:06pm
  Also where in that shall not be infringed language is it legal to limit types, numbers or require a ccw or any other law that co opted the first law. Any and all laws passed that in any way…I repeat ANY WAY infringe on our right to keep or bear any firearm is unconstitutional. CCW laws are just as unconstitutional as a total ban. And until we realize that and either amend the constitution, or get rid of all of these infringements to our rights, we will continue to see our rights abused.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:10pm
  There are 80million gun owners in the United States. There are about 800 thousand full time law enforcement officers. If only 1 out of 10 gun owners rebel against them, it’s devastating odds. There are about 1.4 million active duty military (Not taking into consideration those that would refuse orders to fire, oppress, or shoot their own citizens). Still the government forces are horribly outnumbered by well trained marksmen. It would boil down to opposing an 8 million man army of snipers, saboteurs, sappers, and partisans. It isn’t so much as the first few who might turn over their firearms, it is all the rest who hear about it, and lay in wait at the next house. This is EXACTLY what happened at Concord and Lexington. The British went to seize a stash of colonial weapons hoping to prevent and outbreak of violence in politically volatile times. While searching a house for weapons a soldier knocked over a candle and accidently set a fire. Then began an extremely bloody running gun battle that saw the British cut to pieces by snipers. I would also like to reiterate that civil conflicts are never civil, and should such a thing occur there would be no such thing as civilians or non-combatants on either side. It isn’t something you want to see, experience, or even have to read about.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:26pm
  DD41-
  Better to pry theirs from their dead cold hands.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:31pm
  “…stifroc
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:35pm
  Here’s the problem. The people knocking on your door are not jack-booted Chinese soldiers, or arabs or guerrilla fighters. They will be local law enforcement, people like our neighbors. Could you really shoot somebody not that far removed from yourself? …”
  Using the same argument, Stifroc- do you think those ‘people like your neighbors’ would shoot you because you refused to turn over your weapons?
  If you think the answer is ‘yes’, then why the hell would you be reluctant to return the favor? And if the answer is ‘yes’, then you’ve got no business even considering them ‘neighbors’.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:36pm
  “…So, if you find yourself in the same situation as Patty Konie in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Edwards said there are a few things you should be mindful of:
  “You cooperate, you get the names [of the officers], you get all the information that you can, you hire an attorney and you have that attorney contact the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund,” he said…”
  And that is how well the NRA defends your gun rights- just give them up and they’ll sue to get them back. Of course, it won’t matter that you’re starving in a FEMA camp, just trust the NRA.
  Which is exactly their main agenda: Give up your rights so they can keep their lawyers (the NRA staff) employed with your dues.
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:30pm
  Hey ! STIFROC – You’re absolutely right. Thanks for your words of reason and logic. Personally, I will not volunteer information regarding possession of a weapon, nor will I hand it over. I certainly won’t go ‘Rambo’, and they won’t be taking my gun from my ‘cold stiff hand’.
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:53am
  @ LEL2007, WOW! Your courage and passion for the cause of Liberty, inalienable rights, and justice knows no bounds! …
  
  Seriously, people like you make me sick. All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. If you stand idly by and relinquish your rights, then you are contributing to your own enslavement. Personally, I believe that the men who first said give me Liberty or give me death were right and you don’t deserve to be part of the nation founded on their principles.
  
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- Bill Rowland
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:30am
  There are not enough cops to confiscate all the guns in this area. Most of us grew shooting and still maintain .22s, shotguns and hunting rifles and know how to use them. This is an area big on deer, turkey, wild boar and waterfowl hunting. Probably 50 police/deputies in the county and most of them are hunters and gun owners themselves.
  
  OMG Nov 6, 2012
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:20am
  our whole freaking country is a police state. That is why many are voting for Gary Johnson.
  
  Voting Mitt Romney does not fix our 2nd ammendment situation and it doesnt help our police state problem
  
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- 762x51
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 6:41pm
  @stifroc
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:35pm
  
  Here’s the problem. The people knocking on your door are not jack-booted Chinese soldiers, or arabs or guerrilla fighters. They will be local law enforcement, people like our neighbors. Could you really shoot somebody not that far removed from yourself?
  
  Absolutely! They will be on the side of the enemy using “law enforcement” as a cover for oppression. I urge police to go to Oath Keepers and pledge to never enforce tyranny. If the police choose to enforce tyranny they are just as much my enemy and therefore a target as any of the powers issuing the orders. I would hate to have to draw down on someone like that, but I definitely will if they force me too.
  
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- madasblazes
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 4:21am
  We are counting on each other to never give up. To NEVER give in. All across America!!
  
  Alone we might feel; but brothers, those Patriots, have gone before us to say, “Do not give in. Do not quit. Never give in. Never quit…NEVER! No surrender..EVER!!!” It was bought by blood, relatives and Patriot blood. Don’t waste that now.
  Do it again .
  
  Prepare! Ye men of valor! Defend again, this God blessed land!!! PREPARE TO DEFEND THIS REPUBLIC!! PREPARE!
  Gather together again as in the beginnings. PREPARE!!
  
  (I tell you truly in 2012; the world is counting on you and watching).
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 7:53pm
  @glacialhills
  
  I concur. There are NO stipulations.
  
  The Founding Fathers understood the Power of Natural Law, a.k.a. “Street Justice”
  
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kentuckypatriot
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:38pm
Great information. I’ll keep this story in case of an emergency, you know, in case the law wants to take my guns.

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- coldnorth
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:38am
  They can come and get my guns. This is how it will go.
  
  LE: We are having a national emergency and by executive order, you are ordered to surrender all firearms.
  
  Me: I don’t think it’s an emergency. Your an awful long way from home. You bring any friends? Lots of wild animals around here.
  
  LE: You need to turn over all firearms immediately of I’ll will arrest you.
  
  Me: I’d love to turn over my firearms, but last fall when I was duck hunting my boat turned over, and they fell in lake.
  
  LE: All of them?? Our records of your financial transactions show you bought rifle ammo, and pistol ammo.
  
  Me: Not against the law to bring my pistol and rifle w/ me when I go duck hunting. Besides, I had a deer tag too.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 7:53am
  republicans passed NDAA which allows the government to take Americans into detention without explaining why and without trial. If they can take American people, surely they can take our guns…..
  
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- madasblazes
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 3:35am
  Folks, come up with your plan.
  NEVER give up all ye guns!
  
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Watermain
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:36pm
A really slippery slope here people (almost said folks, ow). Be careful what you say about this. They may come knocking at your door first. A lot of people think they can refuse. These people who come to your door will not be fooling around, they will be well armed, well trained and have lots of backup. I know it gets people’s backs up and we like to think “…from my cold dead hands”. Don’t give anyone that chance.

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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:54pm
  If we don’t stand up for our rights against a tyrannical government event, then what will they take from us next? The Jews cooperated with the government in Nazi Germany. Most of them paid for that mistake with their lives. Israelis said they would never surrender like that again. Many feel it is better to die a man than live as a slave. If you look at the NDAA that Obama signed (the update), the government can suspend all your rights, take your weapons, take your food, your property, everything that you have “for the good of the people”. So if the authorities come knocking on your door and you surrender your firearm, when they come back for your food, water, wife, kids, etc…, what will you defend yourself with? These are the questions each American individual needs to ask yourself so you are mentally prepared. Will you allow them into your home to take whatever some beaurocrat decides you should not have in a crisis or will you stand to the rights that God and the Constitution gave you? Think long and hard on your decision as it could cost you up to your life.
  
  I have a photo on my wall at work showing Jews after being offloaded from the freight cars in Auschwitz, waiting to be processed into the camp. It reminds me that while we all hope that humanity has learned from the past, the truth is that there are many people that would think nothing of exterminating us all.
  
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- MetalPatriot
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:07pm
  That’s sound advice. Having friends & aquaintences of both military and police persuasions, I do wonder, who are the law enforcement that actually would violate the Constitution in this manner? Everybody I personally know firmly believes the 2nd Ammendment covers civilians. Here lies our dilemma…
  
  In our history, the Supreme Court has both ruled that our right to keep and bear arms as legal, law abiding citizens of the U.S.A. is a natural/fundamental right to protect ourselves from harm AND has ruled that this same right is specifically relegated to ONLY militia during the post-revolutionary era where states had to depend on themselves “in case” it needed defense against the new Federal system – which was untrusted by many…Jefferson included.
  
  I am ignorant of current law, other than the Heller case, and believe some light could be shed here to help those that are interested.
  
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- Watermain
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:22pm
  Wolfgang: Reread my post please. I did not mention cooperating with oppression or giving up any weapons. I am suggesting that Americans be very careful in the face of emergency situations.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:34pm
  The U.S. Supreme Court is a Private Company.
  
  A Private Company has no authority over me.
  
  I have not knowing signed into an adhesion Contract with the United States Corporation.
  
  Any alleged binding contract I signed, was a freudulent and unconscionable contract.
  
  All Rights Reserved Under Constitutional Common Law. Also, all rights reserved, without predjudice, U.C.C. 1-207 / 1-308.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:42pm
  Forgot the Hard evidence.
  
  http://www.manta.com/c/mmg5dx2/us-supreme-court
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:54pm
  Its not the first few who have their door knocked on. Once its learned it’s happening, there may be a party waiting a block over for the next confiscation team. Most of the gun owners in the United States are well trained, well practiced with their tools. Many are former military, quite a few are hunters and are far better shots than the police. Vests will not stop a high powered rifle round. Local police would be outnumbered outgunned and outmanuvered. “There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.” – Admiral Yamamoto
  
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- eagledown
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 11:31am
  @CAVALLO
  I’m on the same page with you with this scenario and a very good analogy with the Concord and Lexington case. My only problem with it is that the patriots at that time had a clearly defined enemy and they all had a common cause. The chips were ALL IN on that deal and they all risked their Lives, Fortunes and their sacred honor on defeating the British. We don’t have that. The Government is not our enemy first of all, and neither is our local law enforcement; (yet). Also, We don’t know each other. We are all still bound by our everyday life and Trapping’s of a modern society. If your house is stormed by the authorities in the middle of the night; We Like Minded neighbors would be like “Sorry about his Luck”. We have no common bond and moral fortitude to “Fight Back”. We are too selfish with our independent thinking on this and it would be our undoing. It’s romantic to think of our selves as Patriots of freedom in a blog. We are Virtual Patriots. Not real ones.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 7:47pm
  @Waterthetree
  
  Excellent. I have your link saved in my cache’ of ammunition that will destroy the Global Elite.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 7:51pm
  @Eagledown
  
  I am going to refrain from being nasty.
  
  1) I don’t appreciate you stating that I am not a real Patriot.
  
  2) The “Government” may not be the enemy, But 95% of the Politicians in this Country are.
  
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Old_Warrior
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:36pm
Sorry, no more cooperation. I won’t be the first, nor will I be the last law abiding American who will die before having their firearm confiscated, and I’ll take some of those Commie bastages down with me.

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- votsbh
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:47pm
  Old Warrior, I am a veteran and because of my experience I firmly believe that survival
  is the ultimate skill. We need guys like you to be around and cause maximum damage
  to oppressors another day. There is no glory in dying.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:33pm
  Vots-
  There is no fighting if you give up your means of resistance. They will take you where they can keep you..for your safety of course.
  
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- Old_Warrior
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:34am
  VOTSBH, I hear you loud and clear. When Katrina first hit and I was watching the videos coming out where people described being surrounded by armed authorities, guns pointing, to take the rifle from the back of their truck, it was like 6 vs 1. Six fully automatic weapons versus one semi-auto .357 hunting rifle. They disarmed the man and left the area. They left him to the criminals. That is unacceptable. I figured that if I was in his shoes, I could snap off the safety and rapid fire at least 6 rounds in 1.5 to 2.0 seconds. I won’t survive, but I might get half of them, or more if I’m lucky. Then when forensics comes out and processes the scene, they’ll see exactly what happened. If the price must be paid to teach those monsters that taking away my protection will also cost them lives, then so be it. Freedom comes with a price tag. The bill is long overdue to our tree of liberty.
  
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- 762x51
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 7:04pm
  OLD – If you are my age, you are talking about the Southeast Asia War Games. The non-military members of our society would be appalled by even a glimpse of the damage that someone who experienced that fiasco is capable of doing.
  
  As much as I don’t want to have to relive that time, I would do so to preserve the liberty of my children, even if it cost me my life. As old guys we are pretty much through anyway but I believe we still owe a duty to future generations to pass on liberty just as it was passed to us by the men who landed at Normandy or Guadalcanal or the men who died at Lexington and Concord.
  
  I don’t want to have to look at my children from my death bed in fifteen or twenty years and explain why they must live out their lives as slaves to a totalitarian government because I stood by and did nothing to stop it.
  
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guns-an-bibles
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:35pm
Let them try to take my guns.

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Tri-ox
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:34pm
They might try, but NO – they can’t take MY guns.

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F_This
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:34pm
Look, it’s tough being a police officer. I have all the respect for them. They have one of the most dangerous jobs with a meager salary at best, but they do make mistakes, after all they are human, but I think a lot of them have a power complex and think that they can do as they please. This lady had an unloaded gun in her own house and was treated like a thug criminal. The officer/officers should lose their jobs.

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- Watermain
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:42pm
  If you know someone who is in LE ask them what there response will be to take innocent peoples firearms from them. I think you will like what most of them will say. I have asked many in LE and got the same answer across the board…hell no I won’t take people’s firearms if they haven’t done anything illegal.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:03pm
  The Globalists (The UN’s Controlling interests) are aware that LE will be an unwilling partner in this
  blatant violation of the U.S.Constitution.
  Gun seizure is only step one in the New World Order.
  Next will be Confiscation of Property.
  This might explain the cross training of U.S. and NATO troops on America Soil.
  
  Here is a Conspiracy Nut case talking about this “New World Order”
  Obviously, this POS thought the Constitution was the “Law of the Jungle”
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7i0wCFf8g
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:07pm
  Exactly what do these LEO’s consider illegal? It is “illegal” to grow vegetables in your lawn in some places. Point being that they think that they are serving the just and right cause. There is no man more dangerous than one who believes himself a saint. If the state tells officers that you are violating a “lawful” order to evacuate your home, what will they do if you refuse?
  
  Go over to youtube and watch the shooting of Sergeant of Marines Guerena, Jose. He was shot over 50 times in his own home in the a.m. after pulling a night shift at the mine (yes, he worked in a mine). He was awoken by his wife’s screams that armed men were jumping over the fence and rushing the house. If a swat team can break into the home of a Marine and murder him in cold blood, some shooting indiscriminately into his home from around corners where his wife and child were ducking for cover to save their lives; then why do you think I would believe your story that says LEO’s don’t want to take away our rights? They are a gang and they no longer serve the public interest except in a farcical kind of facade to keep the average person content and unquestioning.
  
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- cous1933
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:52pm
  I have been a cop for 28 years. My son is a cop on the same department. We are two of the biggest supporters of the 2nd Amendment that you will ever meet. Actually, most cops I know (and I know hundreds), support the 2nd Amendment and have absolutely zero desire to disarm law abiding people and would absolutely not participate in such an unconstitutional aberration. What those cops did in New Orleans was appalling. People should realize that the viral videos of police misbehavior are not representative of most cops. Sure there are plenty of bad cops, just like there are bad doctors, bad plumbers, bad priests, and any other occupation.
  Most cops are decent people and really do want to help good people and remove those who harm others from society.
  
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- donkeykong
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:04am
  Cous-
  Glad you’re on our side. I too know several police,
  and they concur with you. Thank God most people
  today still have a desire for America to remain free
  and won’t blindly follow orders from those who want
  to see our country destroyed. Bless you and yours.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:22am
  “…They have one of the most dangerous jobs with a meager salary at best…”
  and the majority will follow any order given to keep that ‘meager’ salary- which is probably twice what most people in this country earn. (The .mil should be paid so well!) As for the dangerous part of their job- they could eliminate more than half the danger simply by enforcing only Constitutional laws.
  
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OperationNorthwoods
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:33pm
Katrina was a practice run for marshal law.

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- Jenasus
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:41pm
  It is Martial Law.
  
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MOJAMES
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:30pm
Never show a gun or announce you have a gun until you are ready to pull the trigger!

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- Watermain
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:37pm
  Second that.
  
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- randy
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:40pm
  Exactly!!!
  
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- neverending
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:44pm
  Ditto
  
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- Fatheroftwo
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:48pm
  Gun control means using both hands!!!
  
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- Magyar
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:16pm
  Correct you are! However, make sure you have ‘safe’ off site locations to secure them…. no sense going down if you don’t have to!
  
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massminority
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:29pm
the right of the people to be secure in their houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,and no Warrents shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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- BikerHoop
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:58pm
  Sorry, that went away with the Patriot Act. Now a federal agent can stand on your porch and write his own warrant, present it to you (without a judge signing off) and pretty much do what he wants. You can not refuse him or even tell anyone he was there without being in violation of the PA.
  
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- wildbill_b
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:43pm
  @bikerhoop You actually believe an act of Congress amends the Constitution? You actually believe they can write writs of assistance? LOL. They can, but if they try it on an intelligent person they will also go to prison. It is called the Patriot ‘ACT’. It is called an ‘act’ for a reason. It is not LAW under the Constitution. They are ‘pretending’. Only the UTTER, BENIGHTED, IGNORANCE of the People allow this. Peace
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:18pm
  Dang, WildBill is jammin’. That is what I am talking about-brain oil. A little smarts goes a long way. Nice work brother.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:28pm
“Can Police Take Your Gun During a National Emergency?”

If riots were in the streets and my Life depended upon my weapon then it would depend upon who had their weapon pulled first.

If they had their weapon pulled first.. then maybe yes.

If I had my weapon pulled first… then definitely no.

If I had a family to protect… I don’t know. But, if I had a family to protect in a time of riots I would have had my weapon already pulled as well as any able bodied family member.

In a non riot situation… I’d call my lawyer and let him deal with it.

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- Watermain
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:30pm
  Well stated as usual.
  
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phillycornerboy
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:26pm
watch closely obamas’ administration and how they react to this storm. i’m thinking they might use the storm as a convenient crisis. as to the gun thing…i will gladly give up my weapons, bullets first.

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:09pm
  I like your last sentence, especially the ending.
  
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muddy1
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:25pm
No.

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DOCMMV
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:25pm
Guns should be surrendered one bullet at a time.

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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:40pm
  I like that quote.
  
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Pigpen
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:23pm
Uh oh, Law Enforcement, these days ALL of the lawyers and judges HATE YOU. The minorities have ALWAYS HATED YOU. And now, even the R3DN3CKS all hate you. Whatchya gonna do?

And for everyone else, what is to keep the Law Enforcement personnel from simply RAPING and then ROBBING Ms Konie during an emergency? (The LE’s Honor? Don’t make me LAUGH! The word “Honor” is just an old, worn-out, antiquated concept left only on LE crests, shields, and mottoes. You know, kinda like the word “God”) It would be her word (if she braved pressing charges) against theirs! I am sorry to say this, BUT I would be EQUALLY likely to hide my family and myself from the COPS as I would a roving band of looters!

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- Watermain
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:45pm
  I would love for you to have the opportunity to spout that ignorance to one of two sons in LE. You would find out what a really truly kicked ass feels like. Most cops do a good job and don’t see their job as a chance to rape and pillage.
  
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- red barchetta
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:02pm
  Amen.
  Wish the couple you have pictured would’ve been armed, they might sill be alive. I read about what happend to them and saw that photo once , I’ll never foret them.
  
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- bobfrommosinee
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:09pm
  Excuse me, But the law Enforcement People I know, Are Oath Keepers, Especially That Part about Protect and Defend the Constitution.
  
  I am a Oath Keeper to, I have been retired for 15 years, But no one has relieved me of that Oath Yet.
  
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- Watermain
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:28pm
  @Bob: agreed.
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:15pm
  @ Bob and Watermain, I too am a fellow OathKeeper; however, I recognize that a vast majority of LEO’s and even service members are not. Further, have you known an OathKeeper LEO to arrest a Citizen for a non-violent offense such as marijuana possession or “illegal” possession of a firearm? If you have, then they are not keep their oath and do not know the meaning of the Constitution. In this day and age, I find it to be extremely difficult to be an LEO, to do your job as they require for you to maintain employment, and still be an OathKeeper. I just don’t see it happening much.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:04pm
  @Waterman, Suggesting that your family members who are LEO would physically assault someone based on their freedom of speech doesn’t do much for your case that they are not brown shirted thugs.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:17am
  @Watermain,
  You just made our case for us. That your sons, even LEO for that matter, would not hesitate to commit an aggravated felony against another person. I rest my case.
  
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- 762x51
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 6:52pm
  @Watermain
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:45pm
  
  I would love for you to have the opportunity to spout that ignorance to one of two sons in LE. You would find out what a really truly kicked ass feels like. Most cops do a good job and don’t see their job as a chance to rape and pillage.
  
  Water- The problem is that today nearly all police everywhere are members of a union and those public sector unions are all pro-leftist. The deck is stacked where individual police officers are subject to criminal politicians and criminal unions. Each LEO will have to decide for him or her self if they will obey the order to enforce tyranny when the order comes down, and it WILL come. I’m sure your sons are honorable men but they will face this decision and the issue will be clouded by rhetoric like “public safety”, disarming a population has NEVER worked in favor of that population. They need to think this over carefully now before a Katrina like situation hits, when the SHTF it will be too late. I hope they decide to do the right thing, stand with the population and refuse to enforce tyranny. If not, and they come to my door, I will be forced to kill them in self defense, that is the essence of the evil we are facing. If the police side with the corrupt government and tyranny, the casualties will be massive.
  
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momrules
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:21pm
They didn’t just take that one woman’s guns during Katrina. They did it to many law abiding citizens and they did it because they COULD. Laws mean nothing to the lawless even if the lawless wears a badge.

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sreksuhn
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:18pm
Not in Tennessee b*****s!http://www.dailypaul.com/94562/doneno-gun-confiscation-in-tennessee-if-martial-law-declared

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- sreksuhn
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:25pm
  And this was passed under Gov. Phil Brederon (D)who signed it without reservation. I seriously doubt that Gov. Haslam (R) would have signed this bill. Would you Haslam?! Tennessee, sometimes I don’t know about you. From a Maryville son.
  
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Jenasus
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:17pm
Lock and Load.

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- The0bserver
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:30pm
  Or Load and Lock, as the case may be.
  
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Berbel73
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:16pm
So, if you find yourself in the same situation as Patty Konie in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Edwards said there are a few things you should be mindful of:

“You cooperate, you get the names [of the officers], you get all the information that you can, you hire an attorney and you have that attorney contact the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund,” he said.

No way in hell do I surrender my firearms, period!

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- muddy1
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:24pm
  So, you noticed that too? It makes no sense, and as time passes I’m becoming less and less impressed with the NRA. Yes, I am a member, and a Life member. I have been since 1986.
  
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- steelpanther
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:59pm
  They have to be passive. The opposition already tries to paint them as murders. They can’t do anything that will allow them to be painted in a negative light or they are going to be smeared.
  
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- Kinnison
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:34pm
  Molon Labe!
  
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- Kinnison
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:43pm
  I’ve got to go with “The Motor City Madman” and NRA Board Member Ted Nugent on this one. The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is my concealed carry permit as well as my authorization to own and use firearms in self-defense and in the defense of my family and property. I am a life-long NRA member, but the NRA Headquarters is in Arlington, just across the river from D.C., and the NRA’s full-time staff and lobbyists are just another bunch of Gucci-loafer-wearing, bespoke-suit drones infected by the atmosphere they move and work in, just like most of our legislators. There can be no compromise on the 2nd Amendment rights of Americans, period dot. Anyone who shows up at my door to confiscate my weapons better be prepared for a firefight, and I don’t care what kind of local or national emergency they think gives them the right to try and take my firearms. An armed American is a citizen, a disarmed American is a slave, and I’m no slave nor will I be.
  
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Back To Reality
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:15pm
Well, they can try.

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- lel2007
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:33pm
  Believe me, ‘they’ will win. ‘They’ get PAID to win.
  
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- Back To Reality
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:55pm
  Against you, maybe.
  
  They won’t win at my house.
  
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000degrees
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:14pm
I guess at the moment of truth we will all have to make up our own minds….

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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:17pm
  …from my cold dead hands…
  
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U.N.hater
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:14pm
Shoot anyone who try’s to come on your property and take your gun’s!

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- Just_Bubba
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:23pm
  The signs are clearly posted and the right of way is gated at the property line.This IS private property. Coming through the door will be the last thing they ever do.
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:23pm
  And you’ll wind-up in prison, unless your state has the death penalty for murder. Right or wrong the ‘officials’ always win.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:25pm
  absolutely !!!
  
  They are the enemy !!!!
  
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- Just_Bubba
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:43pm
  Inside this house there is no legal basis for them to arrest me without a warrant
  Hello 911…I fear for my life. Hang up.
  It’s over.
  Ever hear of a “castle doctrine”. I would imagine that you are a lawyer wannabe…idiot.
  
  When they come through the door, their right to live ends. Period.
  
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- Jenasus
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:45pm
  It is better to die a hero than live and be a coward.
  Give me Liberty or Give me Death.
  
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- hcartexas
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:35am
  LEL2007…. Let me tell you a secret. The Police, do not have the capacity to stop, hender, or otherwise supress a revolution. Armed masses rising up, would knock the thin blue line out… in 48 hours. 100 armed men, could easily send a city into chaos, mayhem, and submission, if done right. Gun confiscation will not happen, and if its tried, will end badly for the confiscators.
  
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762x51
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:13pm
Not without a stack of bodies outside my front door and me lying in a pile of hot brass.

I understand these would be hapless minions to those issuing the orders and I would hate to draw down on them but I would kill as many as I could before they got me.

MOLON LABE – COME AND TAKE THEM!

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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:35pm
  Ditto 762X51!
  
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- Schteveo
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:37pm
  …from my cold dead fingers!! Right?!
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:47pm
  @ 762×51
  
  I agree. What I find amazing is that the question was even posed. 95% of weapons purchases I consider to be a measured attempt at meeting a contingency that I’m not expecting (i.e. and “emergency).
  
  The question to me is like saying “can the car insurance industry confiscate your vehicle if they think you intend to drive”.
  
  I read the headline and I thought “what, WHAT?” Really?
  
  What the feds don’t realize is that the fact that we own firearms gives us the right to keep them. My gun says so, 2nd Amendment or not. ;)
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:02pm
  Better to live and fight another day, when odds are in your favor?
  
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- ANTISOCIAL-IST
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:50am
  @lel: “Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win
  without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure
  and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to
  fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for
  survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is
  no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as
  slaves.”
  - Winston Churchill
  
  now please go grow a spine
  
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colt1860
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:10pm
No, guns were made for emergencies.

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- lel2007
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:32pm
  Maybe so. Tell it to the judge when you’re charged with murder. Zimmerman is still in jeopardy after shooting Martin with just cause, where you going to be after shooting a cop?
  
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- BehindBlueEyes
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:33pm
  Exactly, that’s why I bought mine.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:51pm
  @lel2007,
  
  Tried by 12 or carried by 6?
  
  I choose the 12…..
  
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- guns-an-bibles
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 8:57pm
  Please explain. Because my guns are being kept for just such an occasion.
  
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- Schteveo
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:35pm
  LEL2007,
  but Zimmerman screwed the pooch when he lost sight of Martin, he should have broken off the pursuit. That’s just SOP on a pursuit when you are alone.
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:10pm
  Yo ! Schtevio -
  Whatever. Zimmerman’s still paying his lawyers.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:23am
  Zimmerman is going to be RICH when all this crap is over..
  Can sue Sharpton, Obama, BP’s, the City of ********,
  several members of CBC, House members, NBC,MSNBC.
  the list is so F’N long, can’t name them all….some of these
  FUC**ING IDIOTS accused him of MURDER,,,,,,,, On THE
  HOUSE FLOOR of Congress…Rep. F Wilson, and Rep.
  Johnson (the Guam is gonna’ Tip guy) ..GOOD GAWD !!!!!
  Can’t say that Democrats are overly bright…
  
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- 762x51
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 6:25pm
  What a ridiculous statement! OF COURSE there are guns made for emergencies, not all are but many are. Do you think that the hundreds of thousands of AR-15 rifles purchased in the last four years were bought for deer hunting? That caliber isn’t even legal for deer in most states. The AR-15 is a combat weapon, a battle rifle designed specifically for that purpose. Without getting into the specific differences between the AR-15 and M16, they both accomplish the same mission, killing people.
  
  The vast majority of people who purchased that weapon in the last four years did so for self/home defense. ANY TIME you are defending your life, it is an emergency.
  
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- colt1860
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 7:44pm
  Looks like some folks have misread my simple statement.
  
  I was responding to the headline, “Can the Police Take Your Gun(s) During a State of Emergency?”
  
  I answered, “No, guns were made for emergencies.”
  
  Notice the comma after the word, “NO”.
  
  Help that clarifies my position.
  
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