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Background checks have always been illegal...

Frdmftr

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...and their purpose in being introduced in the Gun Control Act of 1968 was to set us up for what is happening today with a coterie of very wealthy subversives and enemy agents now finding it an easy job to sucker gun owners into voting for universal background checks. Bloomberg and his cronies have already won their Universal Background Checks initiative in Washington State and I think a similar law has previously been passed in Colorado.

Background checks as a precondition to receiving government permission to exercise a right -- any right -- are illegal, and here is why:

THE PRACTICE OF COMPELLING A SEARCH OF A CITIZEN'S PERSON, PAPERS, AND EFFECTS AS A PRE-CONDITION TO ISSUING OR DENYING "PERMISSION" TO EXERCISE A RIGHT GOVERNMENT HAS NO DELEGATED AUTHORITY TO ISSUE OR DENY IN THE FIRST PLACE IS A DIRECT, INTENTIONAL, AND EGREGIOUS VIOLATION OF THE FOURTH, FIFTH, AND TENTH AMENDMENTS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND AN A PRIORI RESTRAINT ON THE SECOND. –Donald L. Cline

The Fourth Amendment because a Form 4473 is an interrogation under penalty of perjury, aka a search of the person in the absence of probable cause of any crime having been committed and in the absence of probable cause that the purchaser of a firearm committed the crime.

Purchasing a firearm is not a crime and is not probable cause of a crime. Do you know of any other Constitutionally-guaranteed right that requires a government-mandated interrogation to determine if you are "worthy" of receiving permission to exercise the right?

The Fourth Amendment is also violated by the NICS checks subsequent to the aforementioned interrogation, for it is a search of the papers and effects of the purchaser that happen to be on public file, and it, too, is absent any probable cause.

The Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process prior to rights being deprived is also violated: Again, purchasing a firearm is not a crime and is not probable cause of a crime., and compelling an illegal interrogation under threat of criminal sanction and a search of your papers and effects is notdue process.

The Tenth Amendment is violated because no authority is delegated to the federal government to even license firearm dealers, let alone set up a system of regulations to deny disfavored individuals their rights or to allow favored individuals to exercise a government privilege in lieu of the citizen's God-given rights. And the Tenth Amendment denies to States any power prohibited to them by the Constitution, and the Constitution prohibits State interference in the private individual right to keep and bear arms with the Second Amendment.

The Gun Control Act of 9168 is wholly without merit and wholly without Constitutional authority and must be repealed, rescinded, or struck down by the Courts, by Congress, or in the last resort by the people by acclamation and in necessary, civil disobedience. An unconstitutional law is null and void not merely from the moment its defect is detected, but from the moment of its inception. (Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803). And any gun owner voting for a subversive voter initiative requiring government permission to exercise his or her right to keep and bear arms is supporting the loss of every right we have, for once the above precedents are set, ALL our rights will depend on government's "compelling interest."

Please see "Gun Owners: I'm calling you out." and "Universal Background Checks" on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/K7FFN.
 

rightwinglibertarian

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Background checks as a precondition to receiving government permission to exercise a right -- any right -- are illegal, and here is why:

Unfortunately it doesnt matter what the Constitution says. What is advocated around here is submission to the law, whether it is actually law or not. The only acceptable way to deal with is is through already corrupt courts that have already proven themselves to believe they are above the Constitution and can circumvent it and ignore it at will.
 

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THE PRACTICE OF COMPELLING A SEARCH OF A CITIZEN'S PERSON, PAPERS, AND EFFECTS AS A PRE-CONDITION TO ISSUING OR DENYING "PERMISSION" TO EXERCISE A RIGHT GOVERNMENT HAS NO DELEGATED AUTHORITY TO ISSUE OR DENY IN THE FIRST PLACE IS A DIRECT, INTENTIONAL, AND EGREGIOUS VIOLATION OF THE FOURTH, FIFTH, AND TENTH AMENDMENTS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND AN A PRIORI RESTRAINT ON THE SECOND. –Donald L. Cline


What sort of case law pertains to this issue? I assume there have been legal challenges since background checks were instituted?
 
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Freedom1Man

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Unfortunately it doesnt matter what the Constitution says. What is advocated around here is submission to the law, whether it is actually law or not. The only acceptable way to deal with is is through already corrupt courts that have already proven themselves to believe they are above the Constitution and can circumvent it and ignore it at will.

http://originalintent.org/edu/chapter44.php

It's constitutional, it's just been misapplied this whole time.

The Federal Firearms Act (as amended)
(18 USC, Chapter 44)

Try as you might to find the title, "Federal Firearms Act" associated with 18 USC, chapter 44, you will not. Why then do we refer to it as such here? Many of the provisions that are currently codified to Title 18, chapter 44, were not originally codified there.

The Federal Firearms Act was enacted in 1938 and it was originally codified to Title 15. So what is Title 15? It is entitled "Commerce and Trade". Do you remember that little discussion about creating vagueness where none originally existed? Well here is a stunning example. From 1938 until 1968, the Federal Firearms Act was within Title 15. That's 30 years folks! Despite the law operating just fine for 30 years, someone deemed it no longer proper to have the law contained within Title 15. Want to guess why? That's right - the government's jurisdictional limits were far too easy to ascertain when the law was within the "Commerce and Trade" title. If it wasn't moving in interstate or foreign commerce, then the US didn't have jurisdiction over it! However, by moving the Act to Title 18, and thus disconnecting the Act from the Title of "Commerce and Trade", there are few clues left to the law's original intent and its Constitutional limitations.

Despite the fact that chapter 44 of Title 18 has been amended many times, (most notably by the Gun Control Act of 1968) it is still essentially the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 [ch. 850, 52 Stat. 1252].

Having said all this, there is an interesting element to Chapter 44 and its interstate commerce authority that you should know about.

There are two different definitions for interstate and foreign commerce in Title 18. The first is found in §10 of the Title and is the definition that is generally applicable through the entire Title, unless re-defined for a specific chapter or section of the Title.

18 USC §10:
The term ''interstate commerce'', as used in this title, includes commerce between one State, Territory, Possession, or the District of Columbia and another State, Territory, Possession, or the District of Columbia. The term ''foreign commerce'', as used in this title, includes commerce with a foreign country.

This is a pretty clear definition - and it will get clearer as this article proceeds!

Interestingly, "interstate commerce" and "foreign commerce" are redefined just for chapter 44. For use within chapter 44, they are no longer two separate items, but have been combined into one legal term, to wit:

18 USC §921(2)
The term ''interstate or foreign commerce'' includes commerce between any place in a State and any place outside of that State, or within any possession of the United States (not including the Canal Zone) or the District of Columbia, but such term does not include commerce between places within the same State but through any place outside of that State. The term ''State'' includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the possessions of the United States (not including the Canal Zone).
[emphasis and underlining added]

You should recognize that as a legal term, the phrase "interstate or foreign commerce" does not mean what logic might tell you it means. You must remember that it means only what Congress says it means and nothing more!
 

MSG Laigaie

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FRDMFTR, Let me be the first to welcome you to OCDO, I hope you enjoy your stay here.

Please do not be a "drive by" as I would like to hear more.
 

rightwinglibertarian

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http://originalintent.org/edu/chapter44.php

It's constitutional, it's just been misapplied this whole time.

ummmm..... ok translate that into English instead of legalese :p You're suggesting background checks are legal? How do you get around what Frdmftr said?


The Fourth Amendment because a Form 4473 is an interrogation under penalty of perjury, aka a search of the person in the absence of probable cause of any crime having been committed and in the absence of probable cause that the purchaser of a firearm committed the crime.......

The Fourth Amendment is also violated by the NICS checks subsequent to the aforementioned interrogation, for it is a search of the papers and effects of the purchaser that happen to be on public file, and it, too, is absent any probable cause.
 
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Whitney

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Commerce Clause

ummmm..... ok translate that into English instead of legalese :p You're suggesting background checks are legal? How do you get around what Frdmftr said?

I wrote up a bunch of this stuff a few years ago in laymans terms. Following is a link to the document as it is too big to attach.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdhl6kt8sem392m/commerce clause.pdf?dl=0

Bottom line is the Feds have no jursidiction here. Think.......tribal territories as sovereign nations or Federal installations withing the State.

~Whitney
 
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color of law

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I wrote up a bunch of this stuff a few years ago in laymans terms. Following is a link to the document as it is too big to attach.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdhl6kt8sem392m/commerce clause.pdf?dl=0

Bottom line is the Feds have no jursidiction here. Think.......tribal territories as sovereign nations or Federal installations withing the State.

~Whitney
Your reference to section 101 not being in the USC is incorrect. It is set out in a foot note under 18 USC 921. Not uncommon to hide good info. Especially when Title 18 is considered positive law.
 

countryclubjoe

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...and their purpose in being introduced in the Gun Control Act of 1968 was to set us up for what is happening today with a coterie of very wealthy subversives and enemy agents now finding it an easy job to sucker gun owners into voting for universal background checks. Bloomberg and his cronies have already won their Universal Background Checks initiative in Washington State and I think a similar law has previously been passed in Colorado.

Background checks as a precondition to receiving government permission to exercise a right -- any right -- are illegal, and here is why:

THE PRACTICE OF COMPELLING A SEARCH OF A CITIZEN'S PERSON, PAPERS, AND EFFECTS AS A PRE-CONDITION TO ISSUING OR DENYING "PERMISSION" TO EXERCISE A RIGHT GOVERNMENT HAS NO DELEGATED AUTHORITY TO ISSUE OR DENY IN THE FIRST PLACE IS A DIRECT, INTENTIONAL, AND EGREGIOUS VIOLATION OF THE FOURTH, FIFTH, AND TENTH AMENDMENTS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND AN A PRIORI RESTRAINT ON THE SECOND. –Donald L. Cline

The Fourth Amendment because a Form 4473 is an interrogation under penalty of perjury, aka a search of the person in the absence of probable cause of any crime having been committed and in the absence of probable cause that the purchaser of a firearm committed the crime.

Purchasing a firearm is not a crime and is not probable cause of a crime. Do you know of any other Constitutionally-guaranteed right that requires a government-mandated interrogation to determine if you are "worthy" of receiving permission to exercise the right?

The Fourth Amendment is also violated by the NICS checks subsequent to the aforementioned interrogation, for it is a search of the papers and effects of the purchaser that happen to be on public file, and it, too, is absent any probable cause.

The Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process prior to rights being deprived is also violated: Again, purchasing a firearm is not a crime and is not probable cause of a crime., and compelling an illegal interrogation under threat of criminal sanction and a search of your papers and effects is notdue process.

The Tenth Amendment is violated because no authority is delegated to the federal government to even license firearm dealers, let alone set up a system of regulations to deny disfavored individuals their rights or to allow favored individuals to exercise a government privilege in lieu of the citizen's God-given rights. And the Tenth Amendment denies to States any power prohibited to them by the Constitution, and the Constitution prohibits State interference in the private individual right to keep and bear arms with the Second Amendment.

The Gun Control Act of 9168 is wholly without merit and wholly without Constitutional authority and must be repealed, rescinded, or struck down by the Courts, by Congress, or in the last resort by the people by acclamation and in necessary, civil disobedience. An unconstitutional law is null and void not merely from the moment its defect is detected, but from the moment of its inception. (Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803). And any gun owner voting for a subversive voter initiative requiring government permission to exercise his or her right to keep and bear arms is supporting the loss of every right we have, for once the above precedents are set, ALL our rights will depend on government's "compelling interest."

Please see "Gun Owners: I'm calling you out." and "Universal Background Checks" on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/K7FFN.

Welcome to OCDO, great first post. Looking forward to reading more.
Regards.
CCJ
 

countryclubjoe

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The Commerce Clause trumps everything. If you don't believe me just ask any court.

Yes very true, it is hard to over come the "rational Basis" under the commerce clause..

" Under the commerce clause, congress needs only, a rational basis to a legitimate state interest, not a necessary rational to a compelling interest...

However, there exist the age old legal maxim, " Any law repugnant to the Federal Constitution is null and void"

Marbury v Madison 5 US 137 (1803)

My .02

CCJ
 
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