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There has been much recent discussion about the "socialist gun-grabber" agenda that is supposedly afoot since the new administration got in. I did some checking and was interested to learn that the American Socialist Party proper (Socialist Party USA) only had this to say about the subject in their platform:
11. We support federal buyout programs for arms, federal safety standards and licensing for arms, and community-based public training for gun owners.
This is in the "legal justice" section of their platform, linked here: http://socialistparty-usa.org/platform/civilrights.html. No call for blanket bans or confiscation here, although they do advocate more regulation than anyone here would care for generally.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting.
p.s. there are any number of splinter "red" groups along the socialist/communist spectrum, and I'm sure many are totally anti-gun,so I don't know how representative SPUSA is on this account with regard to the extreme left, although they are one of the principal parties.
-ljp
There has been much recent discussion about the "socialist gun-grabber" agenda that is supposedly afoot since the new administration got in. I did some checking and was interested to learn that the American Socialist Party proper (Socialist Party USA) only had this to say about the subject in their platform:
11. We support federal buyout programs for arms, federal safety standards and licensing for arms, and community-based public training for gun owners.
This is in the "legal justice" section of their platform, linked here: http://socialistparty-usa.org/platform/civilrights.html. No call for blanket bans or confiscation here, although they do advocate more regulation than anyone here would care for generally.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting.
p.s. there are any number of splinter "red" groups along the socialist/communist spectrum, and I'm sure many are totally anti-gun,so I don't know how representative SPUSA is on this account with regard to the extreme left, although they are one of the principal parties.
-ljp