Mayors Against Illegal Guns

Mayor Bloomberg(NYC) and his anti-gun cronies in the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) are at it again by trying to get Congress to close the "gun show loophole." What is the gun show loophole? First lets look at what a loophole is in regards to the law. A loophole is also known as a law. So if someone is claiming that they want to close a loophole they are trying to change the law to make a legal action illegal in the future. So closing the "gun show loophole" means that they are trying to get an action that is currently legal to become illegal. What action is that? They want to ban all private firearm transfers so that any firearm that is purchased at a gun show would have to go through a background check. This may seem like a harmless action but it costs money and will not stop anyone who is not legally able to own a firearm from buying one. Criminals do not go to gun shows in order to obtain a firearm, they will either steal them or buy them from another criminal.

Another gift from this bill that MAIG wants passed is anyone who wants to put on a gun show must, at least 30 days before the show submit to the State's Attorney General (AG) a list of vendors who will be selling or offering to sell anything at the show or face a fine or imprisonment. Who is a vendor? Anyone who sells or offers to sell a firearm or firearm related product either on site or off site to an individual. This means that if you are at a gun show with a friend shopping for an AR-15 but can't afford to buy one at the show and that friend offers to sell you his AR-15; the law has been violated and the person putting on the gun show can be subject to a fine and/or imprisonment. It doesn't stop there either, you and your friend could be subject to a fine or imprisonment also.

If this law were to pass and become law, I would tell the feds to go to hell. They do not have the authority to regulate gun show no matter what they say. Article I section 8 says that Congress has the authority to "Regulate Commerce ... among the several States ..." not within or throughout the States. This part of the "Commerce clause" has been twisted and abused for the past 80 years or more. This part of Article I section 8 was put in place because when the Articles of Confederation were in effect, each individual State could and would place taxes and tariffs on goods anytime they crossed their borders. The Commerce clause was put in the Constitution to stop this practice from occurring. As I have stated in a previous posting, all federal laws regulating intrastate commerce are unconstitutional and many of the federal laws regulating interstate commerce are illegal as well.

If you go to the website for MAIG http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/home/home.shtml and look at the mayors in this group, you will notice that many of the large cities in the United States are represented. If you also look at the crime rates in these cities and their gun laws you will notice that the crime rates are high and their gun laws tend to be restrictive.

The head of the group is Mike Bloomberg. In his city of New York City, he has acted like a king in his laws. He has, in the past, sent private investigators to other States to carry out straw purchase of firearms and then sued the gun shops, in a NYC court, even though they did nothing wrong. In doing this the ATF told him that his actions could have jeopardized ongoing undercover investigations. Some gun shops agreed to more oversight because they couldn't afford the legal costs of fighting the lawsuit. All of the gun shops that were targeted were small shops, do you think this was an accident? Virginia was one of the States that was invaded by Bloomberg's henchmen, as a result of the actions of Bloomberg, Virginia passed a law that would make it illegal for this to happen again. In addition to this, Virginia sent a letter to Bloomberg telling him to run New York City and leave Virginia's business to Virginia. Being the conceited billionaire mayor, he thinks that he can do anything he wants even if he isn't supposed to.

One of the other mayors on the list is the mayor of Washington, D.C. I his city, there had been a total handgun ban until the Supreme Court ruled that it violated the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Before the ban was overturned, the crime rate in D.C. was much higher than the national average as the population was in a steady rate of decline. When the ban was overturned, the city council and the mayor have done everything in their power to make the handgun regulations as restrictive as possible in order to keep as many of their residents unarmed as possible. Since the end of the ban, the crime rate has started to decline but the laws are still so restrictive that semiautomatic handguns are still banned because of the D.C.'s definition of what a machine gun is.

You'll also find the mayors of Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Cleveland, Portland and others.