From NRA website
http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/fact-sheets/2013/privatesales.aspx?s=&st=&ps=
Do gun control supporters have an ulterior motive?
Is it reasonable to conclude that gun control supporters believe that subjecting all firearm sales to NICS is a necessary step in the direction of gun registration? And, if so, that they see registration as a prerequisite to the confiscation or some or all guns?
In 1976, the chairman of the National Council to Control Handguns—later renamed Handgun Control, Inc. and now known as the Brady Campaign—said:
The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country.
The second problem is to get handguns registered.
And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition—except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors—totally illegal.[SUP]13
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Currently, the FBI is not permitted to retain records on persons who pass NICS checks. However, in 2009, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) introduced legislation, co-sponsored by handgun and *assault weapon* ban advocate Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), proposing that the FBI retain such records for 180 days.[SUP]14[/SUP] In 1995, Feinstein said about *assault weapons,* *If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America turn them all in, I would have done it.[SUP]15[/SUP] And in 2012, she said that she might introduce legislation requiring owners of *assault weapons* to turn them over to the government within the framework of a *buy-back.*[SUP]16[/SUP]
http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/fact-sheets/2013/privatesales.aspx?s=&st=&ps=
Do gun control supporters have an ulterior motive?
Is it reasonable to conclude that gun control supporters believe that subjecting all firearm sales to NICS is a necessary step in the direction of gun registration? And, if so, that they see registration as a prerequisite to the confiscation or some or all guns?
In 1976, the chairman of the National Council to Control Handguns—later renamed Handgun Control, Inc. and now known as the Brady Campaign—said:
The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country.
The second problem is to get handguns registered.
And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition—except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors—totally illegal.[SUP]13
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Currently, the FBI is not permitted to retain records on persons who pass NICS checks. However, in 2009, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) introduced legislation, co-sponsored by handgun and *assault weapon* ban advocate Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), proposing that the FBI retain such records for 180 days.[SUP]14[/SUP] In 1995, Feinstein said about *assault weapons,* *If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America turn them all in, I would have done it.[SUP]15[/SUP] And in 2012, she said that she might introduce legislation requiring owners of *assault weapons* to turn them over to the government within the framework of a *buy-back.*[SUP]16[/SUP]
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