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The SPOTLIGHT 
May 27, 1991

DISARMING THE PEOPLE FIRST STEP IN CREATING NEW WORLD ORDER
By Mike Blair

Patriotic American leaders do not have to concern themselves with the average law-abiding American gun owner, only with establishing laws adequate to curb the crimes of armed criminals. However, the allies of those who wish to subjugate the American people are the armed criminals, who unhindered by adequate laws to curb their crimes will ultimately cause the disarming of all Americans. Thus, potential tyrants and dictators, like jackals, always bark for gun controls.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." The first act of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev upon the declaration of independence from the USSR of the tiny republic of Lithuania on the Baltic Sea was a call for the disarming of the Lithuanian militia and a demand that all Lithuanians surrender their firearms to occupying Soviet authorities. The second act was the use of force and intimidation against the Lithuanian people to force them to rescind their declaration of independence.

In 1980 legislation was enacted creating the so-called BATF form 4478, which prospective purchasers of firearms are required to fill out before they can buy firearms from a dealer. The form requires the buyer's name, height, weight, race, residence, date of birth, place of birth and lists nine questions, which deal with the applicant's background, whether he has a criminal record, has been confined to a mental institution etc. Complete details about the gun he wishes to purchase are also required. If the applicant answers any of the nine background questions with a "yes," the gun dealer cannot sell the person a firearm.

GUN REGISTRATION

Most people, not even gun owners, do not realize that the form is in reality national gun registration. In fact, in anticipation of forthcoming anti-gun legislation, particularly involving semiautomatic firearms and magazines, BATF agents have been visiting gun shops and "checking" the 4473 forms.

The SPOTLIGHT has learned that the BATF has established what it has code named Operation Forward Trace, a program of formulating a computer list of gun owners with weapons that are likely to be banned. One gun dealer, Kirby Ferris of Stinson Beach, California, who determined that BATF agents were visiting his gun shop and inspecting his forms for the purpose of copying the names of gun owners and details of their firearms, denied the agents access to the forms. Consequently the gun dealer's license was revoked.

"Funny how this [visit of BATF agents at his shop] happened shortly after I wrote a bunch of columns in the paper about our gun rights," Ferris said.

Actually the BATF agents, if they copy information from the forms for the purpose of establishing lists are violating Title 18 U.S. Code Sect. 926(2xa), which states;

"No such rule or regulation prescribed after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (enacted in 1986) may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any state or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearm owners, or firearms transactions or dispositions be established."

According to the law they may inspect the lists "to inquire into the disposition of any firearm in the course of a criminal investigation."

 

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