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Government enacts a fee to own a gun...

hypocritexposer

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...$100 per gun, per month. (why not $500, if $100 is legal)

Tam, you going to pay? It's not restricting your right to own a gun...you can still own them, if you work enough hours. You'd still have the right to liberty and happiness...

Constitution didn't say anything about that, did it? Interpretation, I guess. Congress can make anything illegal, if they desire...
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
backhoeboogie said:
Another one of those things that can never happen

Only because a larger % of the population won't put up with it....for now.

I bet at one time, people thought the Federal government wouldn't control as much land as they do either, believing in the Constitution.

They will re-educate and slowly get it done, no doubt. What once was the law of the land, has now become "law of the moment"

At one time, the Federal government was only Constitutional allowed to own state land for forts, naval yards, and such...now they can own millions of acres, and charge "management" fees that ranchers are expected to pay.

and the masses think it is illegal to question said fees, but disregard the illegality of the federal government owning land.

Things that make you go Hmmmmm.

today it's some guy that didn't pay fees on his cattle grazing on turtle habitat, tomorrow it will be some guy that builds a pond, or someone that wants to express their 1st amendment rights, on public property.

Best just not allow the Feds. to control land....as the Founders intended.
 

backhoeboogie

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Grazing public lands is not something I am familiar with nor have I been around it much.

Texas was originally a republic, as you well know. They sold off their land to pay for schools and colleges. So there is very little public domain here. All of my ancestors ran cattle on land they owned.

Can't say I have ever known anyone personally that grazed on public lands. If I did, it would put me more emotionally invested to the going ons out there.

It is a wonder to me that the buffalo didn't wipe out the turtles way back when.

I've heard horror stories about people hunting on public land. Not knowing other hunters were in the area etc. Finding people in their deer stands - a long list. If I hunted public lands I too would wear that blazing orange the city slickers wear.

We do have our poachers here occasionally.

City people send their kids out to "summer camp." The "camps" seem more akin to the Holliday Inn than camping. Everything is structured and organized. Cooking amounts to hot dogs or smores. Manicured lawns all around the little cabins much like city living. So I assume these people are the people who long to go to public parks and state parks; they got no where else to go. I can't blame them for wanting to get out of the rat race.

Then there are those guys who spend mega bucks to deer hunt on hunting leases. That is something else I have never done. Don't know much how it works other than hearsay.
 

iwannabeacowboy

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backhoeboogie said:
Another one of those things that can never happen

I don't believe that. How much do you have to pay to send a gun to an FFL holder? How much more does it cost to purchase a gun because of all the regulations that a dealer has to keep up? How much more is ammunition going to be, now that the only lead plant remaining in the US is shut down due to the EPA? How much do you have to pay to for a CCL? How much does an individual on the east cost have to pay to license a gun?

How much is the cost of stamping each bullet casing going to cost? How many other costly regulations or obstructions are in the works?

And you are sorta right, it won't cost you a $100 a month to own many guns in DC or Colorado, it will cost you probably 10 to 20.... years in the pen.

Owning and shooting a gun is expense, and it has been designed to be expensive. The rest they are attempting to just make them illegal to own by whatever means- they look mean, the hold more than 7 rounds....
 

Mike

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iwannabeacowboy said:
backhoeboogie said:
Another one of those things that can never happen

I don't believe that. How much do you have to pay to send a gun to an FFL holder? How much more does it cost to purchase a gun because of all the regulations that a dealer has to keep up? How much more is ammunition going to be, now that the only lead plant remaining in the US is shut down due to the EPA? How much do you have to pay to for a CCL? How much does an individual on the east cost have to pay to license a gun?

How much is the cost of stamping each bullet casing going to cost? How many other costly regulations or obstructions are in the works?

And you are sorta right, it won't cost you a $100 a month to own many guns in DC or Colorado, it will cost you probably 10 to 20.... years in the pen.

Owning and shooting a gun is expense, and it has been designed to be expensive. The rest they are attempting to just make them illegal to own by whatever means- they look mean, the hold more than 7 rounds....
:nod:
 
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