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A version of the The following column appears in the July 10 edition of “Firearms News” — formerly “Shotgun News” — on newsstands now.<\/em><\/p>\n

After college, Don Beyer, now 65, went to work at his father\u2019s Volvo dealership, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. In 1986, he and his brother Michael bought the business, soon expanding it to nine dealerships, including Land Rover, Kia, Volkswagen, and Subaru franchises. <\/p>\n

Beyer did well. He\u2019s now reportedly worth $48 million. If he\u2019d stopped there, we would surely congratulate him for using his talents to provide his neighbors with a product they obviously need and want.<\/p>\n

But Don Beyer had ambition. From 1990 to 1998 he served as Virginia\u2019s lieutenant governor. In 1998 he was the Democratic candidate for governor, but lost to Republican Attorney General Jim Gilmore. Oh well.<\/p>\n

But by then Don Beyer figured something out. He signed on as National Treasurer for the 2004 presidential campaign of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. When Dean\u2019s campaign imploded, Mr. Beyer went on the serve as chairman of the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign for Virginia. In 2007-08, he endorsed and campaigned extensively for Barack Obama. He served as chairman of the Mid Atlantic Finance Council of the \u201cObama for America\u201d campaign, and served on that campaign’s National Finance Council.<\/p>\n

If money is the lifeblood of politics, Don Beyer had shown himself to be the man who can open the floodgates.<\/p>\n

Such efforts have their rewards. In June of 2009, Barack Obama nominated Don Beyer to the post of Ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein (Lichtenstein being judged too small to deserve its own, separate ambassador.)<\/p>\n

Perhaps Don Beyer was chosen for this post because of his interest in helping America emulate a nation where every male head of household keeps a machine gun at home, and because of his unusual (and previously unrecognized) combined fluency in German, French, and Italian -\u2013 though I doubt it. I do know that in December, 2010, Beyer \u201cattracted public attention\u201d when it was reported he\u2019d warned the Swiss government against offering asylum to Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. By 2013 Mr. Beyer had resigned to return home and run for Congress from Virginia\u2019s 8th Congressional District, where I doubt he was underfunded. He won.<\/p>\n

Why is all this important? To demonstrate that — while he\u2019s only a freshman congressman — Don Beyer is not some wet-behind-the-ears kid wandering the Capitol hallways, trying to find the men\u2019s room. Although bills submitted by freshmen — and minority party freshmen, at that — are rarely given much chance of immediate passage, a bill proposed by Don Beyer is not necessarily something dreamed up with a couple of buddies over a poker game down at the firehouse on Friday night.<\/p>\n

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TO SET UP A NATIONAL GUN REGISTRY<\/strong><\/p>\n

And what a bill Don Beyer has submitted! Back on April 12, he offered up H.R. 4905, the \u201cATF Enforcement Act,\u201d a bill \u201cto restore the ability of law enforcement authorities to enforce gun safety laws, and for other purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Act would \u201celiminate the Senate confirmation requirement for the appointment of the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.\u201d Hm.<\/p>\n

It would eliminate legal \u201climitations relating to firearms trace data\u201d as well as the \u201cProhibition on use of firearms trace data to draw broad conclusions about firearms-related crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would eliminate the \u201cprohibition on consolidation or centralization in the Department of Justice of firearms acquisition and disposition records maintained by Federal firearms licensees.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would eliminate the \u201cprohibition on imposition of requirement that firearms dealers conduct physical check of firearms inventory.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would eliminate the \u201crequirement that instant check records be destroyed within 24 hours.\u201d You might want to read that, again.<\/p>\n

It would eliminate \u201cprohibitions relating to \u2018curios and relics\u2019 and importation of surplus military firearms\u201d and the \u201cprohibition on denial of federal firearms license due to lack of business activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would eliminate \u201cprohibition on (the) search (of) computerized records of federally licensed firearms dealers who are out of business.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would eliminate the \u201cprohibition on denying, or failing to act on, application to import certain shotgun models on the basis that the shotgun was not particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

I guess we could also call it the \u201cGun-Grabbers\u2019 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Wet-Dream Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There are two points to be made. The first is the reaction to this proposal from Hillary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer, and the other chief hypocrites among our statist gun-grabbers — \u201chypocrites\u201d because they, of course, have never objected to the government bodyguards, funded by us taxpaying peasants, assigned to protect their oh-so-valuable lives and on occasion even those of their children, 24\/7.<\/p>\n

(Also note 26 of the gun-grabbing congresscritters engaging in the recent gun-banning \u201csit-in\u201d in Washington are gun owners — see http:\/\/beforeitsnews.com\/alternative\/2016\/06\/total-hypocrites-26-of-the-democrats-at-the-gun-control-sit-in-own-guns-3377916.html<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

The reaction of those hypocrites being, so far as I\u2019ve been able to determine, no reaction whatsoever.<\/p>\n

If these character had an ounce of moral or ethical fiber (stop laughing, please), they\u2019d be racing in front of the TV cameras, shouting, \u201cWhoa, there, hold on a minute! In order to win approval of this current background check system — which I\u2019ll have to admit in passing costs millions of person-hours, and even more millions of dollars, but has never resulted in the conviction of a single convicted murderer for trying to illegally buy a gun at a licensed gun store — we made sober and sincere and morally binding promises that the results of those checks would be destroyed within days, that those buyers\u2019 names would never -\u2013 could<\/strong> never — be linked with weapon serial numbers in order to set up a national registry, which could eventually be used to facilitate a big confiscation. And now comes this freshman punk, this millionaire Obama fund-bundler, trying to dishonor and discredit and renounce and go back on our sober promises? This could make us look like we don\u2019t stand by our agreements! We demand he withdraw this monstrosity and apologize!\u201d<\/p>\n

START PLAYING THE GAME THEIR WAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, silence. Why? Because, as with any other totalitarians — no matter whether this year they call themselves state socialists, or fascists, or \u201cProgressives,\u201d or whatever — to these government gun-grabbers a \u201cpromise\u201d is nothing but a short-term compromise to get another 10 or 20 percent of what they want. Before the ink is even dry they\u2019re gathering back in their office to break open the champagne and ask \u201cOK, now how do we get the next 10 or 20 percent? Remember, our long-term goal is to see to it that no one but our Army and our police forces and our armed bodyguards can ever own or carry another functional modern firearm anywhere in this country. We\u2019ve got to break the back of any potential resistance! Where can we back down these redneck gun-nuts, next, by claiming it\u2019s all \u2018for the chillldrennn\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

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They don\u2019t care that Rep. Beyer\u2019s bill may not pass this year. The point is to have it in the hopper, ready to go the next time their insistence on doping up the nation\u2019s young males on Ritalin and Luvox (not to mention turning a blind eye to the lunatic young male Muslims in our midst) leads to another \u201ctragic massacre,\u201d providing a conveniently emotional excuse to squeeze the coils of the python a little tighter. <\/p>\n

Which leads to my second point. Why are the forces of freedom always on the defensive? Why can\u2019t OUR guys submit some bills that will just be sitting there, waiting, the next time these freedom haters decide to leave for vacation a couple of days early?<\/p>\n

At the very least, the Freedom Forces should have some bills drafted up, submitted, and ready to go, stipulating that:<\/p>\n

1) The stamping or other placement of serial numbers on firearms is hereby discouraged, since it only encourages registration schemes. Any laws, orders, or regulations which can be interpreted to require the stamping of serial numbers on firearms are hereby repealed;<\/p>\n

2) All adult Americans are encouraged to carry loaded handguns with them at all times, especially when visiting any courthouse, courtroom, government office building, legislative chambers, leased premises of the Treasury Department or the IRS, and the like. Any laws, orders, or regulations tending to discourage, encumber, inconvenience, ban, tax or regulate such freedom-enhancing behaviors are hereby repealed.<\/p>\n

3) The importation and manufacture of fully-automatic firearms — belt-fed and otherwise, both newly manufactured and vintage — and of grenade launchers and rocket launchers, and of appropriate ammunition for each of these Instruments of Freedom, for sale to American citizens and residents without the requirement of any license or permit for said manufacture, sale, purchase, or possession, is hereby encouraged, in keeping with the purpose and intent of the Second Amendment — i.e. \u201cthat every man be armed\u201d — in order to discourage executive branch agents and employees from usurping powers not specifically delegated. Therefore any and all laws, orders, or regulations tending to discourage, encumber, inconvenience, ban, regulate, or tax such freedom-enhancing behaviors are hereby renounced and repealed.<\/p>\n

(The gun-grabbers keep talking about “military-style arms,” which have been effectively banned for “civilian” — non-police — possession in this country since 1934. Since they apparently don’t know what real “military-style arms” are, let’s finally show them.) <\/p>\n

4) Since we find it a prima facie violation of the First Amendment ban on \u201can establishment of religion,\u201d by seeking to establish the Green religion by force of law, and since it\u2019s been widely misused as an excuse to massively infringe private property rights and attempt to drive rural ranchers, loggers, miners and others off the land, the Endangered Species Act and all accompanying Legislation associated with that Act are hereby renounced and repealed.<\/p>\n

Get a few dozen such useful proposed laws into the hopper. Make the other side play defense, wondering which one of these things is going to get attached at the last minute, when they\u2019ve left early for the holidays, as a rider to some harmless-looking bill declaring June 17 to be \u201cNational Strawberry Shortcake Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve played defense long enough. It\u2019s time to start the ball moving back the other way.<\/p>\n

Vin Suprynowicz was for 20 years an award-winning columnist and editorial writer for the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal. He is the author of the essay collection \u201cSend in the Waco Killers\u201d and two new novels about the War on Drugs, \u201cThe Testament of James\u201d and \u201cThe Miskatonic Manuscript.\u201d He blogs at www.vinsuprynowicz.com<\/em> .<\/p>\n

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