Bloomberg-Gates background check ploy first step to registration, confiscation

"Adding to a war chest he’s already stuffed to bursting at the seams along with fellow super-wealthy elites Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen of Microsoft, and Nick Hanauer of ... uh ... Nick Hanauer, Michael Bloomberg is throwing another million dollars into the mix to promote the I-594 “gun control” initiative, Seattle Gun Rights Examiner Dave Workman reported this afternoon."

"The first point is, a background check bill is impossible without creating registration data. That was admitted by no less an authority than Greg Ridgeway, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Justice, who wrote a summary report on gun violence prevention strategies in which he concluded “Effectiveness depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gun registration...”
That won’t be persuasive on doctrinaire anti-gunners, who are all for registration and the confiscation that can follow. But it might move someone on the fence, especially if they know they’re being manipulated into thinking it’s just about background checks. Letting people know they're being used as marks for a bait and switch scam may cause some to realize they're not being respected."

"You can further move open-minded people with another documented reality: Gun registration only applies to the law-abiding. Many people don't realize that criminals don’t have to register their guns – the Supreme Court said so in Haynes v. United States, where it concluded to require registration would violate a prohibited person’s right against self-incrimination as articulated in the Fifth Amendment."

http://www.examiner.com/article/bloomberg-gates-background-check-ploy-first-step-to-registration-confiscation?CID=examiner_alerts_article