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The way the gun nuts and NRA have framed the debate, [b]you can not take a gun away from known terrorist[/b]. It’s an all or nothing fight. All reasonable restrictions are fought tooth and nail. So when the day comes and it’s coming, you and op will have no say in how guns are regulated/restricted. Australia is coming and it’s your own fault.

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Well, let's talk about that for a moment.

First of all, how do you know that the guy is a terrorist? If he has made terrorist threats, he can be arrested and his firearms seized. If he has committed terrorist acts, he can be arrested and his firearms seized. If he is illegally in this country, he is not permitted to own firearms, and can be arrested and his firearms seized.
If it's simply a matter of someone not liking the fact that the guy is a foreign immigrant and maybe attends worship services at a place that is "different", are you going to take his property for that? What else are you going to take?

As for fighting "reasonable restrictions", what you consider "reasonable" may very well be considered incredibly unreasonable by other law-abiding citizens who just happen to own firearms.
Let me give you an example: Some years ago, Representative Fortney M. "Pete" Stark (D-Cal) introduced a bill in the congress that would require all owners of so-called "assault weapons" to surrender them to the government or face heavy fines and long prison sentences. In his proposed bill, there were several means of identifying what an assault weapon was. One of the definitions was "...any rifle or shotgun with a bayonet mount." It just so happens that I had (and still have) a US Model 1855 Harpers Ferry Rifle Musket, made at the Harpers Ferry Arsenal in 1858. On muskets of that type a bayonet can be fitted over the end of the barrel, and the front sight serves as a lug to lock the bayonet in place.
So I called Rep. Stark's office and talked with his legislative assistant, who helped write the proposed legislation. I explained how the front sight on my 150-year-old muzzle-loading musket served as a "bayonet mount", and asked if his proposal really made any sense. His first response was that I could simply grind the front sight off, thereby making the gun legal. When I asked him how defacing an antique musket would do any good in the war on crime, he said, "Well, we have to start somewhere."
An attitude like that is what leads us to fight tooth and nail against what you call "reasonable restrictions".[/quote]

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