[QUOTE]Originally posted by Billy Optimist:
[B] If the government ever out laws ALL guns, which is highly unlikey, they will not have the power to take yours if you bought them before that law was made. Thats in the constitution too. Its known as the "ex post facto" clause"
Actully, they can take weapons that you possessed before a particular gun was outlawed. They have done it in California. People were told that they were legally allowed to own SKS rifles, but that they must register them. The next attorney general to take office then decided to outlaw that particular weapon, used the registration list to mail a notice to those people that they must surrender their SKS, alter them to make them inoperable(ruin), or sell them out of state. Anyone who did not comply was then labeled a felon, and the registration list became a confiscation list. "Ex po facto" did not protect these people from this law. If a weapon is outlawed, it is against the law to own it, whether you bought it before or after it was outlawed. You are thinking that if the IMPORTING of a particular weapon is outlawed, then people who already own it are allowed to keep it, and any of those for sale that are already in the country are allowed to be sold.
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