"From my cold dead fingers!"

"I will make a deal with the gun grabbers. The first time I do ANYTHING illegal with my firearms, then we can talk about losing my right to own. Until that time, my guns are my property, legally obtained, legally stored and legally used." 

Interesting day yesterday. I went to a local sporting goods store to buy some "soon to be illegal" ammo. For a Friday, the place was really hopping. Why? Fear, mostly. I chatted with some of the staff, as well as some of the customers. ALL were very aware of what was going on in St. Paul. NONE liked it, not one bit. One gentleman I chatted with, was just finalizing a sale on a .40 cal sidearm. He told me he already owned ten other guns. I then asked him what he would do if Minnesota enacted some kind of confiscatory law against guns. He looked at me with an emotionless face and said, "If they come for my guns, they will have to pry them from my cold dead fingers."

Then it dawned on me. These were not common criminals, who were shopping in this store. They were law abiding citizens, exercising their God given right to own a firearm. As for myself, my record is spotless - only one minor traffic ticket from thirty years ago. In fact, my record is so clean, a CID officer told me after one of my SCI background checks, investigating me was "boring". And yet, if the Democrats have their way, I will soon be a criminal.

Come on Bird! Cut the drama! Drama? I wish it were so. In Oregon they just passed a bill where owning any mag which holds over five rounds is illegal. If you own one, you are a criminal. Five rounds? Where do you buy a mag like that? I have never seen one. Standard mags hold much more than five rounds. They have a similar law in New Jersey, only with mags holding slightly more than five rounds. Plus in Oregon, the amount of ammo you can have on hand in minuscule. So what does that have to do with Minnesota? Plenty. The gun grabbers in St.Paul already have bills in process which will turn tens of thousands of Minnesotans into instant criminals.

Only a snowflake could be this clueless. This clueless that to believe that disarming law abiding citizens would take care of gun violence. It will only make it worse. The age old adage of "when you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns", will ring true in every corner of the state. Meanwhile, the most important right which is contained in the Bill of Rights is about to be sullied. Maybe sullied beyond repair.

I will make a deal with the gun grabbers. The first time I do ANYTHING illegal with my firearms, then we can talk about losing my right to own. Until that time, my guns are my property, legally obtained, legally stored and legally used. If the grabbers want to change the "legally" to "illegally" we are going to have a problem. Not just with me, with legions just like me.