July 21, 2008
Homeland Security claims far reaching power over your guns
Harrisburg, PA - Pennsylvania gun owners breathed a sigh of relief at
the Heller vs. DC Supreme Court ruling, but the Libertarian Party of
Pennsylvania (LPPa) warns that major threats to gun rights still
exist. One such threat is REAL ID, the federal mandate turning
driver=92s licenses into national ID cards.
The long-term plan for REAL ID is to force its biometric ID functions
on federal, state, local and private entities for all transactions.
Thus, ID confirmation by a distant bureaucracy becomes permission for
essential daily activities including banking, doctor visits, transit,
school attendance and purchases =97 including guns.
According to the Department of Homeland Security=92s (DHS) final rule
handed down in January, DHS =93will continue to consider additional ways
in which a Real ID license can or should be used and will implement
any changes to the definition of =91official purpose=92 or determinations
regarding additional uses for Real ID consistent with applicable laws
and regulatory requirements. DHS does not agree that it must seek the
approval of Congress as a prerequisite to changing the definition in
the future.=94
Do you want to risk your gun rights on the appointment of someone
opposed to our second amendment rights as Secretary of Homeland
Security?
=93The very thought that the sale of firearms and ammunition could be
stopped based on some political agenda in Wa****ngton is frightening,=94
remarked LP Activist Mark Crowley. =93We saw the disastrous consequences
of such an agenda in New Orleans during Katrina when some police
abandoned their posts leaving citizens defenseless and criminals
armed. We must never put Pennsylvanians into a position where they can
only hope that distant Wa****ngton bureaucrats will do the right
thing.=94
=93The implementation of REAL ID presents a significant threat to gun
owner****p in the United States of America.=94 added Michael Robertson,
LPPa Chair.
By participating in REAL ID, Pennsylvanians will be subjected to
scrutiny by a host of federal agencies with every swipe of a REAL ID
card. This is de facto gun registration, only worse. Once a gun buyer
is identified, other information such as military service, purchases,
rentals, travel, and medical history will be easily cross-referenced
and subjected to interpretation. It=92s inevitable that politicized
standards will emerge that can be used to deny Pennsylvanians the
right to keep and bear arms =97 everyone except violent criminals and
politicians=92 bodyguards.
LPPa Media Relations Chair, Doug Leard, added, =93A few years ago when
the NICS [National InstaCheck System] computer system crashed, no one
could be validated for a gun purchase. A political agenda is one thing
and bureaucratic incompetence is another. When a state submits to REAL
ID, it submits its citizens to the possibility of being denied not
just gun purchases, but ATM cash, credit card purchases and even a
critical prescription pickup. Pennsylvania must emphatically reject
REAL ID.=94
The LPPa urges Pennsylvanians to contact their state legislators and
instruct them to sup****t state House Bill 1351 and state Senate Bill
1220. Be wary of other recently introduced legislation such as H.B.
2537 that claims to oppose REAL ID, but ignores the central issue of
biometric data collection of Pennsylvanians.
Despite the Heller case, the anti-gun movement will continue to seek
alternatives to eliminate our gun rights. REAL ID provides them an
unguarded backdoor. Let=92s nail it shut in Pennsylvania.
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