Received this in the email today.. what is your take on this?

[Ray S ECenFL]

ALL ACTIVE DUTY MEMBERS HEADS UP..!!


Gentlemen,

I am an 11B (infantry) currently assigned at Fort Campbell. I live off post, with my firearms(which I don't bring on post for any reason). A very frightening thing happened at work yesterday. I was ordered to fill out a list containing my firearm information. This included make, model, caliber, and serial number of all firearms I currently posses. In addition, I was also required to list registration information, location of all weapons individually, and information regarding any CCW permits I posses. If you are like me, then the people you work with know you have firearms. So I had to list at least some. I tried to talk to my 1sg (who is normally aproachable through proper channels) to find out what this is for, and I was basically told, "I don't give a !&@%, just put your info on the form." I don't know how high this goes, but I am hearing that this is going on in other units at Fort Campbell as well. It just seems a little coincidental to me that within 90 days: the most anti-firearm President in history is inaugurated, some of the nastiest anti-firearm laws are put on the table in Washington, and then the Army comes around wanting what amounts to a registration on all firearms, even if they are off post, and doesn't provide any reason or purpose as to why. I fear something really nasty is blowing in the wind here. I have been in almost 8 years, and never have any of my units asked for this information. If any of you out there have any info as to what all this crap is about please chime in. Otherwise consider yourself warned. I have already posted this on every other firearm forum I am a member of to get the word out.
Here it is folks:

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Shucks RAY: didn't you know that all military are considered as potential terrorists by the DHS? So stated by them in an oficial publication.

congrats .

Don Jose de La Mancha

 

[Minstrel]

I posted this on 13 April 09

The Washington Times
Monday, April 13, 2009
EDITORIAL: 'We want them registered'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, announced last week that she wants to register guns. Her next move will be to try to confiscate them.
The speaker picked a television show with a viewership of 4.6 million to float the Democrats' coming gun-control push. Questioned on ABC's "Good Morning America" about the prospect of new gun-control laws now that "it's a Democratic president, a Democratic House," she responded, "We don't want to take their guns away. We want them registered."
Politicians and bureaucrats routinely claim that registration helps solve crimes. If a registered gun is used in a crime and left at the crime scene, registration supposedly lets the police trace the gun back to the criminal. Though this turn of events might work on fictional TV crime shows, it virtually never occurs in real life. Criminals' guns are rarely left at crime scenes. When guns are left behind, it usually is because a crook has been seriously injured or killed and the police are poised to catch him anyway.
The few guns left at crime scenes rarely - if ever - are registered to the perpetrator. If they are registered at all, it is to someone else, whose piece was stolen. Despite what Mrs. Pelosi might think, those who use guns to commit major crimes such as robbing and killing are unlikely to respect her request to file paperwork so the government can catalog the tools of their trade.
Numerous examples disprove gun-control propaganda. Hawaii has had licensing and registration of guns for about 50 years. After all of the administrative expenses and inconvenience imposed on gun owners, police there cannot point to a single crime that has been solved as a result of those programs. Given Hawaii's remote island geography, this should be an ideal place to keep track of guns because movement in and out of the state is limited and legal importation is controlled. If registration is going to work anywhere, it should work there. Unfortunately, criminals seem to be able to get their hands on guns virtually anyplace in the world.
Other jurisdictions with a history of strict handgun bans, such as the District of Columbia and Chicago, have even required registration of hunting rifles and shotguns for more than 20 years. Neither the District nor Chicago can point to any crimes that have been solved using registration records.
The same rules apply across the border. Canada, which has imposed registration of handguns since the 1930s, does not have much to show for it. In 2006, when the Liberal Party under Prime Minister Paul Martin controlled the government, it was admitted in parliamentary debate that just three crimes in 70 years had been solved as a result of registration. A couple of those cases were debatable because other independent evidence helped solve the crimes. According to the Canadian Ministry of Public Safety, just 4 percent of Canadian handgun murders in 2005 and 2006 were committed with registered handguns, and none of those were registered to the people who committed the crimes. As for long-gun registration, at least as of 2006, not a single violent crime had been solved through registration.
Because registration doesn't help solve crime, it is important to ask why government wants to register the people's firearms. History provides the answer. In countries from Australia to England, registration has been used to create lists of guns that later were confiscated by their governments. Despite Mrs. Pelosi's assurances to the contrary, Americans' fear that registration will lead to confiscation is well-founded. Indeed, Mrs. Pelosi's own state of California already has used existing registration lists to confiscate so-called assault weapons just a half-dozen years ago.
The speaker claims registration won't lead to gun confiscation because of the Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down the District's handgun ban last June. She knows full well that this judgment was based on a narrow 5-4 decision that could be reversed when President Obama gets his opportunity to appoint an additional liberal justice to the court.
A Gallup poll released Wednesday shows that support for gun control is "at an all-time low" since the issue started being surveyed nearly 50 years ago. According to Gallup, just 29 percent favor handgun bans. Now that Democrats are in control of the legislative and executive branches of government, even the will of the people won't keep them from going after the guns of law-abiding Americans

 

[Montana Jim]

Reposting this... hope you don't mind Ray.

I have lived/worked as a military cop for the last 25 years and it IS, and ALWAYS has been required to store weapons in the base armory IF you live in the barracks.

Most recently (10 years ago) also required to list weapons IF you own them IF you live in on-base housing. (Not register them) In the controlled military environment, as a cop, it was always nice to know if weapons were in the house (generally) before responding to domestic situations. (I know many including myself who never admitted to having any as we disliked even this simple requirement).

NEVER had to list OR register ANY weapons of you lived off base... ever! When this commander required it last month, he was told to recind the order... he was wrong.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,227084.0.html

 

[hikeinmts]

Yea, Pelosi wants them all registered, then confiscated, so noone will be able to usher her out the door when she REALLY BEGINS TO PROCESS THE LIBERAL AGENDA FROM WASHINGTON, although I am certainly glad she STEPPED IN IT, AND IS BEING CALLED TO TASK FOR HER FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT not knowing about the types of interrogation that was going on at GITMO. Baloney. If she didn't know about it, she must have been asleep at her post when she
was in on some of the briefings by those with oversight of the interrogations.
Maybe, if America is lucky, she will get herself kicked out of Washington. I will help escort her out of town.

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

What really concerns me is the constant attempts to ' register' guns. The order was recinded, as noted by Montana Jim, but the attempt at what the commander tried to do is what I find disturbing.

Gun registration is just an attempt to make confiscation easier in MHO. With all the real problems that exist today, gun registgration concerns should be the last thing on the minds of elected officials. That is unless, they have an agenda in mind.

I do not want to rant here, so I will sign off now.

The politicians have to obay the constitution, no matter how much they disagree with it. Their constant attempts to circumvent it should be a concern to all.


Ray S

 

[jeff of pa]

relax

Military demands details on soldiers’ private guns
Fort Campbell command reversed under pressure

http://patdollard.com/2009/03/fort-campbell-command-on-soldiers-private-guns-details-reversed/

I'm Sure The EMail will Be spread for the Next hundred Years
With date Changes Leaving the truth out.

 

[MD Dog]

I hear ya Ray, it is all part n parcel of the way certain politicians will go out of their way to win at any cost, like counting hanging chads etc...