One of the refrains you continually hear from the Democrats in their efforts to shut up gun owners is, “No one is coming to take your guns”. And yet when you peruse the news feeds you find stories like this one from Missouri: Assault weapons ban proposed | Springfield News-Leader | news-leader.com
Legislation backed by several St. Louis-area lawmakers would require gun owners to surrender or destroy their assault weapons within 90 days of the measure’s passage. The proposed ban would include semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines and semi-automatic pistols with the capacity to shoot more than 10 rounds of ammunition before reloading.
That certainly sounds like confiscation of privately owned firearms to me. But that is not by any means the most frightening, because in the great Democrat-run state of Washington, they are proposing that gun owners be required to open their doors to law enforcement without the legal burden of a warrant: Misstep in gun bill could defeat the effort | Local News | The Seattle Times