[Analyst's Notes:]

New York's Mayor Bloomberg is spending money on ads urging citizens to contact their representatives in an effort to impose more onerous Second Amendment restrictions. This time it's not "..about the children.." its about stopping terrorism.

Taking a page from the progressive playbook, the ad raises the specter of those evil "gun show loopholes". A pack of lies and half-truths that seek to heavily restrict, and in my opinion, to end gun shows in this nation.

It has been clearly stated that a people who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither. In this case Bloomberg is playing on the fears and ignorance of the voting public. Even the article reporting this matter frames the facts to inflate the "problem" if there were one. As to the advertisement:

"The 30-second ad, which debuts Tuesday, uses images from a June 3 video released by Al Qaeda that features its American-born spokesman Azzam Al-Amriki urging would-be jihadists to obtain their guns here."

"This is a golden opportunity," said Al-Amriki. "America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms."

"You can go down to a gun show and come away with a fully-automatic assault rifle without a background check," Al-Amriki said on the terror tape. "So what are you waiting for?"

Funny how this is one of the few time that we are ACTUALLY LISTENING TO THE ENEMY! The source article does not attempt in any way to explain the facts where gun sales and gun laws are concerned either. Al-Amriki's statement that you can buy "...a fully-automatic assault rifle without a background check." is not only wrong, it's absurd.

The gun laws passed in 1934 make it illegal for anyone in America to own a fully automatic firearm unless they go through a long complicated background check, numbers of applications and paperwork, and then pay an additional tax when purchasing such a weapon. It is the hardest type of purchase that can be made. Couple that with the following statement the source article made:

The loophole in the law allows background checks to be skipped during gun sales over the Internet as well.

Purchasing any firearm from a gun show dealer, or any dealer, requires at the minimum an instant background check. If the firearm is a "regulated" firearm, then mandatory wait periods must also be followed. If you are purchasing from out of state at a gun show or on the internet, then you also must have the weapon sent to an FFL holder to be transferred. All of these actions are scrutinized by the federal and state governments. Now you may have purchased online without a background check, but the FFL dealer then performs the needed applications and background checks. I know. I have participated in these types of purchases first hand.

Private sales may get around some of these restrictions but fully auto firearms do not and cannot be purchased privately without all of the same procedures for a Class 3 (machine gun) license being performed. Most often, if you purchase from a private party, you are required to perform the transfer at a police station or an FFL depending on your state's laws. To do so otherwise is illegal. So.... if you are a criminal or terrorist and you are going to purchase "on the down-low" would enacting laws to "eliminate the gun show loophole" stop you from achieving your goals? NO.

I have been to the largest gun show in the nation on several occasions. It is attended by uniformed law enforcement, active and veteran military members, and many private citizens. I have watched the paperwork for gun sales being filled out, checks being performed on laptops with internet access, and overheard dealers talking about the process and laws that have to be followed to not only purchase, but to legally own and transfer a firearm. Gun dealers are far less likely to break the law. They already have narrow margins of profitability. To threaten your very livelihood is insane.

Now you may wonder why this is such a big deal.... Let's consider for a moment the failed Project Gunrunner and Fast and Furious operations. Of the MILLIONS of guns sold in the U.S. in a year, this ad and effort are focusing on 1300 weapons sold to terror suspects IN THE LAST 7 YEARS. How does that statistic hold water? Millions versus 1300. Then taking our own government's program to put weapons in the hands of drug cartels at the opposition of BATFE agents opposed to the programe, and even the dealers selling the guns (who were told to proceed with the sale by BATFE) and what do you have? The framing of an uninformed public's attitudes towards a fundamental right.

The so called "gun show loophole" is a direct topic being used to push the U.N.'s Small Arms Treaty effort that would subject our Constitution and our freedoms to the will and power of an international body. Make no mistake, Mayor Bloomberg is part of an effort that will restrict and eventually eliminate private ownership of firearms in this nation.

If this is the price of security that my nation requires to provide it, then I would rather take that "service" on myself. The very fact our private citizens are armed staved off an invasion on our soil by the Japanese in 1941. That same deterrent is used in Switzerland today. It is effective.

The only true goal of disarmament is to centralize control and to crush rebellion before it has a chance to develop. It opens up the general public to victimization by criminals and tyrants. It is evil on its face. We need to counter this propaganda because the general populace gets their facts from the TV and Hollywood and it has created fear in the hearts of our people.

People making decisions about law and the country's future while afraid is like going shopping after a 3 day fast... You are not making reasoned decisions, you are reactionary. This is just the way politicians and tyrants (is that redundant) want you to be so you are more receptive to their manipulations. Wake up and engage your neighbor in informed and reasoned discussions. If you are a gun owner, invite them to learn more and even go shooting with you. Replace the fear with knowledge and experience.