Dr. Eowyn posted: "More than a year ago, the National Rifle Association
(NRA) obtained what the association calls "an internal memo" of the
Department of Justice (DOJ) exposing Obama's plans for gun registration and
confiscation. Being an internal memo, it was never release" Respond to
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<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/> Obama plans gun
confiscation in DOJ memo?
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/06/02/obama-plans-gun-confiscation-in-doj-memo/>
by
Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>
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<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/guns-make-us-less-safe.jpg>More
than a year ago, the National Rifle Association (NRA) obtained what the
association calls "an internal memo" of the Department of Justice
(DOJ) *exposing
Obama's plans for gun registration and confiscation. *Being an internal
memo, it was never released to the public.
*The memo is actually a 9-page research report titled "Summary of Select
Firearm Violence Prevention Strategies
<http://static.infowars.com/2013/02/i/general/nij-gun-policy-memo.pdf>" and
dated Jan. 4, 2013, written by Greg Ridgeway, Ph.D., Deputy Director,
National Institute of Justice. *
*The National Institute of Justice
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Justice> (NIJ) is a
research, development and evaluation agency of the DOJ.* NIJ is notable
among federal governmental research organizations because it is *headed by
a political appointee* of the President rather than by a scientist or a
member of the civil service. NIJ is currently headed by John Laub. Its
deputy director Greg Ridgeway had come to the NIJ from the RAND Corporation.
*The NIJ report's date of January 4, 2013, is significant because it was 19
days after the alleged shooting massacre of 20 kids and 6 adult women at
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.*
Although the NRA had obtained the report in February 2013, it hesitated to
make public the report, uncertain as to the veracity of the information. On
November 18, 2013, the NRA
<http://bearingarms.com/yes-an-obama-doj-memo-says-ban-will-not-work-without-registration/>
finally confirmed rumors of the report when its spokesman
Andrew Arulanandam told *Bearing Arms* the DOJ memo is legitimate.
DIJ's 9-page report, "Summary of Select Firearm Violence Prevention
Strategies," begins with a statistic on firearm homicides in America -- an
average of "about 11,000 firearm homicides every year," which include
intentional firearm homicides as well as firearm deaths from suicides and
accidental discharges. The report, however, does not separate those
categories, so we are not told how many firearm homicides were intentional
and criminal, but we are told that *fatalities from "mass shootings,"
defined as "those with 4 or more victims in a particular place and time"
(like Sandy Hook) account on average for 35 fatalities per year.*
The report next states its *purpose*, which *is to assess the effectiveness
of various gun control measures to reduce firearm violence*:
*"This document provides a cursory summary of select initiatives to reduce
firearm violence and an assessment of the evidence for the initiative."*
The rest of the 9-page report consists of a review of 10 types of gun
control measures that have been implemented and an assessment of their
effectiveness/ineffectiveness:
*1. Gun buybacks are ineffective as generally implemented*, "unless massive
and coupled with a ban."
*2. Large capacity magazines restrictions* have "great potential to reduce
lethality; *requires a massive reduction in supply*."
*3. Ammunition logs increase "opportunities to detect illegal firearm
possessors."*
*4. Universal background checks' "Effectiveness depends on* the ability to
reduce straw purchasing, *requiring gun registration* and an easy gun
transfer process." (*Straw purchasers* are gun buyers who have no record of
a prohibiting offense.)
*5. Straw purchasers* are "the primary source of crime guns" and "the
largest source for the illicit market." Given that, the report recommends
that straw purchases "*should be the focus*." However, "*There is little
evidence on what works*." As an example, the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) and NSSF (National Shooting Sport
Foundation) sponsored the “Don’t Lie for the Other Guy” public awareness
campaign starting in 2000 "but there are no evaluation reports of its
effectiveness."
*6. Require all gun transfers to occur at an FFL* (Federal Firearms
License): "Some states, such as California, require all transfers of guns
to be properly documented (since 1923). This usually requires the
involvement of a federally licensed dealer in the transaction. *Despite
this, straw purchasing continues largely unabated."*
*7.* Gun shows "do provide firearms to the illicit market, but the problem
is not uniquely about gun shows but rather secondary transfers of
unregulated private sellers. Gun shows simply convene numerous private
sellers along with FFLs. *Gun shows in states requiring all transfers to be
documented have fewer illegal gun sales."*
*8. Gun registration and continuous checks for possession eligibility:
"Universal checks are insufficient for ensuring that firearm owners remain
eligible.* Convictions, mental health issues, and restraining orders can
develop after the background checks. *Recovering guns from those that
become ineligible is likely effective. [...] The challenge to implementing
this more broadly is that most states do not have a registry of firearm
ownership."*
*9. Assault weapon ban:* While recognizing that "*Assault weapons are not a
major contributor to gun crime*," the DIJ report nevertheless emphasizes
how the existing stock of assault weapons is large because of a 1994 law
exempting weapons manufactured before 1994. *The existence of an estimated
1.5 million assault weapons in the United States undercuts the
effectiveness of assault weapon bans.*
*Interestingly, the DIJ reports points out that* prior to the 1994 ban,
assault weapons were used in only 2-8% of crimes. "Therefore *a complete
elimination of assault weapons would not have a large impact on gun
homicides.*" Despite that, the report still recommends a ban on assault
weapons, insisting such a ban "could be effective" if coupled with a gun
buyback and no exemptions.
*10. Smart guns* (technology installed that would preclude anyone but the
owner of a gun from using it) are "Most appropriate for making guns child
safe or preventing police officers from being assaulted with their own
firearm" but *are "Unlikely to affect gun crime."*
*Websites that have reported on this "DOJ memo" represent the NIJ report as
stating the Obama administration "believes that a gun ban will not work
without mandatory gun confiscation" and "national gun registration."* (See,
for example, Red Flag News
<http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/doj-memo-outlaw-and-confiscate-all-guns>
and *The Examiner*
<http://www.examiner.com/article/doj-internal-memo-confirms-obama-plan-for-gun-confiscation>
.)
It must be pointed out that *NOWHERE in the NIJ report does it say that.*
The report does not have a conclusion or a policy recommendation. For that
matter, the word "confiscation" is not even in the 9-page report.
However, a policy of nation-wide gun confiscation and gun registration may
be IMPLIED or DERIVED from the report's assessment of the general
ineffectiveness of the ten types of gun control measures that do exist
today. But to draw such a conclusion is a big leap in cause-and-effect
logic because, since every gun control measure that has been tried falls
short in significantly curtailing gun violence, who's to say that a
nation-wide gun registration and/or confiscation would work?
Aside from that dubious IMPLIED policy recommendation, what I find to be
noteworthy in the NIJ report is the author's admission that since *assault
weapons are not a major contributor to gun crime,* *a complete elimination
of assault weapons would not have a large impact on gun homicides.*
Which then raises the question of why politicians like Sen. Diane Feinstein
are so hellbent on banning and eliminating assault weapons.
Read the report for yourself here
<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/nij-gun-policy-memo.pdf>
or here
<http://static.infowars.com/2013/02/i/general/nij-gun-policy-memo.pdf>.
H/t FOTM's Gingercake
*~Eowyn*
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/>* | June 2,
2014 at 11:30 am | Tags: 1994 Assault Weapons Ban
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