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US Virgin Islands to Confiscate Firearms Ahead of Irma
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I believe that you may be correct.
Careful Doco, my brother lives on St.Thomas and I can assure you he is neither inbred nor contaminated with lead poisoning.
paxfish
Ultimate Member
You must be really old! in 1980, a quart of regular Cruzan white or gold was $1.29.....
Doco Overboard
Ultimate Member
Every body except your bro, maybe they painted the roofs with lead free paint by now. Or maybe he can afford to have the water that comes in from sub base shipped up the mountain. I'm not that old! I was there doing line work for WAPO and didn't pay tourist prices in like 86. Lived at the Embers Guest house south of Hull Bay and hung out near Red Hook. The WAPO plant on the other side of the mountain from the airport was like something out of a Bond flick. What a crazy place. A bunch of white guys drinking and doing sticking jobs. We was crazy like F$&@" me son.
j.smooth4
Active Member
Maybe its just me but one of the times I'd want firearms is during a natural disaster.
Terrible fvcking grammar.
Wonder if the President can issue an emergency order for US territories in the event of a natural disaster, prep for one, etc that would also counteract this one's directive to go disarm the populace.
gamer_jim
Podcaster
In 2016 a case in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) a federal judge found the 2A applied.
https://www.saf.org/federal-judge-rules-northern-mariana-islands-handgun-ban-violates-2a/
"BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today won a major victory when a federal judge for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) declared the commonwealth’s ban on handguns to be unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
CNMI is governed under “a Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America,” according to the ruling, written by Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona. She noted that several provisions of the Constitution are applicable to the Commonwealth through that Covenant, including the Second Amendment."
I don't know if, or how, this applies to the US Virgin Islands, but I bet SAF could make a case against them and probably win.
https://www.saf.org/federal-judge-rules-northern-mariana-islands-handgun-ban-violates-2a/
"BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today won a major victory when a federal judge for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) declared the commonwealth’s ban on handguns to be unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
CNMI is governed under “a Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America,” according to the ruling, written by Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona. She noted that several provisions of the Constitution are applicable to the Commonwealth through that Covenant, including the Second Amendment."
I don't know if, or how, this applies to the US Virgin Islands, but I bet SAF could make a case against them and probably win.
WeaponsCollector
EXTREME GUN OWNER
This is exactly why smart people build their own guns from 80% lowers, and buy guns with cash through face to face private sales.
The ONLY reason any government wants to know what guns you have is to be able to take them away!!!
That's why the gun grabbers have been trying so hard to pass "universal background checks" and ban all private sales.
Of course as a history nut I figured this out many years ago.
The ONLY reason any government wants to know what guns you have is to be able to take them away!!!
That's why the gun grabbers have been trying so hard to pass "universal background checks" and ban all private sales.
Of course as a history nut I figured this out many years ago.
Mr H
Banana'd
Governor of USVI is trying to explain the so-called confiscation order, and is pretty clear that the NG might need something to keep order that the government forces might not have, they can appropriate from alternate sources with compensation, and is not a disarmament of the people (which he agrees he has no authority to do).
Tucker is being uncharacteristically obtuse. He finally seemed to understand the Governor's position.
Tucker is being uncharacteristically obtuse. He finally seemed to understand the Governor's position.
- Jan 30, 2013
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Then, why did the entire rest of the world read and understand it the way Tucker did? The Governor sounds like he's spinning as fast as he can.
Mr H
Banana'd
No way for me to answer that, which is why I'm taking it as down-the-middle as I can until it gets sorted out with expert opinions.
- Jan 30, 2013
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The tendency is to write everything as broadly as possible to give themselves maximum authority and flexibility, and rarely is it put to the test or do they get called on it. This time, he did.
Agreed, lived there a long time! Very nice people... There is no logical reason to consficate firearms from law abiding citizens. If ever there was a need for someone to have legal ownership of a firearm it would be to deal with the aftermath of this moster hurricane.
"Cold dead hands" - it is for situations just like this why many folks own firearms, the prepare, they invest and the government can just come in and take their possesions? I don't think so.
Hit and Run
Ultimate Member
No
Why thank you kind sir!!!! ..
I never said I could spell and use perfect English rules....
Somebody needs a bitch slap down there.
I pay taxes so if the National Guard doesn't have what it needs during a natural disaster then that's not my problem. They certainly don't need my guns. Never going to happen.
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I pay taxes so if the National Guard doesn't have what it needs during a natural disaster then that's not my problem. They certainly don't need my guns. Never going to happen.
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