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| This morning NPR carried a gung-ho report on gun confiscation in California. | |
| They accompanied a gang of government employees as they went about confiscating guns, as they put it, one by one. | |
| We're riding in a caravan of four unmarked trucks through the bedroom communities of the San Francisco East Bay. | |
| The trucks carry nine state agents wearing bulletproof vests and armed with .40 caliber Glock pistols and tasers. | |
| They'll spend the next six hours looking for illegal guns. | |
| Well, isn't that exciting and fun? | |
| But one thing that was missing from the NPR report was the constitutional perspective. | |
| Also missing was what it feels like to be on the receiving end of that. | |
| We have someone, Joe Mendez, who had this happen to him in California, and he gives a perspective of what it feels like to have your constitutional rights violated. | |
| Immediately, I got two M16 machine gun rifles within five inches from my face on both sides. | |
| One cop came up with his gun in my face, and the other one proceeded to put my hands behind my back, conducted a raid. | |
| on my house and placed me under arrest for the sole purpose | |
| of owning and possessing assault rifles which were legal to own. They illegally came | |
| about 14 agents deep and they lured me out of my house. | |
| They concocted a story and they told my wife in the morning when she woke up. | |
| A phony CHP car shows up and tells my wife, Hey, your car was involved in a hit and run last night. | |
| We're taking a report. | |
| And who are these people that NPR is so excited about having their guns confiscated? | |
| Armed and prohibited persons. | |
| Armed and prohibited persons. | |
| APPs. | |
| They've even got an acronym for it. | |
| armed and prohibited persons, people on the so-called ABS list. | |
| They are all people who at one time purchased firearms legally. | |
| Armed and prohibited persons, armed and prohibited persons, APPs. | |
| They've even got an acronym for it. | |
| These assault rifles were purchased in the 1980s and they are fabricated from 1984 and | |
| late 1960s to 70s. | |
| These are people who have purchased firearms legally, but now California has decided that | |
| they've lost a right to own a gun. | |
| What does it take to lose your right in California? | |
| A felony conviction. | |
| Well, there's a lot of felonies on the books. | |
| Even things like releasing balloons on a beach can be a felony. | |
| You could have a complaint, a domestic dispute, or even a minor misdemeanor conviction. | |
| Well, to paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemoller, first they came for the people with non-violent felony convictions, then they came for the people with misdemeanor convictions. | |
| NPR is proud of the fact that California is cross-checking what they call, quote, an extensive, constantly updated database. | |
| The NRA initially supported this law, but now even they are opposing it. | |
| For instance, if you are in a fight and you admit to being in the fight, You can lose your right to own guns and find yourself being SWAT teamed to confiscate your guns. | |
| And what does this tell us about the government's priorities? | |
| A couple of months before there was a guy who was renting here who we couldn't get rid of. | |
| He was cooking meth. | |
| actually cooking drugs, illegal drugs, in his apartment here. | |
| We called the Citrus Heights Police Department and the police said, | |
| even if he had all of the drugs laid out on the table, and we caught him doing it, we couldn't do anything about | |
| it, because there's no budget to press arrests on drugs. | |
| Governor Jerry Brown is expanding this program, hiring 36 agents at a cost of $24 million. | |
| That's about $670,000 per agent. | |
| Why does the government ignore crime and attack peaceful gun owners? | |
| Could that money be better spent on stopping violent crime? | |
| But NPR tells us it's tedious, expensive, and time-consuming work for dozens of armed agents to ambush gun owners one by one. | |
| This is where gun registration leads to gun confiscation. | |
| The point of gun registration is gun confiscation. | |
| They believe that they are the only ones that should possess firearms. | |
| Owning a gun is not a crime. | |
| The criminals are those who violate the Constitution and their oath of office to confiscate the guns of peaceful gun owners. | |
| You too must abide by the law and you haven't been abiding by the law in a long time. | |
| For InfoWars Nightly News, I'm David Knight. | |
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