Special Reports & Tweets - 20130821_SpecialReport_Alex
Aired: 2013-08-21
Duration: 04:43


=== What It Feels Like (02:24) ===

[00:00:00]  This morning NPR carried a gung-ho report on gun confiscation in California.
[00:00:15]  They accompanied a gang of government employees as they went about confiscating guns, as they put it, one by one.
[00:00:21]  We're riding in a caravan of four unmarked trucks through the bedroom communities of the San Francisco East Bay.
[00:00:27]  The trucks carry nine state agents wearing bulletproof vests and armed with .40 caliber Glock pistols and tasers.
[00:00:34]  They'll spend the next six hours looking for illegal guns.
[00:00:38]  Well, isn't that exciting and fun?
[00:00:40]  But one thing that was missing from the NPR report was the constitutional perspective.
[00:00:45]  Also missing was what it feels like to be on the receiving end of that.
[00:00:49]  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.
[00:00:57]  Immediately, I got two M16 machine gun rifles within five inches from my face on both sides.
[00:01:06]  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.
[00:01:15]  on my house and placed me under arrest for the sole purpose
[00:01:21]  of owning and possessing assault rifles which were legal to own. They illegally came
[00:01:29]  about 14 agents deep and they lured me out of my house.
[00:01:35]  They concocted a story and they told my wife in the morning when she woke up.
[00:01:40]  A phony CHP car shows up and tells my wife, Hey, your car was involved in a hit and run last night.
[00:01:47]  We're taking a report.
[00:01:49]  And who are these people that NPR is so excited about having their guns confiscated?
[00:01:52]  Armed and prohibited persons.
[00:01:54]  Armed and prohibited persons.
[00:01:54]  APPs.
[00:01:54]  They've even got an acronym for it.
[00:01:56]  armed and prohibited persons, people on the so-called ABS list.
[00:01:59]  They are all people who at one time purchased firearms legally.
[00:02:04]  Armed and prohibited persons, armed and prohibited persons, APPs.

=== Why Gun Owners Become Felons (02:34) ===

[00:02:09]  They've even got an acronym for it.
[00:02:11]  These assault rifles were purchased in the 1980s and they are fabricated from 1984 and
[00:02:17]  late 1960s to 70s.
[00:02:20]  These are people who have purchased firearms legally, but now California has decided that
[00:02:24]  they've lost a right to own a gun.
[00:02:26]  What does it take to lose your right in California?
[00:02:28]  A felony conviction.
[00:02:30]  Well, there's a lot of felonies on the books.
[00:02:32]  Even things like releasing balloons on a beach can be a felony.
[00:02:35]  You could have a complaint, a domestic dispute, or even a minor misdemeanor conviction.
[00:02:39]  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.
[00:02:48]  NPR is proud of the fact that California is cross-checking what they call, quote, an extensive, constantly updated database.
[00:02:55]  The NRA initially supported this law, but now even they are opposing it.
[00:02:59]  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.
[00:03:08]  And what does this tell us about the government's priorities?
[00:03:11]  A couple of months before there was a guy who was renting here who we couldn't get rid of.
[00:03:16]  He was cooking meth.
[00:03:19]  actually cooking drugs, illegal drugs, in his apartment here.
[00:03:24]  We called the Citrus Heights Police Department and the police said,
[00:03:27]  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
[00:03:35]  it, because there's no budget to press arrests on drugs.
[00:03:39]  Governor Jerry Brown is expanding this program, hiring 36 agents at a cost of $24 million.
[00:03:45]  That's about $670,000 per agent.
[00:03:48]  Why does the government ignore crime and attack peaceful gun owners?
[00:03:51]  Could that money be better spent on stopping violent crime?
[00:03:54]  But NPR tells us it's tedious, expensive, and time-consuming work for dozens of armed agents to ambush gun owners one by one.
[00:04:03]  This is where gun registration leads to gun confiscation.
[00:04:06]  The point of gun registration is gun confiscation.
[00:04:10]  They believe that they are the only ones that should possess firearms.
[00:04:15]  Owning a gun is not a crime.
[00:04:17]  The criminals are those who violate the Constitution and their oath of office to confiscate the guns of peaceful gun owners.
[00:04:23]  You too must abide by the law and you haven't been abiding by the law in a long time.
[00:04:28]  For InfoWars Nightly News, I'm David Knight.
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