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Serial Numbers: Stepping Stones to Disarmament (Part 1) · Shooting Straight Radio

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  over: Don't forget about that you can catch that on your favorite podcast platform, and it's being expanded out to multiple platforms. And you can catch it there on your favorite. Now let's get into the meat and potatoes of today's program, I think you're going to get a lot out of it. I do like to dig deep into various issues regarding the Second Amendment and firearms and the history of it and things like that, as you already know. But I don't know if you've been paying attention to a recent ruling by a federal judge, one that has been kind of tucked back into the corners of the news world, not too many people are talking about it. In this ruling, this judge applied the same history and text criteria, as was used in the Bruen decision. It has some very powerful implications against the government's control over the firearms industry, the retailers and eventually the customers. This ruling has a lot of the same potential that the Bruin decision did in regards to hampering federal control over the firearms industry, or may I rephrase that, ILLEGAL, constitutionally illegal federal control over the firearms industry. Now, I'm going to give you have a corrupted version of the text of the Second Amendment, one that I intentionally corrupted just to make the point of this program, and I believe it will lay the foundation for it. Here we go. A well regulated militia being necessary to the to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, as long as their arms are inscribed with serial numbers shall not be infringed. Did you chew on that for just a second?
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  over: Okay, that is going to lay the foundation for today's program.
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  over: Because when governments begin to force inanimate objects to bear serial numbers, it isn't long before they start to do the same thing to their citizenry.
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  over: And that was proven back in Germany in 1935, all the way through 1945. Actually, well before that, after the Treaty of Versailles after World War One, and there back in 1919. When the government places such importance on installing and maintaining numerical sequences on various machines like vehicles, guns, etc, for the sake of making their control over the commerce, distribution, tracking, and power to confiscate those items more efficient, be assured that their motives are indeed insidious.
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  over: They are totalitarian, and here in America, Constitutionally dyslexic. When the government passes laws with stiff penalties to protect their mandated serialization of inanimate objects, and all in the name, of course, of protecting the people, then you know that there's something sinister in their design,s because corrupt governments always pass laws to protect them and their power over the people, never truly for the people.
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  over: assigning serial numbers to firearms here in America, actually had nothing to do with the aforementioned insidious motives of control. The primary purpose of requiring serial numbers on firearms since 1934, was to enable the eventual registration of particular firearms to a particular individual, and eventually to create a national registry. And we all know where a national registry will lead back in 1934, when the National Firearms Act was being debated in Congress and also in 1968, prior to the passing of the Gun Control Act, under some very immense pressure from Pro Second Amendment constitutionalist the requirements that mandated the National Firearms registration were removed from those two utterly illegal guns Drill bills by Congress. Now I want you to chew on something here. You remember, the Communist Party was alive and well back in 1917 and Russia and their agents immediately began to go out into multiple countries, countries that were rich with resources, especially like the United States. And they began to work their ways into the various governments around the world.
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  over: That certainly happened here in the United States. Also, they also knew that in order to gain control of the population, the population would have to be disarmed. And so I can promise you that every person involved, every Democrat involved with trying to pass the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act, they were being either influenced heavily by communist agents, or they were communists themselves, and thus, the thrust of these laws. Okay, so I want you to let that sink in for just a second. That the attempt to register and eventually confiscate firearms from the American people began in earnest all the way back in 1934. Now, while the Democrat communists in Washington DC weren't able to establish that registry that they wanted, that national registry either in either one of those laws, they did, however, unfortunately, gain significant government control over the firearms industry by mandating that serial numbers be inscribed on firearms in the second of those two laws, that is the 1968 Gun Control Act. That was when they began to mandate that every manufacturer inscribe a serial number on every cartridge firearm back in 1968. And then, the National Firearms Act, removing a serial number or possessing a firearm from which the serial number had been removed, those acts were made illegal under federal law. A mere three decades later in 1968, manufacturers began to be required to serialize all firearms that were capable of firing a cartridge. Both of those provisions, the 1934, National Firearms Act, in the 1968 gun control law, Gun Control Act (I'm sorry), were copied from two of Germany's laws. The first one I've already told you about the Treaty of Versailles and post World War One and 1919, which, in Europe, in Germany, was used to establish gun registration. And the second was the Nazi weapons law of 1935. Yeah, chew on that.
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  over: The Nazi weapons law of 1935.
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  over: Yes, that's what our 1968 gun gun Gun Control Act was heavily modeled after by if you remember, Mr. Christopher Dodd, a Democrat Senator, for years.
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  over: Thank God he is no longer up there in Washington, DC, he's passed away. But prior to that, his father, also a United States Senator, who was involved in the Nuremberg Trials brought back a copy of the 1935 Nazi weapons law, Oh, my word, Yeah, I did an entire podcast about that at one point, you'd have to go back and find I think it might have been one that was done on W MMB when I was still live there. So the unstated purpose of mandating serialization of firearms in the Gun Control Act was to lay the groundwork for future National Firearms registration, which they assumed they would be able to pass not long after they passed those other two monstrosities. There were constant (I'm sorry), there were instant consequences for the general public in this as well as unexpected benefits for the anti rights Democrat communist who were pushing these laws through. One of which was that crime immediately began to rise after the Gun Control Act of 1968, and it continued to rise for decades thereafter. Does this not sound familiar? Aha, you look at all of the states and the cities here in America that have heavy gun control.
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  over: What is their main societal issue? Violent crime, all kinds of crime but violent crime begins to escalate, where the people are disarmed, or what should I say, hindered by the government in the keeping and bearing of arms? Guess what happens? Oh, well guess what happens then? Well, the people suffer but the government begins to point to all those instances and say, See, we need more gun control. Ah, you see the snowballing effect here. It began back in 1968, with the mandating of serial numbers being applied to firearms by the manufacturers, which gave the government increasing control over the industry. Now I've pieced together portions from two articles by Dean Weingarten and one from the publication known as the hill regarding serial numbers and the dangers thereof, as well as comments from the judge in this recent ruling against federal serialization laws, and I'm gonna tell you what, this is incredibly interesting stuff.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: HUGE thank yous again to all the fine sponsors of the Shooting Straight Radio Podcast, that would not be possible without you and I cannot thank you enough. Now, we've been talking about the serialization of firearms and a recent ruling that ruled against the enforcement of that federal law, that federal statute that was enshrined in the 1968 law, they mandated that all manufacturers put a serial number on all cartridge firearms. As I told you, I'm, I have pieced together portions from two articles by Dean Weingarten, who is a fantastic writer, you ought to look up some of his articles online, a staunch Second Amendment advocate. And I'm going to be trying to get a hold of him to have him on the program soon.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Also one from The Hill, the publication known as The Hill.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: And we're going to also be looking at comments from the judge in this recent ruling against the enforcement of the federal serialization laws. And we'll start with Mr. Dean Weingarten, an article out of ammo land.com, whom he writes for it. He said, "The most dangerous use of a serial number on a firearm is as a registration number in effective gun registration is gun confiscation". Amen. Mr.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Weingarten. "It was not the intent for which serial numbers were made. They were created to track firearms with production changes, and as a way for government arsenals to track the production and military use of weapons. Serial numbers were first used on US military weapons in 1865. They were first used on the famous Winchester rifles in 1866. Back in 1938, a federal law was passed that made it illegal to possess a firearm with the serial number removed.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: But on October 12 2022, a federal court blocked the enforcement of that law, calling it exactly what it is unconstitutional". Amen to that.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Now, I've added a few little things here and there into the text as I read this article, so it's not 100% Mr. Weingarten it has a lot of Royce Bartlett in it, too. I continue, he said the full impact of this decision has yet to be measured, but it effectively nullified this law that in actuality was, as I've already stated, originally established as a step toward national firearm registration.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Here is the part of the article it says US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia judge Joseph R. Gordon, granted a motion to dismiss the charge of possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number in violation of 18 US Code nine to 2k, as being, quote, facially unconstitutional. Wow. Well, here's an article from the Hill that I interposed into this article. It says good one.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Goodwin,.. Gordon. Um, maybe they got some names mixed up, because I copied and pasted this. Anyway, the ruling said that a firearm without a serial number in 1791, was not considered more dangerous or unusual than other firearms, because the serial numbers were not commonly used at that time.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Notice they're the history texts application. In other words, the Bruen-type application. Yeah, I like this. I think the Bruen decision may have influenced this decision to a certain degree. The the ruling continues, "the Second Amendment was ratified as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791. The government argued that the regulation is a constitute" (I'm sorry), "the government argued that the regulation is constitutional, because it is a commercial regulation that does not infringe on the right to keep and bear arms. But Goodwin, who was appointed to the southern district of West Virginia by former President Clinton, ruled that the law is not a commercial regulation because it criminalizes the possession of firearms without a serial number, regardless of whether it is sold". Now, here's from the decision itself and I do believe the judges name is Goodwin because repeatedly for what one tech said Gordon, this one said Goodwin so we'll go with Goodwin on this, all right.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Well, Judge Goodwin gives some hypothetical examples regarding serial numbers, and I'm going to read it verbatim. He said,"Assume, for example, that a law abiding citizen purchases a firearm from a from a sporting goods store, at the time of the sale that firearm complies with the commercial regulation, that it bear a serial number. The law abiding citizen then takes the firearm home and removes the serial number. He has no ill intentions and never takes any otherwise unlawful action with the firearm. Contrary to the government's argument that section 992-k does not amount to an infringement on the law abiding citizens Second Amendment right. The practical application is that while the law abiding citizens possession of the firearm was originally legal, it became illegal only because the serial number was removed. He could be prosecuted federally for his possession of it. That is the definition of an infringement on one's right to possess a firearm". And again, I'm reading verbatim from Judge Goodwin's decision. He continues with a hypothetical.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: He said, "Now assume that the law abiding citizen dies and leaves his gun collection to his law abiding daughter. The daughter takes the firearms the one with the removed serial number among them to her home and displays them in her father's memory. As it stands section 992-k also makes her possession of the firearm illegal, despite the fact that it was legally purchased by her father. And despite the fact that she was not the person who removed the serial number. These scenarios make clear that section 992k is far more than the mere commercial regulation the government claims it to be, rather, it is a blatant prohibition on possession. This conduct prohibited by section 992k falls squarely within the Second Amendment's plain text." Wow. I like that. I like that.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Again, let me give you my corrupted version of the Second Amendment. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms as long as their arms are inscribed with serial numbers shall not be infringed.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: That kind of makes it gel for you right there, doesn't it?
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Let's pick up some comments then from Dean Weingarten from his articles that I'm referencing in this program. He said, "Finding the law unconstitutional subverts the push for government control over firearms." And Amen to that! The government should not have control over any industry, especially the firearms industry. Because as soon as they took control and wrestled control of the firearms industry from the people with those two very egregious acts in 1938, and 1968, infringement began in earnest one of those being the mandate for serial numbers and first of all, in 1938, outlawing the possession of a gun that has the serial number removed. I'll continue with Dean Weingarten statements he said, "Suppose a person cannot be punished for merely possessing a firearm for which a serial number has been removed.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: In that case, the entire scheme for government control over legally owned firearms falls apart." I love the way Mr.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Weingarten uses his power of deductive reasoning, it's awesome. He said "There cannot be effective gun registration.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: If a person cannot be punished for possessing a gun with the serial number removed, the legal ability to possess firearms with serial numbers,..er, without serial numbers (I'm sorry) buttresses the deterrent effect of an armed population. If government agents demand that a person turn in a firearm that is registered to them, will they can remain silent". In other words, "I don't know what you're talking about". Yeah. Oh, don't you have such-and-such a weapon with serial number such-and-such-such-and-such?
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Nope. What do you have any weapons? None of you Your business? Well, we want to see them and maybe through force they, and even at gunpoint like the ATF is known to do force the man to uncover his firearms and to show them all the serial numbers were removed. So what?
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Well, that's a crime or not according to a ruling by Judge Godwin or Goodwin back in 2022.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: It's not. Well, we're taking these guns. Well, you can't.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Well, these guns were written nope, nope. Those guns were never registered. I don't know what you're talking about. I want to continue with Dean Weingarten statements. Now he says, "If the firearm appears at some later date and the serial number has been removed, it becomes difficult to connect the firearm to the person that was registered to it becomes difficult to punish a person for an act, someone else commits with a firearm originally purchased by them." And by the way, thus the true intentions of the 1934 law are revealed. And for more revelation proving the communists take incremental steps in their quest for totalitarian control, look at some comments by Mr. Nelson, also known as Pete, Shields, of Handgun Control, Inc., which Sarah Brady, by the way, took over after Shields retired in 1989. And he laid out the plan in a comment from 1976. He said,"We'll take one step at a time and the first is necessarily given the political realities very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen strengthen the next law. And again and again." Where have you heard that before?
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Besides right here from your humble host? Yes, each law precedes the next law and the next law. He continued, "Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time." Well, it would not stop at just handguns, people. He said "The first problem is to slow down production and sales." Oh, where have you heard that before? Oh, yeah, right here on the shooting straight radio podcast. He says next is to get registration. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition, with few exceptions, totally illegal.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: All right, you see the incremental steps that the government likes to take and also the civilian disarmament complex, like Handgun Control, which later became Brady. Uh huh. But Mr. Weingarten continued, "But when people cannot be punished by the government for possessing a firearm, whose serial number has been removed, this plan falls apart." I love it. He says Remember, serial numbers were not required on most firearms by the government until 1868. They were originally required on National Firearms Act weapons in 1938 as a means of registration of machine guns, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns and silencers. People talk about a coming registration here in America. It's been here since 1934. Do you realize that?
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: That's right weapons that you have every lawful constitutional right to own, that the government owns but says you can't, but they'll charge you a$200 fee for a tax stamp. And then you'll have to pay an exorbitant price for the weapon itself up into 10s of 1000s of dollars. Haha. Oh, yeah. Oh, you have the right. But you have to register it with us. Gun registration is already here, has been for a long time. Now, it's also been continuing by the ATF, you know this. We've been talking about it on this program. They are taking 4473 forms that had been turned in by dealers going out of business, not to mention sending their agents to photograph the bound books, the acquisition and disposition records of dealers.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: We've been seeing video of that recently. And they're stealing information illegally but also just daring us to say or do something about it. And they're creating a national registry.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: They've had a national registry in place. This thing here with the serial numbers, I tell you what I am just about ready to break out my dremel and shave all mine off. Yeah, I know you're listening ATF and FBI.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: But now I've got a precedent to use against you. Mm hmm. The article continues "And as we all know, full well, the primary purpose of gun registration is to enable the future confiscation of firearms when the government desires to do so." Oh, but of course, I would only be from those that the government deems to be a threat, you know? Ah, yeah. Yeah. Like me and you people who, that who actually adhere to, and uphold and defend the Constitution.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Yeah, just like that. Wow. You know, this subject is not done.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: But that's all we're gonna cover today on this edition of the shooting straight radio podcast.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: This is part one of this series.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: So make sure you stay in touch with your local podcast provider and wait for the next one to drop to. You don't want to miss it. And it all has to do with the serialization of our firearms, people. It's far more insidious than we ever thought.
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  ROYCE BARTLETT: Keep your head on a swivel out there. Keep in contact with your representatives. And also never forget incoming rounds. Always have the right of way. Royce out