Don Surber
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Saturday, June 18, 2022
Biden goes full King George III
 Unable to deprive Americans of their right to keep and bear firearms, Biden is taking a page from history by banning bullets.
The NRA's lobbying arm reported, "The Biden Administration is taking behind-the-scenes steps to further strangle the already constricted market for ammunition in the United States. The move could result in a reduction of the commercial production of 5.56 caliber ammunition by over 30%.
"The move, if completed, would dramatically reduce availability of ammunition for America’s most popular rifle (and, not coincidentally, the one most targeted by gun prohibitionists).
"Supplies would undoubtedly plummet and prices would undoubtedly skyrocket, putting the availability of ammunition for self-defense, training, and competition out of reach to many Americans.
"News of the move was broken by Larry Keane, the general counsel and senior vice president at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the leading trade association for America’s firearms and ammunition industries. Keane on Wednesday night published a tweet, which stated: 'The U.S. Military is actively considering shutting down the sale [of] M855/SS109 ammo from Lake City to the commercial market.'
"The cartridges mentioned in Keane’s post are very popular forms of 5.56 caliber ammunition, the most common caliber for the AR-15.
"Close followers of Second Amendment issues will remember that these same rounds were targeted by the Obama/Biden administration under the guise of relabeling them armor-piercing ammunition, which is banned from commercial sale by federal law. The resulting (and righteous) furor from the Second Amendment community was so intense that it culminated in Obama’s ATF director, B. Todd Jones, quitting his job. Jones had been the first and only confirmed ATF director since Senate approval became required for that post."
This is what tyrants do. When they cannot take your guns, they take your ammo and your gunpowder.
King George III did this in 1774 through his royal governor of Massachusetts and again in 1775 through his royal governor of Virginia.
The American reaction was a revolution.
The king appointed General Thomas Gage as royal governor of Massachusetts to punish the colony.
American History Central reported, "After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament was determined to send a strong message to revolutionaries in Massachusetts. It devised and passed a series of laws that were intended to punish the city of Boston and the colony. The laws are collectively referred to as the Coercive Acts. General Thomas Gage, the commander of British military forces in North America, was named Royal Governor of Massachusetts and given the task of enforcing the laws."
Gage was ruthless.
The story said, "With the loss of the freedom to elect their own representatives, in their own colony, the people of Massachusetts began to plan for the worst. Many of the towns throughout the colony were in the habit of storing weapons and ammunition in storehouses throughout the colony, including the Provincial Powder House on Quarry Hill in Charlestown. Slowly, and quietly, the towns began removing their weapons and ammunition from the storehouses.
"Gage did not want hostilities to break out, so he started to make his own plans to remove weapons and ammunition from the storehouses. He asked Major William Brattle for an inventory of the storehouse in Charlestown. Brattle sent a letter that indicated the towns had removed their gunpowder, and all that was left were 250 half-barrels of gunpowder that belonged to the colony.
"Gage was worried the gunpowder would be stolen and later used against his men, so he decided to take action. He organized a small force to go to Charlestown to retrieve the gunpowder and move it to Castle William in Boston Harbor for safekeeping."
This alarmed colonialists who began hoarding gunpowder. When a spy informed Gage of the location of Patriot weapons and ammunition. His troops marched to confiscate the hoard. That led to the shot heard 'round the world at Lexington.
Days after Lexington, the royal governor of Virginia made the same mistake.
Battlefield.org reported, "Early in the morning of April 21, 1775, colonists in Virginia’s capital city of Williamsburg awoke to find that under cover of night the royal governor, John Murray, 4th Earl Dunmore, ordered royal marines to remove the gunpowder stores from the public powder magazine in the center of the town. This event, which came to be known as the Gunpowder Incident, fanned the already burning flame of discontent and suspicion between Virginia’s last royal governor and patriot colonists. The Gunpowder Incident proved to be a milestone event in Virginia’s turn towards revolution and open rebellion against royal authority.
"Even before he ordered the removal of the gunpowder, the governor had already soured relations with Virginia colonists. In 1774, he had dissolved the Virginia House of Burgesses after their declaration of support for 'the city of Boston, in our sister colony of Massachusetts Bay' in response to the Intolerable Acts.
"Meeting secretly in Williamsburg’s Raleigh Tavern, Burgesses had convened the First Virginia Convention and signed documents of nonimportation. Meeting at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Richmond on March 20, 1775, out of Dunmore’s earshot, Patrick Henry delivered his fiery 'give me liberty, or give me death!' speech to the delegates of the Second Virginia Convention, which also selected representatives to attend the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia—an act in direct defiance of Dunmore’s instructions to not send delegates to Philadelphia."
Patrick Henry was the most revered Virginian of his day (after George Washington, of course) and Virginians made him their first governor on July 6, 1776, replacing the much loathed Dunmore.
But I am getting ahead of the story, which said, "On April 21, Dunmore ordered Lieutenant Henry Collins, onboard the H.M.S. Magdalen in the James River, to proceed into Williamsburg and seize the gunpowder from the magazine."
Collins and his crew removed the powder at 3 AM. Angry colonialists mustered and threatened Dunmore. In a letter to William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, the secretary of state for the colonies, Dunmore wrote, "I shall remain here until I am forced out…as I cannot expect to make any effectual resistance in this place against the numbers that are said to be moving against me…I shall be forced…to arm all my own Negroes, & receive all others that will come to me, whom I shall declare free."
And you thought race politics was invented in 1964. Elitists like Dunmore have been playing the race card for hundreds of years.
In the end, Dunmore had to quit the Governor's mansion on June 8, 1775. But that did not end his treachery.
The story said, "On November 7, Dunmore declared Virginia in an official state of rebellion, declared martial law, and finally made good on his threat to free—and arm—enslaved Virginians. His Ethiopian Regiment entrenched themselves at Great Bridge, where Virginia patriots brought the Revolution to Virginia."
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Biden's attack on ammo should send him sailing to England ala Gage and Dunmore.
Most of us would settle for a return to his basement in Delaware. |
