2013 Gun Control is not about Guns, it's About CONTROL ...California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Keep Arms

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Guns, Gun Control, and Elections: The Politics and Policy of Firearms 

California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Keep Arms

By Michael B. Marois & James Nash - Mar 12, 2013 3:06 PM ET

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California Department of Justice police agents walk towards a house near Ontario, California on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. The agents, working for the only state-level program to confiscate illegal firearms from owners, targeted people who’d once legally purchased firearms and lost the right after being convicted of violent crimes, committed to mental institutions or hit with restraining orders.

Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine California Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for a gun owner who’d recently spent two days in a mental hospital.

Special Agent Supervisor John Marsh who coordinates the operations around California, said: “We’re not contacting anybody who can legally own a gun. The only people we’re contacting are people who are prohibited from owning guns.” Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

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Weapons and ammunition seized from the home of Lynette and David Philllips by agents with the California Department of Justice police in Upland, California. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

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Lynette Phillips, 48, and her husband, David Phillips, 51, sit in their home in Upland, California on March 5, 2013. Lynette, a nurse, had to surrender three guns after spending two days in a mental hospital in December. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

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Weapons with ammunition seized from the home of Lynette and David Phillips by agents with the California Department of Justice police in Upland, California. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

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California Department of Justice police agents walk towards a house near Ontario, California on March 5, 2013. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

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Special Agent Supervisor John Marsh with the California Department of Justice drives out to seize illegal firearms near Ontario, California on March 5, 2013. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

They knocked on the door and asked to come in. About 45 minutes later, they came away peacefully with three firearms.

California is the only state that tracks and disarms people with legally registered guns who have lost the right to own them, (Gun Control and Gun Rights: A Reader and Guide), according to Attorney General Kamala Harris. Almost 20,000 gun owners in the state are prohibited from possessing firearms, including convicted felons, those under a domestic violence restraining order or deemed mentally unstable.

“What do we do about the guns that are already in the hands of persons who, by law, are considered too dangerous to possess them?” Harris said in a letter to Vice President Joe Biden after a Connecticut school shooting in December left 26 dead. She recommended that Biden, heading a White House review of gun policy, consider California as a national model.Gun Control and Gun Rights: A Reader and Guide 

As many as 200,000 people nationwide may no longer be qualified to own firearms, according to Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at theUniversity of California, Davis. Other states may lack confiscation programs because they don’t track purchases as closely as California, which requires most weapons sales go through a licensed dealer and be reported.

“Very, very few states have an archive of firearm owners like we have,” said Wintemute, who helped set up the program.

Funding Increase

Harris, a 48-year-old Democrat, has asked California lawmakers to more than double the number of agents from the current 33. They seized about 2,000 weapons last year. Agents also took 117,000 rounds of ammunition and 11,000 high-capacity magazines, according to state data.

“We’re not contacting anybody who can legally own a gun,” said John Marsh, a supervising agent who coordinates the sometimes-contentious seizures. “I got called the Antichrist the other day. Every conspiracy theory you’ve heard of, take that times 10.”

The no-gun list is compiled by cross-referencing files on almost 1 million handgun and assault-weapon owners with databases of new criminal records and involuntary mental-health commitments. About 15 to 20 names are added each day, according to the attorney general’s office.

Probable Cause

Merely being in a database of registered gun owners and having a “disqualifying event,” such as a felony conviction or restraining order, isn’t sufficient evidence for a search warrant, Marsh said March 5 during raids in San Bernardino County. So the agents often must talk their way into a residence to look for weapons, he said.

At a house in Fontana, agents were looking for a gun owner with a criminal history of a sex offense, pimping, according to the attorney general’s office. Marsh said that while the woman appeared to be home, they got no answer at the door. Without a warrant, the agents couldn’t enter and had to leave empty- handed.

They had better luck in nearby Upland, where they seized three guns from the home of Lynette Phillips, 48, who’d been hospitalized for mental illness, and her husband, David. One gun was registered to her, two to him.

“The prohibited person can’t have access to a firearm,” regardless of who the registered owner is, said Michelle Gregory, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office.

Involuntarily Held

In an interview as agents inventoried the guns, Lynette Phillips said that while she’d been held involuntarily in a mental hospital in December, the nurse who admitted her had exaggerated the magnitude of her condition.

Todd Smith, chief executive officer of Aurora Charter Oak Hospital in Covina, where documents provided by Phillips show she was treated, didn’t respond to telephone and e-mail requests for comment on the circumstances of the treatment.

Phillips said her husband used the guns for recreation. She didn’t blame the attorney general’s agents for taking the guns based on the information they had, she said.

“I do feel I have every right to purchase a gun,” Phillips said. “I’m not a threat. We’re law-abiding citizens.”

No one was arrested. Most seized weapons are destroyed, Gregory said.

“It’s not unusual to not arrest a mental-health person because every county in the state handles those particular cases differently,” Gregory said by e-mail. “Unless there’s an extenuating need to arrest them on the spot, we refer the case” to the local district attorney’s office, she said.

Convicted Felons

Agents more often arrest convicted felons who are prohibited from buying, receiving, owning or possessing a firearm, Gregory said. Violation of the ban is itself a felony.

The state Senate agreed March 7 to expand the seizure program using $24 million in surplus funds from fees that gun dealers charge buyers for background checks.

Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, a gun lobby based in Fairfax, Virginia, that says it has more than 4 million individuals as members, didn’t respond to a request for comment on the program.Annual Report by National Rifle Association of America [Paperback] 

Sam Paredes, executive director of the Folsom-based advocacy group Gun Owners of California, praised the program, though not how it is funded.

“We think that crime control instead of gun control is absolutely the way to go,” he said. “The issue we have is funding this program only from resources from law-abiding gun purchasers. This program has a benefit to the entire public and therefore the entire public should be paying through general- fund expenditures, and not just legal gun owners.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Michael B. Marois in Sacramento atmmarois@bloomberg.net James Nash in Los Angeles at jnash24@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Stephen Merelman atsmerelman@bloomberg.net

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2013 Kansas authorities would arrest and prosecute any federal authorities trying to regulate or confiscate firearms manufactured and owned in Kansas under a bill discussed by a House panel Tuesday.

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Kansas moves to limit federal restrictions on Second Amendment

By The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, Kan.) February 20, 2013 12:20 pm

          

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TOPEKA - Kansas authorities would arrest and prosecute any federal authorities trying to regulate or confiscate firearms manufactured and owned in Kansas under a bill discussed by a House panel Tuesday.

Gun-ownership advocates pleaded with members of the Republican-dominated House Federal and State Affairs Committee to approve the bill to protect Kansans from what they see as potentially unconstitutional laws being discussed in Washington.

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House Bill 2199 declares that firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition manufactured and owned in Kansas can't be subject to any potential federal laws.

Those trying to regulate Kansas firearms from outside Kansas would be arrested and charged with a felony.

The bill also prevents doctors from asking patients if they have a gun, except for physicians treating someone for a diagnosed mental illness.

About 50 lawmakers, including several Democrats, are sponsoring the bill, assuring its passage out of the committee for a vote in the House, where it is also likely to pass.

At least 15 other states are considering similar actions aimed at preempting federal gun-control laws, such as those that seek to prevent the proliferation of high-capacity magazines.

President Obama has outlined a plan with four major legislative proposals and 23 executive orders to improve enforcement of existing laws and create stricter background checks.

But Patricia Stoneking, president of the Kansas State Rifle Association, said she fears Obama's efforts will go far beyond that and possibly lead to the confiscation of common hunting rifles, including AR-15s, .30-30s and shotguns.

"It's a slippery slope," she said.

Stoneking said the proposed law will open Kansas to new business and jobs in gun manufacturing.

"Making firearms isn't rocket science," she said. "It's been done for a very long time."

Rep. John Rubin, a Republican from Shawnee who took the lead in writing the bill, told a room packed with gun-rights advocates that the bill puts "real teeth" into protecting individual liberties and shows the Second and 10th Amendments are "alive and well in the state of Kansas."

Secretary of State Kris Kobach said there's a good chance the law would be challenged in court and could go to the Supreme Court.

Gun regulations often rely on firearms moving across state lines, giving the federal government authority to regulate, Kobach said. But the state has rights to regulate things made and owned in Kansas, he said.

"Could this potentially result in a legal fight? Yes," he said. "But it is a fight worth having."

The law wouldn't apply to guns that require more than one person to carry and use, weapons that fire projectile explosives or automatic guns that fire multiple bullets with one trigger squeeze.

Lawmakers questioned various ways that the federal government could infringe on gun ownership.

Rep. Ken Corbet, R-Topeka, asked whether President Obama could create new taxes on guns that make owning a weapon prohibitively expensive.

Rubin said he feels there are few things the Obama Administration is unwilling to do. "If they can't get laws passed by Congress, they do try the executive order route," he said.

Derby Republican Rep. Jim Howell said he has concerns about telling a doctor about gun ownership and whether that information would go into a database. He said he's worried that mental health information will become public if doctors note gun ownership.

"If you make that connection, it's a significant disincentive (to get treatment)," he said. "Once that information goes out into society that this person has a mental illness, it will follow that person for the rest of their life."

Kobach noted that a patient can refuse to answer a doctor's question, but he said the state could require healthcare providers to include a note on medical forms that reminds people that they don't have to answer questions about gun ownership.

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1. DHT

The major cause of hair loss is of course DHT. DHT is a hormone. DHT is directly related to and affected by the level of testosterone in the bloodstream. DHT blocks the growth of hair in men and is the cause of most baldness. And even though this is a male hormone, women also have a small amount that runs through their blood, some higher than others. When a female inherits hair follicles that are supersensitive to DHT, they start to lose hair just like men do. Men generally have hair loss concentrated in a specific pattern from the front through to the crown, while women have an overall thinning of the hair throughout the scalp. About half of all people have inherited hair loss by about 50 years of age. Hair Cubed Microfiber Hair Thickener  , Viviscal Extra Strength Hair Nutrient Tablets , 

2. Genetics

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Further studies have indicated that pollutants in the atmosphere have contributed to the production of "environmental hormones" which can also contribute to hair loss. 
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2013 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS - Market-Crushing Treasury Collapse To Hit Around 2013 - MODERN MONEY MECHANICS

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The Meltdown Years: The Unfolding of the Global Economic Crisis 

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The First Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century - Part I: August

Peter Schiff And The Coming Housing Collapse: The Fed, Instead Of Lehman, Owns The Mortgage Market

With market participants cheering a new all-time high in the Dow Jones, one man is predicting this “misplaced optimism” will lead to a “worse collapse than in 2008.” 

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Peter Schiff, the eternal provocateur, suggests the Fed’s extraordinary support of bond and housing markets will lead to a market crash as interest rates rise, leaving banks, mortgage originators, and lenders stuck with homes and low yielding loans as the economy slows, exacerbating the decline and throwing the economy into a deeper crisis.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke endured some hostile questioning in Congress last week. At one point, responding to a question about QE by Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, Bernanke wasexplaining “[quantitative easing] doesn’t involve any new spending or revenue,” when he was cut off by Westmoreland, who said “oh, I got you, just money printing, right?” The Fed Chairman’s demeanor froze for a second, after which he continued “it’s acquiring securities in order to reduce interest rates and ease financial conditions in the economy,” tacitly accepting the “money printing” comment.

Precisely those purchases of assets to further ease monetary policy are cooking a bigger financial crash than in 2008, Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital argues, and that collapse will start with the housin and bond markets.

Paradoxically, the housing market is firing on all cylinders, with homebuilders like KB Home and Lennar trading close to their 52-week highs.  This is irrational exuberance, according to Schiff, as the market is fully subsidized by the Fed.  “The U.S. government is guaranteeing all mortgages, and then buying them up,” explained Schiff, “it’s an artificial market, but the Fed, rather than Lehman Brothers, owns it.”

Schiff incredibly agrees with what has become a mainstream opinion: the Fed is behind this rally, both in stocks and bonds, and even in real estate markets.  Yet Schiff differs in that, while most believe the Fed-induced rally has “training wheels” that can later come off, the Fed’s support “are the only wheels” keeping the market going, and removing them will spark a crash.

Pointing to housing markets, Schiff notes that “we are building more homes than we can afford,” as hedge funds and speculators gobble up hundreds of thousands of properties being cranked out by the homebuilders.  Indeed, hedge fund manager Deepak Narula of Metacapital made $125 million last year buying up mortgages, delivering net returns north of 40% while the S&P 500 squeaked out about 14%; several hedge funds followed suit.  The foreclosure process is stalled in several “judicial” states while banks are still sitting on massive inventories of housing.  Major banks and mortgage originators haven’t gotten out of the mess they caused in the financial crisis: Bank of America,Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup arestill in the process of settling a nearly $20 billion tab with homeowners across 49 states.

The day of reckoning will come when the Fed starts to tighten, according to Schiff. “It is amazing Bernanke can admit he has no exit strategy,” he explained, noting the Fed will monetize some of its Treasury and mortgage holdings, but will have to sell a lot of both to normalize its monetary stance. Bernanke has made it clear they will telegraph the move to the market, but Schiff believes telling others they will sell “is the worst thing they can do [as] everyone will try to front-run the Fed.”

That is when “public selling will overwhelm the Fed,” Schiff says as “the big buyers are only there because the Fed is.”  While the central bank is buying a big chunk of all debt issued by the Treasury, it holds only about 15% of debt outstanding Bernanke explained, rendering it unable to stop a run on Treasuries, which would lead to interest rates rising very quickly.

With bond prices falling and rates surging, banks will be left with depreciating assets (Treasuries) and stuck with low yielding long-term loans.  As the “rug is pulled from under the banks,” the housing market will collapse as well, Schiff believes.  The housing market will also breakdown.

During the crisis, “the Fed kept short rates low, supporting teaser rates and allowing subprime to gain traction,” explained Schiff, “now, instead of learning their lesson, they are concentrating on the 30-year fix.”  Rising rates will make it more difficult for people to qualify for mortgages and get homes, while a cooling economy, as a consequence of tighter monetary conditions, will limit renters’ ability to pay.  As the housing market stalls, the financial system will begin to seize up, resulting in a stock market collapse and a deeper recession than in 2008.

Investors can buy protection against this collapse, Schiff says, by stocking up on gold.  The yellow metal is down nearly 7% in 2013, but Schiff attributes that to misplaced optimism.  “People are as dumb as they’ve always been [but] the sentiment is wrong, they should be buying gold.”

At the end of the day, Peter Schiff’s views are based on a philosophical notion that fiat money, and the actions of central banks like the Federal Reserve, are destabilizing and bubble-inducing.  Chairman Bernanke did admit they may have disrupted markets and created bubbles, in bond markets for example, but believes they are unwanted side effects of his policies aimed at propping up the economy and creating jobs.  Only time will tell if Bernanke, or the Schiffs of the world are right.  Until then, those siding with the latter can stockpile some gold.The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century  

Market-Crushing Treasury Collapse To Hit Around 2013

Peter Schiff, the divisive investor and commentator that predicted the subprime/real-estate bubble, is forecasting a U.S. dollar and bond crisis over the next couple of years.  Schiff blames intervened bond markets, where rates are artificially and excessively low, and expects the coming crisis to blow the 2008-9 financial crisis out of the water.Marxism and the Global Financial Crisis

There is little doubt that the Federal Reserve, with Chairman Ben Bernanke at the helm, is holding markets by the hand.  Bernanke, himself a divisive figure, has done all he can to push interest rates lower, using quantitative easing and Operation Twist once nominal rates had hit the zero-range.  While many believe ultra-loose monetary policy is dangerous, Schiff thinks it will lead to a catastrophic correction.

“The more you delay it, the bigger it will be,” Schiff tells Forbes in a phone interview Tuesday, “so we need to raise interest rates during the recession to confront the inefficiencies.”  Schiff, who runs Euro Pacific Capital and is seen by many as permanently bearish, argues that government-intervened bond markets are leading to massive distortions in capital allocation that have only been exacerbated as the Fed reacted to the last couple of recessions.

Recent market behavior supports his thesis that massive dislocations in bond yields distort reality.  Ten-year Treasury yields had traded in a narrow-range for about four months, on the presumption that a weak economy would continue to count on Bernanke’s monetary support (particularly of the bond market).  On March 13, the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) acknowledged an improved recovery, but did not mention more quantitative easing, or bond purchases, were on the way, sparking a violent sell-off in Treasuries (exacerbated by JPMorgan’sdividend announcement the same day, which triggered a rally in financial stocks) as market players fled a bond rally they considered fixed by the Fed.

While Bernanke delivered calm to bond markets on Monday in a speech that promised “continued accommodative policies,” the violence of the sell-off speaks to Schiff’s argument.  “We consume more than we produce and we borrow abroad, but we are never going to be able to pay them back,” says Schiff.

The controversial investor and commentator expects a massive crash over the next two to three years as a bond market bubble, coupled with the U.S. dollar, collapses under the weight of excessive debt.  Schiff, like PIMCO’s Bill Gross, doesn’t believe in the current deleveraging cycle.  While households have reduced their leverage, government debt has ballooned on the back of stimulus programs, but, argued Schiff, the government’s debt is the people’s debt, thus overall leverage has actually increased.

In CNBC interview Wednesday, Schiff called Bernanke “public enemy number one” and warned that banks would crash if the bond market collapses.  While most major banks, including the likes of JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and evenBank of America, passed the Fed’s strenuous stress tests, which stipulated a massive decline in equity and real estate prices, Schiff still believes they’re in trouble.  “The Fed didn’t ask the banks to stress test a big drop in the bond market because that’s what coming, and the banks would fail that,” he said.

Schiff cites the rising price of gold as evidence that U.S. dollar debasement, and inflation, are higher than the Fed, and consumer price data, suggest.  Following the Austrian economic tradition, Schiff believes that only a massive correction, via a deflationary recession, can set the system straight.  “In a deflation, real wages will rise because the cost of goods will fall faster,” he says, adding that the government should accompany the correction by lowering taxes and cutting back on regulation.

While Schiff does suggest saving in gold, he understands the limitations of the investment.  “If you invest in gold, then the economy doesn’t benefit from savings, I want investment to go to plants and equipment.”

The system, he argues, is as broken as it was before the financial crisis.  Schiff, who was very prescient in his forecast and prediction of how the subprime debacle would filter through to the broader real estate market and thus bring down the economy, believes complacency is widespread.  “All of the people who were 100% wrong [back in ‘08] are saying that everything’s OK [now]. I am telling them they didn’t solve the problem and are making it so much worse.”

Schiff, who knows how to build his case, concludes it thusly: “I didn’t get lucky, I just understood the problem, and we are going to get another big one coming soon.”Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown  

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