Originally Posted By: olivant
Originally Posted By: bigboy
I think that what the NRA and many gun owners don't like about the "Universal" background checks and stricter control is that we don't want the Government to create a database so that at some time in the future they could come confiscate our guns like in nazi Germany. IN THE MILIARY we were told that one reason enemies were afraid to invade USA is because of the privately held guns.


What happened in Nazi Germany?

Why did someone in the military tell you that? That doesn't make any sense. The Soviet Union was the only nation with any strategic capability to invade the United States and such an action certainly would be deterred by the US's nuclear capability. Why would even one reason that the Soviet Union declined to invade the US be because of tactical weapons in citizen hands?

I did not mean to imply that privately held guns was the sole reason the were worried about us. Naturally our missiles Etc is a deterrent, but they realized it would be tough getting ambushed by American citizens once here. Why did the military tell me this??? In the Army there are periodic intelligence briefings done to keep us up to date on the international situation and information gained from intelligence operations is shared.