^ "... The leadership is also constantly lying to them that any sort of gun reform is the first step before the liberals take away their guns, which anyone with a grain of common sense knows is never going to happen."
With respect and evidence, I disagree.
It will take time to sift through the information available on the Internet, but search for "California SKS Confiscation" and you will eventually piece it together. It was a voluntary surrender under pain of future felony, so it was not a specifically legally-defined confiscation, though it bore a distinct resemblance to a generally-defined confiscation:
Confiscation \Con`fis*ca"tion\, n. [L. confiscatio.]
The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be
taken, as forfeited to the public use.
[1913 Webster]
My Dad had a type of offending one, and he received one of the many letters from the State DOJ to "register" it which, since he had of course purchased it legally, was described by some (accurately, as it turned out) as an attempt to generate a list of owners for future confiscation. Later, after "registering" it, he received another of the many letters giving him the 3 options of: surrender to Law Enforcement, verifiable destruction (present destroyed receiver to Law Enforcement), or re-location of the firearm out-of-state. He chose the latter. I saw and we discussed the letters, but I do not physically possess them so my information is technically anecdotal. He died in 2003 and the firearm remains out-of-state.
Check here for verification and perspective:
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jul/23/local/me-25465Check here for another recent CA confiscation that has support:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/california-gun-confiscation-bill_n_3117238.htmlAnd check here for a nationwide perspective that I found...chilling:
http://www.level-headed.net/2013/05/gun-confiscation-in-america/Yes, various nationwide elected officials do keep proposing confiscation, and the proposed Bills keep getting voted down. So far.