Two books, and one essay a week, about how a free country could be disarmed by legal, step-by-step means, with no conspiracy required.
By Ted Garland OilerReal events. Real dates.
From the Port Arthur shooting to a national firearms agreement.
From Christchurch to a ban on most semi-automatics, passed 119 to 1.
The Small Arms Survey's estimate, more than one for every American.
One argument and one story about the same three years. The argument tells you how it could happen. The story shows you what it looks like when it happens to one family in Ohio.
Every law, every database and every piece of technology in this book already exists. What doesn't exist yet is the assembly. The Warning walks through how the pieces could be put together, by a bill already written and waiting for the country's worst week, and shows you what to watch for.
Coming 2027
Three mass shootings in six weeks. A disarmament bill passes. A Columbus defense contractor, a former Army intelligence officer, is hired to build the system that scores every gun owner from one to ten. Then he finds out he's a six.
To followReal history only. Every entry below happened, and every one can be checked. The books imagine the next one. This page doesn't.
Gun owners are put on government lists. On November 11, 1938, the Nazi regime orders Jews disarmed.
Machine guns, short-barreled rifles and suppressors go on a federal registry, with a $200 tax on each transfer.
Federal licenses for dealers, and a record of every retail sale on what becomes ATF Form 4473.
The Hughes Amendment freezes the machine-gun registry to new civilian guns. The number of legal ones has not grown since.
Signed into law. It expires ten years later to the day, on September 13, 2004.
The National Firearms Agreement, followed by a national buyback.
Two Firearms (Amendment) Acts ban almost all handguns. About 162,000 are surrendered.
The city orders civilian guns seized. On September 23, a federal court orders the seizures stopped.
Parliament bans most semi-automatic firearms, 119 to 1.
About 1,500 models of firearm are banned overnight, without a vote in Parliament.
The Court hears a challenge to a county assault-weapons ban. A ruling is due by the end of June 2027.
Registration doesn't cause tyranny. But tyranny requires a disarmed victim.
Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Japan all register guns and stay free. Both halves of that sentence are true, and leaving either one out turns it into propaganda.
What you won't get here is conspiracies, tinfoil-hat theories, or the kind of nonsense that always does our side more harm than good.Ted Garland Oiler
"Here's who I am. A father. A veteran. A military intelligence officer. A patriot, above all that."From the Preface to The Warning
I'm Ted Garland Oiler: Pro-2A, a father, a veteran, and a Political Science graduate of The Ohio State University. I'm the author of America Disarmed, a nonfiction book, The Warning, and a novel, The Witness. Together they show how a free country could be disarmed by legal, step-by-step means, with no conspiracy required.
Resolute Citizen is where I stay vigilant about the mechanics: the laws, the lists, the money, and the people pushing them, and how close they are to working.
One essay a week on the laws, the lists, the money and the people pushing them. Free. Subscribers hear first when the books are out.
