Obama hasn't even taken office yet and the gun grabbers in congress are already at work. WND had a terrific piece today in whichan Ill. Congressman by the name of Bobby Rush has introduced a bill H.R. 45 which will rewrite gun ownership law in America.
This is the context of the bill as explained in the WND piece;
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"Rush's proposed bill, H.R. 45, is alternatively known as "Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009," named after an Illinois teenager killed by a gunshot.
According the bill's text, "On the afternoon of May 10, 2007, Blair Holt, a junior at Julian High School in Chicago, was killed on a public bus riding home from school when he used his body to shield a girl who was in the line of fire after a young man boarded the bus and started shooting."
The bill then argues that interstate firearm trafficking and children dying from gun violence create legitimate cause for the federal government to monitor gun ownership and transfers in new ways.
If passed, the bill would make it illegal to own or possess a "qualifying firearm" – defined as any handgun or any semiautomatic firearm that takes an ammunition clip – without a "Blair Holt" license.
To obtain a "Blair Holt" license, an application must be made that includes a photo, address, all previous aliases, thumb print, completion of a written firearm safety test, release of mental health records to the attorney general and a fee not to exceed $25.
Further, the bill makes it illegal to transfer ownership of a qualifying firearm to anyone who is not a licensed gun dealer or collector. Exceptions to this rule include transfer to family members by gift or bequest and loans, not to exceed 30 days, of a firearm for lawful purposes "between persons who are personally known to each other."
The bill also requires qualifying firearm owners to report all transfers to the attorney general's database. It would also be illegal for a licensed gun owner to fail to record a gun loss or theft within 72 hours or fail to report a change of address within 60 days.
And if a minor obtains a weapon and injures someone with it, the owner of the gun – if deemed to have failed to meet certain safety requirements – faces a multiple-year jail sentence.
H.R. 45 is a resurfacing of 2007's H.R. 2666, which contained much of the same language and was co-sponsored by 15 other representatives and Barack Obama's current chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel. H.R. 2666 was assigned to the House Judiciary committee, where no action was taken.
H.R. 45 currently has no co-sponsors and is likewise assigned to the House Judiciary committee."
This type of legislation, should it reach Obama's desk, would certainly be signed by him. He doesn't respect the Constitution, this country or our rights.
VIVE LIBERTE'
Vote Libertarian!
1 comment:
I fail to see where in this bill's text that it would restrict ownership of semi-automatic weapons to anyone who's legally qualified 'now' to own them. It may increase the amount of information that changes hands in a sale of them, but then, if you've nothing to hide, then why worry? This is the same line uttered by police now when we're asked to produce I.D; or even to testify in open court, although it's merely muttered then, but still taken into account by jurors during trials when the defendent doesn't take the stand. Sure, it's not supposed to be, but we're all human, and we all have those ideas running through our minds when these circumstances are raised. Law abiding citizens shouldn't be afraid that their guns will be confiscated. Of course, many 'collectors' are wary because they have illegal weapons in their collections, or have sold them in the past. There's lots of money in them, and that's because they're used for illegal means. How many hunters need AK-47s? Or M-15-As? Or Uzis? How many need ceramic Glock 19s? There are only irresponsible people who hunt with those weapons, and we don't need them roaming around my neck of the woods shooting at anything that moves, or even doesn't move. No, the only thing those weapons are any good for is killing people, lots of them, in a short amount of time, or to attempt to circumvent metal detection, which is there for our safety.
I used to 'have' to wear a gun for my job, and it never made me feel any more secure. In fact, it was nothing more than a dead weight all the time, and in a worse-case-scenario, a target on my back.
Now, I know the ol' standard, "Guns don't kill people..." So, let's make sure that the guns don't fall into the wrong hands, which is really what kill people, the wrong hands.
Nobody sounded the alarms when they wanted to make voting more responsible by having people show I.D; but nobody ever got killed by a vote. Well, that's not true. Lots of people got killed after the vote in '04, but that's beside the point I'm making here. We have to show I.D. to get on a plane; rent a car; buy anything with a credit card; why not when buying a gun? It ain't gonna kill ya!
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