Write this down! This resolution is the biggest stomp on your 2nd Amendment right in the history of this country. Hubby got wind of this act, and basically freaked out. Matter of fact I can tell you how mad he was, he signed two petitions. Our Congressman John Carter wrote him about this resolution, so I know when he was out and about he signed two.
Here is what it has in it. It is a National Firearm Registration System overseen by the Attorney General. They want to establish a national database of every gun sale, transfer and owner’s address in America. It would require with every gun sale a photo, address, fingerprint and written firearm safety test, private mental health records and a tax on the gun. If you were to leave a prized gun like a Henry repeating rifle in a will to a loved one, that person would have to complete all of the above before getting the rifle. You could not give a firearm as a gift, much less like in our area use the firearm as a fundraiser. All of that would have to go through the Attorney General’s office.
The first step of taking away gun rights is registration of guns. Australia gun owners told us that over and over, the day you are registered is the beginning of the end of owning guns to protect yourself or your family, as well as hunting.
Now if you look at the list of what gun owners would have to do, think about it. This is the same group of people that fought against Voter Photo ID. So I can vote without a photo, but God help me if I own a gun?
If this guy Rep Bobby Rush (D-IL) thinks only the law abiding gun buyers from dealers will be the only guns out there he is crazy. It has been proven again and again much like pot and prohibition. It does not stop the illegal selling of the contraband, it only makes the criminals the ones with access to firearms.
This resolution will kill small gun dealers nationwide, fundraising efforts in rural hunting communities like mine, and last and by no means least it will mean the end of our 2nd Amendment rights.
“Out of my Cold Dead Hands” will this allow to happen in the USA. I will not allow this to wiz by, without a fight!
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Fortunately, this bill is D.O.A. It doesn’t have any co-sponsors & it died in committee. Basically, the Illinois congressman who introduced it did so for the Holt family (he promised to do so at Blair Holt’s funeral) & knew it would go nowhere.
It wouldn’t pass now – this kind of thing can fly in Chicago, which has some of the most restrictive gun laws anywhere – but it won’t fly for the vast majority of the rest of the country.
For now, anyway.
Here’s what I remember from the Columbine tragedy. Someone stood up (a parent? a congressperson?) and said, “This number of gun laws was broken at Columbine [something like 17, I don't remember]. If those kids didn’t care about breaking 17 laws, they weren’t going to care about breaking 25 laws. More laws is not the answer; enforcing the ones we have IS.”
It was a rare moment of common sense that I loved.
But we have to keep keeping track of what our government is doing. When everyone started freaking out about Massachusetts passing a law that the swine flu vaccine could be given by force under martial law… everyone failed to notice that Bush had signed a bill into federal law that stated the same thing, about 3 years ago.
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