It's Starting...

[Crosstimbers Okie]

... already. And Obama hasn't even taken office yet.

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Thursday, January 15, 2009



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WEAPONS OF CHOICE
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Big Brother's new target: Tracking of all firearms
'Nothing less than a declaration of war on American gun owners'

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Posted: January 13, 2009
10:08 pm Eastern



By Drew Zahn



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WorldNetDaily


Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., is hoping to pass a firearm-licensing bill that will significantly rewrite gun-ownership laws in America.

Among the more controversial provisions of the bill are requirements that all handgun owners submit to the federal government a photo, thumb print and mental heath records. Further, the bill would order the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer and owner's address in America.

The bill claims its purpose is "to protect the public against the unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with the unrecorded sale or transfer of firearms to criminals and youth."

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Columnist David Codrea of Guns Magazine, however, calls it a "ridiculous affront to liberty."

"This is nothing less than a declaration of war on American gun owners," Codrea writes on Gun Rights Examiner.

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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.

Gun Rights Examiner: 'Qualifying fireams'

'Qualifying fireams'
78 comments January 13, 8:10 AM
by David Codrea, Gun Rights Examiner
« PreviousNext » It has begun.

Despite assurances to the contrary, some democrats are champing at the bit to institute citizen disarmament, and like impulsive children, can't even wait for their guy to be inaugurated.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you H.R.45, Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, introduced in the House one week ago today by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL).

Per Jeff Knox of The Firearms Coalition:

If passed, this bill would require that anyone wishing to purchase, own, or possess a "qualifying firearm" - that's any handgun, and any long gun capable of accepting a detachable magazine - would have to be licensed by the state or the federal government in a licensing program managed by the Attorney General. To get a license you would have to prove you're you, provide a passport-style photo, a thumbprint, and take a written exam which includes questions about firearms safety, safe storage, the risks of firearms ownership, and anything else the Attorney General deems appropriate. All transfers would be required to go through a licensed dealer with the exception of occasional gifts or bequests between parents, children (18 or over), and grandparents, or loans of not more than 30 days between "persons who are personally known to one another." (It actually says that. I'm not making this up.) And all transfers would have to be recorded in a "Transfer Record" established and maintained by the Attorney General.

The bill also makes it a crime for a dealer to have shoddy records or fail to appropriately cooperate with any inspectors. It makes failure to report the loss or theft of a firearm within 72 hours a felony punishable by up to 2 years in prison. Failure to keep a firearm locked up in such a way as to keep it inaccessible to anyone under 18 becomes a federal felony too.
Read the bill for yourself .

As of now, it has no co-sponsors. Some will tell you that means there's no cause for alarm. Some may even tell us this has no chance of passing (now), and to expend effort opposing it will weaken future political efforts.

One mass shooting in a "no guns" zone from now, that could change, and this could come to the front burner. Along with the anticipated push to permanently ban (that means no "sunset clause" this time) all semiautomatics by both name and characteristic.

Here's the important part: It will make it illegal for you to possess guns you currently legally own unless you go jump through their hoops, register yourself and obtain a license. All under the watchful oversight of Eric Holder--another grave danger to gun rights our lobbyists see no need to expend "political capital" on.

This is what the gunhaters mean by "common sense gun control" and "reasonable restrictions." So much for "shall not be infringed."

This is nothing less than a declaration of war on American gun owners.

Naturally, I'll have more as things develop. Come to think of it, I'll have more over the coming days.

I intend to go through everything this tyrannical edict proposes, and expose it for the evil and ridiculous affront to Liberty that it is.

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Down the Hatch

It's not just the democrats we have to watch. The republicans have their share.

This time, it's from a guy who should know better.

Orrin Hatch supports Eric Holder.

What is wrong with these people?

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Speaking of Holder...

RedState.com has noticed a conspicuous absence of "gun lobby" opposition to his confirmation.

I like the way they characterize their post as "breaking."

Readers here and at The Firearms Coalition know better.

Welcome to the party, guys.

[HACKINIT]

I don't think this is the first or last time this legislation has been introduced so I don't know if I would blame the Obama administration.

[Blankstare]

When are politicians going to realize that restricting, recording, or otherwise impeding on the rights of gun owners, are futile attempts to stop a larger problem. These restrictions will in no way keep guns out of the wrong hands.

What it does is give liberal voters a warm fuzzy so they'll vote for them again.



If Guns Kill People, then pencils misspell words, and cars cause traffic accidents.

[soundboy125]

Back in 2004 there was a web site where someone put a fully loaded and chambered AR-15 in a corner. Members could log on and "watch" the rifle to make sure it didn't move, jump up and kill anyone or walk off and go on a murderous killing spree. I was a member and I babysat the rifle, never once did I see it move, accidentally discharge or anything, it just sat there, like it was inanimate or something. This truly proved to me that firearms can display 100% safe and responsible behavior. Only in the hands of people can evil or accidents happen. I think a far more logical bill would be to ban morons from breeding.

[COSpitfire]

I think a far more logical bill would be to ban morons from breeding.

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ahhh but then the ideas of darwin would be applied which would wipe out all darwinists.

[NEWJACK]

In New York you have to get a permit already.The mental health and long gun part would be new.

[DoubleNutz]

Everyone needs to join Second Amendment Foundation Online , http://gunowners.org/ , and National Rifle Association - NRA Website Gateway . They will be the ones to effectively halt such BS.

I am already a proud member of all three!

[ATW-Hack]

Originally Posted by soundboy125

I think a far more logical bill would be to ban morons from breeding.

Full on agree!!!

[Crosstimbers Okie]

ii_091601_s_halbrook_testifies_against_holder.htm

Stephen Halbrook To Testify Against Confirmation of Eric Holder for Attorney General at Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
January 15, 2009
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing for the controversial nomination of Eric Holder to the position of Attorney General of the United States.
Independent Institute Research Fellow and attorney Stephen Halbrook is among the witnesses testifying, arguing that Holder’s reputation as a steadfast opponent of Second Amendment rights makes him an unfit candidate for the job.

Halbrook, author of the new Institute book The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, filed an amicus brief on behalf of more than 300 members of Congress in the recent Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller. But the landmark decision, affirming an individual right in the Second Amendment, conflicts with Holder’s track record, claims Halbrook. In fact, Holder joined in a brief arguing that the Second Amendment only concerns the “State’s operation of a well-regulated militia” and does not protect an individual right, a position at odds with President-elect Barack Obama’s approval of Heller.

“When Mr. Holder served as Deputy Attorney General (1997–2001) and Acting Attorney General (2001), the Department of Justice implemented policies hostile to Second Amendment rights,” states Halbrook in his prepared written testimony. “In the establishment of the national instant criminal background check system (‘NICS’) in 1998, the Department claimed the authority to keep records on lawful firearm purchasers for an alleged ‘audit log’ for six months, despite the law’s requirement that such records be destroyed and its prohibition on registration of firearm owners.”

“In that same period, the Department circulated draft legislation that would be included in a bill introduced by Congressman John Conyers as H.R. 1768 (106th Cong., 1999). The bill would have: Imposed felony penalties on a person who planned a gun show without registering with and reporting to ATF; made it unlawful for persons under age 21 to possess firearms, even though they vote, serve on juries, and serve in the military; imposed a 3-day waiting period, and limited handgun purchases to one per month.”

“After terrorists struck with box cutters on 9/11, Mr. Holder responded with an op ed arguing for ‘background checks on all gun sales,’ which would have extended felony penalties to the otherwise innocent, intrastate conduct of law-abiding private individuals. He added: ‘Congress should also pass legislation that would give the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a record of every firearm sale.’ Under the guise of combating terrorism, every American firearm owner would thus be registered with the government,” Halbrook states.

Continuing to reveal Holder as a staunch opponent of the Second Amendment, Halbrook concludes, “Eric Holder has taken a constricted view of Second Amendment rights. Millions of law-abiding Americans exercise the right to keep and bear arms. Mr. Holder’s opinion is that the people have no such right unless they are commanded to exercise it in a formal militia, which renders the right meaningless. . . . Many Americans have reason to be uneasy about Mr. Holder’s nomination for Attorney General. They deserve to have a person in this role who is committed to upholding all parts of the Constitution, including the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, Mr. Holder has proven himself not to be that person.”

[DoubleNutz]

Originally Posted by Crosstimbers Okie

This is FANTASTIC... I Love It!