Anti-Gun Deception On The Senate Floor

rifle_man · 02-01-2009, 05:56 PM

This Bill will make you require a federal license to possess any detachable-magazine semi-automatic rifle or shotgun, or any handgun, has been introduced in Congress. Bills to re-impose the federal "assault weapon" and "large" magazine ban, or to impose a much broader ban.

Here is a copy of the bill.

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h45ih .txt.pdf

Centauri · 02-01-2009, 05:58 PM

Haha, I'm not following it at all. After all, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and that bill infringes my right to bear arms.

Aught Six · 02-01-2009, 08:25 PM

Live free and die...

James B · 02-01-2009, 08:56 PM

Semi-auto handguns too? That bill would draw a lot of flack for all the Reps. I doubt that they could get that through. BUT you never know, we have strict anti gunners in the three top positions in our government.

falcon · 02-02-2009, 01:42 AM

it is not a senate bill. It is a house bill. Dozens of anti-gun bills are proposed in the US congress every year. 99% of them go nowhere. However, we need to be vigilant.

homers brother · 02-02-2009, 03:43 AM

Someone else posted this over on the gun board as well. I Googled up some background and here's what's interesting: The bill is named after a young man who was shot and killed while protecting a friend.

Protecting the friend from "who"? Why, from a gun-toting assailant who just happened to be 16 and an alleged/avowed (depending on where you read it) gang-banger. The friend wasn't even the gang-banger's target.

Anyone remember Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? I recall a list of 18 EXISTING firearms laws that they (and others - to include the straw purchasers) violated prior to their little slaughter at Columbine High School. And yet, the sheeple clamored for MORE firearms laws after the tragedy, as if one more broken law would have made a difference.

So, just what do we need to be vigilant for? Watch the legislation that's before either the House or Senate? I doubt any of us have time for that, but .... that's what it's likely come to in a gun-control-sympathetic administration. There's another angle the gun banners are currently testing the waters with, and that's the assertion that once guns are made less available to gang-bangers, they'll resort to stealing those of honest citizens. Ideas range from armory storage, home safes, ammunition encoding, etc. Oh, "we're not restricting ownership, we're just making it morecomplicated for you to own or use a firearm." What about making life difficult for the gang members?

What we really need to be vigilant for are the simpleton lawmakers who try to treat the symptom, rather than find the cure. They need to beencouraged to find different lines of work.

It's unfortunate that the story of this young man, whogave his lifeso that someone else could live, will be wasted on a House Resolution that wouldn't have done anything to prevent his death. Inner-city violence (which will exist with or without firearms)is beginning to spill across this country like acancer, and our idiot lawmakers are busy giving usTylenol for the pain. Until lawmakers have enough personal courage to call it what it is (yes, and possibly lose the votes of certain classes of parent(s), certain ethnicities, etc.), they're going to keep trying to grab our firearms. It's the easy,"feel-good" thing to do!