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| 2009-02-05 |
| You will have to carry a photo ID firearms license. A training class is required to be licensed. Disclosure of your storage method is required for license. A thumb print is required for license. Every sale recorded by the federal government. If you move, and don't tell the Attorney General within 60 days, you are a criminal. If a firearm is stolen and you don't report it, you are a criminal. There will be no grandfathered firearms. If you do not obtain a license and report every firearm you currently own, you are a criminal. There will be a license fee and a fee for the "services" provided at purchase time. Licenses must be renewed every 5 years. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 New Hampshire has the answer. |
| Posted by: KBK 2009-02-05 23:08 |
| #10 KMA. This illegal bill should be trashed. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-02-05 16:32 |
| #9 Pretty thin tent walls, too, Uncle. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-02-05 13:56 |
| #8 Why not just house to house through the 'hood and confiscate anything more dangerous than a butter knife? After all, that's where 90% of the problem lies. I volunteer Chicago to be first. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-02-05 13:54 |
| #7 Geee....will ya' look at the size of the nose on that camel? |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2009-02-05 13:23 |
| #6 Handguns and semiautomatics which feed from a "detachable device", presumably meaning a magazine, from the text. So sounds like my shotgun's in the clear, and any bolt-action rifle. It excludes any "antiques". God only knows how you define that. Horrible bill, but the above stipulations will let the willful & wishful close their eyes and claim that it isn't aimed at "hunters and people with heirlooms". |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-02-05 12:56 |
| #5 Re Congressman Rush: Rush introduced a 1993 bill that would have banned handguns for anyone who was not in law enforcement and added an increase in the licensing fee for gun dealers from $10 to $3,000. ...he volunteered for the Army but went AWOL in 1968 and co-founded the Illinois Black Panthers... |
| Posted by: Darrell 2009-02-05 12:04 |
| #4 I'll start worrying now, thank you very much. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-02-05 12:03 |
| #3 A bill submitted to the House of Representatives, and immediately sent to Committee. How often is something like this submitted, without ever once passing out of committee, let alone to a House vote matched by a Senate vote, then a reconciliation bill submitted to both houses of Congress? Let's worry about this if it gets to the reconciliation stage, although you might want to write to your Representative, and possibly even both Senators. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-02-05 11:00 |
| #2 Unconstitutional, on it's face. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-02-05 10:32 |
| #1 ....because the intrastate and interstate trafficking of firearms are so commingled, full regulation of interstate commerce requires the incidental regulation of intrastate commerce; Here we go. What Republic? |
| Posted by: KBK 2009-02-05 10:06 |