Posted on 06/11/2021 5:59:07 AM PDT by PROCON
A group of Democrats in Congress this month have filed legislation that seeks to set new, much more restrictive standards for even the most basic handgun ownership in the United States.
Plainly titled the Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2021, the proposal would require that any handgun owner be at least 21 years of age. Before their mandatory license is issued for a pistol or revolver, would-be handgun owners would first complete approved firearms training and clear a background check after submitting fingerprints and photographs. Licenses would have to be renewed every five years.
“Our government requires registration and basic standards for voting, operating a vehicle, even opening a business," said U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, a New Jersey Democrat who is a sponsor of the bill. "Yet, for weapons created with the single intent to take a life, we have developed a dangerous aversion to any mechanism to understand where and with whom these weapons reside."
Going past the licensing requirement, the bill would direct the U.S. Attorney General to establish a system for the "registration of all handguns owned, possessed, or controlled in the United States."
Penalties for non-compliance would include fines and the possibility of imprisonment.
The glaring problem with implementation is that the proposal's scope may be impossible due to the simple scale of how many handguns are in American homes.
In 2009, federal regulators estimated there were at least 114 million handguns in circulation among consumers in the U.S., making them the most popular type of firearm in homes across the nation. Since then, those numbers have only climbed. According to the latest production figures, 3.6 million pistols and revolvers were produced in 2019 alone, not counting imports, homemade guns, or those crafted by individuals for personal use.
Watson Coleman's bill has been filed as H.R. 3740 and has seven co-sponsors, all Democrats. It has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Similar measures that have been filed earlier this year include U.S. Rep Sheila Jackson Lee's H.R. 127, U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen's S. 770.
I can’t fault your optimism, but concessions by the Dems are rarely of any great value and tend to evaporate like the morning dew. Example: NYC 1976 - New Yorkers who owned the dreaded “assault weapons” were required to register them with the promise that the registration lists would NEVER be used for confiscation. Fast forward to 1991. Democrat mayor David Dinkins got the city council to pass a semiauto ban where all of those fools who complied with the registration laws were given notice that they had 90 days to get rid of their property or turn them in to the police. Those who did not comply got a visit from NYC’s finest jackbooted thugs and were arrested.
Never ever trust a politicians promise
Dems File Mandatory Federal Handgun Licensing, Registration Bill, Nateman wrote:
Politicans try and take away your guns because they intend to do something you’d want to shoot them for.
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Exactly, they fear not being able to walk down the streets after we find out all about their depopulation by “vaccination” plans for us and our children.
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A license to exercise a RIGHT? Blatantly unconstitutional.
More lawfare from criminal democrata. Democrats are the enemy, folks.
Good luck with that.
Or their demise.
Okay, if that happens I will Register my Carry Pistol.
The others will remain incognito and off the Grid.
She had two stepsons (?) do time for robbing a store with a rifle. She’s sympathetic to ex-cons. The law-abiding, not so much.
No glue guns? Those things can burn ya.
They don’t care about enforcing it per se. When they stop you and find a pistol, that is a charge. When your neighbor calls 9 11 and says they were walking by your house and said they smelled smoke from within your house and they investigate find a pistol, that is a charge. When your friend turns you in, well because he can and they go to your house...... But if they pass it 99% of the sheep will comply and turn those who don’t comply. Because it is a law and Conservatives obey the law. I obey the Law, They got to obey the law too. The theft of the 2020 election proved to the Powers That Be That Conservatives will not fight. Therefore they are not really worried. They can proceed with their plans.
Cheer up. Come September that will all be just a distasteful memory.
Texas has a message for Dem congressmen, but I need to know how to post a picture.
I wish that I could help you on that. I’m in the dark on that stuff. But. I am happy that Governor Abbott finally signed HB1927 into law.
Locked, cocked and ready to rock!
OooRah!
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