Posted on 04/18/2011 11:22:11 AM PDT by Immerito
Repeal the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
by Mjbarkl April 17, 2011
Over the months since the Tucson massacre, not much has happened in Washington to address the problem, which is Too many guns, Too easy access. Inaction is understandable. They're all afraid of the big bad NRA and the gun netherworld behind it. There is another reason: following Justice Scalia's Supreme Court opinion in the Heller case, extended to all other jurisdictions under the McDonald opinion, all gun control is now in doubt. There is only one way to solve this problem and that is to take it head on: Repeal the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. I propose Amendment Resolution and Legislation as follows:
Phase 1 - The Resolution, Format is from H.J.RES. 438, 102nd Congress::
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States repealing the right to keep and bear arms.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid for all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States at any time after the date of its submission for ratification: 'Article--
1. Any right to keep and bear arms, whether under the Second Amendment to this Constitution, or under some pre-existing doctrine of natural law or common law or otherwise, or under Constitution or laws of any State, is repealed.
2. The privilege to keep and bear arms throughout the United States shall be under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.'
Phase 2 - A Tax; Following adoption of the constitutional amendment, a bill to tax:
1. There is imposed an annual tax on each and every firearm in any household as follows: a. first firearm, $10 b. second firearm, $20 c. third firearm, $30 d. fourth through ninth firearms, $100 each e. firearms in excess of the ninth, $1,000 each. 2. This tax is assessed and payable on each April 15 for firearms held by a household at the end of the preceding year, to be paid with a schedule listing firearm type, manufacturer and serial number, the schedule submitted along with the tax return of such member of the household as the members of the household may choose, with other members attaching a copy of that schedule to their tax returns as well indicating by which member the tax will be paid. Where firearms are owned by a partnership, if there is only one general partner the arms shall be included with the schedule of that general partner; where there is more than one general partner, the partners shall choose which partner will report the firearms. Where firearms are owned by a corporation, the corporation shall report and pay tax as if it were a household. Where fiscal years do not coincide with calendar years, reporting shall be as of the end of the previous fiscal year. Where firearms are owned by a legitimate museum, the museum shall report the ownership annually as if it were a household, but shall be exempt from the tax except for the penalties in section 4 below. Sham transfers, that is, transfers to a legitimate museum or to an entity with a different fiscal year, and then back again, shall be reported and taxed as if there had been no transfer. Sham exports, that is, export followed by reimportation shall be reported by and taxed to the exporter as if there had been no export. If a firearm has no serial number, the owner shall apply to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for the assignment of one, and upon receipt of the assigned serial number shall indelibly engrave that number at a suitable location upon the firearm.
3. This tax may be avoided by selling the firearm to a licensed gun dealer or by turning the firearm over to an official firearm collection location or by export before December 31 of the prior year. Once a month such collection locations shall turn collected firearms over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for destruction, except that the Bureau may withhold from destruction such firearms as are of historical interest for later donation to an appropriate museum.
4. Any firearm lost or stolen will incur a $1,000 penalty in the reporting year it was lost or stolen. For any such lost or stolen firearm that is subsequently recovered by the owner that $1,000 penalty shall be rescinded and refunded, except if the firearm has been used in the commission of a crime chargeable as a felony an additional $1,000 penalty will be imposed.
5. For each firearm sold by a licensed firearm dealer that is subsequently used in the commission of a crime chargeable as a felony a $1,000 penalty will be imposed against that dealer for each such year in which that firearm was used in such a crime.
6. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Internal Revenue Service shall jointly promulgate regulations for administering this Act.
Join me. Run for Congress. Fix this.
Best wishes,
--Mike Barkley, Candidate for Congress, http://www.mjbarkl.com/run.htm
False hope. A dork from Kenya got elected president in 2008.
Good luck with all of that as*hole.
Never happen—changes to the Constitution are hard to get passed by the states.
Good for him!
He is at least proposing to follow the procedure outlined in the Constitution for changing it.
Proposing amendments is entirely constitutional. As is voting them down.
This group of morons in office won’t let such puny things get in their way.
LOL! What a craven coward. Doesn't even have the b@lls to just say "The Second Amendment to the Constitution is hereby repealed."
Spineless libtard wuss. If you're going to "bring it", bring it, and let the chips fall where they may. (Right on your @ss.)
mjbarkl@inreach.com per his web page. remember, no foul language nor threats, as I suspect he is hoping for such letters to make a bigger name for himself.
I think this guy needs to prepare for disappointment at the polls.
You don’t repeal basic human rights. You violate them.
Not sure why you all are getting so testy. This sort of Stupid is stock and trade for the delusional state of KA. Its the home of self worshipping, morally superior, self righteous, know it alls dabbling in pseudo-science with great weather too! Who would have guessed then its spawn would be a Mike Barkley.
Against all of us and God himself....
The Inalienable aspect of enumerated (as in simply named by the US const. )natural rights is that they emanate not from governnent (no rights do...) but rather from nature (God).
No God-given Rights of man can be “repealed” by a mere govrnemnt; rather they would have to be illegally abridged.
What a moron.
I don’t know if “never” is appropriate. This sis something that if it’s proposed, must be fought tooth and nail.
Not sure about how true it is, but W Bush theoretically signed the Campaign Finance bill thinking that the Supremes would knock it down, so he’d get credit for signing it without it coming to fruition. As we know he was wrong, the Supremes let most of it pass.
Provide that union certification votes shall succeed by a majority of those workers voting, not by a majority of workers eligible to vote
He obviously does not know that that is precisely the current law with the NLRB. I found out while researching a union organizing campaign against my wife's employer. (Union lost with less than 25% of the vote.) And he's against the right to work!
You cannot repeal a right, you can only give the government permission to trample it.
MR. Mikey may wish to become familiar with:
www.monster.com
Suppose such excreta actually became law of the land. Who, other than lieberals, would obey it?
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