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Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009
Library of Congress, Thomas ^ | 1/6/09 | Rep Rush, Bobby L.

Posted on 01/12/2009 9:26:05 PM PST by correctthought

HR 45, gun licensing act, 1/6/09

To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Rush, Bobby L. [IL-1] (introduced 1/6/2009) Cosponsors (None)

Latest Major Action: 1/6/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this Act or a state system certified under this Act and such license has not been invalidated or revoked. Prescribes license application, issuance, and renewal requirements.

Prohibits transferring or receiving a qualifying firearm unless the recipient presents a valid firearms license, the license is verified, and the dealer records a tracking authorization number. Prescribes firearms transfer reporting and record keeping requirements. Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a federal record of sale system.

Prohibits: (1) transferring a firearm to any person other than a licensee, unless the transfer is processed through a licensed dealer in accordance with national instant criminal background check system requirements, with exceptions; (2) a licensed manufacturer or dealer from failing to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements of this Act; (3) failing to report the loss or theft of the firearm to the Attorney General within 72 hours; (4) failing to report to the Attorney General an address change within 60 days; or (5) keeping a loaded firearm, or an unloaded firearm and ammunition for the firearm, knowingly or recklessly disregarding the risk that a child is capable of gaining access, if a child uses the firearm and causes death or serious bodily injury.

Prescribes criminal penalties for violations of firearms provisions covered by this Act.

Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish and maintain a firearm injury information clearinghouse; (2) conduct continuing studies and investigations of firearm-related deaths and injuries; and (3) collect and maintain current production and sales figures of each licensed manufacturer.

Authorizes the Attorney General to certify state firearm licensing or record of sale systems.


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To: BCR #226
That will turn a Constitutional crisis into a bloodbath on both sides.

That's probably the best outcome we can hope for sadly, but I'm afraid that's not what will happen. I'm afraid the evidence clearly shows from Ruby Ridge to Waco to Elian Gonzales even....the govt will crush the scattered, isolated patriots.

81 posted on 01/13/2009 9:12:26 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Rush is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, as well as a former member and founder of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party..."

IOW he knows very well that the criminals will still be armed and wants it that way. Anybody who doesn't understand that our overlords plan anarchy followed by international "peace-keeping" to "restore order" isn't awake. What most do not understand is that intermodal transportation systems are the key to supplying that force.

82 posted on 01/13/2009 9:20:42 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: correctthought
Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.

1958 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.

2008 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

83 posted on 01/13/2009 9:29:41 AM PST by NCjim ("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
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To: correctthought

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45:

Here’s a link to your original post that is working for me right now.


84 posted on 01/13/2009 9:33:12 AM PST by Eagle Bomba
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To: sam_paine
"..We would have to fan out from the anonymous safety of freeperland and start giving out phone numbers and addresses and ham radio calls signs to each other, and coordinating ammo calibers and reloading centers. And we'd have to make the internal commitment to come to the aid on common principle of people we'd otherwise think of as crazy freaks....like Randy Weaver, or David Koresh, or the Eldorado FLDS people. We won't even vote together, does anyone really think we're anywhere prepared for "COME AND TAKE IT!" now? Does anyone recognize that trying to do that "post-confiscation" is going to be easier with 65 million Obama snitches out there?.."

I agree a militia type action won't work either. The Feds would successfully infiltrate any network like they have all their targets. What is left is the civil disobedience of possessing weapons no matter what the rules say. Bet the rent, and your life, that is what Bobby Rush's vermin constituents do.

85 posted on 01/13/2009 9:38:27 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: sam_paine
Check out what happened to Cav Arms.

And more...

320 days and STILL no charges filed. Nor has their property been returned under "civil asset forfeiture. Even though there ARE NO CHARGES.

This isn't an isolated case. Look at Red's Trading Post. The treatment of that po-bucker in a Wisconsin jail for 30-months due to that loaned a rifle that malfunctioned. This guy in Cali that is in trouble because of his LEGALLY owned firearms in his trunk while on the way to the range. Etc... These are just the more recent ones that I can remember without having to resort to a Google search for.

86 posted on 01/13/2009 9:39:45 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: BCR #226

Cool!


87 posted on 01/13/2009 9:40:13 AM PST by Eaker (I am Going to Give B. Hussein O. The Very Same Respect the Media Gave George Bush.)
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To: BCR #226

Better be careful. If the Feebies want your toyz, they’ll come get ‘em like they did all those nifty CavArms lower receivers. Seized everything they had and even without charges are keeping them under Asset Forfeiture.


88 posted on 01/13/2009 9:43:57 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: April Lexington
If they don’t disarm the American public soon, things could get hot...

Agreed. But, it's better that the bad laws happen now at the start of the first term. Liberals all think their ideas (especially concerning guns) are mainstream and held by a majority of Americans. If the bad stuff happens now and we have a good chance of a control reversal in the Congress for 2010. 1994 was the proof of that. I just feel sorry for the folks who turn out to be the first test cases of American tyranny gone public.

89 posted on 01/13/2009 9:53:26 AM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: correctthought

The game is on.


90 posted on 01/13/2009 10:10:29 AM PST by MahatmaGandu (Remember, remember, the twenty-sixth of November.)
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To: correctthought

Why all the gloom? This bill will drastically reduce crime in this country. Then we won’t need guns. Dont you all see this?????


91 posted on 01/13/2009 10:21:15 AM PST by Rennes Templar (The Messiah and the Religion of Fleece)
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To: NCjim

Sadly, you are dead on with that assessment.


92 posted on 01/13/2009 10:23:12 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
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To: BCR #226; All

Do you have a list of those businesses? I will gladly to my $$ to those who stand for the 2nd Amendment.


93 posted on 01/13/2009 10:25:34 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
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To: sam_paine

Then how do we go from scattered, isolated patriots to organized? When I try to talk to people about this stuff they say it won’t come down to fighting. De Nile, it’s not just a river in Egypt.


94 posted on 01/13/2009 10:31:37 AM PST by Vor Lady (Some one stole my tagline!!!)
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To: Vor Lady
Pretty much everyone I talk to is on a "not if, but when" footing.

Considering I'm in the middle of Minnesota, that's a bit of a wonderment.

95 posted on 01/13/2009 10:35:45 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: MrB

“this is license for violent black on white crime”

This is precisely what they plan. During the campaign, a lot of ghetto-types kept saying, “its payback time”. Of course the only payback we really deserve is a “thank you”, but since they are brain washed from a very young age to hate Whitey, the payback they envision is white genocide.


96 posted on 01/13/2009 10:44:26 AM PST by ChicagahAl (So your bumper sticker says: "Don't blame me, I didn't vote!"? Duh!)
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To: correctthought
Well,

The problem with that is, the CONSTITUTION says, that the people have the RIGHT to keep and bear arms. NOT the privilege.

Having the government say that a license is required to own firearms, gives the government full control over who is allowed to have them and who is not. This makes it tyranny and nothing more.

All Americans will be required to get their license and declare their fire arms, registered or not, or face becoming a felon. We all know what the final step will be after this happens. Outright confiscation, because the government will know were all the firearms are. At least those held by law abiding citizens.

Hunting will also be severely controlled or banned outright, using natural population control methods to replace it.

97 posted on 01/13/2009 10:47:48 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go? (ACORN))
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To: sam_paine

Yes, and I was one of the fools drinking my own Kool Aid. I will not be so stupid in the future.

Personally I think our government and the process by which it is formed are beyond broken. IMO there is no way to fix it through elections. There is simply no viable opposition party to the demrat machine. The RINOs are really democrats and they will not allow conservatives to take it over.


98 posted on 01/13/2009 10:48:40 AM PST by dools007
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Obama, Pelosi, Reid - The Axis Of Fascism.

And the ignorant people begged for it.

99 posted on 01/13/2009 10:57:30 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
All Americans will be required to get their license and declare their fire arms, registered or not, or face becoming a felon.

Looks like there are about to be millions of new felons then.

The first crime is expensive, the rest are free.

100 posted on 01/13/2009 10:58:13 AM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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