Posted on 02/26/2009 7:53:51 AM PST by Scythian
HR 45 May be More Troubling Than the Average Anti-gun Bill -- Legislation may reflect Obama’s thinking
by Mike Hammond
Those of you who regularly peruse the GOA website know that there are dozens of anti-gun abominations which are introduced as legislation in the Senate and House each Congress. These include, particularly, national gun licensing and broad gun bans.
GOA provides a summary of these bills for the benefit of our members and friends. But we do not focus on most of these bills because they are so extreme that they have no chance of passage. They are cynically introduced so that the Brady Campaign can raise money by threatening anti-gun measures it could never pass.
But the first anti-gun bill of the 111th Congress -– Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush’s H.R. 45 –- has caught the attention of many in the Second Amendment community as something we need to be worried about.
This is because of the extremity of the bill:
* H.R. 45 would require a federal license for all handguns and semiautomatics, including those you currently possess; and
* It would require handgun and semi-auto owners to be thumbprinted at the police station and to sign a certificate that, effectively, the firearm will not be kept in a place where it would be available for the defense of the gun owner’s family.
Pretty scary, huh? But, while this despotic nuttiness makes you wonder why a congressman from the Murder Capital of the Midwest would think that it would help to make the residents of New Hampshire, Alaska, and Wyoming comply with his blood-soaked city’s anti-gun laws, there have been other bills which are just as unconstitutional.
Rather, what makes H.R. 45 troubling is its sponsor and its timing.
Its sponsor is Congressman Bobby Rush –- a scion of the same super-corrupt Chicago political machine that produced disgraced Governor Rod Blagojevich and President Barack Obama.
And as for its timing, it was introduced during the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Eric Holder -- the man who tried exploit the Columbine tragedy in order to pass gun licensing as Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration.
And make no mistake about it: Licensing is only a way-station to discouraging, arresting, or humiliating gun owners and outlawing guns. Under H.R. 45, for example, the applicant must also make available ALL of his psychiatric records, pass an exam, and pay a fee.
So... are you a veteran who has ever consulted a psychologist or psychiatrist? Guess what? The FBI would soon be examining every confidential statement you have ever made during those consultations.
Private sales of handguns and semi-autos would be outlawed, and reports to the attorney general of all transactions would be required, even when -- as the bill allows -- the AG determines that a state licensing system is sufficiently draconian to substitute for the federal license.
But, you may be thinking, “I’m just a hunter with a deer rifle... surely, none of this is relevant to me”?
Then you should know that, with virtually no exceptions, ALL firearms transactions (including person-to-person private sales of long guns, hunting rifles, shotguns, etc.) would be subject to the same paperwork hassles that are required when buying from a dealer.
In addition, the bill would make it unlawful in virtually all cases to keep any loaded firearm for self-defense. A variety of “crimes by omission” (such as failure to report certain things to the government) would be created.
Criminal penalties of up to ten years and virtually unlimited regulatory and inspection authority would be established.
Combined with the Ammunition Accountability effort to outlaw ammunition in numerous states, this two-pronged attack would soon make gun ownership a thing of the past.
Barack Obama was fond of saying during the campaign that he supported the Second Amendment. And we read of gun buyers who are flocking -– while it is still legal -– to purchase firearms, but who concede that they believed Obama’s assurances and voted for him.
But we may soon see a more horrific, nastier side of Barack Obama... and a capacity to go after his political enemies. And we have to assume that he will view gun owners as just about the most important of those enemies.
F*ck Obama. We aren’t giving up anything.
Molon Labe.
LQ
Vests do not help head shots.
“Pretty sure this is dead in committe right now. No co-sponsors, and only one sponsor.”
But how long before it is attached to some Omnibus Bill that our dumb congressmen vote YES for without bothering to read the Bill?
“F*ck Obama. We aren’t giving up anything.
Molon Labe.”
Dittos. I’m too old to be concerned with obtaining the government’s blessing or permission. I’m still young enough to act against tyranny.
+1 We are the majority!
Politicians won’t look at it like we do. They divide and destroy.
Does anyone else see the irony in that "one sponsor" being Bobby Rush - former Black Panther? How many times do you think this guy has used a firearm in the commission of a felony?
The end result of complacency and political inaction by way too many gun owners.
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Remember, to those enemies of the Republic, the Constitution is an obstacle to be circumvented, not the embodiment of the Spirit of these United States.
Amen!
Forgive you? We should bless you for posting this, even if it is a repeat, to give it the widest dissemination possible.
This MUST BE STOPPED!
Yup.......that is why people need to re-establish the concept that we are a Republic. We can get rid of our government any time we want and re-establish it the way we want it. Our politicians ignore this fact and need to be reminded. It would be tough to do but not impossible.
But look at it this way for a moment. It will take this sort of bill-becomes-law to inspire the 2nd American revolution which will ne necessary to regain our nation and our rights. Sooner or later the radical left will overturn the 2nd amendment, whether directly or by the sleazy means for which these people are best known. Perhaps sooner would be best. For then we’ll know, by the response of true Americans, if the nation is to survive or be surrendered to Hussein and his Marxist buddies. Just a thought.
Let me go on record to say that I will never obey such an infringement. I will actively work to subvert it should it be given the force of law.
I find it interesting that he has never denied the idea that he is an illegal President. He does ignore all the talk though and never addresses it.
As a founder of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, (a particularly brutal and effective terror cell who became "politically aware", I.E. 100% Communist), he got a thorough grounding in revolutionary tactics and street war from '60s Maoists, like Charles Ayres, Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, . He just wants white folk disarmed. Even Sheets Byrd has nothing on this bigot.
Try to get some people with brains elected to overturn it, of course.
LQ
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