Posted on 11/15/2017 6:48:34 AM PST by Simon Green
(U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, wants those aiming to pick up certain guns, ammo and accessories to wait seven business days.)
A group of House Democrats is backing a measure to delay sales of semi-automatic firearms, suppressors, armor piercing ammo and large capacity magazines.
Introduced by Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, H.R. 4268 would mandate that both licensed dealers and individuals wait seven days after buying targeted guns, ammunition and accessories before transferring the item. The Houston-area Congresswoman debuted the bill two days after the shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas that claimed the lives of over 20 people.
“We cannot afford another angry person in possession of military-style weapons, nor can we bear the consequences of another person consumed by hatred wielding firepower intended to inflict maximum carnage,” Jackson Lee said in a statement. “The blood that has been shed in America runs deep with too many lives lost and too many families shattered.”
The proposed measure, dubbed the Gun Safety: Not Sorry Act of 2017, revisits the concept of a national waiting period on firearms, which has not been seen in the country in two decades. The original Brady Act, adopted in 1993, contained the provision for a five-day waiting period on handguns though it was replaced after 1998 with an instant computerized background check system and a three-day “default to proceed” guideline on delayed checks.
Currently, nine states and the District of Columbia have some form of statutory waiting periods on gun purchases ranging from a 14-day period on all firearms types in Hawaii to a 24-hour delay in Illinois on rifles and shotguns.
However, proponents on both sides of the issue argue about the effectiveness of waiting or “cooling off” periods with assorted studies alternating between finding they have no statistical effects on gun crimes to others that find they correlate to a decrease in gun homicides and suicides. Courts have likewise had mixed rulings on their use.
Jackson Lee’s legislation would go past firearms and mandate a delay on magazines capable of holding more than 10 cartridges — which would add a layer of national regulation to the devices not seen since the federal Assault Weapon Ban expired in 2004. Rounds described as being armor-piercing would fall under the purview of the act as would suppressors — despite the fact the latter are already extremely regulated under the National Firearms Act which by default delays their transfer for months.
The Gun Safety: Not Sorry Act of 2017 has 13 co-sponsors, all Democrat, and has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary, of which Jackson Lee is a senior member.
Waiting period on magazines? Come on.
But why not spend that scarce tax money on better mental health or domestic violence intervention initiatives regardless of the weapon used?
They want your guns because they want you subjugated.
Is it possible she is dumber than a rock?
Which crime would this have prevented? I’ll hang up and wait for an answer.....
The rock didn't do anything wrong. Why you gotta be so mean?
I'd be curious to see how they'd implement a background check and waiting period on a product that can be ordered anonymously over the internet.
A seven day waiting period for silencers? You mean instead of the nearly one year that it currently takes? I guess I’m OK with that part. I was going to say “Dumber than a box of rocks” but that may be insulting to both rocks and boxes.
Gee Sheila I guess nobody would think to drive across the state line and stock up you ignernt blob of goop!
What good does a waiting period do for someone who already owns a firearm, other than to simply harass them?
Suppressors too? The world is more dangerous if guns make less noise?
Bathtubs don’t make any noise, and they kill hundreds per year.
The exact same way you order a firearm over the Internet. All Mags ordered will just have to be shipped to a FFL dealer and they will run the background check before handing it over to you.
Keep it up, keep it up, Progs. We’re going to have a war over access to militia arms, yet.
She probably has no idea how long it takes for any NFA item to clear for transfer, much less how long it takes for suppressors.
Adding $30 (or more) to the cost of a $20 magazine. Thankfully, this doesn't have a prayer of passing.
Yet.
They could call it the Sorry Sack Of Sh!t Act, and then the name would apply to both the bill and its sponsor.
Yep. I get MagPull Gen 3 mags for around $12 ea. Around here the charge for the FFL transfer is $27 to $35. You would need to purchase several mags to amortize the cost of the transfer fee, but who buys mags singly?
How about 7 days waiting for each cartridge.
Would take about a year to accumulate a 50-round box of .22LR.
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