My two old links don’t work anymore:
search holt, then look for h.r. 45
Its on Thomas though, so it may not be what you’re looking for.
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.
Yup. I ended up having to use the advanced search option because I still got error messages back.
That said, that bill is a major danger. The liberals are going to argue that since Heller protects our rights, we no longer have fear of confiscation due to registration as a valid reason to refuse to register.
My own point is that first off, Heller is too new of a precident to really know what it means yet. It hasn’t incorporated the Second Amendment against the states.
Also, it’s my opinon that you register felons and child molesters, not law abiding citizens. More to the point, by imposing registration, we’re essentially establishing a poll tax, and if memory serves, Mr. Justice Warren’s court banned those. A license legally implies a privildege, which can be extended and withdrawn at whim. A right, in contrast, is inalienable and cannot be violated.
And that’s a problem. When Mr. Roberts court wrote Heller, they muddied the water as to whether the Second is a right or rather has been downgraded without an Ammendment, to a priviledge.
Given that, it seems to me that any acquiesence to registration is suicidal because we can’t be sure just what Heller does mean as yet. And until we know, it seems to me that we should operate as though that precident had never occurred because if it’s been downgraded to the status of a priviledge, they can still use that law to impose a prior restraint on the exercise of our rights.
And given ATF’s continual violation of the law, like taking all of those 4473s from gun dealers that they’ve put out of business and establishing a computer database of them, this bill is a mortal threat to us.
I want to see some more Supreme Court cases and a lot more lower court cases before I’d ever consider registration of any sort to be innocuous.
In short, regardless of what LaPierre’s wet index finger tells him, we should treat this the same way that we’d treat a bill that proposes outright confiscation.
Bottom line? Whether we own guns and which ones, are none of the Feds business and Mr. Rush, the Congressman from the Black Panthers, needs to be handed his head in a sack.