Posted on 02/03/2021 6:48:02 AM PST by Red Badger
Crazed Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee wants to destroy the right to bear arms.
The gun control mob is not resting.
Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee kicked the year off by introducing H.R. 127, a gun control bill that would require gun owners to undergo psychological evaluations, licensing, gun registration after the fact, and even possess a license for modern sporting rifles.
The pro-Second Amendment organization the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said on January 29, 2021 that this gun control bill is “insanity on steroids”.
“Over the years we’ve seen some astonishingly bad legislation originate on Capitol Hill, but this one takes the term ‘abomination’ to an entirely new level. One look at this bill and you wonder whether Congresswoman Jackson Lee ever heard of the Bill of Rights, which includes the Second Amendment,” declared CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.
Under H.R. 127, firearm owners must provide the ATF with the make, model, and serial number of every gun they have in their possession. This includes firearms people may have owned for multiple years. On top of that, Ammoland noted that “gun owners would have to report the identity of any person to whom, and any period of time during which, the firearm will be loaned to that individual.”
According to the licensing requirement, the license applicant has to go through a criminal background check. After that, they must undergo a psychological evaluation to determine if the person is psychologically fit enough to own a firearm. It doesn’t end there, however. Ammoland also observed that “Successful licensees must show they have an insurance policy which will cost $800.”
Gottlieb concluded:
H.R. 127 is a constitutionally-challenged monstrosity. It ignores the fact that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental right to keep and bear arms, not some strictly-regulated government privilege. Government cannot require a psychological evaluation to exercise a right enumerated in the Constitution.
Is it possible Sheila Jackson Lee skipped high school civics.This legislation treats firearms owners like second-class citizens for exercising their Second Amendment rights. It’s an outrage that a member of Congress could even conceive of such a measure, much less propose that it become law.
Instead of subjecting gun owners to such Draconian requirements, maybe it’s time to require psychological evaluations of each member of Congress.
Christopher Dorr, the President of the American Firearms Association, said the following about H.R. 127:
“This legislation is designed for just one purpose: to disarm an entire country of gun owners, reducing us to helpless serfs who are powerless against criminals and tyrants alike!”
Lee’s gun grab is just the next step in the litany of gun control that the federal government has shoved down Americans’ throats over the past 90 years. Second amendment advocates must be ready to quickly mobilize against these gun grabs.
With a Democrat trifecta, anti-gunners will try to pull off all sorts of shenanigans to undermine the right to keep and bear arms. With the right amount of pushback against moderate Democrats in relatively pro-gun states, this gun grab and countless others could potentially be derailed.
Not everything is set in stone in politics.
She does this every year.
I grew up in rural Iowa and my small town high school had a marksmanship club. We all brought our rifles to school for after school practice. No one gave it a second thought. It was as normal as skipping school for the first day of deer season.
“Shall not be infringed”. Why is this so hard to understand?
I double dog dare them to pass it. They have no intention of doing that. This is simply red meat tossed at their rabid leftist supporters. To pass this is to put civil war on the fast lane. There would be rivers of blood.
I posted this yesterday on another post about this but these are the facts:
If it passes it’ll never be enforced because you can’t.
There’s an estimated 434 - 600 million firearms in civilian possession and around 25 trillion rounds of ammo spread out between about 75 million gun owners. FYI about 20 million arms are the AR-15 variant.
Good luck trying to enforce that and then we get into the 3% that may get really pissed and fight back if they do.. that’s about ~2.25 million people.
Heavily supervised and scrutinized drug and tox screening would do the job.
Well...if you took this idea to reality...there are two groups I’d be curious about.
1. Military personnel requiring the psych eval to operate weapons for war-time situations. You could end up with 20-percent of US Marines, or Special Ops people failing the eval...then what? No weapon?
2. Police requiring the psych eval? I’d take a guess on the eval being tough enough that maybe 20-percent of them would not be allowed a weapon.
Then you could ask the question of the Capital Police or Secret Service....would you psych eval them as well, and not allow weapons if they failed the yearly eval?
How about a psych eval of HR127 authors and sponsors?
Stacy Washington spent 2 hrs last night on Breitbart Patriot channel talking about this. It was excellent and in great detail.
First they tell us we can’t suspect what we suspect.
Then they tell us we can’t question what we want to question.
Then they call us “domestic terrorists” for doing either.
Now they’re making sure we can’t do anything about it.
Yeah, pretty much the same thing as Nazi Germany, Italy, Russia, China, North Korea, . . .
We need one of our guys to show some guts and attach a requirement to this bill that all politicians who are elected receive a psych evaluation and are piss tested for drugs once a month while they are in office.
When I was 13 , my brother and a friend of mine used to walk across town through neighborhoods carrying .22 rifles to attend our gun safety classes. And that was through a suburb of Los Angeles.
Want to bet Sheila Jackson Lee carries a Gun in her man bag
A great example of one of the looniest democRATS in Congress.
I sometimes wake up from a nightmare, wondering how ignorant wackos like Lee ever got elected to leadership roles in this country.
She sure has somebody fooled into voting for her.
And I've read, she really thinks her sh*t doesn't stink. Heaven help this country.
You want one of those killing machine, guns?
You must be crazy.
“Shall not be infringed”...but don’t expect the fetid Roberts court to notice...
It is not possible for American civilians to be hoarding 25 trillion rounds of ammo. Given that current civilian production capacity is slightly over 9 billion rounds per year that means only a bit over 2 trillion rounds could have been produced in the entire history of this country, even at the historically high current capability.
25 billion rounds is a definite possibility, 25 trillion is impossible.
Yep.. blew that by a large number ! My apologies on the trillion..
And exactly who on the Dem side is going to vote against this legislation? Answer: no one. So, it will make it to the Senate. Then...who’s going vote against it? We’ll find out. Elections have consequences.
Even if this bill doesn’t make it through, it will serve its purpose to set the bar very high, so when they lower it a notch or two, that will all of the sudden seem reasonable, and THAT gun control law will pass. People always squawk about how crazy some of the Dem ideas and proposed legislation are without fully realizing they are conditioning the audience; they know it won’t pass, that’s not the point. The point is to soften the appearance of the intended legislation.
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