Posted on 02/04/2021 8:28:38 PM PST by bitt
Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduced a bill earlier this month that would enact some of the strictest gun regulations in the history of the country and give the federal government sweeping power to decide who can own a firearm.
The Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act, named after a Pakistani exchange student who was murdered in Texas in 2018, would "provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms" and "prohibit the possession of certain ammunition."
Specifically, the bill would dramatically expand the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Justice Department's ability to surveil legal gun owners, forcing them to submit information about "the make, model, and serial number of the firearm, the identity of the owner of the firearm, the date the firearm was acquired by the owner, and where the firearm is or will be stored."
Gun owners would have three months to comply with the new federal orders for a new database that would be "accessible to all members of the public."
Ownership of a firearm would also be restricted to those 21 and older. Individuals who meet the age requirement and apply for a federal gun license would then be ordered to undergo "a psychological evaluation." That evaluation would also be extended to "other members of the household in which the individual resides ... any spouse of the individual, any former spouse of the individual, and at least 2 other persons who are a member of the family of, or an associate of, the individual to further determine the state of the mental, emotional, and relational stability of the individual in relation to firearms."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The same has to be done for ALL those applying for drivers licenses!
Seems to me that with your records on file, you just about
ensure you’ll die if the police have to come to your home.
You’ll be seen as a gun nut, sure to be ready to fire at
the police.
Hands up, don’t shoot,.. “No soup for you!” “Get him...”
This nation is done.
Has she cited the section of the U.S. Constitution that says in order for me to own a weapon, I have to undergo a psych evaluation? Better to give psych evaluations, and lie detector tests to Congressional members before they take office, yearly, during their tenure, and after they’ve left office.
Federal office holders first.
Good luck trying to find all the ex spouses...
Jumpmaster wrote:
“Federal office holders first.”
Starting with beijingbiden.
It hasn’t passed yet. If it gets through the House passing in the senate should be harder.
How about employing the same scrutiny for every scumbag seeking ANY political position.
The inmates are running the asylum.
With all these people needing mental evaluations, how is the government going to do it? They can’t even handle giving out COVID needle sticks. After the first 1000 are denied gun privileges, the lawsuits against the government will reach critical mass and have heads spinning. When this insanity is declared unconstitutional, everyone who went through this fiasco will have a class action suit against the government for pain and suffering.
The bill should be good for black market sales.
There will be a Catch-22 in their edict: If you want a gun, they will consider it to be prima Facie evidence that you are crazy.
Therefore no one will be allowed to be armed except for the thugs employed by our rulers.
And in the mean time the new Secretary of Defense is going to ‘stand down’ the military while he purges anyone who he thinks might have voted for Trump.
The Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act, named after a Pakistani
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How fitting that they named their unconstitutional act after a foreigner.
I’d like to think you’re right.
We are in a terrible place in this nation right now.
I have no idea if the SCOTUS would even review it.
They don’t pay attention to other parts of the Constitution,
so it’s reasoned in this climate, to think they’d simply
eliminate the Second Amendment within 24 months.
Once they have every gun registered, they just go down
your street demanding your weapons.
Then you don’t just have the officials to deal with, you
have the animals on the street who know you are unarmed.
Good luck with that.
One line in this article says your gun information will
be available online, implicating anyone can see exactly
what you own, where you keep it, and how much amo you have.
Talk about pinpointing people for the crooks. Wow...
I can’t either.
And it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given Congress the specific powers to do so.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee shares today’s violation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment with Sen. Romney for rebelling against the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers by pushing legislation based on constitutionally nonexistent federal powers.
"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [emphasis added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Both Jackson and Romney should lose their jobs as federal lawmakers under Section 3 imo.
In fact, note that former Arizona federal Representative John Shadegg had proposed an Enumerated Powers Act which would have obligated Congress to justify every bill with its constitutionally enumerated powers.
But the last that I heard is that the bill unsurprisingly wound up in the circular file.
I especially like the use of the word “force”.
It’s so Nazi of them.
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