Posted on 03/01/2021 9:46:55 PM PST by MacNaughton
With Joe Biden, a strong advocate of strict gun control, in the White House, Democrats are hoping to enact radical gun control legislation that would eviscerate the Second Amendment. On January 4, 2021, the day after the swearing in of the new Congress, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduced a bill (H.R. 127) entitled the "Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act.” Her bill is named after a Pakistani exchange student who was killed in a mass shooting at a Texas school in 2018. The bill would require the federal licensing of firearm and ammunition possession under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Attorney General, establish a national firearm registry, and prohibit the possession of certain ammunition.
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1. A centralized firearm registry is a giant step towards eventual gun confiscation from law-abiding Americans. The information that gun owners must provide to the federal government includes 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. Sales, gifts, or even loans of one’s firearm or ammunition must be reported to the Attorney General.
This is the basic information included on ATF Form 4473, except for where the firearm will be stored. All firearms that have been privately transferred (sold/ leased/ loaned/ gifted/ bequeathed> since the original Form 4473 was filed will be mandated to be registered. If the bill passes, the proverbial fan will be turned onto "high".
2. The broad licensing provision requires the license applicant to successfully complete at least 24 hours of training, certified by the Attorney General, in the use, safety, and storage of firearms. In order to get a license to possess a firearm or ammunition one has to go through and pass “a psychological evaluation.”. The psychologist must be approved by the Attorney General and the evaluation must be conducted in compliance with standards established by the Attorney General.
3. If the individual makes it through the psychological evaluation, he or she must have a firearm insurance policy issued by the Attorney General for a fee of $800.
4. Violations of the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act can mean as much as 25 years in prison and a fine of as much as $150,000.
I think they’re waiting for a mass shooting to take action on this bill.
“...sall not be infringed...”
Bite me.
So the "Attorney General" is now the chief medical/mental health officer as well.
There ought to be a harsh penalty for introducing useless legislation that wastes time. That’d shut them up for a bit!
It’s been out there since January.
Buffalo Belle tries to gore the 2nd Amendment every year. It’s like a mating dance for her.
Do they have the ability to Gage Howe this will turn out?
**A centralized firearm registry ***
The same thing the Dems have been screaming for since 1962. Guaranteed to stop all crime, again.
Registration ALWAYS leads to confiscation.
In before the first boating accident post. That’s how I lost my guns.
They might have to ask Clinton the answer to that.
I’ll take the 25 years. If I can’t live as a free man, might as well not live at all.
they want cwii to begin in earnest
It’s already begun - we’re in the phase before it goes hot.
Clever reference to the Battle of Lexington & Concord. I liked that.
This approach failed in the states of NY and CT in 2013 when those states passed bills mandating registration of semi-auto rifles and magazines with >10 round capacity in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. The vast majority of private citizens who owned these firearms refused to comply because the state governments simply didn't know who owned the weapons and therefore had no way to enforce it.
This bill essentially repeals the clause in the Firearm Owners Protection Act (FOPA, aka the McClure-Volkmer Act) of 1986 which prohibits the federal government from creating a national firearm registry for Title I firearms (i.e., the vast majority of firearms that are not covered by the NFA 1934).
I have long thought the DemonRats will push through a bill to create a national firearm registry using ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) Form 4473 records which have been used in all FFL (Federal Firearm Licensed) dealer sales since the Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968.
This new bill from SJL is the long feared universal background check. Fedzilla will mandate that citizens in possession of firearms that don't have current ATF 4473 records must proceed to FFL dealers and register/ apply for new ones. A big information void exists of those firearms which have already been transferred in private transactions since the creation of their original ATF 4473 records (going back as far as 1968), i.e., there is no record of who owns these firearms now. As in NY & CT in 2013, it would not be surprising if the majority of such firearm owners quietly refuse to comply. But in the DemonRat socialist mindset, any identification leading to partial confiscation is better than none at all. The probability of positive identifications would be expected to be high on ATF 4473 records that are <10 years old. And there has been a huge, continuous run on firearm sales since POTUS #44 BHO was elected in NOV 2008.
A nightmare scenario would have Fedzilla weaponize the IRS to levy financial penalties on those determined to be in non-compliance with registration. Few could withstand that level of financial pressure.
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