Democrats in Congress Push Firearm Registration and Licensing Bill

[INVAR]

Apparently our resident Leftist's lobbying efforts to turn an inalienable Right into a government-granted licensed privilege, have enjoined enough idiots in Congress to actually make a stab at this.

Like I said - they do this, I will not comply and they will have to arm up their agents and kill an awful lot of us gun owners to try and force compliance.

At which time, it's war and game on.

Democrats in the House and Senate are pushing firearm licensing and registration requirements.

The push is contained in legislation titled, “Blair Holt Firearm Owner Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2018.” It is being sponsored by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL).

The text of the legislation says, “To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.” The phrase “certain firearms” refers to “a handgun; or a semiautomatic rifle that is capable of accepting a detachable ammunition feeding device.”

The legislation defines and “ammunition feeding device” as a device “capable of being detached from a semiautomatic rifle; and has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition.”

In order to legally possess semiautomatic handguns or rifles a citizen would have to possess a “firearm owner license” or a “state firearm license.”

Exemptions to the requirements include “a Federal employee who is required to carry a qualifying firearm in the capacity of that individual as a Federal employee while engaged in the performance of official duties.” In other words, the Capitol Police and other security personnel who protect Congress would not have to submit to the requirement placed upon commoners.

Link to Congressional Record of Bill

[txradioguy]

Bill Nelson is pushing the same thing in the Senate with the  Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act, a bill that will require the federal government to establish a “searchable, computerized database” of all records pertaining to the sale, importation, production, or shipment of firearms.


Can't imagine how any of this will lead to confiscation 

[txradioguy]

Ironic that the Defense Minister for the Black Panthers in the 60's...a very violent organization if there ever was one...is now wanting to disarm everyone.

[Smokin Joe]

Ironic that the Defense Minister for the Black Panthers in the 60's...a very violent organization if there ever was one...is now wanting to disarm everyone.

Not irony, long term planning.

[txradioguy]

Not irony, long term planning.

Ahh disarm the white man so collecting reparations at a future date becomes much easier.

[Jazzhead]

 

[Smokin Joe]

Ahh disarm the white man so collecting reparations at a future date becomes much easier.

Actually, I was thinking that since the Black Panthers were the back of the bus faction of the Communist "New Left" along with outfits like the SDS and the Weathermen, they just want to do what most wannabe dictators do, and enslave us all.

[Elderberry]

SEC. 102. Issuance, revocation, and renewal of firearm owner licenses.

Section 923 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (d)(1)(F)(iii), by inserting “under subsection (a) or (b)” after “Federal firearms license”;
(2) in subsection (l), by inserting “under subsection (a) or (b)” after “a firearms license is issued”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
“(m) Firearm owner licenses.—




18 U.S. Code § 923 - Licensing
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(a)   No person shall engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms, or importing or manufacturing ammunition, until he has filed an application with and received a license to do so from the Attorney General. The application shall be in such form and contain only that information necessary to determine eligibility for licensing as the Attorney General shall by regulation prescribe and shall include a photograph and fingerprints of the applicant. Each applicant shall pay a fee for obtaining such a license, a separate fee being required for each place in which the applicant is to do business, as follows

(b)
Any person desiring to be licensed as a collector shall file an application for such license with the Attorney General. The application shall be in such form and contain only that information necessary to determine eligibility as the Attorney General shall by regulation prescribe. The fee for such license shall be $10 per year. Any license granted under this subsection shall only apply to transactions in curios and relics.

(d)
(1) Any application submitted under subsection (a) or (b) of this section shall be approved if—

[txradioguy]

Actually, I was thinking that since the Black Panthers were the back of the bus faction of the Communist "New Left" along with outfits like the SDS and the Weathermen, they just want to do what most wannabe dictators do, and enslave us all.

Which these days is part and parcel of the Democrat Party platform.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

Ironic that the Defense Minister for the Black Panthers in the 60's...a very violent organization if there ever was one...is now wanting to disarm everyone.

No, he doesn't want to disarm everyone, just the law abiding citizen types.

[txradioguy]

No, he doesn't want to disarm everyone, just the law abiding citizen types.

Good point.  If he and the other gun grabbers were really concerned with gun violence and reducing it...they wouldn't continue to try and punish law abiding citizens and deal with the real sources.

[INVAR]

Bill Nelson is pushing the same thing in the Senate with the  Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act, a bill that will require the federal government to establish a “searchable, computerized database” of all records pertaining to the sale, importation, production, or shipment of firearms.


Can't imagine how any of this will lead to confiscation 

Just ask the residents of Deerfield, IL - who refused to believe their government will confiscate their guns - but today - is the day that very thing is happening.

Reminder to Deerfield residents: You have until midnight tonight to turn in your rifles and shotguns

Gun owners in Deerfield, IL are supposed to turn in their semi-automatic rifles, destroy them, or get them out of town if they don't want to be criminals.  But "nobody wants to take your guns", right?

The ordinance enacted April 2 by the Deerfield Village Board gives residents until June 13 to turn in any guns that fit the village’s definition of assault weapons, remove them from the village or modify the guns so they’re no longer considered assault weapons. The ordinance empowers the town’s police chief to confiscate the assault weapons of anyone charged under the ordinance.

Owners found in violation can be fined up to $1,000 a day, according to the ordinance.

Reported Here.

[GrouchoTex]

The application shall be in such form and contain only that information necessary to determine eligibility for licensing as the Attorney General shall by regulation prescribe and shall include a photograph and fingerprints of the applicant.

I don't believe this something you would have to do if you want to sell a car.
Yet, cars are more deadly than firearms.
The number aren't even close.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Good timing, right before elections so the public will know who is on the side of the 2nd Amendment.

[Smokin Joe]

Good timing, right before elections so the public will know who is on the side of the 2nd Amendment.

I think this is all part of the bloo wave nonsense.
Standard playbook stuff.
Exploit event(s) with intensive media barrage especially appealing to the emotions of the highly emotional (whaddya think they have been breeding snowflakes for, anyway?) , offer (totalitarian) solution to the evils of the world, and ride the teardrops into power.

Hopefully the tide goes out on the 'Blue Wave' long before it reaches these shores.

[Just_Victor]

I think this is all part of the bloo wave nonsense.
Standard playbook stuff.
Exploit event(s) with intensive media barrage especially appealing to the emotions of the highly emotional (whaddya think they have been breeding snowflakes for, anyway?) , offer (totalitarian) solution to the evils of the world, and ride the teardrops into power.

Hopefully the tide goes out on the 'Blue Wave' long before it reaches these shores.

Two words....


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