HR 45 May be More Troubling Than the Average Anti-gun Bill (Frog in Boiling Water Alert)

Gun Owners of America ^ | Mike Hammond

[Scythian]

HR 45 May be More Troubling Than the Average Anti-gun Bill -- Legislation may reflect Obama’s thinking

by Mike Hammond

Those of you who regularly peruse the GOA website know that there are dozens of anti-gun abominations which are introduced as legislation in the Senate and House each Congress. These include, particularly, national gun licensing and broad gun bans.

GOA provides a summary of these bills for the benefit of our members and friends. But we do not focus on most of these bills because they are so extreme that they have no chance of passage. They are cynically introduced so that the Brady Campaign can raise money by threatening anti-gun measures it could never pass.

But the first anti-gun bill of the 111th Congress -– Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush’s H.R. 45 –- has caught the attention of many in the Second Amendment community as something we need to be worried about.

This is because of the extremity of the bill:

* H.R. 45 would require a federal license for all handguns and semiautomatics, including those you currently possess; and

* It would require handgun and semi-auto owners to be thumbprinted at the police station and to sign a certificate that, effectively, the firearm will not be kept in a place where it would be available for the defense of the gun owner’s family.

Pretty scary, huh? But, while this despotic nuttiness makes you wonder why a congressman from the Murder Capital of the Midwest would think that it would help to make the residents of New Hampshire, Alaska, and Wyoming comply with his blood-soaked city’s anti-gun laws, there have been other bills which are just as unconstitutional.

Rather, what makes H.R. 45 troubling is its sponsor and its timing.

Its sponsor is Congressman Bobby Rush –- a scion of the same super-corrupt Chicago political machine that produced disgraced Governor Rod Blagojevich and President Barack Obama.

And as for its timing, it was introduced during the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Eric Holder -- the man who tried exploit the Columbine tragedy in order to pass gun licensing as Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration.

And make no mistake about it: Licensing is only a way-station to discouraging, arresting, or humiliating gun owners and outlawing guns. Under H.R. 45, for example, the applicant must also make available ALL of his psychiatric records, pass an exam, and pay a fee.

So... are you a veteran who has ever consulted a psychologist or psychiatrist? Guess what? The FBI would soon be examining every confidential statement you have ever made during those consultations.

Private sales of handguns and semi-autos would be outlawed, and reports to the attorney general of all transactions would be required, even when -- as the bill allows -- the AG determines that a state licensing system is sufficiently draconian to substitute for the federal license.

But, you may be thinking, “I’m just a hunter with a deer rifle... surely, none of this is relevant to me”?

Then you should know that, with virtually no exceptions, ALL firearms transactions (including person-to-person private sales of long guns, hunting rifles, shotguns, etc.) would be subject to the same paperwork hassles that are required when buying from a dealer.

In addition, the bill would make it unlawful in virtually all cases to keep any loaded firearm for self-defense. A variety of “crimes by omission” (such as failure to report certain things to the government) would be created.

Criminal penalties of up to ten years and virtually unlimited regulatory and inspection authority would be established.

Combined with the Ammunition Accountability effort to outlaw ammunition in numerous states, this two-pronged attack would soon make gun ownership a thing of the past.

Barack Obama was fond of saying during the campaign that he supported the Second Amendment. And we read of gun buyers who are flocking -– while it is still legal -– to purchase firearms, but who concede that they believed Obama’s assurances and voted for him.

But we may soon see a more horrific, nastier side of Barack Obama... and a capacity to go after his political enemies. And we have to assume that he will view gun owners as just about the most important of those enemies.

[Scythian]

Forgive me if this has been posted

[Scythian]

It would require handgun and semi-auto owners to be thumbprinted at the police station and to sign a certificate that, effectively, the firearm will not be kept in a place where it would be available for the defense of the gun owner’s family.

What the heck?

[snowrip]

Pretty sure this is dead in committe right now. No co-sponsors, and only one sponsor.

[al baby]

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

[lilylangtree]

Good read. Thanks.

[xcamel]

FYI:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.00045:

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H.R.45
Title: 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.
Sponsor: Rep Rush, Bobby L. [IL-1] (introduced 1/6/2009)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 2/9/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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[cripplecreek]

Banana clips and tripods make guns look scary. LOL

[mikelets456]

Zero’s way to control the population and weaken even further:
-Takes our money
-Then our power (guns)
-Then our freedom

A modern day Hitler!!

Do not, I repeat do not EVER give up your firearms! i do not intend to...

[RC2]

Say goodbye to your hunting rifles also. Anything that could possibly penetrate a Kevlar vest. Like 30-30, 30-06, 223, etc.

[Piquaboy]

Screw BO. That lying stupid POS. I would take Bill Clinton over this idiot.

[RC2]

Ahhhhh.....but where they are coming from is that the Constitution doesn’t say anything about ammunition. What the idiots don’t get is that a gun means nothing without the ammo.

[mnehring]

Another bill written by a dem who thinks that a ‘semi-auto’ is a machine gun and if it has a magazine, it is an ‘assault weapon’.

[cripplecreek]

What the heck?

I think it means you have a right to self defense with a properly registered muzzle loader (safely locked up of course) as long as the powder and ball are kept under lock and key in separate equidistant underground bunkers no less than 1000 yds from the dwelling.

[mnehring]

The next run will be on reloaders.

[al baby]

But when the word arms as in keep and bear I see it as the whole package most do to. the gun the ammo the whole bloody thing

[mikelets456]

Bee-Bee guns are illegal in NJ!! BTW, I had to get finger printed and purchase a firearms ID card in NJ to buy a shotgun or Rifle. Then you have to get another permit (only good for 90 days) to buy only one handgun per permit.

People, I do not think this will pass, but I did not think other crazy laws would either!

[beebuster2000]

you are allowed to defend yourself if attacked, as long as you get the attacker to fill out a form first, and you file it with the attorney general.

you got a problem with that?

[o_zarkman44]

Don’t count on it being dead. it will be slipped into a stimulus kind of emergency bill nobody will have time to read.

[cripplecreek]

A couple years back during the Malvo and Mohammad spree, I heard one of the newsloons on FOX proudly report that semiautomatic weapons are illegal for hunting anyway.

[antiRepublicrat]

What the idiots don’t get is that a gun means nothing without the ammo.

Make no mistake, they understand that perfectly.