Posted on 06/09/2015 4:11:53 AM PDT by rellimpank
Gun control advocates, in their never-ending quest to take firearms from those who are licensed and trained to legally carry them, are trying to advance a bill in the House of Representatives introduced by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. But the bill itself stomps on constitutional rights, and Rep. Maloney’s arguments for it can be shot so full of holes that the legislation would look like a target at a shooting range.
As reported by The Hill’s Lydia Wheeler, the Firearm Risk Protection Act, unveiled May 29, would require gun buyers to have liability insurance coverage before being allowed to purchase a weapon, and would impose a fine of $10,000 if an owner is found not to have it. Service members and law enforcement officers would be exempt from the requirement.
(Excerpt) Read more at reviewjournal.com ...
Let me guess..we buy the insurance at the health exchange.
Filth like McCarthy are just a symptom. McCarthy is a one trick pony - her trick being that she is virulently anti-gun/anti-freedom. The true enemies (the underlying disease in our society) are the New Yorkers who elected her solely on her anti-gun stance and continue to send her back to Washington to plague the rest of us. To hell with New York.
I am sure all of those fine young men in the “hood” who brandish guns whenever someone “disses” them will be eager to buy this liability insurance/sarcasm
This is not a serious bill. It is what Gov. Christie has called “show time”: an extreme suggestion just to rally ones supporters, who in this case are the anti-gun nuts.
The congressional agenda is cluttered with nonsense bills like this. And then the perpetrators will complain of “gridlock.”
Ah, point of order.
I went and read it. Say nothing about service members - but does say government agencies,
“...(B)
Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to the purchase or sale of a firearm for the use of the United States or any department or agency of the United States, or any State or any department, agency, or political subdivision of a State....”
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr2546/text
Well, they force us to get health insurance and car insurance. I guess they can force us to get gun insurance as well. I used to be law abiding. No more.
licensed and trained to legally carry them
The author it seems has not read the 2nd amendment in quite a while.
Better yet we must cease the concept and practice that politics is an acceptable career field. It should be no more than the concept and practice of jury duty only without attorneys. You get called (maybe), take an oath, serve your area as best you can for a given length of time and go home. No residuals.
When the government creates so many laws that no human can possibly obey them all, we are in essence all criminals, to be punished by whoever is in power at the moment to ‘enforce’ the laws. In a partisan way of course.
We are reaching that point.
Democrats (and most Republicans too) don't consider the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to be meaningful or necessary today
this is a tax and destroy legislation.
How about licensing all politicians? How about mandating all public airwave reporters carry defamation and slander insurance?
Her goal is to make the free exercise of a CIVIL RIGHT too expensive. She might as well do a stamp tax on paper and a tax on all tea.
you have to include judge in that list. Judges hate self help and black letter civil rights laws as it keeps them from having free reign.
I am sure all of those fine young men in the “hood” who brandish guns whenever someone “disses” them will be eager to buy this liability insurance/sarcasm
Most likely their insurance would be subsidized by the
government. /not sarcasm.
most reporters and most reporters’ stories emanate from the peoples republic of NYC. They ASSUME all have to be licensed and even if they do not, they want it reported as if they have to be licensed in order to push a gun control mindset.
They are trying to take them away from all of us. Except the criminals, of course.
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