HR 45 -- Gun Rights Licensing Test

[right winger]

It got this from Gun Laws.com.
it is time to Call,Write and email your U.S.House member





Illinois congressman Bobby Rush, from Obama's home state and with a voting record on gun ownership as bad as Obama's, introduced a bill on the first day of the 111th Congress that shows what we can expect.


If we don't defeat this bill, and others expected to follow it, gun owners will lose guns and the industry will suffer harm beyond description.



Under HR 45, if you can't pass a complex test written by the U.S. Attorney General (described in detail below), pay the tax, give up fingerprints and a biometric-capable photo of yourself (that can be turned into a digital facial-recognition number and used as a de facto national ID), every gun you own will become contraband and subject to confiscation, while you stand trial before imprisonment.


You'd think Bobby, a former black panther, would know better.
Your rights will have an expiration date, and if you screw up and miss it, you'll be in the same mess as people who can't pass the test. Can you say "unconstitutional"? Do you think these "gun bigots" care?



Now that the Supreme Court has made it clear in the Heller case that government can't ban guns, the Brady's have stopped saying they want to ban guns.



So the virtually treasonous Bobby Rush bill doesn't ban guns, it bans gun owners, maybe by the millions.


How many gun owners read poorly or don't test well?


How many can't explain local, state and federal gun laws?


They'd become prohibited possessors under HR 45. Are there any limits to what the AG can put on the test?


The bill doesn't mention any -- it gives the AG a free hand to include anything.

Had enough? HR 45 has an innocent-looking line that says 'strike the second sentence of 18 USC 926(a)'. That's the line that says the federal government cannot make a central registry of gun owners.



The anti-rights people have to repeal that line, because Bobby's bill flat-out creates a central gun registry. Every gun owner must be registered to keep on possessing the guns they already own, and any transfer of any kind must be registered as well. The mark of the beast is upon us, to apply a metaphor.



See the bill for yourself (click "Bill Number" and enter "HR 45"):http://thomas.loc.gov/



Read the gun-ban list the antis have already published:http://www.gunlaws.com/GunLawUpdate3.htm

 

[Dogman]

One to keep an eye on, but I doubt it will go anywhere.

 

[jsgolfman]

Wow, what a tool. He uses the death of a child to push his registration agenda, whose stated purpose in the bill has nothing to do with the boy who got shot. Nothing, absolutely nothing, in that bill would have prevented that boys death other than the driver being armed.

 

[4sarge]

additional

Former Black Panther DEMOCRAT Bobby Rush's New GUN Bill

Big Brother's new target: Tracking of all firearms
'This is nothing less than a declaration of war on American gun owners'
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By Drew Zahn
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., is hoping to pass a firearm-licensing bill that will significantly rewrite gun-ownership laws in America.

Among the more controversial provisions of the bill are requirements that all handgun owners submit to the federal government a photo, thumb print and mental heath records. Further, the bill would order the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer and owner's address in America.

The bill claims its purpose is "to protect the public against the unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with the unrecorded sale or transfer of firearms to criminals and youth."
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Columnist David Codrea of Guns Magazine, however, calls it a "ridiculous affront to liberty."
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"This is nothing less than a declaration of war on American gun owners," Codrea writes on Gun Rights Examiner.
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Rush's proposed bill, H.R. 45, is alternatively known as "Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009," named after an Illinois teenager killed by a gunshot.

According the bill's text, "On the afternoon of May 10, 2007, Blair Holt, a junior at Julian High School in Chicago, was killed on a public bus riding home from school when he used his body to shield a girl who was in the line of fire after a young man boarded the bus and started shooting."
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The bill then argues that interstate firearm trafficking and children dying from gun violence create legitimate cause for the federal government to monitor gun ownership and transfers in new ways.

If passed, the bill would make it illegal to own or possess a "qualifying firearm" – defined as any handgun or any semiautomatic firearm that takes an ammunition clip – without a "Blair Holt" license.

To obtain a "Blair Holt" license, an application must be made that includes a photo, address, all previous aliases, thumb print, completion of a written firearm safety test, release of mental health records to the attorney general and a fee not to exceed $25.

Further, the bill makes it illegal to transfer ownership of a qualifying firearm to anyone who is not a licensed gun dealer or collector. Exceptions to this rule include transfer to family members by gift or bequest and loans, not to exceed 30 days, of a firearm for lawful purposes "between persons who are personally known to each other."

The bill also requires qualifying firearm owners to report all transfers to the attorney general's database. It would also be illegal for a licensed gun owner to fail to record a gun loss or theft within 72 hours or fail to report a change of address within 60 days.

And if a minor obtains a weapon and injures someone with it, the owner of the gun – if deemed to have failed to meet certain safety requirements – faces a multiple-year jail sentence.

H.R. 45 is a resurfacing of 2007's H.R. 2666, which contained much of the same language and was co-sponsored by 15 other representatives and Barack Obama's current chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel. H.R. 2666 was assigned to the House Judiciary committee, where no action was taken.

H.R. 45 currently has no co-sponsors and is likewise assigned to the House Judiciary committee

Rep Bobby Rush - Democrat - Bio


Democratic Member of Congress
Member of the radical Progressive Caucus
In 1968, went AWOL from the U.S. Army
Co-founder of the Illinois branch of the Black Panther Party
In 1969, served six months in jail for an illegal weapons conviction
Advocates reparations for African Americans


Bobby Rush is a Democratic Member of Congress who represents the First District of Illinois, which includes roughly half of Chicago’s South Side and the national headquarters of the Nation of Islam led by the racial demagogue Louis Farrakhan. Nearly two-thirds of the residents of this district are African-American that in 2000 gave George W. Bush only 15 percent of its votes.

Rush was born in 1946 in Albany, Georgia but grew up on Chicago’s North Side, where his mother was a Republican precinct captain. While serving in the U.S. Army 1963-1968, he became involved with the radical Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1968 he went AWOL and became co-founder of the gangster-ridden Illinois branch of the Black Panther Party (BPP), noted for intimidating local business people into making “donations” to Panther “charities.” One BPP member recruited by Rush was Fred Hampton, who was killed in a December 4, 1969 police raid on Panther headquarters.

Bobby Rush worked as a medical clinic director during the early 1970s, and as an insurance agent in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1983 he was elected a Chicago City Alderman, as was his political ally Harold Washington, who became the city’s first black mayor. In 1984 Rush became a Second Ward Committeeman, a position he continues to hold two decades later in Chicago’s distinctive politics.

In 1992 Rush ran in the Democratic primary against a union-backed Congressman who faced a corruption scandal. Rush narrowly won and has held the seat since then. During this and other races, Bobby Rush has described his involvement with the Black Panthers as part of his maturation process, as a youthful indiscretion that he abandoned immediately after Hampton’s death. He described his role mostly as running the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for Children program.

But Bobby Rush served six months in jail for a 1969 illegal weapons conviction and, even after his release, in 1971 his comrades were still describing him as the “Deputy Minister of Defense” for the Black Panther Party in Illinois. In 1992 the socialist magazine In These Times praised fledgling congressional candidate Rush, writing that he “has continued to support progressive policies and has never disavowed his Panther past.”

Congressman Rush is a member of the radical Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives. He is among the strongest congressional supporters of reparations for descendants of African-American slaves and supporters of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations (N’COBRA), which wants taxpayers to pay $8 trillion to black Americans. Rush told a congressional hearing that “The future of race relations will be determined by reparations for slavery.”

Rush is also among the biggest supporters of gun control in Congress. He proposed legislation that would regulate the sale and purchase of bullets. “Ultimately, I would like to see the manufacture and possession of handguns banned,” said Rush, “…that’s the endgame.”

In 1999 Rush’s 29-year-old son Huey Rich was shot and killed. “My son’s death was a senseless death,” he told supporters the following day at Jesse’s Jackson’s Operation PUSH headquarters, blaming the gun rather than the criminal who pulled the trigger. “We’ve got to rid our communities of guns.”

In 2002 Rush’s nephew was arrested and charged with murder in a case involving a South Side drug deal. Two years earlier Rush had proposed a government study of the decriminalization of illicit drugs as a way to reduce the violent gang “turf battle over drugs.”

Like most leftwing members of Congress, Rush voted against the use of force in Iraq and against allowing oil drilling on a mere 20 acres of the 1.2 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), thus voting to keep America dependent on Middle Eastern oil.

Rush, however, has become one of the few Progressive Caucus members to receive more total campaign funding from business than from organized labor. His critics on the left have said that Rush “never met a telecommunications company he didn’t like.” In fact, some of his biggest contributors are telecommunications companies, including SBC and Verizon. More than 28 percent of his campaign contributions come from outside of Illinois.
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[Bshaw]

Illinois

Illinois Politicians are the best arnt they
I am so glad I no longer live in that State

 

[jsgolfman]

Make sure you contact your legislators so this trash never makes it to a vote. I let Mr. Buyer hear about it already.

 

[hornadylnl]

One to keep an eye on, but I doubt it will go anywhere.

As one Jew said to another, "They won't really put us in camps, will they?"