HR 45 Gun Control Amendment
Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to
prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a
firearm license under this Act or a state system certified under this Act and such license has not been invalidated or revoked. Prescribes license application, issuance, and renewal requirements.
Prohibits transferring or receiving a qualifying firearm unless the recipient presents a valid firearms license, the license is verified, and the dealer records a tracking authorization number. Prescribes firearms transfer reporting and record keeping requirements. Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a federal record of sale system.
Prohibits:(1) transferring a firearm to any person other than a licensee, unless the transfer is processed through a licensed dealer in accordance with national instant criminal background check system requirements, with exceptions;
(2) a licensed manufacturer or dealer from failing to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements of this Act;
(3) failing to report the loss or theft of the firearm to the Attorney General within 72 hours;
(4) failing to report to the Attorney General an address change within 60 days; or
(5) keeping a loaded firearm, or an unloaded firearm and ammunition for the firearm, knowingly or recklessly disregarding the risk that a child is capable of gaining access, if a child uses the firearm and causes death or serious bodily injury.
Prescribes criminal penalties for violations of firearms provisions covered by this Act.
Directs the Attorney General to:
(1) establish and maintain a firearm injury information clearinghouse;
(2) conduct continuing studies and investigations of firearm-related deaths and injuries; and
(3) collect and maintain current production and sales figures of each licensed manufacturer.
Authorizes the Attorney General to certify state firearm licensing or record of sale systems.
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Congressman Rush seems blind to what has happened in
Nazi Germany, Russia, China, North Korea and nearly all countries that have
given up their guns and
rights to defend themselves. This bill is
against the law-abiding citizen, not the criminal. If he really wants to stop violence, let him introduce a bill that would allow a private law-abiding citizen to carry a concealed weapon in every state and the District of Columbia.
Guns have no legs, no hands, no brain -- humans do. Regulating guns has no place in this Republic. Aside from the general non-application , the specifics are worse. Note that the government is not under the same restrictions as citizens. An age old
fascist approach is to
disarm the populace, arm
the government, and
control the people. This is another attempt to socially engineer a population and we neither need it nor should we accept it.
"A government that fears arms in the hands of its people should also fear the rope".- Nathan Bedford Forrest
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government". – James Madison
"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them". – George Mason
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and
better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for
an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man". - Thomas Jefferson's "Commonplace Book,"
The 2nd and 14th Amendments go hand-in-hand. The 14th Amendment states "Nor shall
any State deprive
any person of life, liberty, or property without
due process of law". Guns are property. Any attempt to confiscate firearms is a
violation of both amendments
HR 17 Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2009 - A better alternative
To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in
defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right.
SUMMARY:
Declares that a person not prohibited under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act from receiving a firearm shall have the right to obtain firearms for security and to use firearms in defense of:
(1) self or family against a reasonably perceived threat of imminent and unlawful infliction of serious bodily injury;
(2) self or family in the course of the commission by another person of a violent felony against the person or a member of the person's family; and
(3) the person's home in the course of the commission of a felony by another person.
Authorizes persons whose rights under this Act have been violated to
bring an action in U.S. district court against the United States, any state, or any person for damages, injunctive relief, and such other relief as the court deems appropriate.
