H.R. 45 Filed on First Day
Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL) filed a comprehensive anti-gun wish-list bill in the 111th Congress on its first day in session. No sooner were the new members of Congress sworn in than Mr. Rush, a former Black Panther leader, file his bill which he calls the “Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009″. The bill has no cosponsors and was automatically referred to the House Judiciary Committee.
If passed, this bill would require that anyone wishing to purchase, own, or possess a “qualifying firearm” – that’s any handgun, and any long gun capable of accepting a detachable magazine – would have to be licensed by the state or the federal government in a licensing program managed by the Attorney General. To get a license you would have to prove you’re you, provide a passport-style photo, a thumbprint, and take a written exam which includes questions about firearms safety, safe storage, the risks of firearms ownership, and anything else the Attorney General deems appropriate. All transfers would be required to go through a licensed dealer with the exception of occasional gifts or bequests between parents, children (18 or over), and grandparents, or loans of not more than 30 days between “persons who are personally known to one another.” (It actually says that. I’m not making this up.) And all transfers would have to be recorded in a “Transfer Record” established and maintained by the Attorney General.
Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009
Dem’s Use “Stimulus” as Cover for More Gun Control
By CCRKBA Friday, February 13, 2009
Dear Concerned Citizen,
In a new bill introduced the first day of the present session of Congress, and with zero coverage from the MSM, H.R. 45 (Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009) targets all gun owners in the U.S.A. While the media the world and everyone else is focused on the “phony plan” to spend tax dollars legislation is sneeking through the House and Senate for more gun control.
This nefarious bill seeks to strip us all of our Constitutional Rights to possess and bear firearms of any distinction. It requires, within the first two years, that all new guns be registered. The bill goes retroactive after two years. Meaning that two years after the passage of the bill, ALL FIREARMS in a citizen’s possession must be registered, not just those purchased after the bill passes, and this apparently applies to antique firearms as well.
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Every five years the firearm owner must go through a complete renewal process for each weapon owned. Failure to comply carries stiff penalties including confiscation of the firearms and jail time (penalties as high as ten years imprisonment in some cases). The bill also authorizes government searches without warrant, the creation of a federal bureaucracy to monitor firearm possession, etc.
The following is a summary of the bill as provided by the Congressional Research Service. If you read the whole bill, you’ll find it will effectively preclude the ownership of any firearms by law-abiding people unless directly licensed by the Attorney General :
1/6/2009–Introduced. 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:
- 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;
- Licensed manufacturer or dealer from failing to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements of this Act;
- Failing to report the loss or theft of the firearm to the Attorney General within 72 hours;
- Failing to report to the Attorney General an address change within 60 days;
- 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: - Establish and maintain a firearm injury information clearinghouse;
- Conduct continuing studies and investigations of firearm-related deaths and injuries; and
- 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.
Like all other threats against our freedoms, we must rise and defeat this bill, slap it down hard.
In order to stop Schumer and Feinstein and there fellow gun-grabbers—we need to let the Congress know with thousands of faxes telling them to leave guns alone.
Americans like you who understand what our Founding Fathers envisioned for our nation…and who are willing to fight to defend our Constitution and for what it stands.
So please, help the Citizens Committee and me defeat those who wish to gut and trash the United States Constitution.
Help me flood the U.S. Senate and the House with the sea of FAXES big enough to drown each and every Senator and Representative willing to vote away the Second Amendment.
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The fact that H.R. 45 is meant to put control of the nation’s gun sales into the hands of a murderer, to wit Eric Holder, shows that the lunatics have truly taken over the asylum.
They made drugs illegal and we see the results of the decades old subsequent “War on Drugs.” Just wait until the “War on Guns” gets underway and see how things turn out.
This is a law that I will certainly disobey. I still honor the United States Constitution and its included Second Amendment which states “The right to bear arms shall NOT be infringed.”
I have to say I’m with you on that one.
The instinct to survive is a powerful one, the abilty to reason coupled with the instinct to survive mandates that a sensible human have means to defense on par with the more common means used by those who would seek to end my life. Semi-auto 38 caliber or better, to me, is the minimum.
When the bad guys start using laser guns to do harm to innocents-then I’ll have myself one of them too!
Ax
It is not about keeping criminals in check it is about protecting yourself from a government run amuck!
Although it serves both purposes equally well.
If you don’t already own several, what are you waiting for?
For Life and Liberty,
Sandie
When I first posted about this a question was posed. It went something like ; Do you think that his (Bobby Rush) followers will be obeying this law? For some reason, I doubt that, and that is all the more reason to “arm up” to the best of your ability and to do that as soon as possible.
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Do you hear the sounds of Hitler. Once we are disarmed then we can become a society of people controled by the government. Failure to comply results in the good citzens being jailed. The New World Order is close, captialism is being done away with and the old Nazi system is being restored under a new name, hope and change. I seem to have read something in the Bible that all these things must would one day take place. We are heading down the highway to hell with the OBMANATION!!!!!!!!
Who do these people think they are? this law will start a war, and they so convinently have fema facilities built to house millions of people, which they have been building for years but we are to belive they just popped up like mushrooms after a rain, heres the law detailing it :hr645
This is not just an attack on your right to own guns, its an attack on allof your civil liberties. The 2nd amendment is the lynchpin upon which all of your other liberties stand. The verry fact that this bill would take guns out of the hands of people that can not afford the lisenceing makes that extremely clear. The poor are in fact the majority in this country. What sort of government do we have that would take the means to liberty, freedom, and the persuit of happiness out of the hands of the majority of its citizens? Every day a war comes closer in this country, and its as if the federal government welcomes it.