From NRA ILA

U.S. Representative Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) recently sponsored H.R. 45, also known as "Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act." The bill is, at its core and as its name implies, a licensing and registration scheme.

The measure calls for all handgun owners to submit to the federal government an application that shall include, among many other things: a photo; an address; a thumbprint; a completed, written firearm safety test; private mental health records; and a fee. And those are only some of the requirements to be licensed!

The bill would further require the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer, and owner's address in America. Moreover, the bill would make it illegal to own or possess a "qualifying firearm" -- defined as "any handgun; or any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any detachable ammunition feeding device…" [emphasis added] without one of the proposed licenses.

Additionally, the bill would make it illegal to transfer ownership of a "qualifying firearm" to anyone who is not a licensed gun dealer or collector (with very few exceptions), and would require "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. Further, if a minor obtains a firearm and injures someone with it, the owner of the firearm may face a multiple-year jail sentence.

H.R. 45 is essentially a reintroduction of H.R. 2666, which Rush introduced in 2007. H.R. 2666 contained much of the same language as H.R. 45, and was co-sponsored by several well-known anti-gun legislators--including Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. H.R. 45 currently has no co-sponsors.

Rest assured that NRA-ILA will continue to monitor this bill closely, and will keep you informed of any developments if they materialize.

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This is a bad thing?

Maybe we should sell guns in vending machines like we do soda.

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Sounds like it would make it more difficult for criminals to get guns, while causing legal gun owners a minor inconvenience.

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More difficult for criminals to get guns?
Minor inconvenience?
The sky must be awfully rose colored on your planet. Here on Earth, history has proven the 1st statement wrong. We cannot even control marijuana.

If passed, this is a travesty of civil liberties.

Time to arm up boys and girls before you can not get anymore.

Crazy times

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Eric finally said something I can get behind!

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Attn Morons:

CRIMINALS DON'T OBEY LAWS.

Wiki fans, read this:

Societies define crime as the breach of one or more rules or laws for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment.

Now given that FACT, try to explain how any "new gun law" effects criminals? Gun laws are simply for liberals to feel good, they have relatively no impact at all on actual crime. HBO actually did a special on this where they asked a "criminal" (yup that word again) if he could get a gun. 20 minutes later he came back with a AK47. Yupperz, gun laws work big time!!!

And for anyone who says "authorities should have guns", Thomas Jefferson and G. Washington just rolled over in their graves. Not to mention, have you been to a shooting range during 'avg Joe police officer' qualifications? You'd cry. Trust me, you're better off with a tennis racket and pepper sauce than calling them.


Doooom@ssssss

Hit the buy-it-now button

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Steed, you must be left-handed.

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HAHAHAHAHA. This will make tens of thousands of handgun owners criminals. I can't think of a single person I shoot with that would surrender that information.

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