OpenCongress Summary:
opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/showThe Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act would establish a nationwide system for prohibiting unlicensed gun-ownership. If approved, the law would require gun owners to apply for five-year licenses to own firearms, and would give the U.S. Attorney General broad authority over the program. There are no co-sponsors to the bill, and there is very little chance it will be adopted.
Well, you can THINK anything you like, but the facts don’t support you. New York, Chicago, and still defiantly Washington DC have the strictest gun laws in the United States. Their murder and gun violence rates are vastly higher than say, Phoenix, in which anyone can carry openly and concealed carry permits are easy to get.I honestly think some amount of gun control (I.E. stricter on getting licenses, perhaps even require a license for all guns) might help and prevent at least some violence. While some gun stores may check backgrounds and such, someone could easily go out to some unlicensed seller at a market and buy one, perhaps a used one, and bypass most of this. Stricter laws on who can sell them and who can buy them. I don’t see the problem with this. Having the right to carry arms is entirely different than ‘maniacs have the right to wield weapons’. I don’t think the goal is to keep it out of the right hands, the hands of people who can handle it, but to keep it out of the hands of those hands it doesn’t belong in.
If you are pro choice on guns you should be supporting others right to choose to.While the Second Amendment says what it says, I’m pro-choice about guns.
I choose not to have one.
And to paraphrase Someone greater than anyone on these blogs, “Those who take up the gun shall die by the gun.”
Unfortunately laws like this do the exact opposite. criminals have no regard for these laws and law abiding citizens who wish to hold on to family heirlooms are forced to become criminals.I honestly think some amount of gun control (I.E. stricter on getting licenses, perhaps even require a license for all guns) might help and prevent at least some violence. While some gun stores may check backgrounds and such, someone could easily go out to some unlicensed seller at a market and buy one, perhaps a used one, and bypass most of this. Stricter laws on who can sell them and who can buy them. I don’t see the problem with this. Having the right to carry arms is entirely different than ‘maniacs have the right to wield weapons’. I don’t think the goal is to keep it out of the right hands, the hands of people who can handle it, but to keep it out of the hands of those hands it doesn’t belong in.
This bill will not make it overtly illegal, it will just make it very difficult to express you rights. It will also subject gun owners to other violations of their personal rights and unrestricted harrasement by the feds.In my opinion, as long as police or the military (basically government security forces) have the right to carry weapons, than it is the duty of the people to remind them that they have the same right. I know it’s not illegal to open carry yet, but many people who do deal with constant hassle from police, so it’s probably not far off until it’s illegal. Even though I don’t like guns, and I don’t think they serve any good purpose, I do think that to preserve freedom we need to remind our governments and police of every single right that we have as free people.