Author Topic: Crackdown on gun owners proposed (Read 4667 times)

Desertdog · « **on:** February 09, 2009, 08:12:47 PM »

I wonder what their rush is to pass laws against gun owership in America. Is the Federal Government planning something that they need us unarmed?

Crackdown on gun owners proposed
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=411994

A Second Amendment rights organization is concerned that a bill being sponsored by a liberal Democrat would put stringent requirements on gun owners.

A spokesperson for Gun Owners of America (GOA http://gunowners.org/ ) says one day into the 111th Congress, former Black Panther and Illinois Democrat Bobby Rush introduced legislation that says anyone who wants to purchase, own, or possess a "qualifying firearm" would have to be licensed by the state or federal government in a licensing program managed by the U.S. attorney general.

Larry Pratt, executive director and president of GOA, is concerned. "We find it extraordinary that somebody like Representative Bobby Rush, who is an ex-Black Panther -- he actually served time in jail on weapons charges -- would evidently think that's his expertise for prescribing gun control for everybody else in the country," he contends.

If the bill passes, Pratt says it would require a license for every gun owned by private American citizens.

"It would be both retroactive as well as anything one buys in the future," he notes. "It would require a license. A license may or may not be given. It may or may not be renewed after five years. One has to submit psychiatric records as part of the process of being qualified, passing an exam."

According to Pratt, anyone with any sense or any respect for the Constitution should bristle at proposed legislation that wants to place the nation's Bill of Rights in the hands of one man.

Boomhauer · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2009, 08:25:14 PM »

Yeah, we've heard of H.R. 45.

Don't care · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2009, 08:35:51 PM »

lone_gunman · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2009, 12:11:39 AM »

Marriage is not a constitutional right.

taurusowner · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2009, 12:19:12 AM »

Then what the hell did we get out of FOPA?

Boomhauer · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2009, 12:41:05 AM »

Quote from: taurusowner on February 10, 2009, 12:19:12 AM

Then what the hell did we get out of FOPA?

A delay of the inevitable.

Manedwolf · « **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2009, 09:14:21 AM »

That's a blog that could qualify for the term "slowpoke", definitely. Where have they been for the past month?

MechAg94 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 10, 2009, 10:09:10 AM »

On marriage, there is nothing stopping you from getting married with a pastor/priest and just being married without the license. The better analogy would be outlawing any marriage outside that done/approved by a judge.

RevDisk · « **Reply #8 on:** February 10, 2009, 10:53:17 AM »

Quote from: taurusowner on February 10, 2009, 12:19:12 AM

Then what the hell did we get out of FOPA?

Paperwork reductions, a few minor advances, and a ban on new production of entire group of firearm. I call that running in place, but views differ.

longeyes · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2009, 12:18:37 PM »

We all know what they want to do.

The question is what we want to do.

zahc · « **Reply #10 on:** February 10, 2009, 12:23:54 PM »

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On marriage, there is nothing stopping you from getting married with a pastor/priest and just being married without the license. The better analogy would be outlawing any marriage outside that done/approved by a judge.

QFT. Would that all gun laws were as voluntary as marriage. It's not like having sex or living with a member of the opposite sex without a marriage license is a federal crime.

Waitone · « **Reply #11 on:** February 10, 2009, 06:11:13 PM »

Bobby Rush sponsors gun control legislation.

You have GOT to be kidding me.

HankB · « **Reply #12 on:** February 10, 2009, 06:19:29 PM »

Quote from: Waitone on February 10, 2009, 06:11:13 PM

Bobby Rush sponsors gun control legislation.

You have GOT to be kidding me.

Do you think the group he founded - the Black Panthers - will obey any gun control law?

Have you considered that criminals prefer unarmed victims?

Sergeant Bob · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2009, 12:31:39 AM »

Ah, GOA seizing on yet another fund raising opportunity.

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #14 on:** February 13, 2009, 06:19:43 PM »

Is this the bill that immediately was sequestered to die in committee? The one that when submitted had no cosponsers?

Manedwolf · « **Reply #15 on:** February 13, 2009, 06:22:39 PM »

Quote from: carebear on February 13, 2009, 06:19:43 PM

Is this the bill that immediately was sequestered to die in committee? The one that when submitted had no cosponsers?

It moved on the 9th, but no sponsors.

Cromlech · « **Reply #16 on:** February 14, 2009, 05:31:22 AM »

You guys already know this, but it bears repeating that you guys simply cannot let this happen. You have already seen where licensing for handguns and rifles leads, here in the U.K.

Manedwolf · « **Reply #17 on:** February 14, 2009, 10:23:53 AM »

Quote from: Cromlech on February 14, 2009, 05:31:22 AM

You guys already know this, but it bears repeating that you guys simply cannot let this happen. You have already seen where licensing for handguns and rifles leads, here in the U.K.

Yes. Licensing and registration are the first steps to confiscation.

My state has absolutely no idea what I have in my safe, and I am going to keep it that way.

Gowen · « **Reply #18 on:** February 14, 2009, 10:43:23 AM »

Email sent to my Congressmen.

Strings · « **Reply #19 on:** February 14, 2009, 02:18:51 PM »

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, MW, and say "guns".

LadySmith · « **Reply #20 on:** February 14, 2009, 02:47:34 PM »

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...former Black Panther and Illinois Democrat Bobby Rush introduced legislation that says anyone who wants to purchase, own, or possess a "qualifying firearm" would have to be licensed by the state or federal government in a licensing program managed by the U.S. attorney general.

And to think, one of main founding principles of the original Black Panthers was armed self-defense.
My how times have changed.

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Author Topic: Crackdown on gun owners proposed (Read 4667 times)

taurusowner