Every lawful gun owner in America should oppose U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s new 2013 gun restriction legislation. Senator Reid’s gun rights restriction Bill, S. 649, is scheduled to be considered and debated during the second week of April 2013. Senate Bill S. 649 and other bills like it aren’t just firearm sales background check bills. They implement a much more onerous form of firearm sales and transfer restriction.
Senate Bill S. 649, and the other similar firearm transfer restriction bills that have been introduced at the 2013 U.S. Senate session, all implement a procedure that the proponents of these bills haven’t disclosed to the general public. These firearm transfer restriction bills actually require consignment to a licensed firearm dealer of the firearm to be sold / transferred to another person, as part of the firearm transfer process, not just a background check of the firearm buyer. The authors of these bills have failed to explain why they want to require the physical consignment to a licensed firearm dealer of the firearm to be sold or permanently given from one private individual to another, before the firearm can actually be transferred. The pertinent portion of the bill states:
The implications of these provisions are that the Senators sponsoring this legislation don’t want just a background check of the transferee to occur, they want a firearm consignment process to occur for some reason. What they haven’t told people is that this process is likely going to mean that each such firearm sale is going to be a laborious process, probably a time consuming process, a process that includes fees just to privately sell one's own firearm, and a process that will inevitably lead to various state and federal registries of every firearm sold by every private individual to another private individual in America. There are multiple reasons for these consequences. For example, many state jurisdictions require the FFL dealer to record and report all handguns that are consigned to it. Every American should question why the sponsors of these bills want to go beyond background checks of private firearm transactions, to this consignment system. Every American should question how this would prevent criminals from obtaining firearms, when they don’t generally obtain their firearms from licensed dealers in any event.
The irony of the various sorts of firearm restrictions enacted at the federal level and within many state jurisdictions, is that habitual criminals don’t utilize the mainstream firearms commerce systems, and they try not to expose themselves to the criminal penalties such statutes impose upon them. Criminals sell and trade in illicit firearms via underground transactions, without any regard for federal or state statutory restrictions against them on firearms.
Although Senator Harry Reid’s gun restriction bill and some versions of other similar bills that have been introduced at the current session of the U.S. Congress include some exemptions from the restrictions for situations such as inheritance and gifts between certain family members, the specifics are tangled enough to make the restrictions unworkable. If any of the so called “universal background check” proposals currently before the U.S. Congress is enacted, such statutes will leave every law abiding gun owner in America wondering if and when merely handing a firearm to their companion at a firing range or while hunting might mean they are committing a federal crime. Meanwhile, America’s criminal underworld won't be abiding by any of the federal government’s firearm statutes, either the current ones or any new ones that Congress might enact.
None of the officials who have sponsored these gun restriction bills, or who support them, have explained how they expect such newly created statutes to prevent or deter the mass shooting massacres that have instigated the current gun ban zealot crusades for these types of legislation. In nearly every case, the perpetrators of shooting massacres have purchased their firearms after passing a federal background check at a licensed firearms dealer. In the most recent case, which was an exception, that perpetrator murdered a lawful gun owner, his mother, to steal her legally purchased firearms from her, so that he could use them to commit his heinous crime. None of the sponsors or supporters of the new gun restriction statutes they proposed, has explained how the statutory changes they want to make would have prevented any of those horrific crimes.
For all the reasons above and more, every law abiding firearms owner in America should send emails their Senators, and call their Senators via the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121, to express vigorous opposition to the gun restriction and gun ban bills that are likely to be debated and voted upon in the U.S. Senate during the coming weeks. The all important constitutional right of every law abiding U.S. citizen to keep and bear arms is at stake, which means it would be difficult for the stakes to be higher.
Complete Text of Senator Harry Reid’s Gun Restriction Bill S. 694
http://afirearmrightschronicle.blogspot.com/2013/03/s649.html
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... it shall be unlawful for any person who is not licensed under this chapter to transfer a firearm to any other person who is not licensed under this chapter, unless a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer has first taken possession of the firearm for the purpose of complying with subsection (s). Upon taking possession of the firearm, the licensee shall comply with all requirements of this chapter as if the licensee were transferring the firearm from the licensee's inventory to the unlicensed transferee.
The implications of these provisions are that the Senators sponsoring this legislation don’t want just a background check of the transferee to occur, they want a firearm consignment process to occur for some reason. What they haven’t told people is that this process is likely going to mean that each such firearm sale is going to be a laborious process, probably a time consuming process, a process that includes fees just to privately sell one's own firearm, and a process that will inevitably lead to various state and federal registries of every firearm sold by every private individual to another private individual in America. There are multiple reasons for these consequences. For example, many state jurisdictions require the FFL dealer to record and report all handguns that are consigned to it. Every American should question why the sponsors of these bills want to go beyond background checks of private firearm transactions, to this consignment system. Every American should question how this would prevent criminals from obtaining firearms, when they don’t generally obtain their firearms from licensed dealers in any event.
The irony of the various sorts of firearm restrictions enacted at the federal level and within many state jurisdictions, is that habitual criminals don’t utilize the mainstream firearms commerce systems, and they try not to expose themselves to the criminal penalties such statutes impose upon them. Criminals sell and trade in illicit firearms via underground transactions, without any regard for federal or state statutory restrictions against them on firearms.
Although Senator Harry Reid’s gun restriction bill and some versions of other similar bills that have been introduced at the current session of the U.S. Congress include some exemptions from the restrictions for situations such as inheritance and gifts between certain family members, the specifics are tangled enough to make the restrictions unworkable. If any of the so called “universal background check” proposals currently before the U.S. Congress is enacted, such statutes will leave every law abiding gun owner in America wondering if and when merely handing a firearm to their companion at a firing range or while hunting might mean they are committing a federal crime. Meanwhile, America’s criminal underworld won't be abiding by any of the federal government’s firearm statutes, either the current ones or any new ones that Congress might enact.
None of the officials who have sponsored these gun restriction bills, or who support them, have explained how they expect such newly created statutes to prevent or deter the mass shooting massacres that have instigated the current gun ban zealot crusades for these types of legislation. In nearly every case, the perpetrators of shooting massacres have purchased their firearms after passing a federal background check at a licensed firearms dealer. In the most recent case, which was an exception, that perpetrator murdered a lawful gun owner, his mother, to steal her legally purchased firearms from her, so that he could use them to commit his heinous crime. None of the sponsors or supporters of the new gun restriction statutes they proposed, has explained how the statutory changes they want to make would have prevented any of those horrific crimes.
For all the reasons above and more, every law abiding firearms owner in America should send emails their Senators, and call their Senators via the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121, to express vigorous opposition to the gun restriction and gun ban bills that are likely to be debated and voted upon in the U.S. Senate during the coming weeks. The all important constitutional right of every law abiding U.S. citizen to keep and bear arms is at stake, which means it would be difficult for the stakes to be higher.
Complete Text of Senator Harry Reid’s Gun Restriction Bill S. 694
http://afirearmrightschronicle.blogspot.com/2013/03/s649.html
