On First Day Democrats Propose 8 Anti-Gun Bills.doc

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Ten New Gun Bills Introduced On First Day Of CongressJanuary 4th 2012By Tim Brown

With the left looking for its next big cause, Congressional Democrats have latched onto the

Sandy Hook massacre as an opportunity to push gun control. Yesterday alone,eight newbills were introduced relating to gun control. Two conservative bills were introducedrelating to endinggun free zonesunder federal law.

On the first day of the 113th Congress, ten new bills were introduced with an emphasis onguns. The majority of these, eight, were introduced by Democrats. The two that wereintroduced by freshmen Republican Congressmen are designed to eliminate schools as gunfree zones.

Four of the bills came from Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), who has been active for some timein trying to push more gun control legislation because of the fact that her husband was shot

to death in 1993. McCarthy introduced HR 137, 138, 141, and 142.

HR 137 and HR138 would require people who are prohibited from purchasing a firearm to becataloged in a national database and would also prevent transfers of high-capacityammunition magazines.

Her HR 141 bill would require criminal background checks at all gun shows, while her HR 142bill would require face-to-face purchases of ammunition, the licensing of dealers, and thereporting of bulk ammunition purchases. Can you imagine what this will do to internetbusiness regarding ammunition? Thats right, it will kill it.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) led the way with four bills introduced. Her husband was shot todeath in 1993 and her son was severely injured when Colin Ferguson, a mentally unstableblack militant (he spent time in his apartment chanting, all the black people killing all thewhite people), shot up a Long Island commuter train.

She has been a longtime gun control advocate. In 1997, she tried to push a federal law thatwould have mandated trigger locks on all firearms. She introduced legislation that would haveforced gun companies to produce firearms that were child-resistant. In 2007, she tried anassault weapons ban that would have targeted some 65 types of firearms.

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The measures McCarthy introduced include:

Significant restrictions on gun show transactions, which would in effect end gunshows

No online purchases of ammunition, and licensing of ammunition dealers, as well asreporting to the federal government all bulk ammunition purchases

Prohibition on the transfer, sale, or possession of ammunition clips beyond a certainsize.

But McCarthy wasnt alone. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), apparently ignoring the fact that hisheavily gun-controlled home city of Chicago is the nations leader in murder with guns,introduced legislation that would create more stringent licensing for gun owners. So did Rep.Rush Holt (D-NJ).

Representatives Bobby Rush (D-IL) and Rush Hold (D-NJ) each put forth their bills, HR 34 andHR 117, which would tighten firearms licensing requirements.

And Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) proposed a bill that would prevent anyone under age 21from carrying a handgun even though people of 18 can vote and serve in the military.

But wait theres more! Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) pushed forward a bill requiring backgroundchecks on all gun sales, which would essentially prevent non-gun-shop transfers of weapons.

Representative Jim Moran (D-VA) re-introduced his HR 21 bill, which would requirebackground checks for all gun sales. It would also require gun owners to report when theirguns have been stolen. While he claims that polls regarding the National Rifle Associationsmembership support his bill, he doesnt provide any sources for his claims.

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) proposed HR 65 which would raise the eligibilityage of a person to carry a handgun from 18 to 21. Clearly she, along with others, has noconcept of what shall not be infringed means.

In addition, Republican congressmen Steve Stockman (R-TX) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) putforth HR 35 and HR 133 which would end the federal law requires areas around schools to bedesignated as gun free zones.Their bills are based in reality with data that demonstratesthat violence both in and around schools increased when the federal law took effect in 1990.

By disarming qualified citizens and officials in schools we have created a dangeroussituation for our children, Stockman said. In the 22 years before enactment of gun freeschool zones there were two mass school shootings.

In the 22 years since enactment of gun free schools there have been 10 mass schoolshootings, he continued. Not only has the bill utterly failed to protect our children it appearsto have placed them in danger.

This is just the House. Wait until the Democrat-led Senate gets going. Democrats are comingfor guns, and theyre exploiting the tragedy in Sandy Hook to do it, without regard for the bestpolicies to keep children safe while preserving Americans rights. So what of Feinsteinslegislation? According to Senate leaders, they have set aside January 22 as the first day thatthe Senate will allow new legislation to be proposed.

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Comment by Jack Graff:

Why is it we NEVER hear the liberal, progressive, democrats that ALWAYS want to ban gunsfrom law abiding American citizens say; why not try to get the CRIMINAL THUGS off thestreets. Because even if you were to MELTED DOWN every gun ever made CRIMINAL THUGSwill just find another weapon to use on the innocent whether it is a bomb, knife, kidnapping orwhat ever. These same criminals will surely find a way to keep being CRIMINAL THUGS.

It sounds to me that the Mayors of these big cities are getting lazy and are not doing theirJOBS. Chicago is a great example of why no gun control laws will ever solve this problem,you have over 500 people in Chicago killed last year alone from gang gun violence in thiscity, yet they have some of the strictest guns laws in America! You see how the liberal,progressive, democrats like to lump all gun crimes together but when you separate guncrimes out you find LEGAL guns aren't the problem, CRIMINALS are the problem! I guess thatbumper sticker I saw back in 1988 still holds true today, IF YOU OUTLAW GUNS ONLY THECRIMINALS WILL HAVE THEM. CRIMINALS don't give a CRAP about laws, hence why theyare called criminals to begin with!

Crimes committed with the use of a legal gun was only .0034% of the total of the guns used inthe commission of a crime, that means that over 99% of gun crimes are by ILLEGALLYOBTAINED, filed off serial numbers, stolen or whatever other kind of ILLEGAL guns thatcriminals can get their hands on! There was also 11,500 deaths and 10,000 hurt ormaimed from those ILLEGAL guns last year alone across the U.S. & guess where most of thecrimes happened, in the big cities like N.Y. City & Chicago with a high minority population,BIG SHOCK! It sounds to me like the Mayors of these big cities need to start doing their JOBSand stop deflecting & lumping together all gun crimes & LEGAL guns as the problem, theyaren't the problem CRIMINALS ARE THE PROBLEM!

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