NelsErik
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Not sure if this is taboo and falls under politics or falls under gun control legislation...
Today in Washington
Gun Control - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will be holding a hearing at 10am today titled “Terrorists and Guns: The Nature of the Threat and Proposed Reforms.” The hearing will be an airing of two gun grabbing bills proposed by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). S. 1317 is a Lautenberg bill that grants Atty. General Eric Holder the power to “deny the transfer of a firearm” if he “determines that the transferee is known (or appropriately suspected) to be or have been engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism” and ”has a reasonable belief that the prospective transferee may use a firearm in connection with terrorism.” The reasonable belief standard removes due process rights for Americans to own a gun and gives the Attorney General too much discretion on who is defined as a prohibited person. Lautenberg’s other bill is S. 2820 is a bill that would set up a de facto national gun registry for each gun purchase for 6 months. Taken together, the two Lautenberg bills would allow Attorney General Eric Holder the power to consider anyone on the terrorist watch list, approximately 400K people, a prohibited person under federal gun control law without any due process and set up a national gun registry with records “destroyed” after 6 months.
Looks like the current administration is going after guns after all...
Today in Washington
Gun Control - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will be holding a hearing at 10am today titled “Terrorists and Guns: The Nature of the Threat and Proposed Reforms.” The hearing will be an airing of two gun grabbing bills proposed by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). S. 1317 is a Lautenberg bill that grants Atty. General Eric Holder the power to “deny the transfer of a firearm” if he “determines that the transferee is known (or appropriately suspected) to be or have been engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism” and ”has a reasonable belief that the prospective transferee may use a firearm in connection with terrorism.” The reasonable belief standard removes due process rights for Americans to own a gun and gives the Attorney General too much discretion on who is defined as a prohibited person. Lautenberg’s other bill is S. 2820 is a bill that would set up a de facto national gun registry for each gun purchase for 6 months. Taken together, the two Lautenberg bills would allow Attorney General Eric Holder the power to consider anyone on the terrorist watch list, approximately 400K people, a prohibited person under federal gun control law without any due process and set up a national gun registry with records “destroyed” after 6 months.
Looks like the current administration is going after guns after all...