Senate “background checks” are anything but; ban anyone but owner from touching gun a

[Dean Weingarten]

You’re a young woman at home when you hear a knock at the front door. You aren’t expecting anyone and ignore it, thinking it might be an uninvited sales call. Several minutes later you hear the back door rattle, and your heart starts pounding. You run to your bedroom and pick up the double-barrel shotgun our Uncle Joe let you borrow, check to make sure the gun is loaded, and point it at the door.

You call 911, and wait in the corner of a locked bedroom with your gun trained on the door as you hear the thief rummaging downstairs. A miracle happens; an officer was in the neighborhood, and catches the thief red-handed.

Your defense attorney tells you that the young felon who broke into your home was charged with breaking and entering, and he’s already back on the street. You’re facing five years in prison for having your Uncle Joe’s shotgun.

You would have also faced the same charge if you had been shooting Uncle Joe’s shotgun on his farm, borrowed it to go hunting, touched a handgun at a gun safety class, or examined a firearm at a gun store.

Does that sound completely insane?

It is, but that is precisely what will happen under the Bloomberg-written Senate background check legislation being pursued by Democrat Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid, called S.649, the so-called “Fix Gun Checks Act.”

Far from just background checks, the law bans the most common sorts of short-term “transfer,” from shooters at firing ranges “test-driving” their fellow shooters guns, to loaning a friend a firearm, to the scenario cited above, picking up a firearm to defend your life.

The goal, as firearms expert and constitutional law professor Dave Kopel explains, is turning gun owners into felons.

Any Democrat in the Senate who votes for this bill is aware of its provisions, and if they don’t, it is your job to get on the phone with them and burn up their emails until they do.

Anyone who votes for this bill is voting for the most draconian gun regulation to ever been presented in the United States Senate, designed to gut the heart of the Second Amendment. This bill it poison. this bill is treason.

Let your Senator know that you are aware of this fact, and you will hold them accountable.

http://www.bob-owens.com/2013/04/se...=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+BobOwens+(Bob+Owens)

 

[Oklacoyotekiller]

If they dont go around registering all guns how do they know whether it was aquired before or after the law? Just a thought.

 

[Ryanxia]

Yep, write your reps again and let them know you expect them to OPPOSE "universal background checks".

 

[beatledog7]

Like so many pieces of legislation, this one (inadvertantly?) creates ways for government to turn normal activities into felonies. It's a very effective way to curtail liberty and control behavior, which is what progressive politics is all about.

 

[climbnjump]

If they don't go around registering all guns how do they know whether it was acquired before or after the law? Just a thought.

Serial number would tell them when the firearm was manufactured. If the SN indicates a manufacturing date AFTER the law went into effect, then they might have a case. Initially this wouldn't have much affect, but remember, they are thinking long term.

 

[Oklacoyotekiller]

But there are millions out there they couldnt track unless they register them. I think this is a way for gov tolook in your gun safe.

 

[gdcpony]

But there are millions out there they couldnt track unless they register them. I think this is a way for gov tolook in your gun safe.

Let them try. It would be worse for my kids to catch them than me. What about those firearms that I bought or will buy just for them?

This is ridiculous!

 

[Keb]

Most parts of the Bloomberg Fix Guns Check act were adopted in Colorado 1229 discussed earlier.

OK to temporarily loan a gun to someone currently fishing or hunting and with a license, and not breaking the fishing/hunting rules. But not to someone taking a hike in a dangerous lion or bear area, or walking or riding where the drug cartels have possible guarded grow areas.

Importantly, this Act negates an important part of the Second Amendment. There would be no way for the possessors of firearms to arm their neighbors to protect from an oppressive government..... because the same government can either require then deny the background check, suspend them, or arrest transferors then take all their guns away ( for two years in Colorado ).

 

[Sambo82]

My wife just loaned a pistol to a friend who is set to testify against a local drug dealer. It's nice to know that my wife would be felon in this brave new world.

 

[Tygarys]

How does this affect guns made before serial numbers were mandatory? I bet the law makes us prove them legal, and I bet most who have these guns don't have any paperwork to back it up. (I don't doubt for a second that they will demand you provide proof you own it legally with paperwork, just to get these older guns off the market.) If you can prove it legal, what would the process be to add an SN to it so it could be transferred or sold?

 

[itsa pain]

this is the same govt that has allowed Mexican drug gangs to take over millions of acres of US state parks to bring tons of drugs here and they do nothing to them but they come after us

 

[PabloJ]

You’re a young woman at home when you hear a knock at the front door. You aren’t expecting anyone and ignore it, thinking it might be an uninvited sales call. Several minutes later you hear the back door rattle, and your heart starts pounding. You run to your bedroom and pick up the double-barrel shotgun our Uncle Joe let you borrow, check to make sure the gun is loaded, and point it at the door.

You call 911, and wait in the corner of a locked bedroom with your gun trained on the door as you hear the thief rummaging downstairs. A miracle happens; an officer was in the neighborhood, and catches the thief red-handed.

Your defense attorney tells you that the young felon who broke into your home was charged with breaking and entering, and he’s already back on the street. You’re facing five years in prison for having your Uncle Joe’s shotgun.

You would have also faced the same charge if you had been shooting Uncle Joe’s shotgun on his farm, borrowed it to go hunting, touched a handgun at a gun safety class, or examined a firearm at a gun store.

Does that sound completely insane?

It is, but that is precisely what will happen under the Bloomberg-written Senate background check legislation being pursued by Democrat Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid, called S.649, the so-called “Fix Gun Checks Act.”

Far from just background checks, the law bans the most common sorts of short-term “transfer,” from shooters at firing ranges “test-driving” their fellow shooters guns, to loaning a friend a firearm, to the scenario cited above, picking up a firearm to defend your life.

The goal, as firearms expert and constitutional law professor Dave Kopel explains, is turning gun owners into felons.

Any Democrat in the Senate who votes for this bill is aware of its provisions, and if they don’t, it is your job to get on the phone with them and burn up their emails until they do.

Anyone who votes for this bill is voting for the most draconian gun regulation to ever been presented in the United States Senate, designed to gut the heart of the Second Amendment. This bill it poison. this bill is treason.

Let your Senator know that you are aware of this fact, and you will hold them accountable.

http://www.bob-owens.com/2013/04/se...=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+BobOwens+(Bob+Owens)

Many bills have thousands of pages and NOBODY has enough staff and time to go through them.

 

[labhound]

I wonder how this bill would affect Gun Shops that have shooting ranges and rent gun for patrons to try out!?!?!?

 

[HankR]

Most parts of the Bloomberg Fix Guns Check act were adopted in Colorado 1229 discussed earlier.

OK to temporarily loan a gun to someone currently fishing or hunting and with a license, and not breaking the fishing/hunting rules. But not to someone taking a hike in a dangerous lion or bear area, or walking or riding where the drug cartels have possible guarded grow areas.

Could somebody explain or give me a link to how this effects a married couple/family. I gave my brother a revolver last year. Across state lines, so went through an FFL on his end (I carried the gun to CO on one of my many visits, took it to his FFL, all legal). It was meant to be a gift for his family (wife, kids as they get bigger, etc), but obviously only one person (my brother) filled out the 4473. He, his wife, and his oldest son are all trained and capable of using this revolver.

Are you saying that the new CO law precludes the oldest son or his wife from using the gun (assuming the brother is not around)? I knew the law was bad, but I was focusing on the MSR/mag parts of it and didn't realize this.

Thanks,