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HR 45 May be More Troubling Than the Average Anti-gun Bill
-- Legislation may reflect Obama’s thinking

by Mike Hammond

Those of you who regularly peruse the GOA website know that there are dozens of anti-gun abominations which are introduced as legislation in the Senate and House each Congress. These include, particularly, national gun licensing and broad gun bans.

GOA provides a summary of these bills for the benefit of our members and friends. But we do not focus on most of these bills because they are so extreme that they have no chance of passage. They are cynically introduced so that the Brady Campaign can raise money by threatening anti-gun measures it could never pass.

But the first anti-gun bill of the 111th Congress -– Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush’s H.R. 45 –- has caught the attention of many in the Second Amendment community as something we need to be worried about.

This is because of the extremity of the bill:

* H.R. 45 would require a federal license for all handguns and semiautomatics, including those you currently possess; and

* It would require handgun and semi-auto owners to be thumbprinted at the police station and to sign a certificate that, effectively, the firearm will not be kept in a place where it would be available for the defense of the gun owner’s family.

Pretty scary, huh? But, while this despotic nuttiness makes you wonder why a congressman from the Murder Capital of the Midwest would think that it would help to make the residents of New Hampshire, Alaska, and Wyoming comply with his blood-soaked city’s anti-gun laws, there have been other bills which are just as unconstitutional.

Rather, what makes H.R. 45 troubling is its sponsor and its timing... [ Read More ]

Lets actively work to keep HR.45 stuck in committee.

Hopefully that is where it will stay and die,, Along that same line is the attempt to reinstate the assault weapons ban, 3 of the biggest A*% holes and anti gunners ever are forming up to try and reinstate that useless bit of legislation using the crisis in Mexico as their main excuse,,, Thankfully there are some in Congress who see it our way and have told them that screwing with the ban again is not a good idea and they will fight it tooth and nail .Holder, Clinton and Feinstein are not freinds of the 2nd amendment and don;t seem to care that the 2nd amendment rights are not negotiable,,,. We gun people need to be more active than ever before, It is amazing what just a little push can do , an email, a letter , a phone call to the elected lets them know you are there and are paying attention,,,Joining the organizations that fight the antigun folks helps immensely, If you really want to see some Bullshi% , check the Brady Campaign website out,,They have more propaganda and outright lies than any group out there , If we stay awake and vigilant we can keep the gains we;ve made and continue to gain more as time goes on.

Here is the link to H.R. 45 if anybody wants to read how the Government is trying
to screw us over.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45.IH:



111th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 45

To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 6, 2009

Mr. RUSH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary