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H.R.5717 - Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020
serf
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What are the chances of this passing after the elections in November 2020? Looks like we are in trouble.Just another mass murder before the elections and maybe even civil unrest, could do it.
serf
) (1)
It shall be unlawful for a person to import, sell, manufacture,
transfer, or possess, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, a
semiautomatic assault weapon.
“(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the possession, sale, or transfer of any semiautomatic assault weapon otherwise lawfully possessed under Federal law on the date of enactment of the Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020.
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Because of the pandemic (real or imagined) people are afraid that the police officers and members of the National Guard will become sick with the virus, leaving no one healthy enough to enforce law and order. That would be an extreme situation, but if it should happen, you have to look out for Number One (and your family), because no one else will be around to do it. I live in a gated community with a lot of retired military (it's Florida after all). We haven't reached the point of patrolling the community at night, but the subject has come up.
Every new election brings more and more NEW indoctrinated masses to the voting booths.
Eventually, we gun owners lose the fight. To bad so many gun owners sat on their *`s for way to long.
Once this virus BS is over, they`ll be selling those guns that they bought, and back into the gun hate mode.
Might as well elect brainless biden and get it over with.
On a serious note, this is constructed in the same manner as Reagan's full auto and select fire production ban included in the FOPA of 1986. Not sure how many people were up in arms about that one, but it did to full auto what this is designed to do with a laundry list of semi-auto firearms. You can own them, use them and sell them, but you cannot buy a new one.
If you supported Reagan's action, you can really only have marginal disagreement with this one. It is the logical stepping stone, and is the end result of electing a President who, while governor of California in 1967, said that he saw "no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" and that guns were a "ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will." In a later press conference, Reagan added that the Mulford Act "would work no hardship on the honest citizen."
Every limitation, regardless of how small is a step on the way to the ultimate goal. Our history as gun owners is a very selfish one, where we acquiesce to laws that don't effect us (we have ours, so what's the big deal?") while they limit those around us who do not have what we have, and to those that will follow us who will never have the chance.
Just as some sheep are mocking those of us who resist government imposed lockdowns and mask mandates for the magical Covid crisis, some sheep have mocked those of us who speak out against the NFA of 1934 and the FOPA of 1986. If we continue to allow government to dictate that which they have no Constitutional authority to dictate, we are lost.
Brad Steele
LOL! Just a little?