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Background Checks and transfer restrictions
Waco Waltz
Member Posts: 10,828 ✭✭
Maybe Occupy NRA can tell us why this is needed and why it's a good thing?
The Gun Battle Is Just Starting !!
Now we can see why this information You kind of wonder why this information
never makes the papers or TV news.....
Read this very carefully....
The "most popular" part of the proposed Senate gun control bill (background
checks) sounds like a good idea at first but is more restrictive than anyone
knew and will have significant unintended consequences.
There is a huge push to get it through Congress before the public has a
chance to consider its contents.
Common activities that we take for granted will become federal crimes. These
are not irresponsible exaggerations.
Please take a moment to review the
requirements of the bill.
Here are a few examples of the restrictions in the bill:
EXAMPLE #1
Loaning your buddy a shotgun for a duck hunting trip will be considered a
transfer. If the following requirements are not met, YOU HAVE BOTH COMMITTED
A FEDERAL CRIME.
1. He must have already purchased his hunting license
2. Season is already
open (and will not close before he returns it)
3. He cannot travel with the
firearm through a county where season is not yet open or any area where
hunting is prohibited and certainly not across a state line.
He CANNOT stop by your house on the day before season opens, pick up the
shot gun, go to the sporting goods store to buy a license and shells then
drive out to the hunting lease. In this scenario,
YOU BOTH WOULD HAVE
COMMITTED MULTIPLE FEDERAL CRIMES, YOUR WEAPONS WILL
BE FORFEITED
AND YOU WILL LOOSE YOUR RIGHT TO BUY OR OWN A FIREARM.
EXAMPLE #2
It appears that only you may relocate your weapons. If your weapon leaves
your home without you, the new legislation considers it a transfer of
possession. ALL transfers require going through a firearms dealer, paying
the transfer fee and a background check for the transferee.
Putting the weapon, even temporarily in someone else's possession, requires
a transfer through a dealer. There is no exception for putting them in a
friend's truck while moving to your new house or packing them unloaded,
locked in a gunsafe into a moving truck.
Any scenario in which your weapon leaves your home without you is considered
a transfer. Failure to properly transfer the weapon is a federal crime which
can result in a prison term AND WILL RESULT IN THE FORFEITURE OF YOUR
WEAPON.
In the scenario above, your buddy's truck was used to commit a federal crime
and WILL BE CONFISCATED just like with current Fish and Game violations.
EXAMPLE #3
Infractions as above which involve 2 guns of any type are considered weapons
trafficking. You will be prosecuted under the same federal laws as a
terrorist arms dealer.
EXAMPLE #4
Any of the infractions above (or hundreds of other routine
scenarios) may result in federal charges, confiscation of ALL your weapons
and being prohibited, like all felons, from ever owning a weapon again.
Please read the text of the bill yourself. Most of it is boring legalese but
the sections on transfers and trafficking are critical.
Take a minute to think about all the routine activities like those above
that will make you a federal criminal and result in prison time plus the
confiscation of your weapons and other property.
A link to the bill is included below on the official Senate website. See
Section 122 "Firearms Transfers".
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.649:
Read it and call your congressman's office. Talk to their staff. Tell them
how you feel about this.
Keep in mind, none of the above would have stopped the tragedy's in
Columbine or Newtown . The proposed law makes you a criminal and opens the
door for confiscation of your weapons and property for otherwise routine
activities.
Think and act. Congress is hoping that you will do neither.
If you found the patience to read the entire text, you also learned that
exactly $100 million per year of your tax money is set aside to enforce
these restrictions.
We all need to read and control this bill and prevent it from becoming law!
Finally, please forward this to your friends who may be affected.
The Gun Battle Is Just Starting !!
Now we can see why this information You kind of wonder why this information
never makes the papers or TV news.....
Read this very carefully....
The "most popular" part of the proposed Senate gun control bill (background
checks) sounds like a good idea at first but is more restrictive than anyone
knew and will have significant unintended consequences.
There is a huge push to get it through Congress before the public has a
chance to consider its contents.
Common activities that we take for granted will become federal crimes. These
are not irresponsible exaggerations.
Please take a moment to review the
requirements of the bill.
Here are a few examples of the restrictions in the bill:
EXAMPLE #1
Loaning your buddy a shotgun for a duck hunting trip will be considered a
transfer. If the following requirements are not met, YOU HAVE BOTH COMMITTED
A FEDERAL CRIME.
1. He must have already purchased his hunting license
2. Season is already
open (and will not close before he returns it)
3. He cannot travel with the
firearm through a county where season is not yet open or any area where
hunting is prohibited and certainly not across a state line.
He CANNOT stop by your house on the day before season opens, pick up the
shot gun, go to the sporting goods store to buy a license and shells then
drive out to the hunting lease. In this scenario,
YOU BOTH WOULD HAVE
COMMITTED MULTIPLE FEDERAL CRIMES, YOUR WEAPONS WILL
BE FORFEITED
AND YOU WILL LOOSE YOUR RIGHT TO BUY OR OWN A FIREARM.
EXAMPLE #2
It appears that only you may relocate your weapons. If your weapon leaves
your home without you, the new legislation considers it a transfer of
possession. ALL transfers require going through a firearms dealer, paying
the transfer fee and a background check for the transferee.
Putting the weapon, even temporarily in someone else's possession, requires
a transfer through a dealer. There is no exception for putting them in a
friend's truck while moving to your new house or packing them unloaded,
locked in a gunsafe into a moving truck.
Any scenario in which your weapon leaves your home without you is considered
a transfer. Failure to properly transfer the weapon is a federal crime which
can result in a prison term AND WILL RESULT IN THE FORFEITURE OF YOUR
WEAPON.
In the scenario above, your buddy's truck was used to commit a federal crime
and WILL BE CONFISCATED just like with current Fish and Game violations.
EXAMPLE #3
Infractions as above which involve 2 guns of any type are considered weapons
trafficking. You will be prosecuted under the same federal laws as a
terrorist arms dealer.
EXAMPLE #4
Any of the infractions above (or hundreds of other routine
scenarios) may result in federal charges, confiscation of ALL your weapons
and being prohibited, like all felons, from ever owning a weapon again.
Please read the text of the bill yourself. Most of it is boring legalese but
the sections on transfers and trafficking are critical.
Take a minute to think about all the routine activities like those above
that will make you a federal criminal and result in prison time plus the
confiscation of your weapons and other property.
A link to the bill is included below on the official Senate website. See
Section 122 "Firearms Transfers".
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.649:
Read it and call your congressman's office. Talk to their staff. Tell them
how you feel about this.
Keep in mind, none of the above would have stopped the tragedy's in
Columbine or Newtown . The proposed law makes you a criminal and opens the
door for confiscation of your weapons and property for otherwise routine
activities.
Think and act. Congress is hoping that you will do neither.
If you found the patience to read the entire text, you also learned that
exactly $100 million per year of your tax money is set aside to enforce
these restrictions.
We all need to read and control this bill and prevent it from becoming law!
Finally, please forward this to your friends who may be affected.