Obama Is Coming For Your Guns…
September 29th, 2009
and Bill Gates wants to send you a free XBox, and a Nigerian government minsiter has picked you at random to help him get millions of dollars out of his country, and an African plant root will make my penis ginormous.
It must be true, right?
After all, I got it in an email.
Normally I find the stupidity of the average American endlessly entertaining. How can you not help but laugh at those who loose their life savings because they responded to an email or phone solicitation. There is nothing like greed to overcome common sense and those who give into it deserve precisely what they get.
So it was with amusement that I reviewed an email sent to me by a concerned coworker, John.
The email ranted about the absolute proof that the Obama administration is after our guns.
It pointed to two bills before congress that will virtually render the 2nd Amendment null and void.
The first, SB 2009, the email claims ,will require gun owners to list each of their firearms on their 2009 tax and submit a fingerprint card and pay a $50.00 tax per weapon.
Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to put on our 2009 1040 federal tax form all guns that you have or own. It will require fingerprints and a tax of $50 per gun.This bill was introduced on Feb.. 24, 2009, by the Omama staff. BUT . . this bill will only become public knowledge 30 days after the new law becomes effective This is an amendment to the Internal Revenue Act o f 1986. This means that the Finance Committee has passed this without the Senate voting on it at all.
The second, HR 45, will make it illegal to own a firearm unless;
-It is registered -You are fingerprinted -You supply a current Driver’s License -You supply your Social Security # -You will submit to a physical & mental evaluation at any time of their choosing -Each update - change or ownership through private or public sale must be reported and costs $25 - Failure to do so you automatically lose the right to own a firearm and are subject up to a year in jail. -There is a child provision clause on page 16 section 305 stating a child-access provision. Gun must be locked and inaccessible to any child under 18. -They would have the right to come and inspect that you are storing your gun safely away from accessibility to children and fine is punishable for up to 5 yrs. in prison.
What the hell?
I own several assault rifles and more then a few pistols, we can’t let this happen, this madness must be stopped….let me jump on the bandwagon here and forward this to every gun owner I know before it is too late, let me just look these bills up so i can quote the exact language and make a logical argument against these draconian measures.
Lets see, HR 45…according to non partisan FactCheck.org;
H.R. 45 would – if enacted – require a federal license to own “any handgun” or “any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any detachable ammunition feeding device.”
It has a single sponsor, Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago. It was introduced on the first day of the new Congress, and on Feb. 9 it was referred to subcommittee as a routine matter. As of Feb. 20, it was still sitting there with no action scheduled.
That’s the way the vast majority of bills die – and the way this same legislation died last year after Rush introduced it in the previous Congress.
Lawmakers often introduce bills to make a political statement, frequently for home consumption. But few such measures have much hope of getting serious consideration, let alone passage. Rush, for example, has sponsored a total of 75 bills since he first came to the House in 1993, according to the nonpartisan site GovTrack.us. But only five of those bills have been enacted into law. Nearly 90 percent of them – a total of 66 bills – did not make their way out of committee.
Rush introduced this same legislation in June 2007, as H.R. 2666. When Congress adjourned last year that bill died quietly in the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, the same subcommittee where H.R. 45 now resides. It did eventually attract 16 other House sponsors, but by the time Congress adjourned last year, H.R. 2666 had not received a formal hearing, and it never came to a vote even in subcommittee.
Hmm…OK….but SB 2009 is still there to make owning a gun next to impossible
again, back to FactCheck;
S. 2099 (not “SB” 2099) was introduced Feb. 24, 2000, by Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island. He called it the “Handgun Safety and Registration Act of 2000,” and as the title implies it would have applied only to handguns, not to “all guns you have or own.”
It’s true that the bill would have required owners of handguns to register them with the federal government within one year, under the 1934 National Firearms Act (which is part of the Internal Revenue Code). That law requires a federal permit to own a machine gun, a sawed-off rifle or shotgun, or a silencer. Reed said in a news release that in practical terms, handgun owners would need to fill out a registration form, get fingerprinted by local law enforcement officials and obtain a local “Law Enforcement Certification.” These would be sent to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, along with a recent photo (2 inches by 2 inches) and a $5 registration fee.
The bill was referred to the Senate Finance Committee, and it eventually attracted two cosponsors. But when the 106th Congress adjourned at the end of 2000, the bill died without getting so much as a subcommittee hearing, let alone a vote. Reed has not reintroduced the bill since then.
Hmmm..OK…Opps…sorry…didn’t mean to get everyone all excited.
Now I don’t know, or really care whether this email was started by right wingers trying to slander the current administration or by some practical joker trying to see how many rednecks he could get to run for their “doomsday” shelters, the fact remains. just because you read it in an email DOES NOT make it true.
I am attaching a copy of this piece to the email and using reply all…stay tuned for the fireworks.