HR 127 Introduced

[jimbo728]

Rep Sheila Jackson Lee introduced a bill requiring registration of all firearms possessed by US citizens. Failure to comply: up to 15yrs imprisonment and/or $150 000 fines.
There is more and gets worse. Way worse.
The bill has been referred to Judiciary committee.
Advise you read the bill. HR 127. Jan 4 2021.
Jim

 

[stansdds]

Would require a psych eval for everyone who owns or wants to purchase a firearm. Roughly 40% of Americans currently own at least one firearm. How long is it going to take for government approved psychologists to evaluate 40% of Americans? $800 per year paid to the government for what sounds like government insurance? 3 levels of licenses? 2 or 3 year renewals of licenses? Wow! I'd like to think this will not make it out of committee... but we live in "interesting" times.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Here is a link to the bill's text. I would encourage every member to call, write, and email his/her Representative and Senators regarding this misguided legislation . . .

Text - H.R.127 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

 

[Muss Muggins]

The good news is that there are no cosponsors listed . . .

 

[ladder13]

All gun owners should join 2A advocates and call their Reps.

 

[Dynamite Dan]

All gun owners should join 2A advocates and call their Reps.

What an original line of thinking. You come up with that all by yourself?

 

[robertrwalsh]

It will probably go nowhere. This time.

 

[stansdds]

It will probably go nowhere. This time.

Let's hope that it dies as a resolution in committee.

 

[Model52guy]

This is a “tried and true” method of negotiation. The first offer is absurd so the next ones seem “reasonable” by comparison. I expect to see these bills start coming out regularly. Each one will be less ridiculous than the last one.

 

[GypsmJim]

If you google the rep. that introduced the bill you'll see that she is no newcomer to gun legislation.

 

[delcrossv]

This is a “tried and true” method of negotiation. The first offer is absurd so the next ones seem “reasonable” by comparison. I expect to see these bills start coming out regularly. Each one will be less ridiculous than the last one.

Yep, hoping for "compromise". In this , there can be no compromise.

 

[GaryHK]

Forgive my ignorance but is this above and beyond the information that is transmitted and stored when we do a 4473?

I'm also assuming "Rep" means representative, not Republican.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Woo hoo, wait, let me get my tin foil hat and twist up my nickers.

The legislator that sponsored this has introduced 640 bills in her 25 years in Texas's 18th District.

Wanna guess how many of those 640 bills became law? ...... 7

The 116th Congress (Jan 3, 2019-Jan 3, 2021) introduced 16,601 bills. Only 2 percent, 344, became law.

You'll get ulcers if you get worked up every time a House aide strings two paragraphs together.

 

[Muss Muggins]

No information is “transmitted and stored .” The NICS check verifies that you can legally acquire a handgun or a long gun. The specifics are recorded on the 4473, and that document stays with the FFL until death or retirement. NICS gets nothing other than handgun or long gun. There is specific legislation prohibiting a national gun registry which this bill will have to overcome.

Forgive my ignorance but is this above and beyond the information that is transmitted and stored when we do a 4473?

I'm also assuming "Rep" means representative, not Republican.

 

[BC38]

Representative Lee introduced at least a half a dozen equally draconian anti-gun bills at the start of this session - just as she has every session for the last several years. AFAIK none of them ever gain any traction or much in the way of co-sponsors. It is just political posturing - "all hat and no cattle" as they say.

 

[Model 10-8]

I think that the paper work alone from 1 (U.S.) state will take years to decipher. It will be a nightmare.

 

[Racer X]

Rep Sheila Jackson Lee introduced a bill requiring registration of all firearms possessed by US citizens. Failure to comply: up to 15yrs imprisonment and/or $150 000 fines.
There is more and gets worse. Way worse.
The bill has been referred to Judiciary committee.
Advise you read the bill. HR 127. Jan 4 2021.
Jim

So every criminal caught with a stolen or unregistered firearm will now do 15 years? How will this work out in month 2 when every cell in the country is packed overcapacity?

 

[500SNW]

Look beyond the bill...look to the Constitutionality of what is written in it. It is a blatant violation of The Bill of Rights. "Shall not be infringed." They cannot reasonably force a Citizen to meet all those requirements just to exercise their Right To Keep And Bear Arms. I'm not saying that the current crop of fanatical lunatics won't ever succeed in passing something like this. But it will never withstand a Court challenge.

 

[touchoneoff]

It will probably go nowhere. This time.

Yes, I hope so.

 

[MG34/bar]

Guys, please look up US Supreme Ct. decision “Haynes v United States” (1968). That notes that any firearm registration legislation cannot be used against (wait for it)...criminals or nut cases! Because anyone who is prohibited from gun ownership by any of the city, county, state, or federal laws already on the books cannot be charged with failing to register a gun, as that would be requiring them to incriminate themselves, which cannot be demanded in accord with the 5th Amendment.
In other words such a law cannot be enforced against the very people that we would think shouldn’t have a gun at all (look at the categories on the form 4473, and add to those the estimated 20,000 state and local firearm laws).