HR 1096
When I started reading HR 1096, my jaw dropped. I was honestly shocked that such a bill would even be introduced in the United States House. The title of this bill is "Second Amendment Protection Act of 2007." And it only gets better from there.
Public Law 103-159 is repealed, and any provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted.
Now that's just excellent. Public Law 103-159 is the federal law requiring a "waiting period" for handguns. First, the federal government has no business requiring such a thing. Go ahead, find something in the Constitution that even pretends to give Congress that power. They don't have it. Second, it has, as various studies show, had ZERO effect on crime. Keeping handguns from people who obey the law has done NOTHING -- well, except create government jobs and expand the bureaucracy.
SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF SPORTING PURPOSES DISTINCTION.
Wow. Now I'm just drooling. In the federal code, there's about a dozen places where guns are limited based on the government's variable definition of "sporting purpose." Of course, there's nothing in the second amendment about "sporting purpose" at all. Free people are allowed to own guns NOT for sporting purposes (unless you consider resisting tyranny a sport).
SEC. 4. REPEAL OF THE CHILD SAFETY LOCK ACT OF 2005.
Awesome. That's a moronic, stupid, utterly and totally useless law. There's no way, ever, to enforce that law unless police are allowed to randomly search people's houses. And again, it has no effect on anything. Then I re-read the beginning:
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
Damn. Guess there's no chance of this common sense and excellent bill ever seeing the light of day as long as Queen Terrorist-loving Pelosi is the speaker. But I'm emailing Congressmen to tell them to sign on as co-sponsors anyway.
Comments
Posted by: William Teach at April 13, 2007 01:49 PM (doAuV)
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It is still good to know there's actually a few in Congress who do believe and support the Constitution, despite the fact that the Democrats will refuse to allow this bill any hearing or votes.
Posted by: Ogre at April 13, 2007 02:10 PM (oifEm)
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