Dems Introduce Legislation to Outlaw All Handgun Sales, Fund Gun Control Research

[501st]

Since the Dems weren't content with stopping online ammo sales and mandating firearms insurance.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/20...-all-handgun-sales-fund-gun-control-research/

 

[K31]

Please, please, liberals, pin your hopes on gun control in 2016 since you don't have anything else to talk about.

Smart Gun is an oxymoron.

 

[BeoBill]

And the mask slips once again...

 

[Reptile]

Since the Dems weren't content with stopping online ammo sales and mandating firearms insurance.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/20...-all-handgun-sales-fund-gun-control-research/

Keep in mind that liberals have no real interest in outlawing gun sales. If they succeeded it would be like a dog finally catching a car it was chasing. They wouldn't know what to do politically.

They need the issue and they need to APPEAR to be doing something about it. They WILL, however, try to make a buck off of it, both in terms of campaign contributions and in finding ways to tax anything and everything associated with firearm ownership.

Sadly it's very easy to fire up a base that is clueless.

 

[MigraineMan]

Reading the "Handgun Trigger Safety Act" text, I'll make couple of observations.

First up - The Director of the National Institute of Justice (/me wonders if he wears a cape and a mask to work,) is chartered with issuing grants to qualified businesses to develop "personalized handgun" tech. He's got a $2M budget to issue in 2016, and another $2M in 2017 ... which is a pretty damned small amount for the scope of the product development they're requiring. Regardless of whether or not a successful tech is developed, the prohibitions apply in 2020. So if a viable technology isn't developed, all handgun sales become prohibited. Neato.

There's a requirement that handgun manufacturers accept firearms they manufactured, at an owner's request, and install the aforementioned personalizing tech. I can't imagine the engineering nightmare of trying to integrate something like this into hundreds or thousands of legacy products.

And then there's this little gem:

COST OF RETROFITTING
(1) COST BORNE BY MANUFACTURERS—
Upon the request of the owner of a handgun that was manufactured in the United States and that is not a personalized handgun or retrofitted personalized handgun, the manufacturer of the handgun—
(A) shall—
(i) retrofit the handgun so that the handgun is a retrofitted personalized hand-gun; and
(ii) return the handgun to the owner within a reasonable period of time; and
(B) may not request compensation for the retrofit from the owner

There's a section a little further on that says manufacturers may be reimbursed for costs for retrofitting handguns. Reimbursements will come from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund. (I wonder if DOJ knows about this.) No mention of costs that manufacturers will bear engineering the modifications in the first place. And what happens if a manufacturer isn't in business any more?

This bill is a horribly thought out piece of crap. (Or possibly not, if the purpose is to prohibit handgun sales and to make current owners criminals for non-compliance (e.g. "attempted sale of a non-retrofitted handgun after 2020."))

 

[john_bud]

Was this from "the Onion" or what?

Anyway, I've got a 1798 whitney us military rifle that could use a smarter trigger.

 

[Jim12]

Keep in mind that liberals have no real interest in outlawing gun sales. If they succeeded it would be like a dog finally catching a car it was chasing. They wouldn't know what to do politically.

They need the issue and they need to APPEAR to be doing something about it. They WILL, however, try to make a buck off of it, both in terms of campaign contributions and in finding ways to tax anything and everything associated with firearm ownership.

Sadly it's very easy to fire up a base that is clueless.

Sounds like the same strategy by Liberals/ the Left over the past 50 years with respect to:
poverty
crime
drugs
racism
health care

and now,

ISIS

The Left has answers for everything, but solutions for nothing.