Read this very carefully....
S.649 -- Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013
Senate gun control bill -
Section 122 "Firearms Transfers"
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 anticipated 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 gun safe 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".
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.
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