HR 5717 Gun Violence and Community Safety Act of 2020

[TomV]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-con ... BWR2nXe4qo

[TomV]

The companion senate bill is S 3254

[Medic218]

Well that looks mostly like crap.

[Rafe]

A look at the home states of the 18 cosponsors tell you all you need to know about that bill:

Massachusetts [9]
New York [3]
Illinois [2]
Connecticut [1]
District of Columbia [1]
Maryland [1]
New Jersey [1]

"Oh my gosh! Is that a .22 Short cowboy cartridge?!! Are you federally licensed to possess that weapon of mass destruction?!!!"

[Syntyr]

This is pretty much everything they have wanted for years. And yet we all know this will only be step 1...
This bill makes various changes to the federal framework governing the sale, transfer, and possession of firearms and ammunition. Among other things, the bill does the following:

generally requires individuals to obtain a license to purchase, acquire, or possess a firearm or ammunition;
raises the minimum age—from 18 years to 21 years—to purchase firearms and ammunition;
establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties;
requires law enforcement agencies to be notified following a firearms-related background check that results in a denial;
creates a statutory process for a family or household member to petition a court for an extreme risk protection order to remove firearms from an individual who poses a risk of committing violence;
restricts the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices;
restricts the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, or receipt of ghost guns (i.e., guns without serial numbers);
restricts the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, or receipt of silencers, gun mufflers threaded barrels;
makes trafficking in firearms a stand-alone criminal offense;
requires federally licensed gun dealers to submit and annually certify compliance with a security plan to detect and deter firearm theft;
removes limitations on the civil liability of gun manufacturers;
allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for firearms and firearm components;
establishes a community violence intervention grant program; and
promotes research on firearms safety and gun violence prevention.

[parabelum]

How is a gun “violent”? I have many and they are all very peaceful They just sit there...not moving...they don’t talk...

[K.Mooneyham]

Do y'all really think this will make it through the Senate after the antics the House Dems have pulled lately?

[TomV]

Do y'all really think this will make it through the Senate after the antics the House Dems have pulled lately?

I'm not worried right now. I think it dies in committee in both chambers.

[LDB415]

I am fairly concerned as the left has zero morals or scruples anymore and will do anything regardless of how illegal to get their way.