POLITICS - PA Gun Registration, $10 per gun per year!
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POLITICS - PA Gun Registration, $10 per gun per year!
The registration would cost law-abiding gun owners $10 per gun each year...
Note that the sponsor names all have a "D" following...
Tom
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Pennsylvania Gun Registration Legislation Introduced!
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Please Contact Your State Legislators Today!
The Gun Registration Act of 2007, House Bill No. 760, sponsored by State Representatives Angel Cruz (D-180), Rosita Youngblood (D-198), Cherelle Parker (D-200), Jake Wheatley (D-19), Lisa Bennington (D-21), and Lawrence Curry (D-154) has been introduced in Harrisburg.
This misguided proposal would require every gun in Pennsylvania to be registered with the state, and each firearm would have to be re-registered annually. The registration would cost law-abiding gun owners $10 per gun each year. Of course, criminals won’t pay anything BECAUSE CRIMINALS DON'T REGISTER GUNS! In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Haynes v. U.S. (309 U.S. 85 (1968)) that since felons are prohibited from owning firearms, compelling them to register them would violate their 5th Amendment rights against self-incrimination. However, if a law-abiding gun owner fails to register it, he or she will be jailed and lose his or her rights FOREVER.
The measure would require each gun owner submit to fingerprinting, have a background check, and to include passport-style photos for the registration cards. The registration card for each gun would then have to be carried with that gun at all times. To make matters worse, if the state should reject your application for any reason, YOUR GUNS WILL BE CONFISCATED!
Please call your State Representative and State Senator today and ask them to oppose HB760! For contact information or help identifying your State Legislators, please click here.
Enough is enough!
It's time for all Pennsylvania NRA members’ voices to be heard!
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=2835
Note that the sponsor names all have a "D" following...
Tom
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Pennsylvania Gun Registration Legislation Introduced!
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Please Contact Your State Legislators Today!
The Gun Registration Act of 2007, House Bill No. 760, sponsored by State Representatives Angel Cruz (D-180), Rosita Youngblood (D-198), Cherelle Parker (D-200), Jake Wheatley (D-19), Lisa Bennington (D-21), and Lawrence Curry (D-154) has been introduced in Harrisburg.
This misguided proposal would require every gun in Pennsylvania to be registered with the state, and each firearm would have to be re-registered annually. The registration would cost law-abiding gun owners $10 per gun each year. Of course, criminals won’t pay anything BECAUSE CRIMINALS DON'T REGISTER GUNS! In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Haynes v. U.S. (309 U.S. 85 (1968)) that since felons are prohibited from owning firearms, compelling them to register them would violate their 5th Amendment rights against self-incrimination. However, if a law-abiding gun owner fails to register it, he or she will be jailed and lose his or her rights FOREVER.
The measure would require each gun owner submit to fingerprinting, have a background check, and to include passport-style photos for the registration cards. The registration card for each gun would then have to be carried with that gun at all times. To make matters worse, if the state should reject your application for any reason, YOUR GUNS WILL BE CONFISCATED!
Please call your State Representative and State Senator today and ask them to oppose HB760! For contact information or help identifying your State Legislators, please click here.
Enough is enough!
It's time for all Pennsylvania NRA members’ voices to be heard!
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=2835
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Thats gotta be unconstitutional.
Heck, wether they call it registration or not thats about what buying a gun legally amounts to. Theres no way I believe theres not a database somewhere with every NICS aproved purchase we all make.
I can see a guy forgetting to send in his yearly vig to the Gov't to find he just lost his gun rights forever. Its probly a felony too so you cant even move & escape the bs.
I dont live in PA but if I did I'd be pestering people about now. Not sure if it matters but I bring things like this to the attention of my congressmen too.
I thought PA was fairly gun friendly. CT's not too bad yet but its a constant battle.
Heck, wether they call it registration or not thats about what buying a gun legally amounts to. Theres no way I believe theres not a database somewhere with every NICS aproved purchase we all make.
I can see a guy forgetting to send in his yearly vig to the Gov't to find he just lost his gun rights forever. Its probly a felony too so you cant even move & escape the bs.
I dont live in PA but if I did I'd be pestering people about now. Not sure if it matters but I bring things like this to the attention of my congressmen too.
I thought PA was fairly gun friendly. CT's not too bad yet but its a constant battle.
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I just saw an Angus & Reid poll last week here in Canada that showed that 97% of Canadians believe that our 2 billion dollar gun registry has had no effect (NO EFFECT) on crime in Canada. I would think that even a moron with multiple lobotomies and 2 quarts of whiskey down the hatch would still have enough firing neurons to understand that the only people that will register their guns are those that are already willing to abide by the law. It HAS NOT WORKED in Canada. Sheesh! They really need to implement a minimum standard of intelligence for politicians. I say, anyone who has an IQ less than 8 or 10 should not be allowed to run for office. Obviously, the politicians who have put their name behind this law must be well below that mark. It is probably a strain on their mental faculties to sit up and breath, both at the same time.
P.S.: This needs to be opposed BIG TIME. Registration today provides the resources for confiscation tomorrow.
P.S.: This needs to be opposed BIG TIME. Registration today provides the resources for confiscation tomorrow.
Just another way of turning otherwise law abiding citizens into criminals and give an excuse to take away firearms. One of these days the American people are going to get their bellies full of this kind of bovine scatology and do something about it. Oh, wait a minute. I guess we already did. It was in the form of the 2nd Amendment!
I live in PA and always have to remind myself in times like these that Philadelphia is only close to New Jersey ... not in it. I'm only guessing that most of these sponsors are from there.
Legislators like them are a part of the reason I remain a registered democrat ... I can let them know how disappointed I am that they are messing up my party. It probably does no good but at the occasional political function it does cause a few quiet moments and a change of subject when that is said.
Legislators like them are a part of the reason I remain a registered democrat ... I can let them know how disappointed I am that they are messing up my party. It probably does no good but at the occasional political function it does cause a few quiet moments and a change of subject when that is said.
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How ironic! What do you suppose we'd be calling Pennsylvania if the British had required gun registration 232 years ago?
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Unarmed.pharmseller wrote:How ironic! What do you suppose we'd be calling Pennsylvania if the British had required gun registration 232 years ago?
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There is a fine line between hobby & obsession!
AND... I'm over it!!
No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!