POLITICS - PA Gun Registration, $10 per gun per year!

don Tomás · Post by **don Tomás** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:43 pm

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 wonâ€™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 membersâ€™ voices to be heard!

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=2835

Eric M. · Post by **Eric M.** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:53 pm

$10.00per year would cost most of us Levergunners a heap of money.
D must mean Dollars?

Eric

don Tomás · Post by **don Tomás** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:08 pm

Eric M. wrote:"D" must mean Dollars?
Eric

Yep... our dollars...
Tom

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:40 pm

Darn, I would have to sell off 'bout four guns a year to pay the tax! Of course in about fifteen years I'd be down to what they are really trying to accomplish....get me down to one rifle.

Leverdude · Post by **Leverdude** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:41 pm

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.

marlinman93 · Post by **marlinman93** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:41 pm

I just wonder why they can't remember what the gun owners in Pennsylvania registered the year before? Seems like more of a tax than a registration. Registrations only happen once, not over again each year!

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:18 pm

marlinman93 wrote:Registrations only happen once...

Ask the Russians and Germans what happens right after.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:03 am

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.

Mojo · Post by **Mojo** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:36 pm

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!

oldgerboy · Post by **oldgerboy** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:58 pm

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.

marlinman93 · Post by **marlinman93** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:12 pm

Griff wrote:
marlinman93 wrote:Registrations only happen once...
Ask the Russians and Germans what happens right after.

That's why they only happen once!

Haycock · Post by **Haycock** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:41 am

I just registered, so hello to everyone, but I thought I'd comment here because I live in Pennsylvania.

I don't think that the state legislature will pass this. PA is a really reasonable state in terms of gun laws, and the NRA is pretty strong here.

Later.

Jeeps · Post by **Jeeps** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:45 pm

How ironic to pay someone hundreds of dollars a year to keep updating a list that will make it easier for them to take them when the time comes

Jeeps

Post by **Old Savage** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:42 pm

The Ds, that ought to tell you something.

Post by **Old Savage** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:43 pm

The democratic congress has a 20% approval rating - this may help in Pa.

Bruce Scott · Post by **Bruce Scott** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:05 am

My licence is $35 a year regardless of the number of guns. Whenever I add one it costs $27 for the addition. Taking them off - zilch.

pharmseller · Post by **pharmseller** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:04 am

How ironic! What do you suppose we'd be calling Pennsylvania if the British had required gun registration 232 years ago?

Quinn

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:22 am

pharmseller wrote:How ironic! What do you suppose we'd be calling Pennsylvania if the British had required gun registration 232 years ago?

Quinn

Unarmed.

meanc · Post by **meanc** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:31 pm

What do you suppose we'd be calling Pennsylvania

Oh, it'd probably still be called Pennsylvania...it's just that we wouldn't be called the US.

DavidS · Post by **DavidS** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:04 pm

JEEEEZZZ! And I thought that living in NJ was bad. It seems to be the whole North East Liberal mind set lately. I hope that PA gets it defeated.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:42 pm

If this legislation passed I'd move. Seriously I couldn't live with those type of restrictions placed on me. And I'm from the government. Scary. What's next?

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:56 pm

I live in PA.

Heck, I thought this thing was shot down months ago already

don Tomás · Post by **don Tomás** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:29 pm

casastahle wrote:I live in PA.

Heck, I thought this thing was shot down months ago already

I posted this back in the beginning of April (the last time LeverGun.com got sick) and don't know the current status. Anybody? Bueller? Bueller?