Opinion
H.R. 8 Mandates “Universal” Background Checks.
Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- Today, the newly minted anti-gun leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives passed its first gun control measure by a 240 -190 vote, offering further proof that anti-gun politicians are more interested in scoring cheap political points than doing their jobs and passing meaningful legislation that would make Americans safer.
Chris W. Cox, the executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), issued the following response to the passage of H.R. 8:
“This extreme gun-control bill will make criminals out of law-abiding Americans. It will also make it harder for good people to defend themselves and their families. Criminals, on the other hand, will continue to get their firearms the way they always have – through the black market, theft, and straw purchases. Forcing more government paperwork and additional fees on good people trying to exercise a constitutional right will do nothing to make Americans safer. On behalf of our members and supporters, the National Rifle Association will continue to fight to preserve the constitutionally protected right to self-defense.”
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump issued a statement of administration action publicly stating he would veto H.R. 8.
WhiteHouse on H.R. 8:
” The Administration opposes H.R. 8 because it would impose burdensome requirements on certain firearm transactions. H.R. 8 would require that certain transfers, loans, gifts, and sales of firearms be processed by a federally licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer of firearms. H.R. 8 would therefore impose permanent record-keeping requirements and limitless fees on these everyday transactions.
H.R. 8 contains very narrow exemptions from these requirements, and these exemptions would not sufficiently protect the Second Amendment right of individuals to keep and bear arms. For example, unless an exemption applies, both the act of leaving a weapon in the temporary care of a neighbor while traveling and the act of later retrieving that weapon would require processing by a licensed entity under H.R. 8. Also, unless such an exemption applies, domestic violence victims would be prohibited from borrowing a firearm for self-defense without first having the transaction go through such a licensed entity. The extensive regulation required by H.R. 8 is incompatible with the Second Amendment’s guarantee of an individual right to keep arms.
By overly extending the minimum time that a licensed entity is required to wait for background check results, H.R. 1112 would unduly impose burdensome delays on individuals seeking to purchase a firearm. For this reason, the Administration opposes the legislation. H.R. 1112 would require a federally licensed firearms importer, manufacturer, or dealer that initiates a mandatory background check on an individual seeking to purchase a firearm to wait ten business days on results before processing the transaction. If the Federal Government fails to complete the background check within this window of time, the individual seeking to purchase the firearm may petition the Government for permission to proceed with the transfer.
Under H.R. 1112, the licensed entity would be required to wait an additional ten business days after such a petition is filed before it is allowed to proceed with processing the transaction. Currently, such background checks are considered invalid 30 calendar days after the date the licensed entity initiated them. As the bill is written, therefore, an individual must file their petition on the earliest day possible. If they fail to do so, H.R. 1112 would effectively prohibit some firearms purchases from being processed because the initiated background check would be considered invalid before the end of the second ten-business-day waiting period. Allowing the Federal Government to restrict firearms purchases through bureaucratic delay would undermine the Second Amendment’s guarantee that law-abiding citizens have an individual right to keep and bear arms.
If H.R. 8, or H.R. 1112, are presented to the President, his advisors would recommend he veto the bill.”
Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America’s oldest civil rights and sportsmen’s group. More than five million members strong, NRA continues to uphold the Second Amendment and advocates enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation’s leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the armed services. Follow the NRA on social at Facebook.com/NationalRifleAssociation and Twitter @NRA.
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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org
Maybe their security details should give up their firearms for a month! What we see here is “Cloward/Piven, Google them if you are not familiar with those two! Then again, we have now have OAC that just dances to the tune of whatever radical agenda is written up for her! Firearms are just part of their take over, healthcare, schools etc. Be uninformed at your own peril!!
Is there really any legislation Congress can pass that would really make us any safer?
Oh, yeah, they could rescind just about every law relating to guns.
Gun control only makes life safer for criminals and legislators.
Why do DEMOCRATS want to disarm the citizens? If they wanted to protect lives they would not keep killing our babies. They want us unarmed so THEY can control everything we do. There is not one DEMOCRAT that can be trusted and about 75% of the GOP is the same. Only a few years ago we had the Tea Party and it is time to bring them back to save America from the DEMOCRATS and other A-holes.
Lets see if Trump is the defender of 2A rights as he promised during his campaign. He appears to be trying to deliver on other promises despite MSM and RINO opposition.
Self defense is not, and never has been, a Constitutional Right. It’s an inherent right. You get it by being born.
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I will think about giving up my right to ,own a firearm ,when the DICTATOR , in my state , gives up his and his armed guards.
It May come that if the Dems succeed in electing their candidate, in 2020, and gane full power, that states with “constitutional carry”, because they have very strong 2nd Ammendment support among the citizens as well as their representatives, will declare themselves “sanctuary states for the 2nd Ammendment. If this occurs, we will surely have a national crisis. Which side are you on?
Why don’t we have universal background checks in order to register to vote and that ID used to prove you are a U.S. citizen and eligible to vote. That is probably the next bill the Democrats want to put forward for a vote.
All these british redcoat nazis commie fascist bills , the loss of the house of rep by paul ryan , lack of open and concealed carry in all 50 states as in total constitutional carry , total repeal of 1986 1968 and 1934 , My President Donald J TRUMP being attacked time and time again , the attacks on My NRA …. is because of one sorry worthless traitorious chris cox of the ILA part of the NRA ….. his traitorious video on bumpstocks released by the NRA ILA and youtube video with yeager in TN in Jan 2018 on… Read more »