U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- At a time when our nation struggles, everyone’s first and foremost concern is the safety of themselves and their loved ones. However, this doesn’t stop Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) from pushing a massive gun grab bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would leave law-abiding Americans defenseless.
Rep. Johnson’s bill, H.R. 5717, the Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act, is nothing “new” or “innovative” for the gun control crowd in Congress. As we reported on failed presidential candidate and Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) companion bill earlier this year, Rep. Johnson took the same route of copying proposals already offered by his colleagues in Congress and packaged them into one bill with his name on it. Very bold.
H.R. 5717 includes banning semi-automatic firearms like the AR-15, a federal licensing scheme for all gun purchasers, “universal” background checks, unconstitutional red flag laws, and other anti-gun proposals that have already been introduced. These issues should be familiar, as we have been reporting on them throughout the 116th Congress (please see here, here, here and here). These egregious, over-reaching proposals are part of the Michael Bloomberg gun control play book, all of which would leave law-abiding Americans defenseless during a very critical time.
While Rep. Johnson pushes his gun grab legislation, NRA members are seeing troubling trends across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response to the pandemic, some anti-gun lawmakers have deemed gun stores as “non-essential,” shut down issuance of firearm permits, and, in some locations, they have created extreme delays for background checks required for firearm transfers. Some jurisdictions have even put added restrictions on firearm transfers, making it all but impossible for many law-abiding Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
This is all happening a time when prisons are releasing inmates back onto the streets and putting lives at risk. In Utah, a recently released inmate broke into a woman’s home, threatened her with a knife and demanded her car, cash, bank cards, and PIN numbers. Fortunately, the woman’s son was home and was able to call for police help and she was unharmed.
Whether it is Rep. Johnson’s proposal to disarm law-abiding Americans, or anti-gun jurisdictions shutting down access to lawful self-defense, NRA will continue to fight these abhorrent and unconstitutional actions. During these times of uncertainty, our ability to protect ourselves and our families is paramount.
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Hank Johnson – – the man who stated that Guam would CAPSIZE if the Military stationed more men there.
Every restrictive gun law ever passed by government(s) passed under the pretext of government protecting citizens and yet after passed dozens of countries used those very laws to take guns “from” the citizens and murdered them. During the twentieth century hundreds of millions of unarmed citizens were murdered, throughout Europe and Asia, and buried in open pit mass graves many of which have since been discovered. It is said over a hundred seventy million defenseless citizens were murdered by their own governments (that number may actually be only a fraction of the actual number) after disarming them during that bloody… Read more »
These Demonic fks are going to have to start feeling the BURN,or we will ever get their attention.
If you do not understand the Const or the Oath you took we must remove you.
Walk you out,or carry you.
Oath Breaking P.O.S….
Hank Johnson smartest man in Congress from the Democratic Georgia Plantation.
If anyone is foolish enough to believe the gun banners propaganda that gun violence will go away with the prohibition of firearms applied to ONLY peaceful law abiding citizens, then walk the sidewalks of any city street named after any reverend civil rights leader at 2am and experience the love you will get from the nice folks who you’ll meet . Or you could just try to pump gas at a at any pump in Metro Atl at any hour of the day to feel all that love.
Maybe this idiot is worried the weight of a gun will sink Guam and cause it to capsize. What type of brain does the people who elect these fools have anyway? God know he does not have one so I assume people in his district don’t either.
HR 5717 is a COMMUNISTS’ WET DREAM come true IF it passes. This bill is EXCEEDINGLY DANGEROUS to ALL FREEDOM LOVING Americans and FUTURE Americans.
Tippy,he’s as unstable as Biden the Buffoon.
Remember Rep. Hank Johnson was afraid that the island of Guam might tip over if too many people live there. Yes, he really is that stupid!
Heres the take action link to oppose this legislation, which for whatever reason the majority of these articles still neglect or deem unnecessary to include. Saying “contact your sen/rep” is useless without providing the means to do so.
Thank you FPC, for making these take action links so simple and accessible.
https://www.firearmspolicy.org/oppose-hr-5717-federal-gunpocalypse?utm_campaign=319_hr5717&utm_medium=email&utm_source=firearmspolicycoalition