United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- As we noted with the re-introduction of the Sabika Sheikh Firearms Licensing and Registration Act as HR 127, bad bills often turn up in Congress after Congress. But Sheila Jackson Lee is not the only member of the House of Representatives bringing back a bad bill. Chicago’s Robin Kelly is, too, and her terrible idea is far more likely to be passed into law than HR 127.
In the 116th Congress, Kelly introduced the Firearm Safety Act of 2019, which placed firearms under the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It’s back as HR 880, and the problems it had when it was reviewed last year are still there. There is, of course, the fact that it hands massive powers over our Second Amendment rights to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats.
In some ways, this is worse than “stroke of the pen, law of the land.” Executive orders can be undone by a President. The D.C. bureaucracy, though, is an entirely different matter, especially when it comes to their edicts. Presidents have a much harder time undoing them. Imagine, for instance, if anti-Second Amendment extremists try to use the CPSC’s reporting process to claim popular firearms like the AR-15 and Glock are unsafe – trying to trigger an involuntary recall.
Could Second Amendment supporters count on the courts to halt this gun ban by bureaucratic fiat? You may want to think twice about that assumption. The harsh truth is that the courts may not stop such an effort. For instance, despite the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, lawsuits against the manufacturer of the guns used in the Sandy Hook shooting on dubious grounds have been allowed to proceed, even though the guns used in that horrific shooting were stolen. If courts can find a way to ignore a law, then they could easily ratify a dubious recall, especially if the bureaucracy involved takes pains to follow its “normal” procedures.
The best way to avoid the abuse of this power by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats at CPSC is to make sure that the power is never given to that agency in the first place. Second Amendment supporters should contact their Representatives and Senators and politely urge their opposition this legislation. Second Amendment supporters should also support the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action and Political Victory Fund to ensure that the current anti-Second Amendment regimes in the House, Senate, and White House are defeated at the ballot box as soon as possible.
About Harold Hutchison
Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.
we do need to attack them the way they attack us bloomberg needs to be sued personally by Remington share holders
hit them in their wallet
After the last fraud election I am convinced that the ballot box is no longer an option now that they have successfully stolen an election . The cartridge box appears to be the only option to change the course of American history . Just like the Britts these clowns on the left need educated by the power of a free and armed society .
“Second Amendment supporters should also support the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action and Political Victory Fund to ensure that the current anti-Second Amendment regimes in the House, Senate, and White House are defeated at the ballot box as soon as possible.”
The NRA has never supported the 2A. Why should second amendment supporters support the largest, most effective arms control organization in this nation’s history?
ILLEGAL biden = ILLEGAL LAWS
All of these “Commie Rat Bastards” (CRBs) need to be gone. Until we line ever last one them up in front of the wall, and, or 13 steps, and a rope, this country is lost. It’s official we are now being governed by fraudulent Federal officials, who are being run by high tech, and China. New World Order.
Biden has sold his office from the start, and now he’s selling out the country!
The perpetual game of whack-a-mole. Just wait a few more years, when the “educators” have crapped out several million more mind washed, marxist voters who will eagerly and viciously push this garbage. At the tune of 4 to 5 million per year, plus all the illegal aliens and jihadis they’re bringing in, all they need to do is wait just a couple short years and there will be no more “Americans” left in this nations. It’ll be marxists vs a teeny, tiny population of home schooled Americans with no voice at all.
“The best way to avoid the abuse of this power by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats at CPSC is to make sure that the power is never given to that agency in the first place.” The best way to take care of the problem if it DOES get in, is to take them out and hang them.
I wonder what the guard troops in DC would do if a million armed patriots showed up.
Doing the same thing over and over again (including voting) and expecting different results is the classic definition of insanity. Voting in America today is the equivalent of sitting in on a crooked poker game where everyone is cheating. If you play, you lose, not contest, no chance, unless you cheat. If you cheat, then you may win, but you have become part of the problem and the problem continues (where we are today). There are only 2 ways to deal with it, first, don’t play at all, and second, turn over the table and run the crooks out of… Read more »
The courts would be NO help because they believe in Chevron Deference. The theory that regulatory agencies know best when it comes to interpreting their regulations. It’s little more than a brush off for cases that should have been handled in another venue. Bureaucrats really have run amok before the courts would reign them in. This ridiculous maneuvering, in addition to bad lawmaking is exactly why we need 2A organizations to help us fight this BS, that often goes unreported. That includes the NRA, 2ndAF, GOA, FPC, all of them,. So, join one or more. Give them your hard earned… Read more »