BELLEVUE, WA – -(Ammoland.com)- In their zeal to create the impression they are taking action in the wake of two horrible mass shootings, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a special session later this week to talk about the so-called “Protecting Our Kids Act,” but the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says this is just reheated leftovers from the long-used gun control menu that has proven to have been a failure.
The 41-page bill (embedded below) encompasses a wish list of gun control measures, including raising the minimum age for purchasing any semi-auto rifle or shotgun to 21 years. It prohibits straw purchases, which are already illegal!? It mandates serial numbers on all firearms, ostensibly to track so-called “ghost guns,” but it sounds suspiciously like a backdoor effort at gun registration and a prohibition on being able to make your own firearms. The bill will require so-called “safe storage” of firearms, which seems unenforceable at best. It bans so-called “large-capacity” magazines, which are actually standard equipment for modern semi-auto rifles and most semi-auto pistols. There is also a section on bump stocks.
“We have very serious misgivings about this legislation,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “especially about the bum’s rush certain members of Congress are using. Congress needs a cooling-off period. We’ve seen in the past how hasty action has resulted in bad legislation, and we shouldn’t be in a hurry to pass something so we can see what’s in it.
“There is much in this bill that smacks of a registration scheme,” he continued. “There are only two reasons to register guns, to tax them, and ultimately to take them, by confiscation, or by passing more legislation at a future date which will outlaw what people can legally own today.
“If this is a reaction to Buffalo and Uvalde,” Gottlieb noted, “we’ll remind the authors those crimes did not involve ‘ghost guns’ or ‘bump stocks’ or firearms the killers accessed because they were not properly stored. In both cases, the murder suspects bought their guns at retail and passed background checks. They willingly violated several existing laws in order to carry out their heinous crimes. Both perpetrators left warning signs on social media, yet it is the law-abiding gun owners, including honest young adults, who are being penalized.
“If we can’t stop this legislation in the House, we will stop it in the Senate, and if it gets past the Senate, we will likely challenge it in federal court,” he concluded.
- Protecting Our Kids Act
- Raise the Age Act (HR3015)
- Prevent Gun Trafficking Act (HR2280)
- Untraceable Firearms Act (HR3088)
- Ethan’s Law (HR748)
- Safe Guns, Safe Kids Act (HR6370)
- Kimberly Vaughn Firearm Safe Storage Act (HR130)
2022 ‘gun control’ Protecting Our Kids Act
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
If this was truly “to protect our children”, the Dems would be supporting the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
They are trying to New Zealand, Australian, England Us now.
Never let a crisis go to waste
Making irrational decisions due to feelings instead using logic never works out well but gun grabbers are never rational and let feelings rule thier lives . Logic is a better way of dealing with horrific situations but people who let feelings rule thier lives are not capable of logic or rational thinking .
You are on your own to protect yourself today The US Supreme Court has made it clear that law enforcement agencies are not required to provide protection to the citizens who are forced to pay the police for their “services.” In the cases DeShaney vs. Winnebago and Town of Castle Rock vs. Gonzales, the supreme court has ruled that police agencies are not obligated to provide protection of citizens. In other words, police are well within their rights to pick and choose when to intervene to protect the lives and property of others — even when a threat is apparent. In both of… Read more »
Knee-jerk reaction, of course, and the DemonRats seeing an opportunity to further their disarming of America. How is it they suddenly care about kids, have time to write gun control bills and vote on them but don’t have time to take care of gas prices, food prices, inflation, and the supply chain problems? They don’t care about kids or the American people. Biden doesn’t believe in harding the schools. Guess that would prevent more shootings to help push their agenda. If they really cared they would support harding the schools and as another person said, support ending Roe v. Wade.
What is far worse this is happening while we are all awake and just watching. The democrats are the problem this is a plan of action to disarm all Americans. There will be more horrific acts of violence as democrats turn hardened criminals back on our streets. There own system failed as the shooters court records were sealed because he was a minor . That is the biggest mistake not to have taken corrective action to insure that obtaining a firearm for those minors with death on their agenda can not ever get a legally owned gun. Democrats want to… Read more »
THEY ARE NOT “OUR” representatives. The minute they violate their oath of office which covers SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED they have declared WAR against us and they are our ENEMIES. He who attempts to get another man into his absolute power does thereby put himself into a state of war with him, it being to be understood as a declaration of a design upon his life; for I have reason to conclude that he who would get me into his power without my consent would use me as he pleased when he got me there, and destroy me, too, when… Read more »
The minute they beak their oath to the constitution and American people, these people are traitors and should be immediately treated as such and led right out the door and hung, Voting them out doesn’t work any more as they have put their interests ahead of the people and they work for the communists .