Monday, May 4, 2020

Sit This One Out If You Want to Become a Slave

Tom Sheppard
5/4/2020

I don't usually make remarks on specific legislation, but sometimes a proposed law is so shocking it must be called out and a call to action issued.  I am calling all freedom loving citizens to take action against House Resolution 5717.

On January 30, 2020 a bill was introduced to the House of Representatives which will devastate your Constitutional Rights under the Second Amendment.  See my brief comments on each part of the bill in RED below!

It was introduced by Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4].

According to https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5717 the HR 5717, known as the Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020,  "makes various changes to the federal framework governing the sale, transfer, and possession of firearms and ammunition. Among other things, the bill does the following: "This is mild wording for the extreme changes this bill proposes.  
  1. "generally requires individuals to obtain a license to purchase, acquire, or possess a firearm or ammunition;"  You would need a license to buy a gun or ammunition.  This is way beyond a concealed carry permit.  It puts your 2nd amendment rights totally into the hands of un-elected bureaucrats and forces you to pay whatever application and licensing fees they want to charge just to keep the guns you already have.
  2. "raises the minimum age—from 18 years to 21 years—to purchase firearms and ammunition;"  You can vote. You can be drafted to serve in the military (if they reactivate the draft).  But, you cannot buy or own a gun.  While we are at it, why don’t we take away your voting rights and your right to buy booze as well.  If you cannot be trusted with a gun, you clearly aren’t capable of being trusted to vote or drink responsibly.
  3. "establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties;"  You can’t even give, or inherit a gun without a background check.  Big Brother wants to know every time you decide to get rid of something you own, or want to buy something from any person.  In the past, this only applied to commercial sales and federally licensed gun dealers.  Now, we would all have to be federally licensed gun dealers, or become felons.
  4. "requires law enforcement agencies to be notified following a firearms-related background check that results in a denial;"  Now, they will be able to put you on a watch list because you tried to buy a gun and were denied.
  5. "creates a statutory process for a family or household member to petition a court for an extreme risk protection order to remove firearms from an individual who poses a risk of committing violence;"  If someone near you thinks you might not be trustworthy with a gun, the police will come and forcibly take your guns away.  Your chances of getting them back ever are almost nil.
  6. "restricts the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices;" This makes sense because when the cops or soldiers show up to confiscate your guns, they want to be absolutely sure they can sustain a hire rate of fire and not have to reload as often as you.
  7. "restricts the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, or receipt of ghost guns (i.e., guns without serial numbers);"  This means you cannot build your own gun from parts and you cannot possess one that you, or someone else, built years ago.  This way government ensures that only guns manufactured by corporations exist and they already know where those are going.
  8. "makes trafficking in firearms a stand-alone criminal offense;"  If you buy, sell, are given or give more than 1 gun in a 30-day period, you are trafficking in guns.
  9. "requires federally licensed gun dealers to submit and annually certify compliance with a security plan to detect and deter firearm theft;"  This would now apply to you as well.  You would need to unload all your guns and put them in a proper gun safe, or you become a felon.  This is great news for those who own stock in gun safe manufacturers.
  10. "removes limitations on the civil liability of gun manufacturers;"  This allows people to sue a gun company for any harm done with a gun just like you can now sue a car manufacturer for any harm done with a car they make or a booze maker for any harm that comes from drinking booze.  Oh, that’s right, you can’t sue the car maker for bad drivers nor can you sue booze makers for liver failure or drunken drivers.  Why not?  Because that is a stupid idea which would eventually be applied across the board and result in no manufacturers of any products anymore.
  11. "allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for firearms and firearm components;"  This would put the same folks who judge whether or not we should be able to open a pill bottle in charge of how safely firearms perform.  This is ludicrous on its face.  Every rational human being knows that firearms are intended to be dangerous.  They are only safe when unloaded and locked up.  As a Marine I was taught how to kill my enemy with the butt of my rifle as well as with a well-aimed bullet.  Getting pistol whipped is a serious and potentially deadly assault, as it would be to hit anyone with a heavy piece of metal.  To make guns safe is to make them cease to exist.
  12. "establishes a community violence intervention grant program; and
  13. promotes research on firearms safety and gun violence prevention."  These last two points are nothing more or less than a way for the authors of the bill to divert hundreds of millions of your tax dollars into the hands and bank accounts of those who want to promote the abolition of private gun ownership.
This bill explicitly turns no fewer than 148 different firearms (long guns) which are currently legal into illegal, felonious possessions.  It also sweeps up many currently legal pistols into its net.  I have included the long gun list at the end of this post.

As bad as my post makes this bill seem, the reality is far worse.  If you read the bill you will see what I mean.  I can only imagine the impact it will have on you. I know that it has left me stunned that anyone thought any part of  this was a good idea.  I found it morally repugnant and shameful that any elected official would author such an attack on the Constitution of the United States.

It is clear to me that this proposed law has exactly one objective – to bring all firearms under the direct control and possession of the government.  This would result in the total disarmament of the public and totally remove our rights under the Second Amendment, which rights were expressly provided as a means to protect the citizens from unlawful and tyrannical or despotic actions by the government.  It would set us all up to become slaves to a ruling class.

Anyone who has ever taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America who does not oppose this bill is in breach of that oath.

This bill has absolutely no redeeming points whatsoever. It is a direct assault on our constitutional rights and should die and ignominious death.  Anyone who has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America who does not oppose this bill is in breach of that oath.  Any citizen of the United States of America who does not oppose this bill does not deserve the blessings of liberty they now possess.

Below are some more tidbits taken directly from the congressional website where the entire text of this bill can be read (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5717/text#toc-HD892D9BDA3904E798F367C65758C5DDA)

According to the authors, this bill affects the following area and 33 legislative subjects, including religion:

Policy Area
One Policy Area term, which best describes an entire measure, is assigned to every public bill or resolution.

Legislative Subjects
  1. Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  2. Assault and harassment offenses
  3. Business records
  4. Citizenship and naturalization
  5. Civil actions and liability
  6. Community life and organization
  7. Congressional oversight
  8. Consumer Product Safety Commission
  9. Crime victims
  10. Crimes against property
  11. Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
  12. Criminal justice information and records
  13. Criminal procedure and sentencing
  14. Department of Justice
  15. Domestic violence and child abuse
  16. Due process and equal protection
  17. Elementary and secondary education
  18. Firearms and explosives
  19. Government information and archives
  20. Health facilities and institutions
  21. Health programs administration and funding
  22. Health promotion and preventive care
  23. Higher education
  24. Judicial procedure and administration
  25. Judicial review and appeals
  26. Law enforcement administration and funding
  27. Law enforcement officers
  28. Licensing and registrations
  29. Medical research
  30. Mental health
  31. Personnel records
  32. Product safety and quality
  33. Religion
Contact your federal lawmakers and let them know they should kill this bill in any form it takes.  If you don’t know how to contact them, or maybe don’t even know who they are, this website can help on both counts: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members

Contact members of your North Carolina federal legislative delegation and let them know to kill this bill in any form it takes.  Compromise on this bill is not a good thing.

North Carolina’s senators are:


Senior Senator
Richard Burr
Republican
Since Jan 4, 2005
Next Election in 2022

Junior Senator
Thom Tillis
Republican
Since Jan 6, 2015
Next Election in 2020

North Carolina’s 13 representatives are:


1st District
George “G.K.” Butterfield Jr.
Democrat
Since Jul 21, 2004
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2nd District
George Holding
Republican
Since Jan 3, 2017
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3rd District
Gregory Murphy
Republican
Since Sep 17, 2019
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4th District
David Price
Democrat
Since Jan 7, 1997
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5th District
Virginia Foxx
Republican
Since Jan 4, 2005
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6th District
Mark Walker
Republican
Since Jan 6, 2015
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7th District
David Rouzer
Republican
Since Jan 6, 2015
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8th District
Richard Hudson
Republican
Since Jan 3, 2013
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9th District
Dan Bishop
Republican
Since Sep 17, 2019
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10th District
Patrick McHenry
Republican
Since Jan 4, 2005
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The 11th district is currently vacant.
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12th District
Alma Adams
Democrat
Since Nov 12, 2014
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13th District
Ted Budd
Republican
Since Jan 3, 2017
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All representatives serve until the end of the current Congress on Jan 3, 2021.

Long guns outlawed by this bill:

1.       “(i) All AK types, including the following:
2.       “(I) AK, AK47, AK47S, AK–74, AKM, AKS, ARM, MAK90, MISR, NHM90, NHM91, Rock River Arms LAR–47, SA85, SA93, Vector Arms AK–47, VEPR, WASR–10, and WUM.
3.       “(II) IZHMASH Saiga AK.
4.       “(III) MAADI AK47 and ARM.
5.       “(IV) Norinco 56S, 56S2, 84S, and 86S.
6.       “(V) Poly Technologies AK47 and AKS.
7.       “(ii) All AR types, including the following:
8.       “(I) AR–10.
9.       “(II) AR–15.
10.    “(III) Alexander Arms Overmatch Plus 16.
11.    “(IV) Armalite M15 22LR Carbine.
12.    “(V) Armalite M15–T.
13.    “(VI) Barrett REC7.
14.    “(VII) Beretta AR–70.
15.    “(VIII) Black Rain Ordnance Recon Scout.
16.    “(IX) Bushmaster ACR.
17.    “(X) Bushmaster Carbon 15.
18.    “(XI) Bushmaster MOE series.
19.    “(XII) Bushmaster XM15.
20.    “(XIII) Chiappa Firearms MFour rifles.
21.    “(XIV) Colt Match Target rifles.
22.    “(XV) CORE Rifle Systems CORE15 rifles.
23.    “(XVI) Daniel Defense M4A1 rifles.
24.    “(XVII) Devil Dog Arms 15 Series rifles.
25.    “(XVIII) Diamondback DB15 rifles.
26.    “(XIX) DoubleStar AR rifles.
27.    “(XX) DPMS Tactical rifles.
28.    “(XXI) DSA Inc. ZM–4 Carbine.
29.    “(XXII) Heckler & Koch MR556.
30.    “(XXIII) High Standard HSA–15 rifles.
31.    “(XXIV) Jesse James Nomad AR–15 rifle.
32.    “(XXV) Knight’s Armament SR–15.
33.    “(XXVI) Lancer L15 rifles.
34.    “(XXVII) MGI Hydra Series rifles.
35.    “(XXVIII) Mossberg MMR Tactical rifles.
36.    “(XXIX) Noreen Firearms BN 36 rifle.
37.    “(XXX) Olympic Arms.
38.    “(XXXI) POF USA P415.
39.    “(XXXII) Precision Firearms AR rifles.
40.    “(XXXIII) Remington R–15 rifles.
41.    “(XXXIV) Rhino Arms AR rifles.
42.    “(XXXV) Rock River Arms LAR–15.
43.    “(XXXVI) Sig Sauer SIG516 rifles and MCX rifles.
44.    “(XXXVII) SKS with a detachable magazine.
45.    “(XXXVIII) Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifles.
46.    “(XXXIX) Stag Arms AR rifles.
47.    “(XL) Sturm, Ruger & Co. SR556 and AR–556 rifles.
48.    “(XLI) Uselton Arms Air-Lite M–4 rifles.
49.    “(XLII) Windham Weaponry AR rifles.
50.    “(XLIII) WMD Guns Big Beast.
51.    “(XLIV) Yankee Hill Machine Company, Inc. YHM–15 rifles.
52.    “(iii) Barrett M107A1.
53.    “(iv) Barrett M82A1.
54.    “(v) Beretta CX4 Storm.
55.    “(vi) Calico Liberty Series.
56.    “(vii) CETME Sporter.
57.    “(viii) Daewoo K–1, K–2, Max 1, Max 2, AR 100, and AR 110C.
58.    “(ix) Fabrique Nationale/FN Herstal FAL, LAR, 22 FNC, 308 Match, L1A1 Sporter, PS90, SCAR, and FS2000.
59.    “(x) Feather Industries AT–9.
60.    “(xi) Galil Model AR and Model ARM.
61.    “(xii) Hi-Point Carbine.
62.    “(xiii) HK–91, HK–93, HK–94, HK–PSG–1, and HK USC.
63.    “(xiv) IWI TAVOR, Galil ACE rifle.
64.    “(xv) Kel-Tec Sub-2000, SU–16, and RFB.
65.    “(xvi) SIG AMT, SIG PE–57, Sig Sauer SG 550, Sig Sauer SG 551, and SIG MCX.
66.    “(xvii) Springfield Armory SAR–48.
67.    “(xviii) Steyr AUG.
68.    “(xix) Sturm, Ruger & Co. Mini-14 Tactical Rifle M–14/20CF.
69.    “(xx) All Thompson rifles, including the following:
70.    “(I) Thompson M1SB.
71.    “(II) Thompson T1100D.
72.    “(III) Thompson T150D.
73.    “(IV) Thompson T1B.
74.    “(V) Thompson T1B100D.
75.    “(VI) Thompson T1B50D.
76.    “(VII) Thompson T1BSB.
77.    “(VIII) Thompson T1–C.
78.    “(IX) Thompson T1D.
79.    “(X) Thompson T1SB.
80.    “(XI) Thompson T5.
81.    “(XII) Thompson T5100D.
82.    “(XIII) Thompson TM1.
83.    “(XIV) Thompson TM1C.
84.    “(xxi) UMAREX UZI rifle.
85.    “(xxii) UZI Mini Carbine, UZI Model A Carbine, and UZI Model B Carbine.
86.    “(xxiii) Valmet M62S, M71S, and M78.
87.    “(xxiv) Vector Arms UZI Type.
88.    “(xxv) Weaver Arms Nighthawk.
89.    “(xxvi) Wilkinson Arms Linda Carbine.
90.    “(I) All of the following pistols, copies, duplicates, variants, or altered facsimiles with the capability of any such weapon thereof:
91.    “(i) All AK–47 types, including the following:
92.    “(I) Centurion 39 AK pistol.
93.    “(II) CZ Scorpion pistol.
94.    “(III) Draco AK–47 pistol.
95.    “(IV) HCR AK–47 pistol.
96.    “(V) IO Inc. Hellpup AK–47 pistol.
97.    “(VI) Krinkov pistol.
98.    “(VII) Mini Draco AK–47 pistol.
99.    “(VIII) PAP M92 pistol.
100. “(IX) Yugo Krebs Krink pistol.
101. “(ii) All AR–15 types, including the following:
102. “(I) American Spirit AR–15 pistol.
103. “(II) Bushmaster Carbon 15 pistol.
104. “(III) Chiappa Firearms M4 Pistol GEN II.
105. “(IV) CORE Rifle Systems CORE15 Roscoe pistol.
106. “(V) Daniel Defense MK18 pistol.
107. “(VI) DoubleStar Corporation AR pistol.
108. “(VII) DPMS AR–15 pistol.
109. “(VIII) Jesse James Nomad AR–15 pistol.
110. “(IX) Olympic Arms AR–15 pistol.
111. “(X) Osprey Armament MK–18 pistol.
112. “(XI) POF USA AR pistols.
113. “(XII) Rock River Arms LAR 15 pistol.
114. “(XIII) Uselton Arms Air-Lite M–4 pistol.
115. “(iii) Calico Liberty pistols.
116. “(iv) DSA SA58 PKP FAL pistol.
117. “(v) Encom MP–9 and MP–45.
118. “(vi) Heckler & Koch model SP–89 pistol.
119. “(vii) Intratec AB–10, TEC–22 Scorpion, TEC–9, and TEC–DC9.
120. “(viii) IWI Galil Ace pistol, UZI PRO pistol.
121. “(ix) Kel-Tec PLR 16 pistol.
122. “(x) The following MAC types:
123. “(I) MAC–10.
124. “(II) MAC–11.
125. “(III) Masterpiece Arms MPA A930 Mini Pistol, MPA460 Pistol, MPA Tactical Pistol, and MPA Mini Tactical Pistol.
126. “(IV) Military Armament Corp. Ingram M–11.
127. “(V) Velocity Arms VMAC.
128. “(xi) Sig Sauer P556 pistol.
129. “(xii) Sites Spectre.
130. “(xiii) All Thompson types, including the following:
131. “(I) Thompson TA510D.
132. “(II) Thompson TA5.
133. “(xiv) All UZI types, including Micro-UZI.
134. “(J) All of the following shotguns, copies, duplicates, variants, or altered facsimiles with the capability of any such weapon thereof:
135. “(i) DERYA Anakon MC–1980, Anakon SD12.
136. “(ii) Doruk Lethal shotguns.
137. “(iii) Franchi LAW–12 and SPAS 12.
138. “(iv) All IZHMASH Saiga 12 types, including the following:
139. “(I) IZHMASH Saiga 12.
140. “(II) IZHMASH Saiga 12S.
141. “(III) IZHMASH Saiga 12S EXP–01.
142. “(IV) IZHMASH Saiga 12K.
143. “(V) IZHMASH Saiga 12K–030.
144. “(VI) IZHMASH Saiga 12K–040 Taktika.
145. “(v) Streetsweeper.

146. “(vi) Striker 12.

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