{"id":2490,"date":"2013-03-07T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/03\/07\/goa-on-senate-judiciary-bill-mark-ups\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:13","slug":"goa-on-senate-judiciary-bill-mark-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"GOA On The Senate Judiciary Bill Mark-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14092,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gunowners.org\\\/congress03062013.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.gunowners.org\\\/congress03062013.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14093,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/capwiz.com\\\/gunowners\\\/issues\\\/alert\\\/?alertid=62480241&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Gun Owners of America have sent out a notice about the bills that will be voted on in the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow. While they mention S. 443, I&#8217;m wondering if this bill will be substituted for the S. 54 which is on the agenda. I don&#8217;t always agree with GOA but I think are correct about S. 443 being more dangerous than S. 150 which doesn&#8217;t have a snowball&#8217;s chance in hell of being enacted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<br \/>\n<i><b>Senate \u201cDeal\u201d Would Impose<br \/>\nEven More Gun Bans<br \/>\nGifts, gun raffles and multiple sales of guns would be effectively banned <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will mark up four bills arising out of the Newtown tragedy:<\/p>\n<p>* The Feinstein bill \u2014 which would ban millions of shotguns, rifles, handguns and magazines that Americans can legally own &#8212; but which will probably die on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>* The universal gun registry \u2014 which may also die on the Senate floor \u2014 unless a last-minute deal with Sen. Tom Coburn brings it to life.<\/p>\n<p>* Legislation by Barbara Boxer, which throws away $100,000,000 on school safety studies, but doesn\u2019t immediately mention guns.<\/p>\n<p>* And, currently the biggest danger, the Leahy-Gillibrand-Kirk bill, which has ominously been labeled a \u201cgun trafficking\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>In regard to this latter piece of legislation (S. 443), the bill is being sold inside the Beltway as a bipartisan \u201ccompromise\u201d because anti-gun Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) is a cosponsor of it.<\/p>\n<p>But S. 443 would dramatically threaten to put gun owners in jail with horrendously long sentences for the most minor of infractions.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, the bill would impose a 15-year prison sentence for \u201cnegligent multiple sales by a dealer,\u201d \u201cnegligent gifting\u201d or \u201cnegligent raffling.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Increasingly, there are more and more individuals who are \u201cprohibited persons\u201d for non-violent reasons \u2014 for instance, they smoke marijuana or they are military veterans suffering from maladies such as PTSD. <\/p>\n<p>But if S. 443 is passed, any person who sells to such prohibited persons two or more firearms &#8230; or gives them a firearm as a gift &#8230; or raffles a firearm (where they are the recipient) &#8230; does so only at the considerable risk of spending 15 years in a federal penitentiary.  <\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need to know the person is a prohibited person under either example.  Nor does the recipient need to know they\u2019re a prohibited person. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, you don\u2019t need to do anything more than plan (\u201cconspire\u201d) to transfer the gun.  In addition, the recipient doesn\u2019t need to be on the NICS list to be a prohibited person.   <\/p>\n<p>Not only that, under section 4 of the bill, if you even \u201cintend\u201d to sell a firearm to a person who turns out to be a marijuana smoker \u2014 or one of the prohibited military veterans suffering from PTSD \u2014 you become a prohibited person yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunowners.org\/congress03062013.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go here to read the entire analysis of S. 443.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When all is said and done, this bipartisan \u201ccompromise\u201d is as bad as the Feinstein gun ban (S. 150).<\/p>\n<p>ACTION:  <a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/gunowners\/issues\/alert\/?alertid=62480241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to demand that your U.S. Senators oppose the Leahy-Gillibrand-Kirk bill (S. 443).<\/a><\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gun Owners of America have sent out a notice about the bills that will be voted on in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[864,759,718],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-goa","tag-gun-control-legislation","tag-senate-judiciary-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8917,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}