{"id":2716,"date":"2013-01-04T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/01\/04\/lots-of-bills-filed-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:20:26","slug":"lots-of-bills-filed-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2716","title":{"rendered":"Lots Of Bills Filed In Congress Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14584,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogs.roanoke.com\\\/politics\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/19\\\/goodlatte-will-be-key-player-in-gun-control-debate&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20131203172503\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blogs.roanoke.com:80\\\/politics\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/19\\\/goodlatte-will-be-key-player-in-gun-control-debate\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 04:47:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 04:47:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nWhile there were no bills &#8211; only resolutions &#8211; filed in the US Senate yesterday, House members seem to have been very active filing bills dealing with firearms. By my count, there were eight anti-gun bills and one pro-gun bill filed in the House of Representatives yesterday. None of the bills listed below have the text of legislation available so we&#8217;ll have to wait a few days to see the details of just how they plan to screw gun owners.<\/p>\n<p>I have listed the bills below in order of their introduction along with their sponsor and the bills working title. I have put the one pro-gun bill in bold print.<\/p>\n<p>HR 21 &#8211; James Moran (D-VA)<br \/>\nTo provide for greater safety in the use of firearms.<br \/>\nReferred to the House Judiciary Committee<\/p>\n<p>HR 34 &#8211; Bobby Rush (D-IL)<br \/>\nTo provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for<br \/>\npurchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those<br \/>\n firearms, and for other purposes.<br \/>\nReferred to the House Judiciary Committee <\/p>\n<p>HR 65 &#8211; Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)<br \/>\nTo prevent children&#8217;s access to firearms.<br \/>\nReferred to the House Judiciary Committee<\/p>\n<p>HR 93 &#8211; David Cicilline (D-RI)<br \/>\nTo amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to restrict the<br \/>\nability of a person whose Federal license to import, manufacture, or<br \/>\ndeal in firearms has been revoked, whose application to renew such a<br \/>\nlicense has been denied, or who has received a license revocation or<br \/>\nrenewal denial notice, to transfer business inventory firearms, and for<br \/>\nother purposes.<br \/>\nReferred to the House Judiciary Committee<\/p>\n<p>HR 117 &#8211; Rush Holt (D-NJ)<br \/>\nTo provide for the mandatory licensing and registration of handguns.<br \/>\n&nbsp;Referred to the House Judiciary Committee<\/p>\n<p><b>HR 133 &#8211; Thomas Massie (R-KY)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>To repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 and amendments to that Act.<\/b> <br \/>\n<b>Referred to the House Judiciary Committee<\/b><\/p>\n<p>HR 137 &#8211; Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)<br \/>\nTo ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a<br \/>\nfirearm are listed in the national instant criminal background check<br \/>\nsystem and require a background check for every firearm sale.<br \/>\nReferred to the House Judiciary Committee<\/p>\n<p>HR 138 &#8211; Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)<br \/>\nCo-sponsored by Diana DeGette (D-CO)<br \/>\nTo prohibit the transfer or possession of large capacity ammunition feeding devices, and for other purposes.<br \/>\nReferred to the House Judiciary Committee<\/p>\n<p>HR 141 &#8211; Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)<br \/>\nTo require criminal background checks on all firearms transactions occurring at gun shows.<br \/>\nReferred to the House Judiciary Committee<\/p>\n<p>While all bills are important and could be enacted, the likelihood is that most of these bills will never get a hearing and will have no further action. HR 138 sponsored by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy is the major bill of this bunch and the one that may get some attention. Fortunately, the incoming chair of the House Judiciary Committee, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.roanoke.com\/politics\/2012\/12\/19\/goodlatte-will-be-key-player-in-gun-control-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) has said he doesn&#8217;t favor any new gun control laws<\/a> including magazine restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>As more bills and more information becomes available, it will be posted.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: <\/b>Two more to add to the list &#8211; one good and one bad. Thanks to pointers to these bills from the comments.<\/p>\n<p>HR 35 &#8211; Steve Stockman (R-TX)<br \/>\nCo-sponsored by Paul Broun (R-GA) <br \/>\nTo restore safety to America&#8217;s schools.<br \/>\nReferred to the House Judiciary Committee<br \/>\n<i>As noted in the comments below, this bill would repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>HR 142 &#8211; Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)<br \/>\nTo require face to face purchases of ammunition, to require licensing of<br \/>\n ammunition dealers, and to require reporting regarding bulk purchases<br \/>\nof ammunition.<br \/>\nReferred to the House Judiciary Committee <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there were no bills &#8211; only resolutions &#8211; filed in the US Senate yesterday, House members seem to&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":[3147,45],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-113th-congress","tag-gun-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","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=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8672,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/8672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}