Democrats have reintroduced previously failed proposals representing an exhaustive list of almost all of the gun control bills they have been pushing.
The “Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2023″ (Act) has been introduced in Congress each session since at least 2015. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reintroduced the bill in the Senate on Dec. 6. She wrote on her website that legislation is vital to ending violent crimes committed with guns.
“We’re in a gun violence crisis: 2023 is on track to see the most mass shootings in recent history, and gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children and young people,” Ms. Warren wrote on her webpage. “I’m renewing the push for my comprehensive Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act.”
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is sponsoring the legislation in the House. He wrote on his website that the proposed law would benefit minorities and women.
“It’s painfully obvious that communities of color disproportionately bear the brunt of gun violence in the United States, particularly Black women, who are twice as likely as white women to be fatally shot by an intimate partner,” Mr. Johnson wrote.
According to Mr. Johnson, the bill incorporates the other gun control bills in Congress.
“The Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act incorporates a number of bills,” he wrote on his website.
Ms. Warren’s bill has been referred to the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Johnson’s bill is in the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The bills would nullify current laws and establish stricter gun regulations. According to a summary of the bill, at the top of the list is the requirement for a federal or state-issued license to “purchase or own a firearm or ammunition.”
The proposed law also calls for universal background checks and the elimination of the so-called “Charleston loophole” by requiring a completed background check before a sale’s completion.
The Charleston Loophole refers to the fact that the killer in the June 27, 2015, mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, was able to take possession of the rifle he used because the government failed to complete his background check within 72 hours.
That is, the law currently allows a gun dealer to complete a sale if the background check is not done within 72 hours. In theory, it is meant to prevent government officials from dragging their feet on background checks.
It also calls for closing the so-called “gun-show loophole.” There is no gun-show loophole, as all federally licensed firearms dealers must complete a background check through the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) for each sale. Private sales don’t require background checks.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), speaking against a bill for a similar universal background check in the Senate on Dec. 6, and said the measure would prevent more legal transfers than illegal ones.
“This is about the father who wishes to pass down a hunting rifle to his son or the friend who wants to loan a shotgun to his neighbor who has a need for protection,” he said.
When it comes to gun sales, the law would also increase the minimum age for buying a firearm or ammunition to 21 and set a 7-day waiting period for all firearm sales.
Gun owners would also be required to use a locking device or secure storage when the gun is not in use, and the law would expand the Gun-Free School Zones Act to colleges and universities.
The bill would ban homemade firearms along with certain semi-automatic rifles, so-called “assault weapons,” and would fund a buyback program.
The legislation also increases the authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and hires 650 new ATF agents to inspect gun stores. It would also establish an electronic database of ATF records.
The bill would also make it easier to sue gun manufacturers for the misuse of their products by criminals by weakening the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act and giving the Consumer Products Safety Commission the power to regulate the firearms industry.
The proposed law includes a 30 percent tax on all firearm sales and a 50 percent tax on all ammunition sales. The taxes would fund $120 million to be split between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Justice to pay for research into “gun violence.”
Currently, the government is not allowed to fund research that could result in infringement on a Constitutional right.
The taxes would also fund grants for community-based violence intervention programs.
Gun rights advocates say the bill is likely to get no traction. However, it exposes the true motives of the gun control lobby, they say.
“Senator Warren’s bill is a laundry list of unconstitutional liberal gun control fantasies. The so-called ‘Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2023’ only serves to disarm and restrict the ability of good citizens in communities across the nation to protect themselves from criminal gun violence,” Dudley Brown, president of the National Association for Gun Rights wrote in an email to The Epoch Times.
“When the government fears the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny”. – Thomas Jefferson
The Democrat party reactions to mainly Peaceful January 6th demonstrations against a failed democrat party corrupted government election are examples of the latter. Only dictatorial tyranny followed on all economic and personal protection fronts. Peaceful unarmed demonstrators were targeted, rounded up, and imprisoned like so many sheep. When guns become illegal, only the criminals have them. Just like when you have un-enforced immigration laws, only criminal and the crime families ignore them, and cross the border, into the private homes and property of THE PEOPLE. Politically speaking it is only the American crime families who politically promote this stuff and their redistribution of your wealth, property and control over your own personal life force is their obvious goals. Just look what they have done to Trump’s. As far as Minorities and women go, in the absence of well -funded and trained police entities, a gun is the only equalizer available, especially to women, to secure one’s person and property. Those who oppose them are just out to molest your person and steal your property which if you are living in the image of your Creator, just promoted an equity of the equal sharing of the poverty in ideas, power and property that follows the Frankensteinian social experimenters at every turn of their screws.
WHY are they not so concerned with protecting AMERICANS via securing our border!?
OH YEA< that won't let them milk the illegal invaders for votes!
Someone needs to send Pocahontas and her Kickapoo Tribe of Washington Commanders back to the Democrat Party reservation from which they sprang. When it comes to Commanding Constitutional Gun Control rules, their field goal attempts to score points is like their skill at the meaningful naming of Football teams. They just end up kicking the poo off the bottom of their moccasins having stepped into it again, like Anglos who scrape the liberal gum off the bottom of their shoes, which makes things sticky for the people in the peanut galleries who thought they came to watch football, and all they got was frisked, disarmed and lectured to at the gates, unlike their waved in armed drugged up foreign illegal border crashers they claim to be harmless, innocuous freedom lovers, when it is free access to our persons, property and social earned benefits they really are seeking to come away. The one lesson unarmed or disarmed Americans should have learned from the established Native American tribes is that when unvetted white immigration overwhelmed the natives ability to vet and control who and how many Anglos got in, the end result was going to be obvious and what you have and own will soon belong to the invading hordes every bit as much as parts of eastern Europe became owned by the Mongols, Vandals, and Muslim empowered Anatolians. The names will change like Washington footballs teams, like Constantinople was changed to Istanbul.
Thing is, to liberals WE ARE STILL SEEN as the Oppressors, ergo what ever they can do, to HURT us, is all a-ok.
Well said. Judge Janine stated that in 30 years of being a judge and a prosecutor she only saw one legal gun used in a crime. The rest were illegal. People who commit gun violence have no regard for laws. All bills like Pocahontas (AKA Elizabeth Warren) do is to disarm legitimate gun owners. If it were funny, it would be a joke
Government doesn’t protect anyone but the thief’s that steal from the people and give no representation to the victims! Simply put, it is tyranny!!
AND THIS IS why we need to vote all dems out. IF possible.
Black Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is sponsoring the legislation in the House.
He wrote on his website that the proposed law would benefit minorities and women.
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 7% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~56% of all the murders and ~64% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
Why is this Never addresses by Black Congress people or the Democrat Party???
Why is it that Democrat ruled cities have the most shootings, murders and crime in the U.S.???
Make more gun laws that the criminals DO NOT obey? Yep that makes sense…… NOT!
When Cane killed his brother Able with a rock.
God did not blame the rock; he blamed Able and punished Able, not the rock.
BECAUSE dems are the real racists, ergo they don’t actually CARE ABOUT minorities, OTHER THAN to get their votes.
Gun control for law abiding citizens. But what about criminal control ??? Demonrats want criminals to vote .
AND want us SCARED, so we hand over MORE control over our lives to the guvmint to protect us.
Black women twice as likely to be shot by their companion as white women. Doesn’t say much good about black men
Let’s see. We have the Second Amendment, the Right to Bear Arms. Does mean that idiots like Warren and Johnson (an even bigger idiot – Guam tipping over idiot) can usurp the constitution for their own misguided agenda. I think NNNOOOTTTT.
Democrats are not worried about guns in the hands of criminals, they’re worried about guns in the hands of patriots.