No More Term Limit for President?

Bills that must NOT become law:

 

House Joint Resolution 5

Introduced January 2009

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.‘The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.’.

 Wow….no term limits…eight years is enough for anyone…this is mindboggling

 

HR 45 The Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 -

 

Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this Act (or a state system certified under this Act) and such license has not been invalidated or revoked. Prescribes license application, issuance, and renewal requirements.
Prohibits transferring or receiving a qualifying firearm unless the recipient presents a valid firearms license, the license is verified, and the dealer records a tracking authorization number. Prescribes firearms transfer reporting and record keeping requirements. Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a federal record of sale system.
Prohibits:
(1) transferring a firearm to any person other than a licensee, unless the transfer is processed through a licensed dealer in accordance with national instant criminal background check system requirements, with exceptions;
(2) a licensed manufacturer or dealer from failing to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements of this Act;
(3) failing to report the loss or theft of the firearm to the Attorney General within 72 hours;
(4) failing to report to the Attorney General an address change within 60 days; or
(5) keeping a loaded firearm, or an unloaded firearm and ammunition for the firearm, knowingly or recklessly disregarding the risk that a child is capable of gaining access, if a child uses the firearm and causes death or serious bodily injury.

Prescribes criminal penalties for violations of firearms provisions covered by this Act.
Directs the Attorney General to:
(1) establish and maintain a firearm injury information clearinghouse;
(2) conduct continuing studies and investigations of firearm-related deaths and injuries; and
(3) collect and maintain current production and sales figures of each licensed manufacturer.
Authorizes the Attorney General to certify state firearm licensing or record of sale systems.

California has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. Among these is a law that purchasers of handguns must acquire a handgun license, essentially a certificate that you know the gun laws and have demonstrated in a practical exam proscribed by the state and usually administered by the gun shop. This is on top of the required background check and mandated 15 day waiting period, enacted because in the past someone bought a gun and then when on a shooting spree. Never mind that a committed wacko would wait the 15 days anyway…and some have.

Prohibition 1 would usurp California law in that families can routinely transfer arms between father or mother to children, either by direct giving or via heirloom provisions of a will; Prohibition 5 is also already law. Prohibitions 2, 3 and 4 would federalize authority currently exercised by the states and local communities, adding another layer of bureaucracy. Local agencies already enter stolen firearms into a national database, via the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System. I know because I used to make those entries when I was working for a police department.

Now the federal government wants to institute a system, well, its looks bad to me.

 

I don’t want to sound paranoid, but this sounds like setting up a system so that if the government wants to round up all the guns, and maybe all the gun owners, it would have the ability to do so, without conferring with the states or local authorities.

 

If you are thinking about the connection between these proposals, think like an Obamabot. What would be better than having him as president for life, and his Attorney general have the power to determine who should or shouldn’t have the right to own a firearm? Not a handgun, we’re talking any firearm, from a single shot target rifle on up. Then we (Obamaistas) can takeaway free speech, we’ll bailout out the newspapers only if they print what we want…etc, etc, etc.