New Jersey Dimwit Andy Kim has entered a bill — actually H.R. 8534 — to require a federal license to “acquire or receive firearms.” As is almost always the case with these federal licensing bills, a license is impossible to lawfully acquire.
Except as provided in subsection (d), it shall be unlawful for any individual to purchase or receive a firearm unless the individual has a valid Federal firearm license.
So you have to have a license to get a gun. But…
The Attorney General shall establish a Federal system for issuing a Federal firearm license to eligible individuals for firearms transferred to such individual.
“(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The system established under paragraph (1) shall require that—
“(A) an individual shall be eligible to receive such a license if the individual—
“(i) has completed training in firearms safety, including—
“(I) a written test, to demonstrate knowledge of applicable firearms laws; and
“(II) hands-on testing, including firing testing, to demonstrate safe use and sufficient accuracy of a firearm; and
…to get a license you have to get a gun. Thus, the Catch-22. Subsection (d) has no exception for training and testing for a license. This is hardly the first time we’ve seen that, so it’s hard to blow off as a simple mistake.
But there’s a peculiar omission in Kim’s bill. I’d love to ask him about it but even though he likes to push bills that affect all Americans, he doesn’t want to hear from them.
The omission? Take another look at this.
it shall be unlawful for any individual to purchase or receive a firearm
“Purchase or receive;” not “possess.” As written, this does not require you to be licensed for anything you already possess. Kim being a Dim, I’m not quite sure to make of it.
It could be a typical Dimwit oversight, that he (or however drafted the big words for him) simply missed that part.
Or, it could be intentional, a tactic to get the bill passed without too much opposition from those who see just a teensy little problem with trying to license the current 120+ million gun owners. So you throw current owners a bone, but shut down all future would-be gun owners. Eventually the gun owners die off, and problem solved (there’s no licensing exception for inherited guns).
On the gripping hand, it could be his intent to slide the more encompassing licensing requirement in as an amendment later when he thinks no one is looking.
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In Oregon we will be voting on a Catch 22 also; you will have to get training that doesn’t exist to buy a gun;
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The problem with this type of law is in the enforcement of them. An overly zealous prosecutor could interpret this law so strictly that if you are rabbit hunting with a friend, and you hand him or her your shotgun so you can climb through a fence, you have both broken the law. And of course with this type of crime there will be extreme punishment, and no bail, unlike the murderers we see in the big cities in CA and NY.
And just when you think the Democrats cannot screw things up any worse,they show that they are always up for a challenge. I saw on Fox News today, I know, biased but still, I saw that the so called inflation reduction law that is Biden”s pride and joy, will by some estimates cost as much as 1trillion dollars.
Add to that the college student loan bailout, and as long as we are talking about our failing economy, add the Feds raise of the prime interest rate, and those of us who are old enough to remember the Carter years would gladly trade Biden for those days. At least back then, a knee who was actually running things.