- Oct 30, 2004
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From an attorney:
The "most popular" part of the proposed Senate gun control bill
(background checks) sounds like a good idea at first but is more restrictive
than anyone anticipated and has significant unintended consequences.
Just like the Obamacare bill, there is a huge push to get it through
Congress before the public has a chance to read it and to consider its
contents.
Common activities that we take for granted will become federal
crimes. These are not irresponsible exaggerations. Please take a moment to
review some requirements of the bill.
EXAMPLE #1
Loaning your buddy a shotgun for a duck hunting trip will be
considered a transfer. If the following requirements are not met, YOU HAVE
BOTH COMMITTED A FEDERAL CRIME.
1. He must have already purchased his hunting license
2. Season is already open (and will not close before he returns it)
3. He cannot travel with the firearm through a county where season
is not yet open or any area where hunting is prohibited and certainly not
across a state line.
He CANNOT stop by your house on the day before season opens, pick up
the shot gun, go to the sporting goods store to buy a license and shells
then drive out to the hunting lease. In this scenario, YOU BOTH WOULD HAVE
COMMITTED MULTIPLE FEDERAL CRIMES, YOUR WEAPONS WILL BE FORFEITED AND YOU
WILL LOOSE YOUR RIGHT TO BUY OR OWN A FIREARM.
EXAMPLE #2
It appears that only you may relocate your weapons. If your weapon
leaves your home without you, the new legislation considers it a transfer of
possession. ALL transfers require going through a firearms dealer, paying
the transfer fee and a background check for the transferee.
Putting the weapon, even temporarily in someone else's possession,
requires a transfer through a dealer. There is no exception for putting them
in a friend's truck while moving to your new house or packing them unloaded,
locked in a gunsafe into a moving truck.
Any scenario in which your weapon leaves your home without you is
considered a transfer. Failure to properly transfer the weapon is a federal
crime which can result in a prison term AND WILL RESULT IN THE FORFEITURE OF
YOUR WEAPON.
In the scenario above, your buddy's truck was used to commit a
federal crime and WILL BE CONFISCATED just like with current Fish and Game
violations.
EXAMPLE #3
Infractions as above which involve 2 guns of any type are considered
weapons trafficking. You will be prosecuted under the same federal laws as a
terrorist arms dealer.
EXAMPLE #4
Any of the infractions above (or hundreds of other routine
scenarios) may result in federal charges, confiscation of ALL your weapons
and being prohibited, like all felons, from ever owning a weapon again.
Read the text of the bill yourself. Most of it is boring legalese
but the sections on transfers and trafficking are critical.
Take a minute to think about all the routine activities like those
above that will make you a federal criminal and result in prison time plus
the confiscation of your weapons and other property.
A link to the bill is included below on the official Senate website.
See Section 122 "Firearms Transfers".
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.649:
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.649:>
Read it and contact your Congressman's office. Talk to their staff.
Tell them how you feel about this.
Keep in mind, none of the above would have stopped the tragedies in
Columbine or Newtown . The proposed law makes you a criminal and opens the
door for confiscation of your weapons and property for otherwise routine
activities.
Think and act. Congress is hoping that you will do neither. This
bill has no purpose at all except to gradually, incrementally, pass
legislation that will lead to total confiscation of all of your firearms.
Don't go to sleep now. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
The enemy never sleeps and just keeps coming at you.
If you found the patience to read the entire text, you also learned
that $100 million per year of your tax money is set aside to enforce these
restrictions.
Finally, please forward this to your friends who may be affected.
Lee Huszagh
Attorney at Law
1415 East Piedmont Dr. , Suite 1
Tallahassee, FL 32308
850-329-6920 fax 850-329-6910
evenings 850-668-9010
cell 850-933-1160
leehuzz@gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=leehuzz@gmail.com>
The "most popular" part of the proposed Senate gun control bill
(background checks) sounds like a good idea at first but is more restrictive
than anyone anticipated and has significant unintended consequences.
Just like the Obamacare bill, there is a huge push to get it through
Congress before the public has a chance to read it and to consider its
contents.
Common activities that we take for granted will become federal
crimes. These are not irresponsible exaggerations. Please take a moment to
review some requirements of the bill.
EXAMPLE #1
Loaning your buddy a shotgun for a duck hunting trip will be
considered a transfer. If the following requirements are not met, YOU HAVE
BOTH COMMITTED A FEDERAL CRIME.
1. He must have already purchased his hunting license
2. Season is already open (and will not close before he returns it)
3. He cannot travel with the firearm through a county where season
is not yet open or any area where hunting is prohibited and certainly not
across a state line.
He CANNOT stop by your house on the day before season opens, pick up
the shot gun, go to the sporting goods store to buy a license and shells
then drive out to the hunting lease. In this scenario, YOU BOTH WOULD HAVE
COMMITTED MULTIPLE FEDERAL CRIMES, YOUR WEAPONS WILL BE FORFEITED AND YOU
WILL LOOSE YOUR RIGHT TO BUY OR OWN A FIREARM.
EXAMPLE #2
It appears that only you may relocate your weapons. If your weapon
leaves your home without you, the new legislation considers it a transfer of
possession. ALL transfers require going through a firearms dealer, paying
the transfer fee and a background check for the transferee.
Putting the weapon, even temporarily in someone else's possession,
requires a transfer through a dealer. There is no exception for putting them
in a friend's truck while moving to your new house or packing them unloaded,
locked in a gunsafe into a moving truck.
Any scenario in which your weapon leaves your home without you is
considered a transfer. Failure to properly transfer the weapon is a federal
crime which can result in a prison term AND WILL RESULT IN THE FORFEITURE OF
YOUR WEAPON.
In the scenario above, your buddy's truck was used to commit a
federal crime and WILL BE CONFISCATED just like with current Fish and Game
violations.
EXAMPLE #3
Infractions as above which involve 2 guns of any type are considered
weapons trafficking. You will be prosecuted under the same federal laws as a
terrorist arms dealer.
EXAMPLE #4
Any of the infractions above (or hundreds of other routine
scenarios) may result in federal charges, confiscation of ALL your weapons
and being prohibited, like all felons, from ever owning a weapon again.
Read the text of the bill yourself. Most of it is boring legalese
but the sections on transfers and trafficking are critical.
Take a minute to think about all the routine activities like those
above that will make you a federal criminal and result in prison time plus
the confiscation of your weapons and other property.
A link to the bill is included below on the official Senate website.
See Section 122 "Firearms Transfers".
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.649:
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.649:>
Read it and contact your Congressman's office. Talk to their staff.
Tell them how you feel about this.
Keep in mind, none of the above would have stopped the tragedies in
Columbine or Newtown . The proposed law makes you a criminal and opens the
door for confiscation of your weapons and property for otherwise routine
activities.
Think and act. Congress is hoping that you will do neither. This
bill has no purpose at all except to gradually, incrementally, pass
legislation that will lead to total confiscation of all of your firearms.
Don't go to sleep now. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
The enemy never sleeps and just keeps coming at you.
If you found the patience to read the entire text, you also learned
that $100 million per year of your tax money is set aside to enforce these
restrictions.
Finally, please forward this to your friends who may be affected.
Lee Huszagh
Attorney at Law
1415 East Piedmont Dr. , Suite 1
Tallahassee, FL 32308
850-329-6920 fax 850-329-6910
evenings 850-668-9010
cell 850-933-1160
leehuzz@gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=leehuzz@gmail.com>
