Ten gun bills on Congress's first day

[National Director, Dee]

Members of the 113th Congress introduced 10 bills on Thursday relating to gun violence, most of which came from Democrats seeking new restrictions on gun ownership.

The flurry of legislative proposals show that members are likely to push the issue in the wake of the December shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left 20 children dead.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), whose husband was shot to death in 1993, introduced four of the bills. The congresswoman has vowed to seek changes in federal law in response to the school shooting.

H.R. 137 and 138 from McCarthy would require people prohibited from buying firearms to be listed in a national database, and would prohibit the transfer or possession of large capacity ammunition clips.

McCarthy's H.R. 141 would require criminal background checks on all firearms transactions at gun shows, which would close the so-called gun-show loophole. Her H.R. 142 would require face-to-face purchases of ammunition, the licensing of ammunition dealers, and the reporting of bulk ammo purchases.

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and Rush Holt (D-N.J.) each proposed their own bills tightening firearms licensing requirements — H.R. 34 and H.R. 117, respectively. And Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) proposed H.R. 65, which would raise the eligibility age to carry a handgun from 18 to 21.

Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) reintroduced his bill, H.R. 21, to require background checks for all gun sales, and to require gun owners to report when their guns have been stolen. Moran argued in December that while the National Rifle Association objects to these changes, members of the powerful group support them.

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[Steven G. Elliott 1SG USA (RET)]

demonRATS are dangerouse people.  They are more dangerouse than mooslimes or communists.  They are the biggest threat to the American way of life. 

[Joseph T. Ward]

NON-COMPLIANCE          SEMPER FI

[William Links]

will never comply. never give up my guns. was Navy but yes SEMPER FI

[Debra A Shawver]

Unfortunately most of them ARE mooslims and communists...under a demon name...

[M16ark58]

Like the Nazi Blitzkrieg, aka Luftwaffe, they figure a salvo of 10 that there is a chance that at least one of their gunban proposals will get approved, also under the evil stare of dictate Oblamea.

[marc s ruby]

F**K them All....  Total Non-Compliance !!! How could this Gov't try to pass anything after 'Fast and Furious' ?????

[Ken Bittner]

in their collective a$$

[M16ark58]

Correct!  They cannot take away God Given Rights which is what the Constitution is! God's will always over man, especially the evil entities in the whitehouse via fraudulant election practices!

[M16ark58]

The government that the people fear, Tyrany!

[Gary Haist]

The only way left to us, it appears, is civil war.

[Steven G. Elliott 1SG USA (RET)]

I do not see any other way.

[scott black]

if the true Americans ever rose up against the gov't,it would create a rift in the military as to,do we fight or join the rebels.