HR45 -More "Blair Holt" Bill of 2009

I received this information in an Email today:

Check it out here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/blairholt.asp

Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to put on our 2009 1040 federal tax form all guns that you have or own. It may require fingerprints and a tax of $50 per gun. This bill was introduced on Feb.. 24.. This bill will become public knowledge 30 days after it is voted into law.. This is an amendment to the Internal Revenue Act of 1986. This means that the Finance Committee can pass this without the Senate voting on it at all..


The full text of the proposed amendment is on the U.S. Senate homepage, http://www.senate.gov/ You can find the bill by doing a search by the bill number, SB-2099.
You know who to call; I strongly suggest you do. Please send a copy of this e-mail to every gun owner you know. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/text

Congress is now starting on the firearms confiscation bill. If it passes, gun owners will become criminals if you don't fully comply.

It has started.

Very Important for you to be aware of a new bill HR 45 introduced into the House. This is the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sale Act of 2009.

Even gun shop owners didn't know about this because the government is trying to fly it under the radar.

To find out about this - go to any government website and type in HR 45 or Google HR 45 Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sales Act of 2009. You will get all the information.

Basically this would make it illegal to own a firearm - any rifle with a clip or ANY pistol unless:

It is registered -You are fingerprinted -You supply a current Driver's License -You supply yourSocial Security # -You will submit to a physical & mental evaluation at any time of their choosing -Each update - change or ownership through private or public sale must be reported and costs $25 - Failure to do so you automatically lose the right to own a firearm and are subject up to a year in jail. -There is a child provision clause on page 16 section 305 stating a child-access provision. Gun must be locked and inaccessible to any child under 18. -They would have the right to come and inspect that you are storing your gun safely away from accessibility to children and fine is punishable for up to 5 yrs. in prison.

If you think this is a joke - go to the website and take your pick of many options to read this. It is long and lengthy. But, more and more people are becoming aware of this. Pass the word along. Any hunters in your family pass this along.

This is just a "termite" approach to complete confiscation of guns and disarming of our society to the point we have no defense - chip away a little here and there until the goal is accomplished before anyone realizes it.

This is one to act on whether you own a gun or not.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45:

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45

Please.. copy and send this out to EVERYONE in the USA , whether you support the Right to Bear Arms or are for gun control. We all should have the right to choose.

This email is a confusing montage of HR45 and SB2099 (Note that both are referenced, as if interchangeably, in the email.)

Rule of thumb: if an Email Scare is inconsistent, it's probably bullshit.

Note: HR45 and SB2099 are both real. They were introduced in January, 2009.

This is not "New News" here at Cogito Ergo Geek. I wrote about this bill on January 19, 2009, in an article titled "New Gun_Grabber Bil from Illinois (HR 45)".

As far as SB 2099 is concerned, the NRA wrote about it here on August 14, 2009.

Friday, August 14, 2009
Over the past few months, NRA-ILA has received hundreds of e-mails warning us about "SB-2099," a bill that would supposedly require you to report all your guns on your income tax return every April 15. Like many rumors, there's just a grain of truth to this one. Someone's recycling an old alert, which wasn't even very accurate when it was new. There actually was a U.S. Senate bill with that number that would have taxed handguns -- nine years ago. It was introduced by anti-gun Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and it would have included handguns under the National Firearms Act's tax and registration scheme. This has nothing to do with anyone's Form 1040, of course. Fortunately, S. 2099 disappeared without any action by the Senate, back when Bill Clinton was still in the White House. We reported about it back then, just as we report about new anti-gun bills every week. Now, it's time for gun owners to drop this old distraction and focus on the real threats at hand.

As for HB 45, it was introduced on January 6, 2009, by Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) with NO co-sponsors. It was sent to the House Committe on February 9, 2009, and then referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

There it has languished, ever since.

Note that bills in both the House and the Senate are valid until the end of that congressional session. If they are not passed by the end of the session, they are by default considered to have 'died in committee'. The author may re-introduce the bill during the next Congressional Session, at which time each bill must start the slow climb to enactment all over again.

This is the 111th Congressional Session. It began on January 6, 2009, and will continue until the "targeted adjournment" on October 30, 2009.

If this bill couldn't get out of committee by now, you can bet your brass that Congress is too busy with Obamacare and other mega-buck boondogles of this administration to waste any time on a bill which can only serve to lower Public opinion of Congress from its already all-time-low of 11% approval rate.

And any congress-critter who voted for a hypothetically passed bill such as this can be certain to face stiff opposition when they run for re-election in 2010.

As the man said: "Now, it's time for gun owners to drop this old distraction and focus on the real threats at hand."