Well here it comes...

[JPH]

Let me step up on this soapbox and let some things roll out here that I have been thinking about. Please hang with me here, as many of you know I am not the greatest written communicator, additionally it is mid-terms and my brain is fried from papers and studding.

HR1022 is their bill

What is our bill???

Now stop, before we all get on this soapbox, for me and I am sure for many of you, “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” says it all…

BUT… I work in EMS and that in addition to being educated and living in the world we do today I have been exposed to many of the world’s crazes… I can understand and see a need for some gun control, just not BS legislation that is imposable to enforce, doesn’t prevent anything, and makes it imposable for right minded (maybe a pun, maybe not) upstanding citizens to exercise their constructional rights…

SO…

Why don’t we write our own comprehensive gun control bill and let it start from the grass roots up, get organizations behind it, and try and use the process for us this time???

Here is a bulletin list of what is on my mind, but this is just the start… IMO…

-- First it must clean all other gun control laws off the books, ALL OF THEM

-- Second it must be federal, and state that no state can modify or infringe on this law. I don’t know how this would work, but the 14th amendment is suppose to do this for the constitution, sometimes it works (as in the first amendment), other times it doesn’t (as in the second amendment)…

-- Third there would need to be mandatory sentences for offenders, this way everyone in LE has but one law to worry about and one law to enforce. In the end it wouldn’t matter where you got the gun, but rather do you have a license to have that gun…

-- Forth this law would have to set up a licenser system and education system that would provide access to nearly all arms.

-- Fifth it would destroy any and all records of who owns arms and who doesn’t…

A bit more on the license before I let everyone chime in…

-- Just like a drivers license, different classes give you different privileges and require different educations and requirements…

-- There would have to be a reasonable minimal fee like there is for CCW in most states, caped so some jack!@# anti-gun sheriff somewhere doesn’t charge $5000 for a shotgun license…

-- The license would NOT allow tracking or record keeping of what you own. This license isn’t about how many you have, how many you bought at once, or what they are… It is about “Have you been cleared to own them”

Examples (just a few)

-- Class A At age 16, with completion of safety class and hunters education class, and a federal background check an individual can have in their possession any hunting arm*. License valid for 5 years, renewable for life with completion of federal background check at renewal. The class could be mandatory in high school just like lib and law is in the state of Missouri, parents could prevent their kids from getting a license by contacting the state just like they can prevent their kids from getting a drivers license until 18yoa… Also note that with a class A you can’t buy, just possess…

-- Class B At age 18, with completion of a safety class and a federal background check an individual can buy, own, and have in their possession any non restricted small arm**. License valid for 5 years, renewable for life with completion of federal background check at renewal.

-- Class C At age 21, with completion of a safety class, a legal use of force class, possession of a class B license, and a federal background check, an individual may carry concealed any non restricted small arm**. License valid for 5 years, renewable for life with completion of federal background check at renewal.

-- Class D At age 21, with completion of a safety class and a federal background check an individual can buy, own, and have in their possession any restricted small arm***. License valid for 5 years, renewable for life with completion of federal background check at renewal.

-- Class E At age 21, with completion of a safety class and a federal background check an individual can buy, own, and have in their possession destructive device****. License valid for 2 years, renewable for life with completion of federal background check at renewal.

* Hunting arm to include low capacity shotguns and rifles
** Non-restricted small arm to include any arm not capable of select or full auto fire or with a barrel length longer than 16”
*** Restricted small arms to include arm capable of select or full auto fire or with a barrel length of less than 16”
**** Destructive devices to include explosives and or reactive ammunitions…

OK so I know nothing about “destructive devices” as I have called them, and I am not a legislator, lawyer, or even a good writer.

This moment on the soapbox is only intended to “set the tone” and see what you all think, so let me know.

Stepping down,
NEXT…
JPH