"Stimulus" Rumors

[Hammerspur]

Have you heard any crap about gun control stuff that some believe was hidden in our recently passed voluminous 'Spendulus Bill' that Obama is going to sign into law?
 
The rumored highlights are:
 
1.  Mandatory gun registration with jail time as penalty for non-registration.
2.  The banning of certain firearms.
3.  The fee based gun inspection requirement (every two years) to make sure you still own the firearm as   
     registered and that firearm is working properly.
4.  New safety lock and insurance requirements for gun owners whereas gun owners may now be deemed liable for ANY problem, including theft, that may occur.
 
These are some of the rumors that I have caught on the web and snipets on tv. 
 
If you think about point number 3 from above, not all FFL dealers will fight that one.  After all, they will get fees for gun inspections as a regular part of their business.
 
I hope this is all wrong.  I hope that all this is just a rumor meant to discredit the dems.  I guess we shall see.

[buffermop]

If you saw it on the "internet" then its probably BS!!

[skifastchad]

The whole bill is online in a PDF format.  I did a CTRL-F and searched for "gun" and "Firearm".

There is nothing to worry about yet.

[quickdtoo]

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4430

Rumors and the Economic Stimulus Bill
 
Friday, February 13, 2009
 

We have been hearing many rumors, and receiving many inquiries, about "buried" provisions in the federal economic stimulus bill that would negatively affect our Second Amendment rights.  People have claimed the bill would designate interstate highways as national parks, or impose ammunition encoding and new ammunition taxes.  Fortunately, and contrary to what you may have heard, there are no provisions in this bill prohibiting firearms or ammunition anywhere, or for anyone.

The only reference in the bill to firearms is a provision authorizing funds for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' (BATFE) "Project Gunrunner," which is a program that enforces existing laws to reduce smuggling of firearms from the United States to Mexico.  This program imposes no new restrictions on gun owners, and if it did, we can assure you we would take swift action.

Needless to say, NRA, as a single-issue organization, takes no position on the economic stimulus legislation as a whole.

For more information and to view the legislation yourself, you can visit http://www.readthestimulus.org/.  The site features a convenient search function and covers every version of the legislation.

[Troyboy]

Looks like we dodged that bullet

[Hammerspur]

Thanks Tim!

[nw_hunter]

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4430

Rumors and the Economic Stimulus Bill
 
Friday, February 13, 2009
 

We have been hearing many rumors, and receiving many inquiries, about "buried" provisions in the federal economic stimulus bill that would negatively affect our Second Amendment rights.  People have claimed the bill would designate interstate highways as national parks, or impose ammunition encoding and new ammunition taxes.  Fortunately, and contrary to what you may have heard, there are no provisions in this bill prohibiting firearms or ammunition anywhere, or for anyone.

The only reference in the bill to firearms is a provision authorizing funds for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' (BATFE) "Project Gunrunner," which is a program that enforces existing laws to reduce smuggling of firearms from the United States to Mexico.  This program imposes no new restrictions on gun owners, and if it did, we can assure you we would take swift action.

Needless to say, NRA, as a single-issue organization, takes no position on the economic stimulus legislation as a whole.

For more information and to view the legislation yourself, you can visit http://www.readthestimulus.org/.  The site features a convenient search function and covers every version of the legislation.

I received a similar alert  from Gun Owners Of America