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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]In this modern age of drive-by media, it is very difficult to hear the full story behind anything political; such as S. 649 - Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013. You will not get the information I’m passing along to you here from any of the national news outlets and probably damn few local outlets. Regardless, this information is true and you can verify all of it by simply reading the text of S. 649. Here is a link to that bill: [/#800000][/font][url "http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s649/text"][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]S. 649[/#800000][/font][/url][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000].[/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]The most popular part of the proposed Senate gun control bill (universal background checks) sounds like a good idea at first but is more restrictive than anyone anticipated and will have significant consequences. There was a huge push to get it through Congress before the public had a chance to consider its contents. Common activities that we take for granted would have become federal crimes. These are not irresponsible exaggerations. Here are a few examples of the restrictions in the bill:[/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]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) the season must already be open (and will not close before he returns it), and (3) he cannot travel with the firearm through a county where the 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 the season opens, pick up the shotgun, go to the sporting goods store to buy a license and shells, and then drive out to the hunting lease. In this scenario, YOU BOTH WOULD HAVE COMMITTED MULTIPLE FEDERAL CRIMES, YOUR FIREARMS WILL BE FORFEITED AND YOU WILL LOOSE YOUR RIGHT TO BUY OR OWN A FIREARM.

EXAMPLE #2 - Only you may relocate your firearms. If your firearm(s) 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 firearm, 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 gun safe, into a moving truck. Any scenario in which your firearm(s) leaves your home without you is considered a transfer. Failure to properly transfer the firearm is a federal crime which can result in a prison term AND WILL RESULT IN THE FORFEITURE OF YOUR FIREARM(S). In this scenario, your buddy's truck was used to commit a federal crime and WILL BE CONFISCATED just like with current Fish and Game violations.[/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]EXAMPLE #3 - Infractions as above which involve 2 or more firearms of any type are considered firearms trafficking. You will be prosecuted under the same federal laws as a terrorist arms dealer.[/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]EXAMPLE #4 - Any of the infractions above (or hundreds of other routine scenarios) may result in federal charges, confiscation of ALL your firearms and being prohibited, like all felons, from ever owning a firearm again.[/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]Again, you can verify these facts about S. 649 by reading 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 firearms and other property.[/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]Keep in mind, none of the above would have stopped the tragedies in Tucson, AZ, Aurora, CO, or Newtown, CT. The proposed law makes you a criminal and opens the door for confiscation of your firearms and property for otherwise routine activities. Think and act; Congress is hoping that you will do neither.[/#800000][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]If you found the patience to read the entire text of the bill, you also learned that exactly $100 million per year of your tax money is set aside to enforce these restrictions.[/#800000][/font]
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Thanks for posting this Bob, I think most people never know the full facts before they make decisions and as you said, the media rarely tell us the whole truth, this is info we all need to know.
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Isnt S.649 the Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act By Harry Reid (D-Nev.) who voted against the original Background bill ... Anyhow with Immigration reform coming around the corner and no background checks ... hmmm
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Great post!
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]The guy in this video says it very well.[/#800000][/font]
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Here is a pretty honest evaluation of some Senators talking about confiscating them. Of course that is common talk if you just research it.
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[#ff0000]AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!! Thu dam gummint iz gonna git all are gunz. Then they's gonna uze 'em agin us. Were all skrewd![/#ff0000]
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Sheep on sheeping on friend.
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[quote GEEZER][#ff0000]Were all skrewd![/#ff0000][/quote][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]Oh good; you're FINALLY starting to see the light. It's about damn time![/#800000][/font]
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+1 Geezer-Kicked the turd a couple weeks ago and it is still sinking!!
I am disappointed the government took the plans off the internet though. Now I can't go down in my basement and print off undetectable plastic guns to take on the Marine corp.
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Thanks Bob, Most people dpnt realize or care that the billhad much more in it than was advertised. As I stated before they are after what ever thay can sell to the public. Saturday Night Specials, Assault Riffles, harmless background checks but people dont often think of the consequences to the common activities we enjoy. Thanks again for posting this.
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Good thing the Govt wouldn't dare overstep its bounds. They wouldn't dare use a list with people's firearms or information gathered from the IRS against them. Like I said before, sheep on sheeping on if you want to bury your head in the sand. The language is beeped out on this YouTube video so it's not too bad but may not be g rates still. If Jon Stewart is hammering Obama, you know it's obvious.

The video will not load correctly. Here's the link.
http://youtu.be/ZuRTUdo5V84
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