House Subcommittee Set to Renew Interstate Handgun Sales

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Georgia Republican Congressman Phil Gingrey briefly gained notoriety in 2004 when after a visit to Guantanamo Bay he issued a newsletter calling the detention center "professional, humane and innovative--a model for similar detention facilities."

This Thursday, May 11, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security is scheduled to consider Gingrey's latest exercise in sound judgment: a bill, H.R. 1384, to repeal the interstate ban on handgun sales, a law which has been on the books since 1968. Gingrey would also lift the federal law's current restriction that prevents Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs) from operating at out-of-state gun shows, a provision aimed at prohibiting multi-state, roving "gun show dealers."

These laws help prevent interstate gun trafficking by enhancing the ability of states to enforce their own restrictions on who may sell handguns, who may buy handguns, and what types of handguns may be sold. Gingrey's bill comes at the same time that a growing chorus of big-city mayors are calling for increased efforts to beef up existing laws as they work to stop illegal interstate gun trafficking. Traffickers exploit weak state gun laws, primarily in the South, to supply guns to gangs and criminals in urban areas. But Gingrey's bill would completely undermine states' ability to control their own handgun market and oversee dealers who sell at gun shows.

The sworn enemy of Gingrey's bill? Inconvenience. 0ne can only imagine the strain of being on vacation in Pigeon Forge, TN, seeing a handgun you just have to have at a gun dealer, and then being forced--yes, by the government!--to have it shipped to a licensed dealer in your home state before you can legally take possession of it. And contrary to what some pro-gunners might hope, merely being able to buy a gun in a different state would not give you the ability to carry the gun in that city or state to protect yourself from the C.H.U.D.s.
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The NeoCON Rifle Association and their congresscrooks won't be happy till there are no gun laws. There is no appeasing these evil neoCONS.