We’ve got a few gun bills currently floating around in the House. Given that Joe Biden’s blue-ribbon panel hasn’t even issued any recommendations, these seem a bit premature. Irregardless, here’s a quick rundown.
HR 34 is this year’s iteration of the Blair Holt Act, seeking to require licensing for all gun owners. It has no cosponsors. HR 117 is proposed by a guy from New Jersey named Rush Holt. I’ve never heard of him, either. This one seeks licensing and registration of handguns. Again, no cosponsors.
HR 65 is an oddball. Citing it as the “Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2013,” Sheila Jackson Lee wants to append something about “semiautomatic assault weapons” to 18 U.S.C. § 922, but that term doesn’t appear anywhere in existing law, and she fails to define what an “assault weapon” is. So, um…yeah. Also, no cosponsors.
HR 35 is a bill seeking to repeal the 1990 Gun Free School Zone Act. Continued...