In February 2009, the House of Representatives introduced the Blair Holt bill, also known as HR 45.  Among some of the proposals within this bill are:  testing before being able to obtain a firearm, being required by the federal authorities to notify them of a move, since you have bought a firearm, being subject to visits by the federal authorities to verify that the firearm is secured in the presence of children and last, but definitely not least, is the proposal of testing, to be determined by the federal authorities, during the 5 year period of licensing.  And those are just the salient facts that come from reading the bill.  After a thorough, line by line reading, you can be sure that there is more to be found, or rather, less rights to bear arms.

2nd ammendment as we remembered it

If the proposal of this bill doesn’t clearly show the direction that our new Presidential administration wants to direct the country to, then your optimism regarding the 2nd ammendment is to be commended or envied.  If you are skeptical or cynical, at best, of President Obama’s approach to eroding the 2nd ammendment right to bear arms, then, unfortunately, welcome to the “Hope and Change” you believed in to vote for him as the President.  With a virtually filibuster proof Democratic Congress, and newly confirmed SCOTUS pick Sonia Sotomayor, 2nd ammendment rights which were during times past were deemed, “constitutional”, can now be construed as “abstract”.  Let’s hope that rational reason and thought win abstract thinking during these tough times.