Found this while expanding my horizons. It is fairly recent. I didn't see the subject listed in previous posts. You fellow TFL'rs may have already beat this one to death, being somewhat new here, I don't know.
I am undecided on weather it has good merit or if it is just more Federal BS. I can see good and bad. What do you folks think?
Oh, the link is at the end of the post if you care to read the whole bill.
www.gunowners.org
Mar 1999
HR 407 IH
106th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 407
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for reciprocity in regard to the manner in which nonresidents of a
State may carry certain concealed firearms in that State.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 19, 1999
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for reciprocity in regard to the manner in which nonresidents of a
State may carry certain concealed firearms in that State.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Second Amendment Restoration Act of 1999'.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times
every year--or 6,850 times a day. This means that each year, firearms are used 60 times more often to
protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.
(2) Of the 2.5 million self-defense cases, more than 200,000 are by women defending themselves
against sexual abuse. And as many as one-half million times every year, somebody carrying a gun
away from home defends himself or herself.
(3) Citizens shoot and kill over 1,500 criminals a year, which is more than twice as many as police kill.
(4) Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming
majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8
percent of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.
(5) Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves
over 1.9 million times a year.
(6) Police cannot possibly protect every individual citizen. Currently, there are about 150,000 police
officers on duty at any one time to protect a population of more than 250 million Americans--or almost
1,700 citizens per officer.
(7) The second amendment to the Constitution of the United States protects the right of Americans to
carry firearms in defense of themselves and others.
SEC. 3. RECIPROCITY FOR THE CARRYING OF CERTAIN CONCEALED FIREARMS.
(a) IN GENERAL- Chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 926A the
following:
http://www.gunowners.org/gthr407.htm
[This message has been edited by MarkW (edited March 08, 1999).]
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I am undecided on weather it has good merit or if it is just more Federal BS. I can see good and bad. What do you folks think?
Oh, the link is at the end of the post if you care to read the whole bill.
www.gunowners.org
Mar 1999
HR 407 IH
106th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 407
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for reciprocity in regard to the manner in which nonresidents of a
State may carry certain concealed firearms in that State.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 19, 1999
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for reciprocity in regard to the manner in which nonresidents of a
State may carry certain concealed firearms in that State.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Second Amendment Restoration Act of 1999'.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times
every year--or 6,850 times a day. This means that each year, firearms are used 60 times more often to
protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.
(2) Of the 2.5 million self-defense cases, more than 200,000 are by women defending themselves
against sexual abuse. And as many as one-half million times every year, somebody carrying a gun
away from home defends himself or herself.
(3) Citizens shoot and kill over 1,500 criminals a year, which is more than twice as many as police kill.
(4) Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming
majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8
percent of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.
(5) Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves
over 1.9 million times a year.
(6) Police cannot possibly protect every individual citizen. Currently, there are about 150,000 police
officers on duty at any one time to protect a population of more than 250 million Americans--or almost
1,700 citizens per officer.
(7) The second amendment to the Constitution of the United States protects the right of Americans to
carry firearms in defense of themselves and others.
SEC. 3. RECIPROCITY FOR THE CARRYING OF CERTAIN CONCEALED FIREARMS.
(a) IN GENERAL- Chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 926A the
following:
http://www.gunowners.org/gthr407.htm
[This message has been edited by MarkW (edited March 08, 1999).]
[This message has been edited by MarkW (edited March 08, 1999).]
