Houston’s embarrassing contribution to the congressional membership introduces the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act
It isn’t bad enough that Houston has been embarrassed time after time by Sheila Jackson Lee, but now the poorest excuse for a member of Congress has gone berserk by introducing a bill that attacks all gun owners.
“H.R.127 – To provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of certain ammunition” is a bill Jackson Lee introduced on January4.
The bill is also known as the “Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act.”
Sabika Sheikh was a Pakistani exchange student who was killed in 2018 during the Santa Fe High School massacre.
Here is a summary of H.R.127 from the Firearms Policy Coalition.
HR 127 establishes a federal firearms registration system that will be accessible by federal, state, and local governments, including the military – even the GENERAL PUBLIC! The system will track the make, model, and serial number of all firearms, their owners, the dates they were acquired, and where they are being stored.
The system will also track firearms loans, including the ID of the loan recipient and for how long it is being loaned. This bill applies retroactively, so current firearms owners will have three months to supply their gun information to the federal government from the bill’s effective date.
HR 127 also establishes a federal licensing requirement. Applicants will have to be at least 21, undergo a NICS check, complete a psychological evaluation, complete 24 hours of firearms training, and pay $800 for firearms insurance from the government.
For the psychological evaluation, a licensed psychologist will interview individuals’ spouses and at least two other family members or associates to “further determine the state of the mental emotional, and relational stability of the individual in relation to firearms.” Licenses will be denied to individuals hospitalized for issues such as depressive episodes; no duration for license disability is specified, and it does not matter whether the individual sought help voluntarily.
HR 127 will also establish licensing requirements for the display of antique firearms and for the right to possess “military-style weapons.” To display an antique, applicants have to prove they own an antique firearm, describe how they will display it, and demonstrate that they have “safe” storage for it. To possess a “military-style weapon”, applicants will have to undergo 24 hours of safety and live fire training. It is unclear whether this training is in addition to the base 24 hours of training required to possess firearms and ammunition. “Military-style weapons” are defined as they are under assault weapons bans like those in California and New Jersey – weapons are identified by name or because they possess two or more features found on commonly owned, modern semiautomatic firearms such as an adjustable stock, pistol grip, etc.
Finally, HR 127 also criminalizes the possession of “large-capacity magazines” (those carrying greater than 10 rounds) and “ammunition that is 0.50 caliber or greater.”
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There is no grandfathering clause in Jackson Lee’s bill. That means if you have an old rusting .22 rifle sitting in an one of your closets, you will have to comply with all the provisions of the bill or face a heavy fine and possible imprisonment.
This bill clearly shreds the Second Amendment and is the worst anti-gun legislation that any lawmaker could ever introduce. Jackson Lee did not get any cosponsors for her bill which means that it may not get out of the House. But you can bet that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, AOC’s Squad and the Marxist-led BLM movement would love to see the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act become law.
I seriously doubt that most of the constituents in Jackson Lee’s congressional district support this God-awful anti-gun legislation. But they will support “H.R. 40, the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act” which she also introduced recently. That bill calls for examining the specific role slavery played in creating inequality in the lives of Black Americans, as well as recommend a formal apology from the U.S. government.
Oh good, Sheila not only wants me to give up my guns, but she also wants me to pay for the problems blacks are experiencing today allegedly because of slavery which ended with the end of the Civil War.
The marxist democrats can kiss my butt,this will be the line they do not want to cross.
Guess if it passes I’ll be a felon or in jail, cause I’m never going to register a fire arm I already have with any gov. agency.
When you buy a gun from a dealer from a gun show or in the building the sells gun the do a federal check. Your name and gun with registration is associated with your name immediately. So this bull shit in the stupid bill shows how dumb those people are.
Not true. No records are kept beyond 12 months. Only a background check is done.
That’s not true either. California has decided to keep those records and so far there is no proof the Fed are not doing the same.
You are kidding yourself if you don’t think FFL transfered guns aren’t tracked. If you bought guns from a FFL…..Uncle Sam knows exactly what you have. That’s how the FBI can trace guns used in crimes, or at least trace them to the last legal owner. Most guns used in crimes are stolen.
Lol! Cry harder.
I don’t think this will pass. She’s introduced this bill 3 times in the past 10 years and it always dies in committee. In fact, 99% of her proposed bills die in committee because they’re so outrageous.
Stephen Green wrote on his PJ Media Insanity Wrap, “Jackson-Lee is too crazy for Congress, a feat barely possible even in times as extraordinary as these.”
Green also reminds us that “this is the same Sheila Jackson-Lee who once claimed to have held a .223 caliber AR-15, a firearm famous for its light weight. She claimed it was ‘as heavy as 10 boxes that you might be moving. And the bullet that is utilized, a .50 caliber, these kinds of bullets need to be licensed and do not need to be on the street.'”
I agree the HR127 bill is extreme however dont collude it with HR40. We should support the redress to our fellow Americans that put sweat and blood equity into building this country. HR 40 will come from the government not individual tax payers. trillions of your tax dollars already go to foreign aid to ppl that have not contributed to this country. It’s only right we “study” reparations.
you agree with hr127????? THEN YOU ARE NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICAN, how dare you or that ignorant politician i wont call her by name take our rights away because the 2nd amendment didn’t specify what ARMS we could have it just states a well armed militia, making us pay for licensing on firearms we already and have been owning is RIDICULOUS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ILLEGAL AND FLAT OUT BULLSHIT!!!!! We as second amendment Americans will fight this and not through storming the capitol i don’t believe in violence to fight for opposing any legislation, but i dare you to come to my home and take my property away from me!!!
You didn’t read what they said. Slow down and take a breath. They said they agree that HR127 IS EXTREME. As in, they do not agree with it and do not want it to pass.
Whitney,
I’m curious. Just exactly where do you think that the government gets it’s money if it doesn’t come from taxpayers? It doesn’t grow on trees!! It’s not like the government has a garage sale every weekend to raise money for all those extras. . .
My family came to the US in the early part of the 20th Century. Why should we pay for reparations? And, who will those reparations go to? I’m totally willing to pay reparations to anyone who was a slave, or that was forced unwillingly to work to build this country.
As for the “trillions” that the government spends on foreign aid. . . I would agree that it’s probably too much, but last year it was a total of $48 Billion. Given that the Federal Government spend $6.55 Trillion in the last fiscal year, the Foreign aid component comes to 0.7% of the total budget – hardly significant.
BTW – If we owe reparations to African Americans for slavery, do we owe Native Americans for taking their land? What about Jewish Americans for the shameful way we ignored what was happening in Germany in the late 1930″s? Maybe Asian Americans for their indentured labor in the 1800″s, especially in the West. And don’t forget about compensating our Latinex friends for taking Texas from Mexico. . . . Pacific Islanders for taking Hawaii. . . . hell we should pay England back for what we did to them.
BTW, Native Americans are paid reparations. Federal government has been providing for them for my entire lifetime (67).
Mr. Webb, you’ve obviously never been on any of the reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. If that is how the government provides for the Indians, then that money is going elsewhere.
Do your research that is not so. I will give you something to ponder….Do you know the presidents faces are On sacred Native American land. Do you know not one dime has been given to them for the millions that have entered the park….land was given to a tribe and it can not be sold because they all own about a postage size stamp Of the land…..Today there are towns that will not employ Native Americans (and they live there) it is openly posted white people only (does that sound familiar).
Do YOUR research. Look, I am a lifelong resident of South Dakota. I’ve been to Mt. Rushmore DOZENS of times.Vacationed in the Black Hills of South Dakota DOZENS of times and I have NEVER EVER seen ANY sign that says white people only. U R telling Lies about my state. Stop it. U say towns won’t hire Indians… I call BULLSHIT on that lie as well. You probably have never been to South Dakota and are just making up Crap. Get a Life!!!
“White People Only” signs? Horseshit! Those kind of signs bit the dust with the end of Jim Crow laws. Now such signs would violate Title VII of the Federal Civil Rights Act.
Sorry Whitney but apparently you are ignorant. To think that the money won’t come from tax payers….really. Where do you think government gets its money…based on your level of ignorance I will tell you…TAXPAYERS. And when they don’t have enough they print more. Which eventually has to come from taxpayers. If not it totally devalues the amount of money you currently have. Which means the dollar you have today may only be worth 50 cents after reparations. So that is why so many people are opposed to the foreign aid as well, among other things I won’t get into.
Why should We pay for people that make terrible life decisions and/or are just too lazy to go out and work???
I’ll gladly pay anyone who can prove that they themselves were a slave, even though I have never owned one.
Where’s my reparations for supporting generations of Americans and Houstonians that don’t want to work? When will the good people of Cuny Homes, for example, pool their money and send ME a check for supporting them, for paying for them to have a place to live, for paying for their food, their medical care, and all of that? I go to work every day and work hard, to pay for the lifestyle of others. I’ve been paying reparations my whole life.
Why don’t you investigate how to give me MY reparations?
I was on the same side of the table as you up until your stance on the HR 40. The absurdity of HR127 is apparent and this is the divisive conclusion that your previous administration perpetuated however, you being a former law enforcement personnel utilizing negative connotations towards “Blacks” is further demonstrating that there is a definite divide in America from an equality standpoint. It is very apparent that while slavery ended with the civil war and the black man was deemed 1/10th of man that socially and culturally slavery ended a lot later and even then history substantiates vast divisive measures for those of color. We can “Make America for Once” by utilizing terminology that isn’t demeaning and regressive.
Luke,
I’ve read your comment at least a half dozen times, and I still can’t understand what you’re trying to say. Please try again.
Could not agree more, Fat Albert.
These kind of people were the very reason the 2nd amendment was written for, our God given right as Americans was to be able to protect ourselves from these tyrants if you want them come and get them!
These Democrats can kiss my fucking ass. They want total control of all us hard working Americans. Its time for all of us to stand together and show these asshole Democrats that they will not cross our lines. Once they do we turn there heads into canoes.
A very dumb law sponsored by the second dumbest person in Congress. Sheila Jackson Lee’s “Astronaut Neil Armstrong planted the flag on Mars.” takes second place to Hank Johnson’s “Guam will tip over.”
Yet, plenty of people takes this nut seriously!
The jackson lee critter is crazier than shit is nasty. The statistics of the guns sold in the last 6 months alone is tremendous quantity wise. That is only the ones that have to be reported i.e. backround checks, ffl, etc. The private traffic in guns is HUGE. There is no way in hell the feds will ever corral the guns. The bad guys will still have them. That is why the American citizen that owns their guns won’t cater to the gubbmint. Fucking criminals can have them, I want my own.