Full text is online now. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.2666:
I'd paste the text, but it's like 20 pages long, so, here's some highlights:
License needed for "any handgun" or "any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any detachable ammunition feeding device." Licenses would cost $25/five years, and would be a "tamper-resistant card" with a photograph and stuff.
Private party sales would be banned for qualifying weapons mentioned above. All sales would have to go through an FFL or some such for registration. Registration which would become legal by:
Licensing and registration of new sales would start one year after the bill is signed. Registration of previously owned guns would have to be done in a year after that.
Looks like the bill would skirt the FFL inspection limits in FOPA to allow random harassment:
And more crazy stuff where that came from..
I'd paste the text, but it's like 20 pages long, so, here's some highlights:
License needed for "any handgun" or "any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any detachable ammunition feeding device." Licenses would cost $25/five years, and would be a "tamper-resistant card" with a photograph and stuff.
Private party sales would be banned for qualifying weapons mentioned above. All sales would have to go through an FFL or some such for registration. Registration which would become legal by:
Elimination of Prohibition on Establishment of System of Registration- Section 926(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking the second sentence.
Licensing and registration of new sales would start one year after the bill is signed. Registration of previously owned guns would have to be done in a year after that.
Looks like the bill would skirt the FFL inspection limits in FOPA to allow random harassment:
In order to ascertain compliance with this Act, the amendments made by this Act, and the regulations and orders issued under this Act, the Attorney General may, during regular business hours, enter any place in which firearms or firearm products are manufactured, stored, or held, for distribution in commerce, and inspect those areas where the products are so manufactured, stored, or held.
And more crazy stuff where that came from..