H.R.45 - Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009

111st Congress
H.R. 45:Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009

To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL](no cosponsors)
Introduced: Jan 6, 2009
Last Action: Jan 6, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45

HR 45 threatens individual rights, including those protected by the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments. In addition, it proposes amendments that remove logical protections that currently exist in the United States Code.

For an explanation of these please read Libertea's review and critique of Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 (H.R. 45) at NolanChart.com HERE: http://www.nolanchart.com/article5821.html

As required by Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution, Members of Congress shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution. Representatives, delegates, and the resident commissioner all take the oath of office on the first day of the new Congress, immediately after the House has elected its Speaker. The Speaker of the House administers the oath of office as follows:

"I, (name of Member), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."

Representatives elected in special elections during the course of a Congress generally take the oath of office on the floor of the House Chamber when the Clerk of the House has received a formal notice of the new Member's election or appointment from State government authorities. On rare occasions, because of illness or other circumstances, a Member-elect has been authorized to take the oath of office at a place other than the House. In those circumstances, the Clerk of the House sees to the proper administration of the oath.

Now lets take a look at the TRAITOR who proposes this piece of treachery...

Rush's district is located principally on the South Side of Chicago.

Common sense tells us that when you take guns from law abiding citizens it just leaves them at the mercy of the criminals who have illegal guns because (DUH) they don't adhere to the law. They won't be the ones paying to register anything. Rush's district is located principally on the South Side of Chicago. Chicago's southside is very high crime especially with guns. So, why would he want to make it easier for the criminals? Maybe he seeks to make the whole of the U.S. as crime ridden as his district?

Rush is a former member and founder of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. (The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African-American organization established to promote Black Power and self-defense through acts of social agitation. It was active in the United States from the mid-1960s into the 1970s. It supposedly ultimately condemned black nationalism as "black racism" & became more focused on socialism without racial exclusivity & collapsed in the early 1970s)

Obviously he had no problem with regular citizens owning guns then.

In the 2000 Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives (IL-01), Rush defeated a challenge from then-state senator Barack Obama. During the primary, Rush said: "Barack Obama went to Harvard and became an educated fool. Barack is a person who read about the civil-rights protests and thinks he knows all about it." Rush backed Blair Hull over Barack Obama in 2004. Yet, Rush announced early on that he would support Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries, and later his presidential campaign.

Hypocrite detector dinging wildly

On the appointed to fill Obama's vacant seat in the U.S. Senate, during a press conference, Rush said, "With the resignation of President-elect Obama, we now have no African American in the United States Senate, and we believe it will be a national disgrace to not have this seat filled by one of the many capable African American Illinois politicians."

On December 30, 2008, Blagojevich, Governor of IL, announced his appointment of Roland Burris, an African-American former Attorney General of Illinois. Rush was present at the press conference and spoke in support of Burris. Rush has since commented further on Senate Democrats not seating Burris, telling them "I would ask you to not hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer,"

If Mr Burris or anyone else wants to take president elect Obamas senate seat, then that person should be elected by the people in a special election. Even Obama agrees with that. Supposedly Roland Burris creditals over 40 decades qualify him for the senate seat and yes Bobby Rush and any other political figures should step in and jog the citizens memory of Roland Burris's qualifications, but Rush's Racially charged statements will charge the atmosphere and pit people against each other.

As for Rush, in his interview this morning, he harkened to the days of segregation and the civil rights battles in Little Rock, Ark., and in Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s in warning the U.S. Senate Democratic majority shouldn't try to block Burris.

"You know, the recent history of our nation has shown us that sometimes there could be individuals and there could be situations where schoolchildren -- where you have officials standing in the doorway of schoolchildren," Rush said. "You know, I'm talking about all of us back in 1957 in Little Rock, Ark. I'm talking about George Wallace, Bull Connor and I'm sure that the U.S. Senate don't want to see themselves placed in the same position."

Statements like this show that Rush just can't let go of the past and realize that most of the world has moved on. It is people like this that keep racism (on both sides) alive and kicking. HELLO. We are no longer in the 50's or 60's. This is 2009, and by an over whelming majority of blacks, whites, hispanics, asians, ect.,ect., chose a black man, from Chicago no less, to be the leader of the greatest country in the world.


Rush calls himself a Democrat, but, like most democrats today, can't say with any honesty that he shares the views of the founders of his party or Loyality to the Constitution, this nation, or the small government and individual rights they stood for.