US Sen. Cassidy, Risch, and colleagues intro. bill to BAN HANDGUN ROSTERS nationwide

[Silence Dogood]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Jim Risch (R-ID), and several colleagues today introduced the Modern Firearms Safety Act, which would prohibit states from enforcing handgun rosters. These lists of pre-approved handguns require manufacturers to include costly features like microstamping, loaded chamber indicators, and magazine disconnect mechanisms on firearms, preventing law-abiding citizens from purchasing the firearm of their choice.

“Blue states look for every avenue to ban guns for law-abiding citizens,” said Dr. Cassidy. “Requiring unnecessary and imaginary modifications that don’t improve safety is just another tactic out of this playbook. The Second Amendment is a Constitutional right that shouldn’t be infringed upon just because of the state in which you reside.”

“Unconstitutional handgun rosters create unnecessary, burdensome requirements for firearm manufacturers while undermining the Second Amendment,” said Senator Risch. “The Modern Firearms Safety Act stops Democrats arbitrary handgun catalogs and protects law-abiding gun owners’ right to bear arms.”

https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-risch-colleague-introduces-bill-to-ban-handgun-rosters/

Citizens of CA, MD, MA & DC have faced govt overreach for too long Thank you @BillCassidy for leading the charge to strike down these unconstitutional rosters However, beware co-sponsors who are just cleaning up after siding with Biden on the Cornyn-Murphy gun control package

https://x.com/NatlGunRights/status/1839055462358200623

[9Cal_OC]

Don’t like to be a pessimist but seems DOA, especially if Kameltoe makes it in.

[nick]

It's DOA, but it is quite sound constitutionally: this does, in fact, directly and negatively affect interstate commerce. I mean, other than being an infringement on 2A.

[mshill]

DOA. Republicans would have to pick up 10-12 seats in the senate to get past the phillibuster (an extra couple for the POS Rinosnthat will wet themselves). I would go far enough to say there will be civil war and the country will destroy itself before that ever happens.

[Silence Dogood]

I don't see it passing this session but I like that it is being proposed, for two reasons. It draws attention to infringements like this where otherwise they might go unnoticed by our 2A supporters in "free" America. Also, shows where the tides are moving (I hope).

[command_liner]

It's DOA, but it is quite sound constitutionally: this does, in fact, directly and negatively affect interstate commerce. I mean, other than being an infringement on 2A.

It is always worth pointing out the obvious, what I call "The Superseding Second". The 2nd Amendment is and amendment, and the Commerce Clause is in the main body of the Constitution.
It is plainly obvious that the text of the 2nd supersedes the text of the main body: this is the purpose of the amendment process. So the text of the CC cannot apply to areas of law that are
covered by the 2nd. The concept of using the CC to legislate areas covered by the 2nd is nothing but fraud. The CC can never be the basis for any form of "gun control".

If this was NOT the case, then the CC could be used to invalidate the 13th. Can you imagine a proposed law to imprison all black men because of the interstate commerce implication
of crime, and stating that the 13th does not apply to black men? If we cannot cannot consider blacks as property because the 13th prohibits such an idea, then we cannot use the CC as
the basis of "gun control" because the 2nd prohibits such infringements.

Then there is the thing about women and shoes...

[TruOil]

If Comrade Kamala wins, this will be vetoed even if it, against all odds, gets passed. After all, she is the one that enacted a ban on all new semi-auto handguns in California with the microstamping requirement. Further, I am not susre why this is an issue of national concern, as it effects only a few states.

[pacrat]

“Unconstitutional handgun rosters create unnecessary, burdensome requirements for firearm manufacturers while undermining the Second Amendment,” said Senator Risch.
“The Modern Firearms Safety Act stops Democrats arbitrary handgun catalogs and protects law-abiding gun owners’ right to bear arms.”

Such a BILL was already passed, and has been the law of the land since it Was ratified in 1791. It's called the BILL OF RIGHTS.

Democrats just aren't intelligent enough to read and follow it.

[command_liner]

The specific point I made about the CC and the 2nd is active in the Federal courts. Ammoland has a piece on it that I saw today

https://www.ammoland.com/2024/09/notice-of-appeal-to-ninth-circuit-filed-in-montana-gun-free-school-zone-case/

The court activity is at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket...tes-v-metcalf/

The GFSZA was already once found unconstitutional, and then this bit about the CC was inserted. So the GFSZA, and really
the NFA enforcement more generally, is predicated on the CC. But the CC is not a good place to find support for violation of
the 2nd, since the 2nd is superseding law.

The whole NFA '34 rational is based on a taxation argument, at that time somewhat novel. By the 1936 Grosjean v American Press Co
case at the USSC held that a civil right was not something to be taxed. More recently re-affirmed in Minn. Star Trib. v. Commissioner 1983.
Also the poll tax was removed by an amendment.

I would say the toilet has been flushed, and the sucking sound has started, but the turd that is the NFA is not yet fully flushed away.

[Tarmy]

Welp, the good guys gotta start someplace with something. The only way they reach into states like this craphole is with legislation like this…dead or not. Besides, in Kameltoe gets in and Schmucker gets his way the filibuster will be gone and maybe they can pass it then.