Senate Democrats propose DOJ license requirement for gun purchases

[sarisataka]

Senate Democrats propose DOJ license requirement for gun purchases

A trio of senators plan to introduce legislation on Thursday that will require residents to acquire a Department of Justice (DOJ) license before purchasing or obtaining a legal firearm. 

The bill would also raise the legal age for obtaining a firearm to 21 years old.

The bill was introduced by Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

It has virtually no chance of becoming law given GOP opposition, but gives a sense of the breadth of restrictions on gun access that some lawmakers would favor imposing in the wake of years of mass shootings in the nation.

https://thehill.com/news/senate/3494092-senate-democrats-propose-doj-license-requirement-for-gun-purchases/

[ManiacJoe]

1. Recent court rulings

already mark many of the proposals as unconstitutional.

[melm00se]

2. This process, which

centralizes the entire process, is just ripe for abuse by an anti-gun administration by underfunding (or hell, not funding at all) the necessary personnel to process their applications.

More than likely, the Courts would take a very dim view on such a law especially if (or when) this stretches the process out to the length of time to process an NFA form 4 application (currently running north of 6 months). This creates a de facto ban on the purchase of a firearm.

[ManiacJoe]

4. Doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing.

Unfortunately, politicians are not interested in spending the time and money to solve the underlying social-economic problems.

[Rebl2]

6. You are

so right

[sarisataka]

5. Please point out

Where I said "just quit, throw our hands up and just say never mind"