New bill is end run on gun ban

To the editor:
Apparently anti-gunners in the Senate can’t find enough votes to fine 6 million law abiding citizens $200 each for owning low power, ergonomic, hunting, defense, and competition firearms that are rarely used in crime.
With the “assault weapons” ban temporarily dead they have combined three bills into one (S.649) to make it harder to vote against.
The bill to increase school security would have no problem passing and the gun trafficking section seems innocuous as all it does is increase the penalty for a crime they rarely prosecute from 5 to 15 years.
Universal background checks with reasonable exemptions for family and inheritance and no national gun registration would also seem to be a reasonable idea.  
But gun owners learned long ago not to trust lifelong gun hater Chuck Schumer and he never disappoints.
While it has an exemption for gifts between family members, you can’t sell your brother a gun without a trip to the gun dealer. Although I suppose you could give him a gun and charge him $500 for that vintage bottle of Boone’s Farm wine your aunt gave you last Christmas.
But the real kicker is the Eric Holder hidden surprise clause. Instead of writing one easy paragraph describing the record-keeping requirement, they instruct the Attorney General to write that part of the law. That way Democrats from red states, like (Joe) Donnelly (from Indiana), can claim that they had no idea they were voting for the federal gun owner database that Holder has always wanted.
Stephen Erwin
Portland[[In-content Ad]]