One week into the 110th Congress, where do we stand? Six firearm related bills have been introduced. They are:

• Senate Bill 77 - A bill to improve the tracking of stolen firearms and firearms used in a crime, to allow more frequent inspections of gun dealers to ensure compliance with Federal gun law, to enhance the penalties for gun trafficking, and for other purposes.
• House Bill 73 - Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2007
• House Bill 96 - Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2007
• House Bill 203 - To amend Federal crime grant programs relating to domestic violence to encourage States and localities to implement gun confiscation policies, reform stalking laws, create integrated domestic violence courts, and hire additional personnel for entering protection orders, and for other purposes.
• House Bill 226 - Nationwide CCW Reciprocity
• House Bill 256 - To prevent children's access to firearms.

The text of most of the bills is not yet available. From our limited information, four will probably be negative and two positive.

Given the history of the current Senate and House Democratic leaderships, I would not expect any of the positive bills to make further progress this session. The only hope would be to add positive bills as amendments to bills the Democrats consider 'must pass'. Otherwise, the benefit of introducing these bills now is to get a discussion going amongst progun politicians so that, in later sessions, they are already familiar with the then introduced bills.

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