Details

• Sponsor - Bartlett
• Proposed - January 4, 2005
• Congressional Record Link - HR47
• Amends - None.
• Amendments - None.
• Vote - None yet.
• Results - No change in law.

Status

January 4, 2005 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

March 2, 2005 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

May 20, 2006 - 77 cosponsors. No activity.

Synopsis

This bill is the reaffirmation of the right of people to defend themselves, their family and their home. The meat of the bill is as follows:

(a) Reaffirmation of Right- A person not prohibited from receiving a firearm by Section 922(g) of title 18, United States Code, shall have the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms--

(1) in defense of self or family against a reasonably perceived threat of imminent and unlawful infliction of serious bodily injury;

(2) in defense of self or family in the course of the commission by another person of a violent felony against the person or a member of the person's family; and

(3) in defense of the person's home in the course of the commission of a felony by another person.

Analysis

 Although the spirit of the law looks to be very positive, it is going to take a lawyer to determine if this proposed law would have any real impact.

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