Details

• Sponsor - Lautenberg
• Proposed - March 17, 2005
• Congressional Record Link - S.683
• Amends - None.
• Amendments - None.
• Vote - None yet.
• Results - No change in law.

Status

March 17, 2005 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Synopsis

This bill causes a study to be performed for Congress. Within two years there is to be a prediction if 'personalized' handgun will be commercially feasible. If so, then five years after enactment it will be illegal to manufacture, sell, deliver or transfer a handgun that can not be personalized.

Personalized is defined as being able to be shot by an individual, but not others and this capability would not be deactivatable.

Analysis

First, this bill will increase the cost of firearms. For people who lack the resources to buy a top quality gun already, this bill may price them out of effective personal defense.

Second, one hundred percent reliability is the standard by which firearms are measured. Introduction of this technology will produce firearms that are less reliable and more complicated than necessary. This bill will cost the lives of good people.

Third, existing handgun collections would not be sellable. You could not even pass your handguns down to future generations.

Fourth, gun control is first and foremost a responsibility of the firearm owner. Different people have different circumstances producing different requirements for storage and availability. The federal government should not be pushing on responsible people a one-size-fits-all solution for a problem that does not exist for the vast majority of the population.

And finally, I question the authority of the federal government to legislate specific requirements for a constitutionally protected product. The First Amendment is interpreted to protect a wide variety of speech products.  The Second Amendment should do the same.

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