House Bill Seeks To Impose Seven Day Waiting Period For Mags, Semi-Autos, Suppressors

By Tom Knighton

If Democratic Congresswoman Shirley Jackson Lee gets her way, not only will there be a seven-day waiting list for semi-automatic guns, but also on magazines and suppressors. That’s thanks to her “Gun Safety: Not Sorry Act of 2017” bill, currently simply known as H.R. 4268.

Introduced by Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, H.R. 4268 would mandate that both licensed dealers and individuals wait seven days after buying targeted guns, ammunition and accessories before transferring the item. The Houston-area Congresswoman debuted the bill two days after the shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas that claimed the lives of over 20 people.

“We cannot afford another angry person in possession of military-style weapons, nor can we bear the consequences of another person consumed by hatred wielding firepower intended to inflict maximum carnage,” Jackson Lee said in a statement. “The blood that has been shed in America runs deep with too many lives lost and too many families shattered.”

The proposed measure, dubbed the Gun Safety: Not Sorry Act of 2017, revisits the concept of a national waiting period on firearms, which has not been seen in the country in two decades. The original Brady Act, adopted in …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms