SB47

SB47


 * Title: Get The Sheet Before You Pack Heat **


 * Sponsor’s: **

Andrew Nicholas, Illinois, Moderate. @Dylan Ahrens, Arkansas, Moderate.


 * Purpose: **


 * To stop inexperienced people from getting guns without a license.
 * To stop accidental shootings or deaths from inexperienced people with guns.
 * All gun owners must complete a course being able to buy guns.
 * Children under the age of 21, which wish to fire a gun, must take the gun license course with a parent.


 * Eligibility: **

An individual wishing to buy a gun may obtain a license if:


 * They are 21 or older
 * They have no serious felonies.
 * They have no serious mental disabilities.
 * And are not known drug addicts or alcoholics.


 * Terms and benefits: **


 * This bill will affect all gun owners without licenses.
 * It will reduce the accidental death rate with children.
 * Reduces gang violence.
 * Make urban areas safer.
 * Makes hunting and all other recreational activities involving guns safer.
 * This will affect gun shops because people will be less able to buy guns.
 * Police, gun dealers, and federal officers will enforce this law.
 * This will take effect within a year of being accepted so all gunmen will have a chance to take the license course., and it will last forever.


 * Fiscal impact: **


 * Gun training courses would operate as a ‘not for profit’ safety training program.
 * The cost to the government involves training programs and trainer education.
 * Preventing the sale of guns from gun shows would reduce profits which were being made during gun shows.
 * This bill will be funded from tax dollars and will go in acton six months after bill is passed.
 * The bill will cost $200 million including the cost of weapons instructors and classrooms.
 * The bill will last forever.