HB57

HB57 __Bill Title:__ Guns to Protect Americans __Sponsors:__ Maria Mims-California-Moderate Jordan Podojil-New Jersey-Republican Lauren Bachman-Florida-Moderate


 * __Purpose__:** Our bill’s purpose is to allow eligible Americans to obtain and carry guns in their houses in order to protect themselves in emergency situations. If someone were to break in and threaten you or someone you know in an unlawful manner, you should be allowed to use a gun as self defense or to defend others. In order to be eligible to own a gun in your household, you need to have a background check, training on use of a gun, and a gun safety test. You also must have a child lock or some sort of secret, protected, and locked area to store it away from all people. Consequences of misusing a gun include possible death penalty or life time sentence in jail with mental treatment. If the person uses the gun for violence in an unnecessary situation, then all rights to use a gun in that household are taken away. These are reasons why guns should be legal to be used in the United States. With strict consequences and long time consuming tests and background checks, guns in the United States could be a safe and helpful thing.


 * __Eligibility:__** This bill is for the people that are interested in owning guns. This bill is also for the people that are very cautious about their home safety. This bill will be used to give the option to anyone to own a gun in their home for protection and self defense in an emergency situation. If someone was to break in, you should be allowed to use the gun in a life or death situation to protect yourself or someone you know who is also in the situation. All ages 25 and up are eligible.

__**Terms and Benefits:**__ There are many benefits for having a handheld gun in your household or being carried with you. One benefit for having at least to reach and used gun in your home would be that it could protect you from a murderer or even burglar. Now, since you have a gun in your household that can be for protecting your family or yourself you must not misuse it. Funds for this bill will come from taxation from the people and small cuts from large government profits. This bill would be forever in office and will remain as a rule followed for the people that own guns. The people that are effected by this bill are the actual people that own the guns. Since, people want to own guns the government will build up a large but not impossible test of eligibility in order to get trained and get a license in which allows you to buy a gun. Also, in order to get the terms in owning a gun you must get a precise and detailed background check. In order to get the gun your background check must include you are atleast over the age of 25, you have no kind of alcoholic backgrounds of addiction, no sort of drug problem, you CANNOT have a criminal history, or a jail history. You must have a education and you must live in the United States for at least 14 years of your life.

Our bill requires a few costs that will need to be paid in order to begin the process of enabling the bill. One expense is we must print gun licenses that allow the home owner to possess a gun. In order to create these gun licenses, we will need to buy a printer. The highest-quality printer I found was the HP Office jet Pro 8600. The cost of this specific printer is $199.99. Another very important economic necessity is ink for the printer. The price of ink for this printer is $27.99 for every 1500 pages. The cost for ink will need to be added every time 1500 people need a gun license that expires every year. The average price to complete a whole gun training course is usually about $330. In order to get your official license it will cost around $334 dollars to be qualified for a gun in your home. These are the expense that needs to be covered when planning and enacting our bill on gun control.
 * __Fiscal Impact:__**

Campaining Nationally: $17,500,020 for comerials, bill boards, and general advirtisments Computers:$20,400,750 Workers:$104,230,000 Paper:$7,430,000 Guns: $26.475.987 (including ammunition) Training Course: $25,275,980 per person __Total Cost:__ $201,312,737

We are planning to aquire this money by collecting taxes and money set aside from the government.