GUN PROHIBITION DOESN'T WORK

Once again, our elected leaders (?) are trying to push through their anti-gun legislation. This is HR-45 "Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009".
Now, you may ask, "who is Blair Holt?". Blair Holt was a 16-year old Chicago high school student who was tragically murdered on May 10, 2007 when a teen gang-banger opened fire on a city bus. Young Blair was on his way to school. He was a model student, a good kid, and not involved with any of Chicago's youth gangs. The gun used to kill Blair was illegally obtained in spite of Chicago's strict gun control law. A law that contains many of the same provisions as HR-45.
The Chicago city law is one of the toughest regulations in the country concerning gun ownership, posession, and registration.
Chicago Municipal Code § 8-20-040(a) mandates that;

All firearms in the City of Chicago shall be registered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. It shall be the duty of a person owning or possessing a firearm to cause such firearm to be registered. No person shall within the City of Chicago, possess, harbor, have under his control . . . or accept any firearm unless such person is the holder of a valid registration certificate for such firearm. No person shall, within the City of Chicago, possess, harbor, have under his control . . . or accept any firearm which is unregisterable under the provisions of this chapter.

37. Chicago Municipal Code § 8-20-050 provides: “No registration certificate shall be issued for any of the following types of firearms: . . .(c) handguns . . .” While Section 8-20-050(c) provides exceptions for certain handguns owned prior to the law’s effective date, and handguns owned by police officers, security personnel, and private detectives, the provision, in conjunction with Section 8-20-040, generally bars the private home possession of handguns by law-abiding adult citizens.

38. Chicago Municipal Code § 8-20-090(a) provides: “A registration certificate shall be obtained prior to any person taking possession of a firearm from any source.”

39. Chicago Municipal Code § 8-20-200 provides:

(a) Every registrant must renew his registration certificate annually. Applications for renewal shall be made by such registrants 60 days prior to the expiration of the current registration certificate.

(b) The application for renewal shall include the payment of a renewal fee as follows:

1 firearm . . . . $20.00; 2-10 firearms . . . . 25.00; More than ten firearms . . . . 35.00

(c) Failure to comply with the requirement for renewal of registration of a firearm shall cause that firearm to become unregisterable.

In addition to the Chicago City Ordinance, the State of Illinois requires possessing firearms or ammunition to have a 'Firearms Owner's Identification Card" which is issued by the State Police.

More about Blair Holt's death: Young Blair's death is being used by our overzealous lawmakers
to sell this legislation to gullible Americans. Blair Holtt has been reduced to a symbol being used to take firearms away from law-abiding citizens. Blair was much more than that, and his tragic death should not be used this way....Blair Holt was a HERO...he stepped in front of a schoolmate to protect her from the scumbag with the illegal handgun...an act that saved another's life but lost his. Blair Holt deserves better treatment than to be used in this way.

Blair Holt's name needs to be remembered as that of a hero...he was not a Congressional Bill.

If you value your rights under the 2nd amendment, you need to speak out. Call you Senators and Congressmen. This bill has to be shut-down.