Thread by @eb454

Currently reading through the "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act" AKA the Senate gun control bill. I'll thread interesting things I find.

Pages 1-11 are about telehealth access and Medicare services.

This bill would expand Medicaid

We finally get into firearms on page 25.

The bill would search juvenile records starting at age 16 for disqualifying behavior.

I need to pull up other bills that they're striking and adding language. It appears as though there will be waiting periods for those under 21. 3 business days while their records are searched and can be extended to 10 business days.

Background checks would change for those under 21. Part of their background check will include contacting their state for juvenile records, state custodian of mental records to see if they've been mentally adjudicated & their local law enforcement agency for disqualifying records

Agencies have to let the FFL know by business day 3 if they need the full 10 business days to investigate the purchaser.

This part makes me laugh a little bit. They want each state and agency to remove outdated information. We can't even get all states to submit all of their convictions to NICS.

They're redefining an FFL as well and the language is crazy. You liquidate your personal assets so you need an FFL?

Anddd here we have the Red Flag law language.

It's important to note this allows you to have an attorney to defend your 2A rights but you don't get a public defender. It's out of your own pocket.

They're doing a lot of rebranding with Red Flag laws. Instead of calling them Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), they're now referring to them as "intervention programs." Obviously a PR move.

Straw purchases. Currently, if you purchase a gun for a prohibited possessor, you can face a $250K fine, 5 years in prison, or both.

The change would be up to 15 years in prison. If the firearm is used for a "crime of terrorism," the person can face up to 25 years in prison.

The bill also adds this straw purchase penalty to racketeering and money laundering charges.

The sentencing commission may take people's backgrounds into consideration when deciding their penalties for straw purchases.

Little more than halfway done. On page 43 of 80.

I could see this being a really big gray area. Forget you have ammo in a bag you use for traveling and cross the border? You could face up to 15 years in prison.

Don't worry, guys. They made sure to mention it's illegal to transfer guns and ammo to the drug cartels.

$1M per fiscal year over the next 4 years to expand anti-straw purchase campaigns.

Pretty useless if the DOJ won't prosecute those that knowingly break the law.

Now for the "boyfriend loophole" section we kept hearing so much about.

Question: what length of time counts? 1 month? 4 months? 1 year? 5 years? Pretty arbitrary.

There's more to this definition:

We're back to Medicaid BS. Money to improve Medicare this fiscal year. It was $5M last fiscal year but now that number is blank for this fiscal year. How lovely.

$100M for "salaries and expenses" set aside for NICS.

$1.4T for local law enforcement agencies.

$200M for enhanced background checks (including updating NICS records for juvenile records).

The last 12 pages have various spending amounts for a number of programs (too long to list).

In case you don't want to read through the 80 pages of the bill text – or even the text in these tweets – I got you covered with a recap. ⬇️ armedamericannews.org/whats-in-the-s…

This is $1.4 billion, not trillion. My mistake.