House bill would require gun owners to have liability insurance
House Democrat Rep. Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) has
introduced a bill that would require gun owners to carry liability insurance.
The Firearm Risk Protection Act, unveiled Friday,
would require gun buyers to have liability insurance coverage before being
allowed to purchase a weapon, and would impose a fine of $10,000 if an owner is
found not to have it. Service members and law enforcement officers, however,
would be exempt from the requirement.
“We require insurance to own
a car, but no such requirement exists for guns," Maloney said in a
statement. "The results are clear: car fatalities have declined by 25
percent in the last decade, but gun fatalities continue to rise.”
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http://thehill.com/regulation/243425-house-bill-would-require-gun-owners-to-carry-insurance
I have been wondering for
several years when they would think of this.
The Constitution does NOT guarantee
you the right to drive a car, but it does guarantee the right to own a
gun. So would such a law even be
constitutional? Also, you are NOT required to have liability insurance on a car if you don't drive it on public roads. I bet there are hundreds of thousands of off road vehicles (4 wheelers and dirt bikes) out there without insurance.
It’s actually not a bad idea to
require liability insurance to CARRY a gun in public, but I am opposed to
requiring it to have one in your house or on your own property.
My real fear is that they will
try to use it as a means to try to price the average person out of gun
ownership by making the insurance unaffordable. And you KNOW the insurance
for anything liberals consider to be an assault weapon is going to be much
higher than on one they consider “more acceptable”.
What are your thoughts? Let’s have some comments.
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