Bob Barr: “in just 5 short months, we will have an opportunity to witness real progress being made in our effort to keep guns out…”

“in just 5 short months, we will have an opportunity to witness real progress being made in our effort to keep guns out of the hands of criminals when the National Instant Check System, the so-called instant background check, goes into effect, pursuant to the previous Brady law. But be careful. I urge all Americans and my colleagues to be very careful about what the FBI is planning, and that is a stealth tax and a registry of gun ownership in America. The FBI is proposing to tax every single gun transfer in this country up to $30, despite the fact that Congress maintains, the last time I looked 2 minutes ago, the sole power to tax in this country. The FBI is proposing to use the National Instant Check System as a subterfuge for taxing the American people, and they are also proposing something that we have fought in this Congress and we ought to continue to resist, and that is a national registry of gun ownership in this country. Let us move forward with the national tax system, but let us resist vigorously, through H.R. 3949, this unconstitutional effort by the FBI to tax and to register firearms.”