SB48

SB48 **Title:** Gun Control **Sponsors:** Sean Atwood, Nathan Hostelley, and Nolan Honsacker

**Purpose:** How would you feel, if a criminal escaped from prison, came to your local sporting goods store, and bought a handgun? Currently, gun legislation does not require background checks on people when buying firearms. Federal law does not require a person to get a permit to own a gun, unless it is a concealed weapons permit. Also, a license is only needed for hunting, not for owning a gun. The only thing criminals need to own a gun, is money. This bill will prevent criminals, and inexperienced gun users from obtaining guns. This will help make America safer now and in the future.

This bill will apply to gun dealers, and to anyone who wants to buy a firearm.
 * Eligibility: **

People buying any firearm must be of the age of 21. People who are legally owning guns below the age of twenty one can continue to own them, but a license is needed. All gun dealers must run a background check on people buying any firearm. People buying any firearm are required to have a gun license. Gun licenses must be renewed every six months with a renewal fee of twenty dollars. If a person commits a felony, their license and gun is taken away, and they cannot renew their license. No one, under any circumstances may give another citizen a gun to own. Children under aged using a gun for recreation must have an adult with a gun license present at all times.
 * Terms and benefits: **

-This bill will not cost a very significant amount of money. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">-Money will be needed for advertisements on televisions and on highway signs. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> -We are planning on making 1,000 signs to put around America. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">-Billboards on average cost about 1,500 dollars, and need to be placed on highways around the country. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">-Commercials notifying people of the new bill will cost around 100,000 dollars for a thirty second commercial. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> -We will be making a commercial, and we will be putting the commercial on about thirty different shows for a week. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">-Our bill will require a group of people creating the commercials, and people designing the billboards. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">-We will need to pay the designers of the billboards, and the writers and actors for the commercials money too. -The designers will be paid sixty dollars and hour. The writers will be paid fifty dollars an hour. The actors will be paid seventy dollars an hour. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">-This bill will collect twenty dollars every six months from all gun owners. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">-This bill's spending will be mandatory because gun control is extremely important in America.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Fiscal Impact: **