HB50

HB50 Michael Durkin IL: http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/MDurkin Yohann Samarasinghe IN: http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/YSamarasinghe Brandt Vermillion AL: http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/BVermillion
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 * Bill Number:** HB50


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 * Topic of the Bill:** Gun Control


 * Title of Our Bill:** Guns in a Safer America


 * Our Bill's Purpose:** Our bill's purpose is to create less confusion around who owns guns in the U.S., and to close the loopholes that allow some Americans to get their hands on assault weapons. Currently, people are allowed to have assault weapons in every state except California, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. This is a huge problem, because assault weapons are built to kill and to kill fast. If they get in the hands of the wrong person, great harm can be caused to the general public. One main example of this is the Virginia Tech shooting. Our bill would not allow any American to legally own any kind of assault weapon. Also, our bill would create a central database that showed the owner's name, fingerprint, and the ballistics match of each gun in the United States.


 * Eligibility:** This bill would benefit the general public, because the central database could track down the gun's owner by using a ballistics match of bullets found at a crime scene. If the police had this technology currently, they could track down criminals faster, protecting everyday people. Our bill would also make the general public safer by eliminating all assault weapons.


 * Terms and Benefits:** The terms to this bill will take about 2-3 years to establish in America, but the benefits will be great. The funding for this project will come from the upper-class tax payers, and some expenses will come from the fines collected from people who are caught without a registration permit for a gun. The benefits to our bill are that the general public will be safer, massacres will be prevented, and criminals can be tracked down faster and easier. In addition, more jobs will be created in the process, which will help boost the economy. The terms to our bill will be completed in three steps as follows:


 * First**: Affordable real estate will be looked into in each major city across the country for where we could set up our buildings. The buildings will be built in vacant lots or purchased from the owners of vacant buildings. We will not use eminent domain to force companies and people out of their buildings. Each state will receive permission to have one gun registration building for every one million people (this will put on average 6 registration buildings in every state). The construction of new buildings will take 1-2 years at each location. Where construction isn't needed, purchased buildings will take about a month to come into government ownership. One central government building will be needed in addition to the buildings found in each state; this building will need to be four floors and located in the capital. Since the construction process can have some unexpected setbacks, we are giving ourselves an extra year for all loose ends to be tied up.
 * Second**: After all buildings across the nation have been completed, the supplies needed to fill each building will be purchased. These supplies include ballistics ranges, fingerprint scanners, registration permits, and computer systems. At this stage we will also need to start hiring personnel to work in the buildings. The first workers needed will be the 100 federal workers. They will be located in D.C. and work to create the central database, encrypt it into the national security system, and monitor the system's security. These workers will be previously trained in their fields and understand their jobs without additional classes. Then we will hire five computer technicians per building, in every state, to enter the information into the central database. Because this will be a brand new system, the technicians will be required to take classes training them in this particular field. Each building will require at least five ballistics/gun experts to determine the unique ballistics properties of each gun, relay the properties to the technicians, and carry out the fingerprinting process. Lastly, every building will need one secretary to keep everything in order and possibly to contact the federal building if necessary.
 * Third:** If every aspect of construction and the hiring of workers are on time, the gun registration facilities will open and the new law of no assault weapons whatsoever will come into effect on May 21st, 2014. People in the possession of an assault weapon, who had purchased it before May 21st, 2014, would be paid for it by the government and the weapon would be taken away. Also, in order to make sure everybody abides by the registration policy, anybody who purchases any kind of gun will be forced to register it at one of the newly constructed facilities within 10 days. If anyone is caught with an unregistered gun they will be subject to pay a fine of up to $5,000 and the gun will be confiscated.

5 gun experts per building at an average salary of $57,000 5 computer technicians per building to enter information into the database at a salary of $39,000 1 secretary per building at a salary of $33,080 5 ballistics ranges per building at $10,000 a piece 5 fingerprint scanners per building at $500 a piece Classes for technicians to learn the gun database at $500 per building 6 regular computers for each building at $2,500 total 300 registration buildings across the country at $500,000 a piece 150 computers at federal building at $60,000 total 100 federal employees need to encrypt data and monitor security at an average salary of $72,000 1 permanent building for federal workers in Washington D.C. at $2,500,000
 * Fiscal Impact:**

Total Estimated Cost: $330,334,000