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Seventeen is a magazine for, shockingly, teenagers, which is nominally about fashion, celebs, fun stuff, you know, all the things teens care about. Of course, they also run articles on abortion because they push unsafe sex practices, anal sex, and hard left politics

Seventeen, a magazine for teen girls, wants to do all they can to make it very difficult for females to have a firearm to protect themselves https://t.co/uy9PZKPbLK

— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) October 15, 2020

From the direct Seventeen link, rather than where I found it at Yahoo

While nearly 40,000 Americans die from gun violence every year, the Trump administration continues to champion the rights of gun owners and firearm dealers, rather than focusing on the safety of the American people. In a direct response to this, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refuses to bring H.R.8—the most historic piece of gun legislation our country has seen in decades, which requires universal background checks—to the Senate floor for a vote. It’s been sitting on his desk since February 2019.

America’s gun violence epidemic did not originate from the Trump administration, but President Trump has shown no signs of prioritizing gun safety the past four years. In fact, in the early days of the pandemic, while healthcare workers lined up outside of hospitals in personal protective equipment, Americans lined up in front of gun shops after President Trump, a friend of the National Rifle Association (NRA), deemed gun shops as “essential businesses.” While doing so, he tweeted dangerous calls to action like, “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!” The tweet refers to the historic gun safety legislation passed in Virginia, which requires background checks on all gun sales, mandates reporting of lost and stolen firearms, and reinstates Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month policy. Additionally, over the summer, St. Louis couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey pointed guns at peaceful Black Lives Matter protestors walking past their home. President Trump rewarded their behavior by allowing them to speak at the Republican National Convention (RNC).

If they’re lying about things like the McCloskey’s, forgetting that the “peaceful protesters” broke into a private area, tearing a gate off, threatened the McCloskey’s, and even brandished weapons, what else are they lying about?

We all know that the vast majority of background checks are actually done legally via the FBI system. And we all know that Democratic Party bills have things hidden by their flowing words of saving us all, right? Did anyone think Obamacare would hide what is essentially a takeover of the student loans industry, with loan debt skyrocketing immediately after? What’s Seventeen not telling you?

Even more than that, the bill would outlaw the “transfer” of a firearm without a Brady Check. [See the proposed language for 18 U.S.C. 922(t)(1)(A) in Section 3 of H.R. 8.]

The term “transfer” is nowhere defined, but it’s clear from the bill that handing your gun to a neighbor for as little as one second is a “transfer” unless you’re covered by one of the bill’s so-called exceptions.

So if you hand your firearm to a friend while you both are cleaning weapons, and then go into the kitchen to get another towel, you’re a criminal and can go to prison for up to a year under 18 U.S.C. 924(a)(5).

Many of the exceptions also make you a criminal, like if you hand your hunting rifle to someone without a hunting license.Reason notes

HR8 requires that loans, gifts, and sales of firearms be processed by a gun store. The same fees, paperwork, and permanent record-keeping apply as to buying a new gun from the store. If you loan a gun to a friend without going to the gun store, the penalty is the same as for knowingly selling a gun to a convicted violent felon. Likewise, when the friend returns the gun, another trip to the gun store is necessary, upon pain of felony.

Seems rather burdensome for using your 2nd Amendment Rights, and quickly makes people felons, you can’t possess a firearm. If you are a domestic violence victim, and in quick need of a firearm, you cannot borrow one. You’d have to go through the laborious process and pay hundreds of dollars to purchase.

A clever trick in HR8 effectively bans handguns for persons 18-to20.

Many states do not allow those under 21 to have a handgun. Others do. This is yet another central government takeover of the 10th Amendment.

Regulators may set a minimum fee, but not “a cap on a fee.” The Attorney General is allowed to require that every gun store charge a fee of $30, $50, $150, or more. Even a $20 fee can be a hard burden to a poor person.

What if the Democrat appointed AG/regulators make the fee a couple hundred dollars? Of course, the lawsuits would come fast, but, how many would be unable to get a gun for protection?

It also creates a national gun registry, so, the government will know every single firearm you legally purchased. Back to Seventeen article

Although the issue of gun control has not been spoken about at the presidential or vice presidential debates held thus far (you can see President Trump’s unofficial record on gun reform here), Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris have laid out a clear plan to help end gun violence in America should they be elected in November. This includes, but is not limited to, the following actions:

Well, you can go over and read them, they’re all the gun grabbing and banning and more regulations that you’d expect. It would even have Los Federales searching your social media accounts without a warrant. For a magazine about women, it would put women at a disadvantage and make them less safe by making it so much harder for them to get a weapon to protect themselves.