Believe me, I'm as tempted and desirous as anyone of finding some rhyme or reason other than pure evil for this proposed law, and all the others we see facing us this year, but I'm afraid I can't give any benefit of the doubt to the sponsors of this bill.
The primary sponsor is Josh Green MD, who, as you may recall, previously introduced a bill requiring a mental health check by a "state approved mental health worker" within 90 days prior to any firearm acquisition/purchase, in order to prevent anyone who might at some point in the future harm someone due to mental health issues from possessing a firearm. (In my testimony I cited several peer-reviewed studies indicating that psychiatrists and psychologists have a track record clearly indicating that they cannot predict future mental illness and crime.) Buy a firearm every three months, that'd be four mental health checks per year paid for out of your own pocket, effectively making it a HUGE tax on the purchase of firearms. And if a "mental health worker" had even the slightest question about the consequences of making a "wrong" decision in allowing a person who would in the future commit violence with a firearm, or really even no question at all, which way do you think he'd lean? NO GUNS FOR YOU!
When I pointed out to DOCTOR Green that more than TEN TIMES as many Americans die from "avoidable medical errors" by health professionals as die from firearm incidents of ALL kinds (suicide, homicide, accident) and suggested that he introduce a bill to require mental health checks by "state approved mental health workers" for all doctors, nurses, or anyone else in any position in the health care field that has ever been responsible for a patient death or injury... he didn't answer me. TEN TIMES as many deaths! NO ANSWER.
I'm forced to go with the evil/liar explanation.
I'm hoping that somehow these get defeated at the committee level.