Longview News-Journal: Gun show visitors decry firearm restriction efforts.

On Jan. 6, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois introduced federal legislation aimed at increasing license requirements and ownership restrictions for firearms. House Resolution 45, also known as Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, is named for a Chicago high school student killed on a public bus in May 2007 when another young man boarded and started shooting, Rush said. Holt used his body to shield a girl from the line of fire and was shot in the abdomen. Rush’s legislation seeks to prohibit owning or selling a gun without a license issued by the U.S. attorney general’s office. The bill also would make it illegal to keep a loaded firearm or an unloaded firearm and its ammunition where there are children younger than 18, according to the bill’s text.