Good news indeed!

 

It's a step in the right direction, but it's incomplete.

It lacks FELONY CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT with a MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE for ALL public officials (great and small- Governors to beat cops to privates in the National Guard) who violate it. And without such punishment, they WILL violate it.

There also needs to be a civil damages (with attorney fee provision) added to it.

 

H.R. 5013 amends federal emergency statute laws to prohibit federal, state and local authorities from confiscating lawfully owned firearms during times of national emergencies ...

Uh, huh. What about local emergencies that aren't declared "national"? Who judges that it's "national"? What if it's merely localized to a city or two?

In the USA, the 2nd Amendment is clear: "... shall not be infringed." It should be really simple. Until a constitutional amendment comes along that simplifies and clarifies the whole "arms" question, everything is a toss-up to the mood of the day.