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From http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/new-legislative-effort-to-get-bankruptcy-exemption-for-guns/:

A friend on the hill forwarded me the following. Supported by the NRA, Rep John Boccieri (D-OH) is pushing to allow firearms to be exempt from bankruptcy: “In those states that allow a debtor to use federal exemption law, this provision would prevent a trustee from selling a debtor’s firearms to satisfy the claims of creditors.” This amendment would make it so someone going through bankruptcy can’t have their guns liquidated and sold to pay off their bills.

Comments

[eac.livejournal.com]

....because guns are so important. *cough*canibeeuropeannow*cough*

[spinrabbit.livejournal.com]

We really need to encourage people to stock up on firearms right before their homes are repossessed.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

If you can't hold your creditors at bay with your guns, are you really using your Second Amendment rights effectively?

[marginaleye.livejournal.com]

Bah. Banks are corporations, and corporations are the embodiments of capitalism, free enterprise, the Protestant work ethic, and all that is good, pure, and virtuous. The Second Amendment is only for resisting the Gubmint. Only a wicked subversive ommunist would resist a corporation.

[elisaana.livejournal.com]

What did Marx write, again? "They have nothing left to lose except their chains, since the guns they still have are legally protected from the bankruptcy proceedings that took their house, car, and sense of belonging to American society."?

From the comments on that article, it sounds like the states where a gun is deemed important to safety from wild animals, etc. are already free to pass such laws for themselves...