Gun Control Blocked in Senate Today
ARRA News Service - The New York Times summarized today's rapid votes on several Gun Control amendments and bill as follows, "In rapid succession, a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks for gun buyers, a ban on assault weapons and a ban on high-capacity gun magazines all failed to get the 60 votes needed under an agreement between both parties. Senators also turned back Republican proposals to expand permission to carry concealed weapons and to focus law enforcement efforts on prosecuting gun crimes."
Forty-one Republicans and five rural-state Democrats blocked legislation to impose broader background checks on gun purchases. Fifty-four voted for the legislation. Makes one wonder what Constitution the 54 supporters were reading. Must have edited out the words "shall not be infringed" from the second amendment. The Heritage Foundation stated, "The plan, proposed by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY), Pat Toomey (R-PA), and Joe Manchin (D-WV), gives Attorney General Eric Holder the power to write countless regulations affecting gun laws."
Heritage legal expert David Addington has detailed three dangers to American citizens from the Schumer-Toomey-Manchin gun control bill:1. It sets “a trap for the innocent.”
The bill’s treatment of gun transfers “lets the Justice Department send people at gun shows to jail for up to five years for a crime they did not even know was a crime.”
2. It allows firearms dealers to do secret background checks on job applicants.
Employers could run secret background checks on job applicants through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) database without obtaining consent from the job applicants.
3. It “reduces existing privacy protection for mental health records relevant to background checks.”
The bill would weaken existing privacy protection for mental health records in connection with the NICS system, “leaving only what privacy protection the Attorney General cares to provide,” Addington explains.
These changes all affect law-abiding Americans—eating away at our civil liberties. Empowering the Attorney General to write more regulations will not avert future tragedies like we witnessed in Newtown.
Tags: U.S. Senate, votes, gun control, background checks To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
Forty-one Republicans and five rural-state Democrats blocked legislation to impose broader background checks on gun purchases. Fifty-four voted for the legislation. Makes one wonder what Constitution the 54 supporters were reading. Must have edited out the words "shall not be infringed" from the second amendment. The Heritage Foundation stated, "The plan, proposed by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY), Pat Toomey (R-PA), and Joe Manchin (D-WV), gives Attorney General Eric Holder the power to write countless regulations affecting gun laws."
Heritage legal expert David Addington has detailed three dangers to American citizens from the Schumer-Toomey-Manchin gun control bill:
The bill’s treatment of gun transfers “lets the Justice Department send people at gun shows to jail for up to five years for a crime they did not even know was a crime.”
2. It allows firearms dealers to do secret background checks on job applicants.
Employers could run secret background checks on job applicants through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) database without obtaining consent from the job applicants.
3. It “reduces existing privacy protection for mental health records relevant to background checks.”
The bill would weaken existing privacy protection for mental health records in connection with the NICS system, “leaving only what privacy protection the Attorney General cares to provide,” Addington explains.
These changes all affect law-abiding Americans—eating away at our civil liberties. Empowering the Attorney General to write more regulations will not avert future tragedies like we witnessed in Newtown.
Tags: U.S. Senate, votes, gun control, background checks To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
Posted by Bill Smith at 9:04 PM - Post Link
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home