BREAKING: Details of Shumer’s Mandatory Background Check Bill (S. 374)

[pinkhamr]

Hmm, not sure if this should be posted here or under 2A .... Still needs to be seen ......

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/20...humers-mandatory-background-check-bill-s-374/

 

[Glocktogo]

GOOD! I'm glad he over-reached and now he'll get his ass handed to him! More info:

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog...-check-bill-161206892--abc-news-politics.html

Senate Committee OKs Gun Background-Check Bill

The Senate Judiciary Committee today passed a universal gun background-check bill on a strictly party-line vote: 10 to 8.

The committee also voted for a bill that would enhance school-safety initiatives with bipartisan support in a 14-4 vote. Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, were the Republicans voting to pass the bill. The committee will finish its consideration of the assault-weapons ban Thursday.

No Republicans voted in favor of the background check bill, which faced a snag last week after Republicans backed off negotiations with the bill's sponsor, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., was initially in talks with Schumer about the bill but ended his conversations with the New York senator last week. Sens. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and Joe Manchin, D-W.V., also said they could not support the bill as it's written. The bill will now head to the Senate floor with language that might not pass.

Schumer told the committee that he is open to negotiations with senators to amend the bill before it receives a final vote.

"I've been talking and am continuing to talk with colleagues across the political spectrum and across the aisle about a compromise approach and I remain optimistic that we'll be able to roll one out. But we're not 100 percent there yet," Schumer said in the committee meeting today.

Current legislation only requires background checks to be performed when guns are purchased by licensed dealers. Schumer's bill would expand the requirement of background checks to private sales between individuals.

Republicans have voiced concern about the bill leading to national registration and confiscation and infringing upon the rights of lawful gun owners.

"This bill would unnecessarily burden private sales," Grassley, the committee's ranking member, said. "I think it has unintended consequence. Obviously, criminals still get guns. They obtain them because they do not comply with background checks.

"The bill greatly restricts the right of law-abiding citizens," he added.

Schumer said, "It's sad. Right after Newtown, there was a view that maybe the right place that we could all come together on was background checks because background checks, unlike some of the other proposals here, which I support, do not interfere with the law-abiding citizens' right to bear arms.

"The argument that my colleagues make that, 'Well, they'll still be people who will get around the law,' that's true. This isn't going to be a perfect bill but it will sure reduce crimes."

A new ABC News-Washington Post poll released today showed that 91 percent of the public supports a universal background-check bill.

The Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill last week that makes "straw" purchases illegal, the first gun measure since the December shooting deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut

First off, his idea of "compromise" is for us to bend over and he'll only stick it halfway in!

Second, he openly admits that he wants to violate our constitutional rights, and gets a pass on it? WTF!!!

Oh, and that BS 91% poll is getting old. It ranks right up there with "80% of all gun crimes in Mexico are with firearms illegally obtained from the US". Pure propoganda!

Hey ABC/Washington Post! I conducted a survey today and 92% said they want you to kiss our asses!

 

[farmerbyron]

GOOD! I'm glad he over-reached and now he'll get his ass handed to him! :

+1. That's my take as well.

 

[Old Fart]

Hey ABC/Washington Post! I conducted a survey today and 92% said they want you to kiss our asses!

Solid gold!

 

[Spata]

 

[Dale00]

As long as their wackadoodle constituents like the legislation they do not care how badly it goes down in defeat. Such legislation perpetuates the urban mindset that guns are the problem. Guns and gun right supporters and evil gun manufacturers are responsible for urban crime - that's the message and it takes the pressure off politicians to make the real needed changes.

 

[bahammer]

He should go back to doing what he knows best ,bag man for







He should stick to doing what he does best, bag man for Wall Street or bullying flight attendants.

 

[cichlid-dave]

Spata your profile pick wants to make me throw up.

 

[BikerHT]

GOOD! I'm glad he over-reached and now he'll get his ass handed to him! More info:

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog...-check-bill-161206892--abc-news-politics.html



First off, his idea of "compromise" is for us to bend over and he'll only stick it halfway in!

Second, he openly admits that he wants to violate our constitutional rights, and gets a pass on it? WTF!!!

Oh, and that BS 91% poll is getting old. It ranks right up there with "80% of all gun crimes in Mexico are with firearms illegally obtained from the US". Pure propoganda!

Hey ABC/Washington Post! I conducted a survey today and 92% said they want you to kiss our asses!

(HT clicks on the 'LIKE' button repeatedly!)

 

[Jwryan84]

Breaking new ground making straw purchases illegal......really, thought they were already. What a waste of time