They're at it again.

[Ericpwp]

Bipartisan bill aims to close gun loophole | MSNBC

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

You have to give them credit. They don't let a little thing like past failures deter them from taking a new swing every session.

Imagine the consersation our side could start if we started making the case to repeal things like GCA, NFA, etc...every-single-year.

 

[halfmileharry]

I won't give them much credit at all. They want guns banned so they won't get their sorry arses shot by disgruntled constituents.
Crooks and thieves care not for freedom.

 

[K_W]

"The same bill put forward by Reps. King and Thompson was introduced in the previous session of Congress. It had earned 188 co-sponsors and 90% of support from the American public."

BS.

 

[Ericpwp]

consider the source

 

[Beowulf]

It's just same nonsense as before:

The four Republicans and four Democrats who are co-sponsoring the measure are seeking to expand background checks to prevent criminals and people with severe mental illnesses from buying guns during every commercial sale. A loophole in the federal system currently allows people to buy firearms sold online and at gun shows without first passing a background check.

What loophole? You can't commercially buy a gun online or at a gun show without a background check. So, this article is flat out lying about this. It sounds like the legislation is trying to backdoor universal background checks into law, with "exemptions" for family and "hunting partners", whatever that means.

Anyone know where the text of this BS is? I will almost guarantee that the legislation would consider the INGO classifieds as "online commercial transactions".

 

[Bfish]

You have to give them credit. They don't let a little thing like past failures deter them from taking a new swing every session.

Imagine the consersation our side could start if we started making the case to repeal things like GCA, NFA, etc...every-single-year.

It would be kinda fantastic if we did do such things!

 

[Drail]

I think it's way past time to close the liberal politician I.Q. loophole. If we keep allowing stupid people to run for public office and voting them in we will destroy the very Republic that our forefathers died for to give us a better world to live in. We are very close to ending up just like the Roman Empire. IMO the people running our Govt. are FAR more dangerous than all of the "terrorists" on the planet.

 

[cosermann]

... Imagine the consersation our side could start if we started making the case to repeal things like GCA, NFA, etc...every-single-year. ...

Which is EXACTLY what SHOULD be done!

 

[AmmoManAaron]

Imagine the conversation our side could start if we started making the case to repeal things like GCA, NFA, etc...every-single-year.

I agree and would support doing exactly that.

 

[drillsgt]

I don't know if I would call this "bipartisan" by having a few RINO's sign onto it.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Of course "they" are at it again.

They never quit. That is how they win.

We need to fight harder.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Of course "they" are at it again.

They never quit. That is how they win.

We need to fight harder.

Exactly.

 

[ModernGunner]

Leave MY Constitution Alone.

 

[avboiler11]

Every legislative session everywhere has bills introduced that have somewhere between slim to no chance of passage, but are introduced anyway in the name of grandstanding.

This bill is no different.

Gotta give them credit on their messaging though..."Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2015".

Text of the bill here: http://www.guns.com/2015/03/05/thompson-king-expanded-background-checks-on-firearms-purchase-bill/

Conveniently, of the three bill "Titles", none mention "protecting Second Amendment rights"...

 

[bradmedic04]

I'm not going to read that article, but I suspect the phrase "common sense" precedes "gun control" several times....unless they've decided to use different wording since that didn't work last time.

 

[level0]

I'm trying to contact this girl and ask her to fact check her own article. Her bio lists her as "Expert in Guns, Small Business, Culture ".

 

[Birds Away]

Peter King is NOT a Republican.

 

[Bfish]

I'm trying to contact this girl and ask her to fact check her own article. Her bio lists her as "Expert in Guns, Small Business, Culture ".

Now that's funny!

 

[Bill of Rights]

It's just same nonsense as before:

The four Republicans and four Democrats who are co-sponsoring the measure are seeking to expand background checks to prevent criminals and people with severe mental illnesses from buying guns during every commercial sale. A loophole in the federal system currently allows people to buy firearms sold online and at gun shows without first passing a background check.

What loophole? You can't commercially buy a gun online or at a gun show without a background check. So, this article is flat out lying about this. It sounds like the legislation is trying to backdoor universal background checks into law, with "exemptions" for family and "hunting partners", whatever that means.

Anyone know where the text of this BS is? I will almost guarantee that the legislation would consider the INGO classifieds as "online commercial transactions".

No, you can't commercially buy a gun online, at a gun show, or anywhere without a background check and 4473. Except for that niggling little bit called the "interstate commerce clause", as interpreted. Because the gun has traveled in interstate commerce, that is, it or some component of it has been bought or sold across state lines, including possibly iron ore used in making the steel OR because the purchase of a gun made wholly of in-state materials thus prevented a gun from being sold across state lines, it therefore qualifies as valid for Congress to have a say about it. Thus, any sale is "commercial", just not through a licensed seller.

Of course, private transactions have never been so considered, but they don't want to hear that fact, it just confuses the issue.

Oh, and the exemptions are there only to silence our objections, so we theoretically can only fall back on that tired old 2nd Amendment.

I think I can find a rail.... anyone got a bunch of feathers and a few buckets of tar?

Blessings,
Bill