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Gun Control Could Die Today
GOA ^ | Apr. 17, 2013 | GOA Staff

Posted on 04/17/2013 9:27:38 AM PDT by EXCH54FE

This is it!

It would have been better if we had won the motion to proceed last week and didn't have to spend this week fighting one Harry Reid bribe after another - all of which are intended to lure Senators into passing gun control.

But we believe that our grassroots’ pressure has kept Senators from giving in to the bribes. And, as early as today, there could be a series of pivotal votes on gun amendments.

The most important - and the vote which will determine whether we defeat all gun control in the 113rd Congress - is the vote on the Toomey-Manchin-Schumer gun registry bill.

This bill would require you to go to a dealer and fill out a 4473 if you put up a sign or run a newspaper ad touting your gun that’s for sale. And, once you fill in that 4473, Toomey-Manchin-Schumer would open the door to putting you on a national gun registry.

Don't believe the loophole-filled weasel words in the Toomey-Manchin-Schumer amendment. If it passes, there will be a national gun registry.

The vote on Toomey-Manchin-Schumer will be, by far, the single most important vote today. And it will require 60 votes for adoption. If we get 41 votes against - and we are very, very optimistic that we will - gun control will probably die for the next two years. Obama’s agenda will have been defeated.

There will also be votes on two other bad amendments, but we should be able to get 41 votes and defeat these without any difficulty. They are the votes on the Feinstein semi-automatic ban and the Blumenthal magazine ban. As we say, these should die without any more effort.

A number of good amendments will be offered:

•The Vitter/Cornyn amendment would allow concealed carry holders and persons in constitutional carry states to carry nationwide. •The Burr amendment would guarantee that veterans cannot lose their gun rights without a court order. •And the Barrasso amendment would defund state governments that release the names of gun owners.

But we need to keep our eyes on the ball: The single most important vote is the vote to defeat the Toomey-Schumer amendment. If we win on that, we will probably kill gun control for the rest of this 113th Congress. We only need 41 votes. And we are optimistic that, with your help, we will get them.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: EXCH54FE

I’m watching this on CSPAN2 now for as long as I can stand it. Sen. Murphy D- Conn. making me want to break the TV.


41 posted on 04/17/2013 10:30:01 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: driftdiver

Rubio better knuckle down...or I’ll send my Rubio water bottle back! LOL!


42 posted on 04/17/2013 10:33:03 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos!)
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To: EXCH54FE

My senator Richard Burr is voting against it. I asked if my call was somehow logged and she stated that they are keeping track of the number of calls they are getting requesting he votes no.

So I guess my call was one.


43 posted on 04/17/2013 10:41:10 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!!)
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To: bt-99
As a Senator he/she can be reached via email and phone by any American in any state, unlike the block from emailing other Reps outside your district.
44 posted on 04/17/2013 10:45:27 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: EXCH54FE

Toomey Manchin Registration
Another Point 08 Solution
Generates revenues
and makes
every violator a felon


45 posted on 04/17/2013 10:45:35 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause..Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: bt-99

Call Toomey and tell him you’re initiating a primary challenge against him for sleeping with the enemy.


46 posted on 04/17/2013 11:02:17 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: EXCH54FE
This, from Kay Hagan, D, NC:::::::::

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), a closely watched Democrat facing reelection in 2014, said Monday she will support the Manchin-Toomey compromise legislation to expand background checks.

......“Hagan said in a statement sent to TPM by her office. "I am looking at each proposal to ensure it is common sense, will be effective and will not infringe on Second Amendment rights. This plan represents a commonsense solution reached by two of my colleagues -- one a Democrat, one a Republican -- and I plan to support the bipartisan proposal.

"It respects law-abiding North Carolina gun owners by exempting transfers between family members and friends, allowing concealed carry permits issued within the last five years to serve in lieu of a background check, and explicitly banning the federal government from creating a registry."

"I am concerned that amendments banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines could infringe on the rights of lawful gun owners, and I will not support such measures."


Am I missing something here or is she just flat out lying???
47 posted on 04/17/2013 11:03:56 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!!)
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To: EXCH54FE

Hey hey

My my

Gun control

Will never die


48 posted on 04/17/2013 11:05:37 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Red in Blue PA
True. We've seen the same thing from the sodomite agenda. If the people pass props opposing them, they go to court. If the court strikes them down, they push for another vote, or go to another court. They judge-shop and get judges who are sympathetic to them. They never stop until they get their way, then they start castigating the right for not "letting it go" and opposing the "will of the people". Like they've done with obamacare. They never never stop until they've gotten their way. They live for activism, unlike most on the right who have families to support.
49 posted on 04/17/2013 11:09:39 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: EXCH54FE

I tried calling the number, but got the “All circuits are busy” intercept. I was able to reach one senator’s office (Murkowski) on the NRA-provided number I have, but could not reach our DemonRat senator, but I’ll keep trying.


50 posted on 04/17/2013 11:13:18 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: EXCH54FE

Go to the Gun Owners of America’s Legislative Alerts and Updates Page to send a message that automatically goes to your correct Government representative.
http://www.capwiz.com/gunowners/issues/?style=D

Click on the most recent Alert link.
Right now it’s “The Battle Will Take Longer than We’d Hoped.”

This will take you to a page with a pre-written email. Just put in your personal info and the page will figure out which Senator or Representative to send it to. If you leave ‘Remember Me!’ checked you will only have to fill it in once. Then you can return and send it quickly multiple times a day.


51 posted on 04/17/2013 12:04:44 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: Fawn

I would get a new doctor.

This guy sounds unethical.

I don’t blame you for being livid.


52 posted on 04/17/2013 12:48:32 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 4, 2008 and November 6, 2012.....Two days that will live in infamy!)
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To: EXCH54FE

The events of Boston this week pretty much has killed this bill.


53 posted on 04/17/2013 12:52:05 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl

And let us hope the events in Boston kill this rancid immigration bill too.


54 posted on 04/17/2013 12:57:21 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: EXCH54FE

There was no “Toomey-Manchin-Schumer sell-out.” There was the Schumer bill, and the Manchin-Toomey bill has killed it and committed obviously scheduled suicide. ;-)

But your Cruz-Grassley Republican bill against the Second Amendment—the bill without a cause—is comin’ right up with some more class warfare gun control and big government spending.


55 posted on 04/17/2013 1:12:41 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: EXCH54FE

http://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/Article.cfm?customel_dataPageID_1502=45551


56 posted on 04/17/2013 1:14:24 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: EXCH54FE; All

Can we have a candle-light vigil for its passing???

I mean hey, everyone else is having them these days...Why not us...


57 posted on 04/17/2013 1:15:30 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: bt-99

I feel your pain. It only took two years for Toomey and Rubio to go bad. How long will Cruz, Lee, and Paul last? Yeah. Toomey amend is dead and so is his career.


58 posted on 04/17/2013 1:28:08 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The Progs are pushing for war. Be ready.)
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To: EXCH54FE

Radio news just reported the bill FAILED!


59 posted on 04/17/2013 1:34:17 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: EXCH54FE

Now it’s time for Harry Reid to liken the no voters to the bombers in Boston in 3....2....1....


60 posted on 04/17/2013 1:37:00 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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