Lawmakers rally around expanded background checks for gun sales

The Hill ^

[Red in Blue PA]

The gun battle is raging on Capitol Hill.

Lawmakers will introduce new gun safety legislation Tuesday expanding background checks to prevent criminals and people who are mentally ill from buying guns.

Most gun shops are already required to conduct background checks, but the rules don’t apply to firearm sales made online and at gun shows. The Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act would close this loophole and expand background checks to all gun sales.

“This bill is anti-criminal, and will help keep spouses, kids and communities safe by preventing dangerous people from getting guns,” said Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), who will introduce the legislation.

But the gun safety legislation comes in stark contrast to recent Republican bills that would expand concealed carry laws across the country and allow hunters to use armor-piercing ammunition.

Gun rights groups are gearing up for a major concealed carry push.

[lentulusgracchus]

Good thing we showed them DemonRats the error of their ways in 2014.

Yeah, and now Valerie Jarrett is running a campaign of leaks discrediting Hillary, and offering the Democratic nomination in 2016 to Lie-awatha aka Fauxcahontas, in return for essentially continuation in office for Jarrett (chief of staff, NSA, head honchette, whatever).

It reminds me of what I read in Edward Gibbon, about the time the Praetorian Guards, the blood of their last commander still on their hands, auctioned off the Roman Empire to a small circle of unwilling plutocrats. The incident was called the Sale of the Empire, and it's one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of human governance.