Posted on 03/24/2021 2:04:11 AM PDT by Libloather
Mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado that left at least 18 people dead since last week are reigniting calls from gun control advocates for tighter restrictions on buying firearms and ammunition. But with Democrats in control of the federal government, gun rights advocates have been persuading Republican-run state legislatures to go the other way, making it easier to obtain and carry guns.
How are the politics of gun legislation playing out in the United States this year? Here’s the breakdown:
PROSPECTS MIXED FOR LEGISLATION
This month, the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives adopted measures to expand background checks to all gun purchases and expand the time to vet people flagged in a nationwide background check system.
But to pass in the Senate, the support of every Democrat would be needed. And that’s not a sure thing.
States led by Democrats are pushing to expand some gun control laws.
Maryland lawmakers overrode a veto from Republican Gov. Larry Hogan on a bill that requires background checks for all sales and transfers of rifles and shotguns. Previously, the checks were required only for sales of handguns and long guns by licensed firearms dealers.
In Washington state, a ban on high-capacity magazines has stalled, but a measure to ban carrying weapons openly at the state Capitol or during permitted demonstrations has cleared one house of the Legislature and is awaiting a vote in the other.
California lawmakers are expected to require individual identifiers on all bullet casings to include weapons used by law enforcement. Proponents say the pending legislation is another attempt to help investigate shootings by police as well as make it easier to solve crimes. Critics say it’s based on unworkable technology.
At least five states also have bills that would require or expand waiting periods...
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A sex addict and an Islamic terrorist attack.
Mmmmkay.
Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court To Let Cops Enter Homes And Seize Guns Without A Warrant
Fingers crossed that gun and ammo sales continue to well outpace the Fascist Rat attempts to repossess them. Because if there’s anything we’ve learned since last November it’s that Patriots need to stand armed and ready 24/7.
“Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court To Let Cops Enter Homes And Seize Guns Without A Warrant”
Obiden trying to open everyone’s doors for cops to enter search and seize everyone’s guns without a warrant or due cause. GUN CONFISCATION.
Hell, with the red flag rule/law if a neighbor, co-worker, ex-wife or girlfriend or wife anticipating a divorce or even a door to door salesman who sees a gun while talking with you at your door who wants to can call and tell a story and the cops come and take your shotgun your grandfather gave you that he used in 1901. Good idea not to display ANY guns.... absolutely no more wall gun racks in the den.
the Justice Department felt were “justified”
So the law depends upon what the (in)Justice Department feels like an any given day? The #ComDems are always above the law, you cannot touch them, but anyone that disagrees with them are guilty of a crime. That is the #ComDem_Way.
I have such a shotgun. It is a well used Damascus steel hammer less double barreled 12 ga. shotgun. It was my great great grandfather’s. The only time it might ever be used again would be with hand loads. The breech lock is very worn and without some tinkering nobody would attempt to fire it.
I also have a model 1873 Springfield 45-70 trapdoor rifle that belonged to my great great grandfather on my grandmother’s side of the family. Complete with the bayonet. I just bought and installed a new firing pin in it. It was given to my father when he was 3 years old (in 1928). It was manufactured in 1882. The barrel is over 30” long, I have one of the black powder cartridges last used in it, it has a 500 grain lead bullet in it.
Those are what you call keepsakes. I removed the Springfield rifle from over the fireplace in my father’s home after he died. It had been mounted securely to the brick with the 2 ft. bayonet fixed for 50 years. I do intend to fire it, with carefully made hand loads. Honestly it is in pretty good shape. Right now it is hard to find components for reloading it, but I have a good friend who reloads that caliber for much newer and stronger rifles of that caliber who has plenty. His father and my father were close friends. We all hunted and fished together when I was growing up. Our families came to this county about the same time, my family came here in 1889. His father and my father were both WWII vets. Some say my father is the last WWII vet that was living in this county.
Have read there are about 325,000 WWII vets still living, out of 16 million who fought in that war. Roughly 2% still survive, my father died recently at 95.
The demon rats did not introduce tighter restrictions on guns. The Chomo in Chief introduced an outright ban.
Repeal the Lautenburg amendment.
100 years later we’re going to learn the lessons of Prohibition again. Non-compliance, black markets, skyrocketing crime, organized crime getting richer, and the law-abiding being made instant felons.
Americans are not buying arms and ammo at record rates so that they can gift them to the government.
HA..! The people of the "Individual States" SHOULD have immediately put a stop to that last, so called, election.! They SHOULD have put the media elites, and at least half the congress, the Senate and the stinking lousy DOJ in the slammer for a very long time.. But they didn't.... So it continues.. The lawlessness..
Joe Obummer #2, writing illegal laws on the "Resolute Desk", the desk he stole right before our very eyes.! And all you hear from the "American Patriot" is a slight whimper, with a few threats to bury our guns in the backyard. Or loose them in a boating accident.. (spit)
America doesn't need any guns.. Hell, it's pretty obvious that we no longer have the stones to use'um.. :(
What's she waiting for? Not worded to her liking?
The youngest WW 2 veterans are around 94 years old now. My dad was a WW 2 veteran and passed away at 90 in 2014.
My dad was not 21 when he got home from the war. My grandfather had to sign for his marriage certificate.
Stupid bureaucrap never changes.
My dad lied about his age when he went into the service. He told them that he was born in 1922 when he was actually born in 1925. It finally caught up with him in 2005 when he went to renew his drivers license. The VA and the state of AZ had his birthday in 1922. When they started consolidating all of the records nationwide, the state of NY had his birthday listed as 1925. The DMV asked him why there was a discrepancy. He told them that he lied to go into the military. The DMV official shook his hand and renewed his driver’s license.
Bureaucraps and computers.
A number of years after 9/11, my father went to renew his driver’s license and they refused to renew it.
Almost his entire life he went by a nick name, it was on his driver’s license, his checks and his bank accounts. The name was given to him when he was very young, by a black man who worked for his grandfather. They were very close. One day in discussion he said it was time that the boys (my dad and my uncle) had a nick name, He pointed to one and said, he is Pete and then the other and said, he is Jack. They were nick named after a pair of mules he used to plow the orchard.
True Story. For almost the rest of their lives they farmed together and were both know by that nick name. In spite of the driver’s license.
Until they refused to renew his driver’s license under an assumed name. At the time he was in his 80’s, they forced him to bring them a birth certificate. He had to pay to have a duplicate made, he had lived his entire life where he was born here, except for a couple of years in Europe during WWII.
Everything keys to the driver’s license number, he had to change his bank information (he still included “Pete” in quotes)
He had a dispute with the people who made the birth certificate. One year off on birth date.
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