Assault Weapons Ban Vote this morning***LIVE Thread

[conservativefromGa]

Senate Bill 1805

Debate continues this morning @ 9:30am on C-Span2

Amendments will be voted on around 11:30am (including AWB, and gunshow "loophole"

C-Span2link

Congressional Switchboard -1-800-648-3516

[Dead Corpse]

Hitting the good points on the number of crimes committed with all otehr weapons vs. the miniscule number committed with semi-auto weapons.

[CougarGA7]

What's the status on the vote. Is it being delayed for the talking heads?

[Dead Corpse]

I'm at work and my typing skills suck. Sue me... ;-)

[CheezyD]

Hatch pointed out that weapons under the AWB are not really assault weapons, they just happen to look like military weapons but do not operate as such. Also says knives kill five times more people, both now and 10 years ago when AWB was put in.

[Monty22]

Wow, honesty in the Senate?

[Dan from Michigan]

Called Stabmenow's office. Don't expect much. I was put on hold though.

[CheezyD]

Talking about only law abiding citzens are punished by AWB. Calls it gun owner registration.

[RockChucker]

Hatch said that this Amendment will result in gun registration.

"If a person goes to a gun show, he will be filed as a Gun Vendor in the Federal Registry FOREVER."

[Dead Corpse]

Hatch has his head wired correctly on this issue. Going over the falicy in the lefts logic about gun shows and the non-existant "loophole".

[CheezyD]

Less than 1% of criminals got guns thru gun shows.

[Dead Corpse]

Huh? For just atttending? Or for selling a gun at a show? Is this gonna be another one of those things that we won't know what it really says until after the GPO gets off its ass and updates the website?

[CheezyD]

Hatch is done. Reed-D back up now.

[dd5339]

Ping for watching....

Semper Fi

[Dead Corpse]

Reed just said there wasn't a registration requirement. Then again, he's lied about damn near everything else. Scum...

[CheezyD]

Reed-D arguing for background checks at gun shows. Says Feds have three days but hardly ever takes that long.

[looscnnn]

" For just atttending? Or for selling a gun at a show?"

Most likely they mean for selling a gun at a show, maybe even from your house eventually?

[in the Arena]

BTTT

[Dead Corpse]

It COULD be the NICs record. Run the check and the BATFE holds on to it despite what their mandate says they are supposed to do. We've been po'ed about them doing that for years.

[CheezyD]

Reed-D says gun shows are exploited by criminals. Supermarket for firearms to be obtained without background checks. Says neon sign could say come here to buy guns if you can't get them legally.

[Dead Corpse]

He just said it doesn't include language that would require it from selling from your private collection from your home. Then again, his lips were moving.