Posted on 09/11/2008 1:45:13 PM PDT by neverdem
A House committee approved a bill yesterday that would allow D.C. officials to write their own gun laws, as D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and others tried to forestall more drastic congressional intervention.
But Norton (D) acknowledged that the real showdown on the District's gun laws will come on the House floor, probably next week. There, a tougher bill that would eliminate most D.C. gun regulations probably will be offered as a substitute for Norton's measure. The full House will probably approve the tougher measure, according to congressional sources.
"I wish I could tell you this is the end of this," Norton said after yesterday's 21 to 1 vote in favor of her bill in the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Rep. Tom Davis (Va.), the leading Republican on the committee, said yesterday that the important thing "isn't what happens here, but what happens on the floor next week."
The congressional actions come less than three months after a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the city's 32-year-old ban on handguns. The District has replaced the ban with temporary legislation that permits residents to register revolvers for self-defense in the home. But many members of Congress have complained that the District remains overly restrictive.
Norton's legislation would allow D.C. officials to rewrite their gun laws within 180 days to comply with the court ruling. It is aimed at stopping the more sweeping bill sponsored by Rep. Travis W. Childers (D-Miss.) that would bar the D.C. government from passing laws that "discourage or eliminate" the use of firearms.
Childers's legislation...
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Norton and her allies on the committee have reacted with alarm to the Childers bill, saying it would allow residents to carry loaded semiautomatic weapons and .50-caliber sniper rifles around the District, increasing the risk of a terrorist attack...
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Amazing isn't it?
"...said after yesterday's 21 to 1 vote in favor of her bill in the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform."
21 to 1. Republicans are less than worthless.
Did you notice that on that page, the petty, pissant democrats put in links to the democrat member’s pages, but not to the republicans? They are worse than children.
“THE HIT MAN”
One of, if not the best episode of Miami Vice ever.
That trick was called a Mozabique Drill, if I’m not mistaken. It was performed by Jim Zubiena, who himself was a heck of an IPSC shooter.
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