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GOP, Dem senators strike agreement on gun trafficking bill
The Hill ^ | 03/04/13 05:30 PM ET | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 03/04/2013 5:35:03 PM PST by BerserkPatriot

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Time to make some phone calls people.
1 posted on 03/04/2013 5:35:13 PM PST by BerserkPatriot
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To: BerserkPatriot

Call the House and tell them not to vote on it.


2 posted on 03/04/2013 5:37:00 PM PST by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: BerserkPatriot

I think the headline should be Dems and Dems agree on Gun Control bill. Grassley duped into joining Dems and Dems again!


3 posted on 03/04/2013 5:37:25 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: BerserkPatriot

Good - start enforcement with the obama administration with operation “fast and furious”


4 posted on 03/04/2013 5:38:35 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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The Obama White House and Holder's DOJ can be counted upon to fight this bill.

It would make mounting the next "Operation Fast & Furious" impossible...

5 posted on 03/04/2013 5:40:09 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: BerserkPatriot

This act has no legitimacy.

Trafficing? - Do they mean sales?

A protected, God Given right.


6 posted on 03/04/2013 5:41:47 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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“It would also outlaw illegal purchasers of firearms from smuggling weapons out of the country”

So the BATF will have to find another line of work.


7 posted on 03/04/2013 5:42:47 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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I don’t think the Food Stamp President is worried as the election is over and he got his nearly 1 billion in election cash. That said, this bill could be used to eliminate competition and as a method of fake charges and extortion.


8 posted on 03/04/2013 5:47:27 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Leveling the playing field for a Progressive is dragging everyone down to their level.)
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Does that mean no more Fast and Furious episodes??

Our guys had so fun...Well....except for the good guys that we got killed.

9 posted on 03/04/2013 6:18:51 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: BerserkPatriot

These laws are useless. Criminals will be criminals.


10 posted on 03/04/2013 6:21:28 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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“Gillibrand said she started working on the issue at the start of her Senate career after meeting with a family who lost a daughter to a stray bullet because of gang violence.”

Libtard can’t bring herself to pass a Bounty on drug dealers, even though history has many examples of the efficacy of bounties on criminals.

This Agenda Uber Alles LibTardette would rather chip away at the Second Amendment than stand on her two hind limbs and vote for either a bounty on drug dealers or legalization of drugs.

After all, legalization would mean AgencyPersons and Dimocrap voters being out of work. That’s OK. As for the victims of the drug war’s stray bullets, well - too bad.

But DON’T do anything that might cost an agency job slot!


11 posted on 03/04/2013 6:29:01 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
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The bill strengthens the law prohibiting material false statements in connection with purchasing a firearm and strengthens penalties for purchasing a gun with intent to transfer it to someone involved in violent crime or drug trafficking. It would also outlaw illegal purchasers of firearms from smuggling weapons out of the country.

??

That's it? LOL, what a bunch of nothing. Apparently this is what the political scum need to be able to proclaim to the simple chattering class they "did something" about guns.

12 posted on 03/04/2013 6:32:14 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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A bipartisan group of senators has announced a deal to crack down on illegal trafficking and straw purchases of firearms.

Are we going to pass laws that make other laws more seriously illegal? "Illegal trafficking" and "straw purchases" are already illegal, no? So we have to pass a bill to "crack down" on things that are illegal?

It sounds like a bill saying we are going to enforce something. It's like another strongly worded letter. "This time we are serious!"

Give me a break. What else is in it? That's what I thought!

13 posted on 03/04/2013 6:39:52 PM PST by Tenacious 1 ("The British are Coming (to confiscate weapons)" - Paul Revere (We know how that ended))
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How is .gov going to decide if you “think” someone is prohibited. Are you supposed to profile????????


14 posted on 03/04/2013 6:42:52 PM PST by therut
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How is .gov going to decide if you “think” someone is prohibited. Are you supposed to profile????????


15 posted on 03/04/2013 6:43:08 PM PST by therut
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Shazzam! Another gun law the criminals are going to obey. These politicians continue to prove their ignorance.


16 posted on 03/04/2013 6:51:24 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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Centrist Republican Sens. Mark Kirk (Ill.) and Susan Collins (Maine) have reached an agreement with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)

Centrist? Two left wing RINOs labelled "centrist", and the unlisted dems, all marxist communists. This really is war folks, even though not yet "hot".

17 posted on 03/04/2013 6:55:22 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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We’re not to judge all Muslims by the acts of a few “crazies,”
but ...the acts of a few American crazies are enough to judge all Americans who own guns.


18 posted on 03/04/2013 8:15:52 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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There’s your boy: Nancyboy Kirk justifying my vote against him. He’s taking a little time away from promoting Muffie’s trust fund to grab guns. He’ll also enthusiastically back baby-killing and gross fudge=packing perversion masquerading as “marriage.” He’s a regular Barack Insane Obozo in GOP drag!


19 posted on 03/04/2013 11:58:53 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society: Rack 'em, Danno)
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Libtard can’t bring herself to pass a Bounty on drug dealers, even though history has many examples of the efficacy of bounties on criminals.

The difference is the powerful economic incentive to deal drugs - it's already a life-threatening line of work, but there is no shortage of drug dealers nor any delay in replacing the ones who die or get jailed.

This Agenda Uber Alles LibTardette would rather chip away at the Second Amendment than stand on her two hind limbs and vote for either a bounty on drug dealers or legalization of drugs.

That last idea has a proven track record: ”The lush traffic in alcohol beverages during the violent years of 1920 to 1933 had laid the base of organization for a number of criminal gangs. The termination of the ban on liquor deprived these gangs of their most lucrative source of money” - Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce

20 posted on 03/05/2013 8:26:35 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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