Posted on 03/04/2013 5:35:03 PM PST by BerserkPatriot
A bipartisan group of senators has announced a deal to crack down on illegal trafficking and straw purchases of firearms. Given broad opposition to renewing the federal assault weapons ban and the lack of a bipartisan deal to expand background checks, the Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act has perhaps the best chance of any gun-violence measure of passing the 113th Congress.
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.). Snip 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. snip The Judiciary Committee will mark up the legislation on Thursday.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Judiciary panel, also helped shape the bill and could announce his support for it in the next few days.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Call the House and tell them not to vote on it.
I think the headline should be Dems and Dems agree on Gun Control bill. Grassley duped into joining Dems and Dems again!
Good - start enforcement with the obama administration with operation “fast and furious”
It would make mounting the next "Operation Fast & Furious" impossible...
This act has no legitimacy.
Trafficing? - Do they mean sales?
A protected, God Given right.
“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.
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.
Our guys had so fun...Well....except for the good guys that we got killed.
These laws are useless. Criminals will be criminals.
“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!
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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.
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!
How is .gov going to decide if you “think” someone is prohibited. Are you supposed to profile????????
How is .gov going to decide if you “think” someone is prohibited. Are you supposed to profile????????
Shazzam! Another gun law the criminals are going to obey. These politicians continue to prove their ignorance.
Centrist? Two left wing RINOs labelled "centrist", and the unlisted dems, all marxist communists. This really is war folks, even though not yet "hot".
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.
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!
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
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