Reid Reverses Course, Will Introduce Tough Gun Bill

The Weekly Standard ^ | 5:52 PM, Mar 21, 2013 • | By DANIEL HALPER

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Harry Reid will reverse course and allow a tough gun bill to be introduced in the Senate.

The Huffington Post reports, "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will introduce gun control legislation Thursday night that includes a proposal for universal background checks, a high-ranking source told The Huffington Post." 

The liberal website adds:

[Drill Thrawl]

this goes nowhere in the House

Don't bet on that. There are enough RINOs in the house for the rats to carry the day.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Does that mean I can’t give Clint Jr my guns unless he goes through a background check?

[digger48]

You've got to count on Boehner (!!!) to keep it off the floor.

long shot, I suppose.

saw something earlier that he said the idea for sequester cuts weren't really Obamas idea

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

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• MILLER: RIP national 'assault weapon' ban
• A BATTLE, NOT THE WAR
• Moving beyond ban on assault weapons (barf alert)
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New York:

• Biden meets with Bloomberg as gun-control groups attack Reid
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• New York state offers $500 reward for reporting gun owners
• New York offers $500 reward for reporting illegal gun owners
• BIG BROTHER IS BRIBING SNITCHES (Andrew Cuomo)
• Andrew Cuomo: That gun law I signed turned out to be utterly unworkable, huh?
• New York Governor Favors Easing Newly Passed Gun Law (Ridiculous Headline Alert!)
• Iraq War Hero With Brain Injury Is First Man Charged Under NY Safe Act (Video)

Colorado:

• Meet John Hickenlooper, now-endangered Democratic Governor of Colorado.
• New Laws Force Gun Co. Out of Colorado, Costing State Hundreds of Jobs, Millions in Sales
• Colorado gun sales skyrocket to all-time high as gun control debates heat up

Rule by Decree:

• Kerry Commits U.S. To U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Gun Grab
• EDITORIAL: Gun control by the U.N.The White House attempts an end run around the House
• Arms Trade Treaty and the 2nd Amendment: Answering the American Bar Association
• FBI Director Blames Background Check Shortages on Sequester

Michigan:

• MI: Hundreds gather for pro-gun rally at state Capitol

sidebars:

• How New Mexicans Beat State Gun Control Legislation; How Others Can Do The Same
• A Defeat for Demagogy -- The failure of the "assault weapons" ban should make Americans proud.
• Assault weapons ban: The NRA wins again (barf alert)

[Jeff Winston]

Regardless, this is the rope-a-dope, the good-cop to Feinswine’s bad cop routine.

This is the real deal. The other was just for show IMO. They knew it would never go anywhere.

This is the one they really want to shove down our throats.

[jwalsh07]

Good, it’s nice to know who the fascists are.

[animal172]

DiFi threatened to kick his a*s.

[DBrow]

We must have an encrypted channel here, or get more people to use encrypted posts.

[axxmann]

Agreed. This will not make it out of the senate. I doubt if it will even get 50 votes.

[Carry_Okie]

Sharon Angle.

[Candor7]

GOOD! Now each and every Democrat who votes for this bill will have a very difficult time winning in 2014.

Let the voting record show their treason to the Constitution.

Obama must have weighed in. Too bad Harry ....you lose....and you will NEVER get your funding requests passed in the House.

IDJIT! Buahahahahahahaha!

[Lancey Howard]

setting up votes to give gun grabbers in Red states some cover.... this goes nowhere in the House

Bingo.
(Can I say that?)

[ogen hal]

The votes for this will be good data for those who ultimately bring justice.

[oldenuff2no]

Now they need to put hairy in the position that he has to vote yes on it. Make him vote for this bill so his constituents will vote him out of office in his next election. His high rating with the NRA will be history and so will his senate career. The house will not pass this bill so we can kill the bill and make hairy history all at the same time. I like a happy ending.

[digger48]

Bingo.
(Can I say that?)

not for long.

it has 2 of the 3 letters it takes to spell "gun"

[highball]

How come the Dem leadership always flip-flops in the leftward direction, while ours... does too?

[highball]

If a gun control bill makes it to the floor of the House, it will almost certainly pass. All 201 Democrats will vote for it...and, if as few as 17 lily-livered, yellow bellied RINOs vote for it, it becomes law.

You've got to count on Boehner (!!!) to keep it off the floor.

We're doomed.

[Lancey Howard]

Teen arrested for yelling 'bingo!' in crowded hall

[Travis McGee]