Posted on 04/02/2013 4:41:18 PM PDT by neverdem
Senators from both parties signaled Sunday that universal background checks could be the next gun measure to get shoved toward the legislative scrap heap or significantly watered down.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, whose bill to expand background checks to cover virtually all gun transactions, including private sales, has cleared the Judiciary Committee, said he is nevertheless hunting for a compromise on the issue.
“I’m working very hard with both Democrats and Republicans, pro-NRA and anti-NRA people, to come up with a background check bill that will be acceptable to 60 senators and be very strong and get the job done,” the New York Democrat said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s very hard. We’re working hard, and I’m very hopeful that we can get this passed.”
Two Republican senators who are backing legislation to clarify the definition of people adjudicated mentally ill who are not allowed to own or purchase guns appeared skeptical that Mr. Schumer’s measure could pass the Senate as written.
Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona called universal checks “a bridge too far for most of us.”
“Well, the paperwork requirements alone would be significant, and even if there are exemptions for a father passing on a gun to his son or daughter, you’d still have issues with people in a private setting transferring or loaning a gun for somebody,” Mr. Flake said later on the program.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that out of about 80,000 people who failed background checks last year, just 66 were prosecuted.
“Why in the world would you expand that system if you’re not enforcing the law that exists today to include private transfers?” Mr. Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “So I think that legislation is going nowhere...”
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Probably via Wickard v. Filburn.
It's a notorius case from the New Deal that still stands.
And may they continue to flow...
The people who elect him are far more dangerous.... He is the symptom, not the disease....
Little Chuckie Schumer never saw a fascist law, rule, or regulation he didn’t love.
For the truly ineffectual male, it’s so much fun to tell all the proles what to do and how to do it.
bfl
Welcome. Don’t forget to add Dan Coats.
Consider that in that video he says that registration would be illegal – so he was openly admitting to violating a previous law
Chuck you Schumer has flip flopped saying at one point that his bill won’t be a Gun Registry and then later on saying that he’s pushing “Universal Registration”.
This is the video on the issue:
NRA Stand and Fight: Universal Registration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hKq3967hUgU
Mississippi Thad Cockroach
Good to see his name spelled correctly.
Very good point.
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