Posted on 06/16/2016 5:17:17 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
Senate Democrats ended a nearly 15-hour filibuster early Thursday after Republican Party leaders reportedly agreed to allow votes on two proposed gun control measures.
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said that a compromise had been reached. Votes would be held on whether to ban people on the government's terrorist watch list from obtaining gun licenses and whether to expand background checks to gun shows and internet sales, he added.
"We did not have that commitment when we started today," Murphy said.
The nonstop series of speeches stretched 14 hours and 50 minutes. It followed the shooting massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
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They’re calling it, “commonsense gun safety measures”, on WMAL radio now. Chris Plante Show, 9-12.
Should have let them keep filibustering. If they’re talking, they’re not passing legislation.
I am half way in the boat with you, at least. I have Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio. As I posted to Laz, I do not think that time is with us on this one. It is my personal opinion, that soon we are going to have to either shit or get off the pot. I know what I am going to do, but that is just me. I made Peace with My Maker a long time ago. My wife passed away in March of this year, leaving just me. I am 75 years old.
....I guess I am and will be a felon on so many levels...
Yes. And a wanted man Federally and in 3 States. You know, crossing state lines in furtherance of a crime.
Liberals live in a self created fantasy land.
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Why do they cave?
What bill was Bambi going to sign that was so important?
Only private sales between residents of the same state do not require a background state. Some states do not require concealed carry license holders to undergo a background check.
“...I do not think that time is with us on this one. It is my personal opinion, that soon we are going to have to either shit or get off the pot.”
You’re 100% right. They’ve seriously turned-up the heat on the frog’s boiling pot. Time to jump out of the pot, or close our collective eyes and hold our collective breath, because it’s coming in 0bummer’s final months. Wouldn’t surprise me to find that San Bernadino and this were ‘engineered’ to happen, to advance his commie agenda.
IF this passes we can rest assured that Lois Lerner will re-join the federal gubmint work force, sitting on high and making administrative decisions on who shall not “Be entitled” to their constitutional right. She already has proven she knows the important criteria on which to base her decisions.
Can we depend on the House to vote this one down if it squeaks by in the Senate due to the Squish-Pub senators?
This?
“It’s been nearly a decade since Congress made any significant changes to federal gun laws. In April 2007, Congress passed a law to strengthen the instant background check system after a gunman at Virginia Tech was able to purchase his weapons because his mental health history was not in the instant background check database. Thirty-two people died in the shooting.
Murphy said Senate leadership agreed to allow a vote on legislation from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that would let the government bar sales of guns and explosives to people it suspects of being terrorists.
Feinstein offered the amendment in December, a day after an extremist couple killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, but the Republican-run Senate rejected the proposal on a near party-line vote. He said the compromise also will allow a vote on an amendment to expand background checks.”
If you can't send money, find a way to spread the word and garner support for the only real man that was ever in this race.
Among other implements, I own a Ruger Ranch rifle for just this eventuality.
Before November - believe it.
Stay safe. Stay armed.
By elevating Murphy’s Kabuki theater, McConnell is conceding that the Orlando jihad had nothing to do with Islam...only guns.
The problem is “AR-14s” (Tommie The Commie Brokaw) and “high velocity clips” (Ben Crap-For-Brains Cardin).
What a bunch of clowns.
The turtle-faced bastard from Kentucky truly is a pusillanimous coward.
Because they already had a background check to get the concealed carry license.
Trump needs to back US, or he's just another false hope.
There's no indication he doesn't back us - if you have concerns, write in Romney or Virgil Goode.....then you can tell us how bad it would have been if Trump had won.....
Gutless wonders.
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