Posted on 03/11/2021 10:09:54 AM PST by gattaca
The measures, similar to ones passed by the House in 2019, are again not expected to pass in the Senate.
The Democrat-controlled House on Thursday afternoon passed the second of two gun-control measure, extending the review period for background checks by roughly one week.
The bipartisan bill, which passed 219-210, would extend the review period for background checks from three to 10 days.
Democratic South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn introduced the so-called "Charleston loophole" legislation.
In 2015, a shooter killed nine people at a Charleston, S.C., church. The FBI said afterward that a background check examiner never saw the shooter’s previous arrest report because the wrong arresting agency was listed in state criminal history records, and the gun dealer was legally permitted to complete the transaction after three days, according to the Associated Press.
Two House Republicans voted in favor of the measure.
The first bill, which passed 227-203 on Thursday morning, is designed to close loopholes to ensure background checks are extended to private and online sales that often go undetected, including at gun shows. The legislation includes limited exceptions allowing temporary transfers to prevent imminent harm, for use at a target range and for gifts from family, among others, the wire service also reports.
Eight House Republicans voted in support of that measure. Neither measure is expected to pass in the evenly divided, 100-member Senate.
Similar bills were passed by the House in 2019, after Democrats won the majority. But they languished in the GOP-controlled Senate for the next two years.
The renewed push is the latest effort by Democrats – and some Republicans – who have repeatedly tried, and failed, to pass tougher gun control laws since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that killed 20 children and six educators.
The bill are also part of congressional Democrats' efforts to move on several major legislative priorities while they hold both chambers of Congress and the White House, also according to the Associated Press.
They have the decisive vote in the Senate on measures that require a simple majority for passage because Vice President Kamala Harris holds the tie-breaker.
Meanwhile habitual criminals have a zero waiting period.
Eight House Republicans voted in support of that measure.
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Eight Assistant Democrats.
bipartisan bill, which passed 219-210
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“License?”
I think it should read “gun”, as Texas (and other States) don’t require a license.
“The measures, similar to ones passed by the House in 2019, are again not expected to pass in the Senate.”
Actually that’s up to Joe Manchin, due to the ‘geniuses’ on our side agreeing with Lin Wood to hand the Senate to the Democrats without even making them cheat, in Georgia (despite Trump going there twice and telling the Republicans to VOTE in the runoffs).
So, we’ll soon see what kind of mood Manchin is in, and with that, the fate of legal gun ownership will be determined.
Why would I need a license to exercise a constitutionally guaranteed right?
Do I need to obtain a license to vote? They don’t even do an ID check for voting, but I’m supposed to sit back and have them tear my life apart looking for any excuse to deny me my rights?
What would they say if someone proposed a mandatory 10 day waiting period on voting?
You show up to vote, they ID you, have you fill out a mountain of paperwork, call some people to see if there’s any reason you can’t vote, then they send you away for 10 days and if nobody objects, only then are you allowed to vote. Sound good? No? Didn’t think so.
Once again, firearms licenses are a state matter. The only things the Feds have to do with guns is the FBI administering the NICS check.
Silly me. The Feds can do anything they want.
BTW, who are the two Republicans that voted with the Dem’s?
And the 8 or so that voted with them on universal background checks?
Upton was a co-sponsor on one of them. Wonder how all those gun owners in Michigan feel about that? Then again, does it matter? At the end of the day, the Michigan GOP will make sure no one primaries him and he’ll get sent back.
Well in a way they do; they have to wait for the home owner to leave so they go in and steal guns.
Unlike the French Revolution, the American revolutionaries depended upon the words of the Constitution to protect them from tyranny rather than the guillotine. Was that a mistake? How does the U.S. Supreme Court justify its silence?
The fix was in for GA in November and nothing changed for the Jan.5 runoff.
Your beef is with the GOP GA Gov., GOP GOP Lt Gov. and GOP AG that allowed the elections to be rigged.
“Meanwhile habitual criminals have a zero waiting period.”
I doesn’t take long to kick in a door while the owner is at work and take all the free guns.
GOP SOS
Most states have constitutional amendments quite similar to that of the Bill of Rights.
In Pennsylvania, for example: "The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned."
How would you license people without questioning them? Words are supposed to have meanings. Why have the courts betrayed us?
License to own a firearm.
Un-Constitutional on its face, imo.
License? What license?
https://dmdavid.com/tag/looking-back-at-grimtooths-traps/
But seriously, the part of the country where that’s more common are parts I don’t have any desire to go to anyway.
King Joe will never last for two years.
He will announce that republicans are simply not interested in renewing our great Republic, but rather are simply seeking headlines and donations-—as if this is news.
Fourth of July would have been the outside date for his betrayal...But Cinco-hold-the-Mayo seems much more likely.
Violent criminals have NO waiting period, and that is 100% KNOWN and the consequences are indended. This is so the violent criminals will waltz right in and take whatever they want from the non-violent citizens who have been designated their “oppressors”.
So an extra week would have fixed this... how??
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