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What’s in the Senate’s 80-page bipartisan gun safety bill
The Hill ^ | 06/21/22 7:43 PM ET | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 06/21/2022 9:05:52 PM PDT by RandFan

Senate negotiators unveiled an 80-page bill Tuesday evening responding to the mass shootings at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., and the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, capping weeks of intense negotiations.

Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.), the lead Democratic negotiator, is hailing the bill as the biggest breakthrough on the issue of gun violence in 30 years and predicted Tuesday it would save lives.

Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the head Republican in the talks, says the legislation will take guns out of the hands of people who are dangerous or break the law but won’t affect the gun rights of law-abiding citizens.

Here’s what’s inside the package:

Enhanced background checks for people 18 to 21

The legislation would enhance background check requirements for buyers younger than 21 who have juvenile criminal records.

It would keep in place current law requiring the completion of a background check investigation for people between the ages of 18 and 21 within three days but would also require the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to check state records to identify individuals with juvenile records that would disqualify them from purchasing firearms.

But the enhanced background check requirements for buyers between 18 and 21 years old would expire on Sept. 30, 2032, requiring a future Congress to pass new legislation to extend it.

Both the Uvalde and Buffalo shooters were teenagers.

Money for red flag laws and other intervention programs

The bill would expand the Byrne JAG law enforcement grant program to allow states to use federal funding to implement crisis intervention court programs to reduce gun violence. States would have the flexibility to use the money to administer red flag laws to take guns away from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others.

The money could also be used for mental health courts, drug courts, veterans courts and assisted outpatient treatment courts.

It would set up due process protections for intervention programs.

Cornyn explained on the floor Tuesday that if a state red flag law doesn’t include due process protections, it will not be eligible for grants.

Closing the ‘boyfriend loophole‘

The legislation would suspend a person’s right to buy or possess a firearm for a period of at least five years if he or she is convicted of a misdemeanor crime of violence against a person with whom they have or have had a romantic relationship.

A current or former romantic partner would automatically regain the right to buy or own a firearm after a period of five years has elapsed from the end of their criminal sentence. Romantic or intimate partners who are convicted of a violent crime during that five-year waiting period would not automatically regain the right to buy or own a gun.

Under current law, individuals who are convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence against a spouse, a person with a child in common or a cohabiting partner lose their rights to purchase or possess firearms, but advocates have long lamented the so-called “boyfriend loophole” when none of those conditions apply

Children and family mental health services

The bill grows the community mental health services pilot program, expanding Medicaid funding for certified community behavioral health clinics, allowing up to 10 new states to opt into the program every 10 years.

It requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide guidance to states on how to increase access to health care and mental health services through telehealth programs to Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollees.

It also seeks to improve access to mental health service in schools by requiring the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide states with resources to expand health programs at schools.

Clarifying the definition of gun dealers

The bill clarifies that people who regularly buy and sell firearms to earn profits must be registered as Federal Firearm Licensee, which would require them to run background checks for transactions.

The language is intended to crack down on people who buy and sell large numbers of guns but intentionally avoid dealer licensing requirements.

Cracking down on straw purchasers and illegal trafficking of firearms

The bill would establish a new and specific criminal offense for straw purchasers and gun traffickers and establish tougher penalties, up to 15 years in prison, for people who break the law.

The language is intended to make it easier for prosecutors to charge gun runners. Under current law, prosecutors often have to rely on charging people who illegally traffic firearms with paperwork violations.

It would give law enforcement tools to charge people who act as middlemen for criminals and drug traffickers.

It would direct the U.S. Sentencing Commission to adopt tougher guidelines for straw purchasers and gun traffickers.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) both praised the bill Tuesday evening.

“This bipartisan gun-safety legislation is progress and will save lives. While it is not everything we want, this legislation is urgently needed,” Schumer said in a statement, promising to bring the bill to the floor immediately.

McConnell announced he would vote for the bill, likely giving it at least 61 votes and enough to overcome a filibuster.


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To: RandFan; PROCON

May want to re-ping the RKBA Ping List.

Looks to me like Schumer dropped this into a totally unrelated Senate bill (S.2938) as Amendments SA 5099, (subsequently amended by SA 5100, which is amended by SA 5102, which is amended by SA 5103); and SA 5101, which adds an effective date.

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2022/06/21/senate-section/article/S3034-3

PDF:
https://www.congress.gov/117/crec/2022/06/21/168/105/CREC-2022-06-21-pt1-PgS3034-2.pdf


81 posted on 06/22/2022 7:02:10 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: RandFan
"The money could also be used for mental health courts, drug courts, veterans courts and assisted outpatient treatment courts."

More jobs for lawyers....how wonderful. /s

82 posted on 06/23/2022 4:53:47 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: PROCON

Deep inside the gun bill: a break for drug middlemen - NewsBreak

That means, in this era of soaring costs, Senate negotiators decided to further insulate the nation’s largest health care companies from a federal law against accepting “ any kickback, bribe, or rebate” — using a bill that’s supposedly about regulating guns.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2644701671040/deep-inside-the-gun-bill-a-break-for-drug-middlemen?


83 posted on 06/23/2022 5:11:21 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: TheDandyMan

I had the first when I got my permit, the 2nd Patriot Act.


84 posted on 06/23/2022 5:13:15 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: RandFan
OK boys and girls, better start watching what you say and when you say..

"If you have to shoot, shoot.! Don't talk.." Tuco.

85 posted on 06/23/2022 5:34:09 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: PROCON

Soros-Funded Gascon Defends ‘Appropriate’ Release of Cop Killer
https://headlineusa.com/soros-funded-gascon-defends-appropriate-release-of-cop-killer/?utm_source=HUSAemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail


86 posted on 06/25/2022 7:05:12 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: montanajoe

There is a reason the oath has “...from all enemies foreign and domestic...” in it. Americans too can be the enemy of freedom and plenty of them are. They tend to vote for the democrat party.


87 posted on 06/26/2022 3:24:11 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: HKMk23

Do you mind unwinding all that and telling us what you mean?


88 posted on 06/26/2022 3:28:36 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Lazamataz

I just hate it when “our side” gets a win, and the first thing outta the gate there’s folks — supposedly on “our side” — gotta piss on the parade with their threadbare “Oh, but it wasn’t perfect” tripe.

Like, “Quitcherbitchin! It was damned good enough to secure the win! Pop a cork and enjoy a moment of fresh air and sunshine.”

I COMPLETELY grasp that Roberts is a squishlmallow, but he put his name in the CONCUR slot, and that’s kinda all that I care about, and it’s pretty much all that history is going to remember.

In fact, I have an inside bet that Roberts’ mealy-mouthed concurring opinion is actually more about him deflecting the heat from the left by putting his pouty face on and saying, “I really didn’t think it needed to go this far... I’m only concurring because there’s part of the decision that really did need to happen.”


89 posted on 06/26/2022 4:53:26 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: HKMk23

Hooah


90 posted on 06/26/2022 9:20:42 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Lazamataz

ACH! Sorry. Thought this was the OTHER thread.

OK. I’m not certain I can adequately parse it all.

The links I posted simply expose that Schumer and Cornyn took a Rubio bill about renaming a couple of buildings, and hijacked it with an unrelated amendment, and that the construction of said amendment is completely inscrutable absent access to the text of the relevant sections of Law it proposes to alter, which is an obviously intentional obfuscation testifying to the authors’ intent to be unaccountable.

I can divine much of what the general aim is, but the particulars would take hours to construct, laying the edits atop the existing statutes to discover the new meanings intended.


91 posted on 06/26/2022 10:27:26 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: TheDandyMan

“The Republicans basically negotiated the democrats to take a few slices of bread instead of the whole loaf, despite the republicans having the power to keep the entire loaf of they chose.”

We have Republican senators who are just as eager to disarm law-abiding citizens as the worst democrat. Your post assumes they wanted to improve the bill, which they did not.

Paying states to get aggressive on their red-flag laws will be a disaster for law abiding gun owners. It will create an industry of anti-gun experts who will be paid with federal dollars to invent all sorts of reasons to take away guns and who will charge $400 an hour to testify against gun owners. It will create LEO departments who eagerly create new FTE positions (funded by federal dollars) for red-flag enforcers who will hire the anti-gun experts to keep their bureaucratic position intact. The bureaucratic blob, lead by anti-gun local politicians will expand and expand.

And that is exactly what the anti-gun Republicans in the Senate intend.


92 posted on 07/02/2022 8:11:46 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: fruser1

“It seems obivous that you’d be allowed to have your own attorney, but I’m interpreting the representation line to also mean that you would not be able to have a public defender.”

The federal funding (bribing) of states to aggressively enforce red flag laws means the state and local enforcers will not be spending their own money—they will be spending federal dollars. You, on the other hand, will have to come up with $25,000 retainer on a weeks notice to hire an attorney.

That is a key part of the design of the red-flag laws. Unless you are wealthy or own a firearms collection worth more than the attorney’s fees, it makes no sense for you to pay a lawyer to get your guns back.

It’s slow motion gun confiscation.


93 posted on 07/02/2022 8:15:53 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: PROCON

Dont believe this source !

Alex Bolton at the Lying Radical The Shill is a
Pathological Lying Commie Shill .
Tgis commie was trained at Yahoo Commie Spin .


94 posted on 07/03/2022 4:15:18 AM PDT by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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