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Senate Republicans block assault weapons ban, background checks bill
The Hill ^ | December 6, 2023 | ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 12/06/2023 11:08:56 AM PST by packagingguy

Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked efforts by Senate Democrats to pass an assault weapons ban and universal background checks legislation after the United States over the weekend broke the record for most mass shootings in a single year.

Republican Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) objected to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) request for unanimous consent to pass the assault weapons ban, despite the pleas of Democratic senators who took to the Senate floor to cite the harrowing statistics of gun violence in America.

“The scourge of gun violence in America is a national crisis. The American people are sick and tired of enduring one mass shooting after another. They’re sick and tired of vigil and moments of silence for family, friends, classmates, coworkers,” Schumer argued on the Senate floor.

The assault weapons ban, originally sponsored by late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), would ban semiautomatic rifles with pistol grips, forward grips and folding or telescoping stocks, as well as rifles outfitted with grenade launchers, barrel shrouds or threaded barrels to allow for noise and flash suppressors to be attached.

But Barrasso argued that the Democratic-drafted bill would infringe on the Second Amendment and deprive law-abiding gun owners of an important liberty.

“Americans have a constitutional right to own a firearm. Every day, people across Wyoming responsibly use their Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms,” he said. “Democrats are demanding that the American people give up their liberty.”

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To: Georgia Girl 2

You would think that Americans are sick of Democrats attempts to disarm us and render us helpless. But there is a large segment of the population who would like nothing better. There is a reason the would be tyrants come from blue states and it’s because they represent the opinions of the majority of voters in those states.

50 years ago I worked just outside of NYC. On those rare occasions when firearms were discussed the consensus of New Yorkers was that all guns were bad and anyone who had one was crazy and should be locked up. My response to them when I bothered responding at all was something along the lines of if you ever happen to need to defend yourself that I hope tears and crying “don’t hurt me” work as well as a gun. It’s not just the politicians from places like NY and MA, but the New Yorkers and Massholes that live there who want us disarmed and defenseless.


21 posted on 12/06/2023 1:42:29 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: OHPatriot

See post 21.


22 posted on 12/06/2023 1:43:18 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: from occupied ga

Well thank God for the Mason Dixon line. 😄


23 posted on 12/06/2023 3:40:48 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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