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Biden butts heads with NRA in gun violence drive
Reuters ^ | January 10, 2013 | Steve Holland

Posted on 01/10/2013 3:49:40 PM PST by Zakeet

Vice President Joe Biden butted heads with the powerful National Rifle Association on Thursday in his drive to reduce U.S. gun violence, drawing complaints from the lobby group that the White House is trying to limit constitutionally protected gun rights.

Biden sat down for about an hour and a half of talks with an NRA representative and officials from other gun owners' groups after telling reporters he is likely to recommend background checks for all gun buyers and a ban on high-capacity ammunition clips.

"It is unfortunate that this administration continues to insist on pushing failed solutions to our nation's most pressing problems. We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen," the NRA said in a statement after the meeting.

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The vice president's office had no substantive reaction to the NRA statement, which was issued less than an hour after the talks ended.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; biden; guncontrol; guns; nra; secondamendment
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I'm a butt head ...

1 posted on 01/10/2013 3:49:48 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

"The Constitution? It means NOTHING to us."

2 posted on 01/10/2013 3:51:52 PM PST by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: Zakeet

https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=fGaDAThOHhA


3 posted on 01/10/2013 3:52:49 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Zakeet

change title from
Biden butts heads with NRA in gun violence drive to
Biden is a butthead with NRA in gun control drive.


4 posted on 01/10/2013 3:55:54 PM PST by bravo whiskey (“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”)
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To: Zakeet
So, Biden now probably has a new hole in his head.

Too bad there is noting in there to damage and make him STFU.

5 posted on 01/10/2013 3:59:47 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Zakeet

“Biden sat down for about an hour and a half of talks with an NRA representative and officials from other gun owners’ groups after telling reporters he is likely to recommend background checks for all gun buyers”

Background checks on gun buyers but NO Background Check on the Kenyan POS!! grrrr


6 posted on 01/10/2013 4:00:02 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: bravo whiskey

Notice how the media has obeyed Obama’s order to stop using the phrase “gun control” and start using the phrase “gun violence”.


7 posted on 01/10/2013 4:00:21 PM PST by altsehastiin
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To: Zakeet

My question is, why isn’t Biden in jail yet?


8 posted on 01/10/2013 4:01:11 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Impeach Obama Now.)
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...likely to recommend background checks for all gun buyers and a ban on high-capacity ammunition clips.

I'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg... but meanwhile, the molten plastic is flowing like a river at the Magpul factory.

9 posted on 01/10/2013 4:05:30 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: altsehastiin
Notice how the media has obeyed Obama’s order to stop using the phrase “gun control” and start using the phrase “gun violence”.

That's the JournoList gang tweaking the message.

10 posted on 01/10/2013 4:07:52 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Zakeet

“Biden butts heads with NRA in gun violence drive.”

butt head, head butts...just shows smiling Joe doesn’t know the difference between his head and his arse.

And this chuckle bum is 2nd in line to obummer. I must be living in a Cheech and Chong movie...


11 posted on 01/10/2013 4:10:38 PM PST by sassy steel magnolia
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To: Diogenesis
—>>The Constitution? It means NOTHING to us.”

You made the best comment. I feel like we have the children making up the rules for the grown ups. What is right is wrong and the bad of society seems to be the cool. Biden’s political career was once a goner, I recall and now he is right back in the thick of more gun control. The times that we live in are almost a redo of these same agenda driven politicians. To the NRA and all gun advocacy groups: Remain focused on our 2nd amendment right, that's it.

12 posted on 01/10/2013 4:11:05 PM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt. Our nation's foundation is under attack.)
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To: Zakeet

Amendments I, III, IV, V IX and X are all but distant memories.

There was a time when II preserved the others. Sadly, we gave away all of them — it was just a question of time before II was tossed on the stack of Leftist Fascism.


13 posted on 01/10/2013 4:16:17 PM PST by freedumb2003 (MOLON LABE)
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To: Zakeet

With all of the jackasses we have living in this country, I wonder why the Kowardly Anti-American Kenyan picked the dumbest jackass on the planet to do this.


14 posted on 01/10/2013 4:22:18 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Impeach Obama Now.)
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It occurs to me that no matter the legislation, 3D printing is going to make gun manufacturing impossible to control.
15 posted on 01/10/2013 4:31:20 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man (<-------currently working through post-election anger issues.)
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To: Zakeet
Biden butt head



16 posted on 01/10/2013 4:34:31 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Charles Martel

The only way to enforce the background check on private sales is to establish gun registration. Otherwise, it’s not inforceable.


17 posted on 01/10/2013 4:36:18 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: Zakeet

If the NRA hadn’t spent Decades selling the line that:

“We don’t need any new gun laws. All we need to do is ENFORCE THE EXISTING GUN LAWS”. This wouldn’t be happening.

They Should have been working for Repeal of those existing pieces of Infringing garbage instead of slacking off to duck the heat from the MSM.

But, I suppose, we should be happy that Zero sent them the Vice Idiot as a verbal punching bag.

How difficult is it going to be, with the NRA talking Biden around in circles?


18 posted on 01/10/2013 4:44:08 PM PST by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: Zakeet

I don’t see how universal background checks can be done the way the administration would like them to be done without registering all weapons in the first place. Otherwise, it would be an honor system.


19 posted on 01/10/2013 4:46:21 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: DugwayDuke

Ah, you beat me to it. :)


20 posted on 01/10/2013 4:47:38 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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