Gottlieb actually helped to write the legislation.
Here's the link to an earlier Free Republic post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007737/posts
Here's the "You Tube" link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E9UMox1WoTw
“.....SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED....” !!!!
So, now that this is almost over, when do they restrict, change and completely control the First Amendment, the the 4th, 5th, 6th and, and... oh hell, just rip the entire damn thing up.
Without the Rule of Law, things sure seem to move along much faster.
When it comes to the Background Check Bill, some of you might not like what I’m gonna say, but I spent hours and hours, in Senator Manchin, with Senator Manchin and Pat Toomey going over what’s in that Bill. And, I’m a little upset with the one … this whole debates gotten so polarized that it’s really hard for anybody to be intellectually honest about what any of the Bills say. [unintelligible] I’ll be candid, unfortunately with the background check that’s really what the case is right now.
The initial background check bill that Schumer put in was horrible. There’s no way that any of us could support it. It was gun registrations, there’s no two ways about it, The Manchin-Toomey Bill despite some of my colleagues in the Gun Rights Movement talking about that it’s registration, it is not registration. Ahhh .. To be perfectly candid about it, it states in it that no guns can be registered. It also carries a section in it that any federal or any state or any gun dealer with access to the NICS Check Records who misuses those records for registration purposes commits a felony with a 15 year … up to a 15 year prison term. That’s really great protection for us.
Right Now? Any gun sold through a dealer that goes through a background check: there is no protection. If someone were to misuse that list nothing happens to them. Now they will serve 15 years … up to 15 years in prison for misusing that list, if in fact they do so. That’s great protection. It’s the first time we’ve had protection. Other things in that bill which my sides not talking about? We’re not taling about it for a reason.
If we talk about it too much, the other sie’s gonna find out about it and they’re gonna realize we’re gonna win off of this thing. The back ground check is not even a Universal Background Check. It’s at gun shows, commercial venues, or the internet. And, to be candid about it, it doesn’t cover family members, of any kind, or any friends, or any gun transaction, that’s not done at a gun show or basically on the internet. It gives protection, if you do go through the background check, you as an individual will now get both civil and criminal liability protection that you don’t have now. If somebody sold a gun to somebody who’s misused it, nobody can sue you even in a civil court for damages. That’s great protection that you don’t have right now.
There’s about 10 other important things in there. One of them them that some of you have read in the newspapers that a lot of Veterans are being disarmed so to speak once they come back from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and all of a sudden because they were out processed and had stress problems the VA now puts their name into the NICS system they can’t own a gun, this new bill, this Background Check Bill has a provision in it to eradicate that. Their Rights will be restored.
It goes on and on. Traveling across the country. It gives you more protection so that you can take your gun from state to state than you have now.
Another important one, you cannot now legally buy a handgun in a state that you don’t live in. If you’re not a resident of the state you can’t buy a handgun. Under the so-call “Background CHeck Bill,” you’ll be able to buy a handgun in all 50 states, as long as you buy it from a licensed dealer you can buy it from anywhere you want.
There’s a Million other things in there it’s a Christmas Tree. We just hung a Million Ornaments on it. We’re taking the Background Check and making it a pro-gun bill. Unfortunately some of my colleagues haven’t quite figured it out yet because they weren’t standing in the room writing it. My staff was. I’ll be perfectly candid about it. This will probably break on Monday in the Wall Street Journal. So your getting a little of “Inside Baseball.” …
SAF also publishes GUN WEEK newspaper after it was sold by Neal Knox.
I’ve subscribed for over 30 years.
So as a CA resident, could I go to AZ and buy a gun that is not on the "CA Approved Handgun List", and comes with a 15rd magazine? I doubt it. I bet the caveat is the sale must be legal in your home state. So any handgun you could buy in another state is one you could have bought at home anyway. This doesn't help us here in the blue states. Convenience, more variety and perhaps increased competition - all good things, but not a major breakthrough IMO.
Never heard of this group.
Wait until the Immigration bill comes out and see how many 'strong border advocates' will rush to endorse the Bill because it makes the border stronger.
Never heard of ‘em. Must be a Demon-rat front group.
Crony phony conservatism, that’s what this is.
The organizations in the Republican orbit are not reliable.
It’s the old story:
The Democrats propose to tear down the Washington Monument, and the Republicans respond with a sensible plan to do it in three stages.
They are a left wing front organization. With a false veneer of conservatism.
We wouldn’t be having any of these problems if the politicians had just left the Second Amendment alone in the first place!!! Many, many years ago!!!
Call the NRA and ask where they stand on this bill. I do not trust Senator Schumer nor A.G. Erick Holder....they run their own rules for congress and The U.S.Constitution.