There will still be a very high demand on guns & ammo. People can still smell something in the air.
BTTT
That’s how close the margin was?
They were caught off guard by the vigorous lobbying campaign waged by the NRA, which warned lawmakers that Manchin-Toomey would be a factor in its congressional scorecard.
Wrong. Everyone in DC over the age of 10 knew where the NRA would stand. What caught them off guard was the political firestorm from their constituents.
We tend to think that the media drum-beating is directed at the lumpenproletariat but in fact it's far more so toward the ruling class, who are stuck in the Beltway echo chamber and so are consistently surprised when an issue such as this evokes a wave of resistance from the home front that the media assured them wasn't going to happen. Toomey will, it is to be hoped, pay for his credulity with his political life.
Manchin said the gun-owners-rights’ group told members the bill would criminalize the private transfer of firearms. “I don’t know how to put the words any plainer than this: that is a lie,” he said.
The straw man is a lie, the real objection is not. The bill absolutely would criminalize private transfers unless they were reported to the government in the form of background checks which are in every sense registration. Were that not the case such data as the type of firearm, its manufacturer, its caliber, etc, etc, would be irrelevant; yet, oddly, these seem to be part of the required information. Why? Yes, that's a rhetorical question.
We are told that this one isn't over, and I'm inclined to agree. This was a tiny setback for the gun prohibitionists, who are too stupid to recognize the warning signs of a political avalanche when they appear. This one is only beginning.
Toomey STILL has to GO!