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House, Senate Democrats Push Background Checks for Ammo Purchases
Breitbart ^ | 11/04/2023 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 11/04/2023 8:02:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are pushing legislation to require background checks for ammunition purchases.

They are joined by other Democrats, including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).

The Democrats are pushing the Ammunition Modernization and Monitoring Oversight Act, or AMMO Act for short. In addition to requiring background checks for ammo purchases, Redstate noted the Act would also limit the number of rounds law-abiding citizens can buy over a five-day period and mandate that ammo dealers get a license separate from the Federal Firearms License (FFL) required for gun sales.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ammo; backgroundchecks; banglist; democrats; purchases
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Too bad they don’t work on some of the real problems we have right now.


21 posted on 11/04/2023 8:19:15 AM PDT by MulberryDraw
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To: sasquatch

Requiring a BC for ammo purchases and limiting the amount of ammo is one thing in their tiny, gun grabbing minds masquerading as some sort of a way to keep potential active shooters from getting what they want. However, the additional requirement that a SEPARATE FFL for ammo sellers be required even though a gun seller FFL can do the SAME BCs shows that the legislation isn’t about ‘safety’ - nothing but gun grabbing or denial of 2A rights.

I think this USSC would invalidate the law as unconstitutional if it were to get passed into law.


22 posted on 11/04/2023 8:20:44 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Background checks don’t work.

Nearly every mass shooting in the last 20 years had a perpetrator who managed to slip through background checks. Some were even on LEO/FBI radar.


23 posted on 11/04/2023 8:20:45 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They are following the current Ca model because no one has spent the time and money to fight the constitutionality of the Ca law as soon as it was enacted. Because of this it has now been “accepted” as constitutional when it is not.

“It’s in Ca so it’s not my problem!”

Well like everything that starts in Ca, it WILL always be your problem very soon too. As a national effort we should have nipped the concept in the bud right there in Ca...


24 posted on 11/04/2023 8:22:04 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ABStrauss

But Washerwoman Shulz voted FOR the single item funding of Israel from re-directed IRS funding 14.3 billion....! So she has no problem with AMMO supplied to Israelis, but NOT US citizens.

It is all of a seam of frizzy haired and completely bought logic of the wash my hair please greasy haired ugly broad, who is as crazy (see threat to Capitol Police Chief about getting her laptop filled with Pakistanis working for dnc— back. Police Chief told her it was evidence. Don’t know how that worked out. She is POWER mad in any case)==as crazy or more than Pocahontas.


25 posted on 11/04/2023 8:22:18 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yep.... and I just heard this morning on the radio these cretins have a $34,000 pay raise they snuck in.


26 posted on 11/04/2023 8:22:36 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Ex-Con777

A club not to exceed 16” in length, likely.


27 posted on 11/04/2023 8:24:08 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: John S Mosby

I doubt that she supports Guns for Isralis either.marxists gonna marxist everywhere.


28 posted on 11/04/2023 8:27:50 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only to annoy gun owners. This is ridiculous.


29 posted on 11/04/2023 8:40:55 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why don’t we have full monthly disclosures by House and Senate members of all financial transactions?


30 posted on 11/04/2023 8:41:42 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: NorthMountain

“Cutesy names indicate bad law.”

What? You mean the “Inflation Reduction Act” really doesn’t do what it says? You’re kidding me!


31 posted on 11/04/2023 8:44:00 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: TomGuy
And the last high-profile shooter was denied a suppressor after a preliminary check. Stands to reason that he had a gun, if he was buying a suppressor.

If I’ve gotten good info on that circumstance, the FFL holder terminated his background check. I’m assuming it wasn’t sent to ATF, who might have followed up and tried to confiscate prohibited firearms. I hope the FFL dealer doesn’t get hammered.

32 posted on 11/04/2023 8:44:46 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: All

Biden and the Democrats are OK with arming foreign countries but grabbing guns from Americans is an obsession w/ them. The same “Congress” that gleefully tramples 2A rights, is hell bent on supplying weapons to foreign countries.


Not content w/ the mega billions already in his pocket, Zelensky now says
he wants US tax dollars to Ukraine “according to the Israeli model”......here’s what he means:

Congressional Research Service
US Foreign aid to Israel
60 page detailed report

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222/44

The concerned Israeli lobby made sure Congress is required by law to ensure that U.S. military aid in the Middle East region doesn’t damage Israel’s military superiority over its neighbors. That requirement enjoys broad bipartisan support and has served as a benchmark for ensuring Israel receives robust U.S. support.


Biden keeps gaslighting Americans about the “need” for
American foreign aid tax dollars to Ukraine and Israel.
Here’s why they DONT need it:

About $113.1 billion in tax dollars were authorized in 2022 for Ukraine, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Most of it–about $67.1 billion–was defense-related. The other $46 billion included:
<><>$26.9 billion for economic support;
<><>$7.9 billion for international disaster assistance;
<><>$6.6 billion in assistance for refugees;
<><>$1.5 billion for assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia;
<><>plus $3.1 billion for other non-defense spending.

US tax dollars helped Ukraine
<><>pay the salaries of 618,000 educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders
<><>helped sustain critical healthcare services,
<><>helped meet pension responsibilities for 9.8 million people,
<><>assisted 1.3 million internally displaced persons,
<><>provided housing assistance to 4.1 million people,
<><>provided social assistance to 240,000 low-income families
<><>helped subsidize 480,000 persons with disabilities,
<><>bought supplies for farmers,
<><>financed finding markets for small business.


Backstory: Since 1973, Israel has received more than $120 billion US tax
dollars in MILITARY assistance alone, including “three special aid” packages.
<><>billions for signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
<><>billions for Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai.
<><>billions for redeployment of Israeli forces
<><>rebuilding Israeli air bases in the Negev cost $5 billion US tax dollars.

Besides weaponry, Israel also receives economic and humanitarian foreign aid, which supports broad economic development and sociopolitical stability and can include non-military support related to the country’s pressing security needs.


Military aid from US taxpayers has blanketed Israel over the years. They have more than enough resources, now, to nail Hamas and Hezbollah. Wealthy Israel has very low debt, and actually had a budget surplus this year, while the US is $33 trillion in debt, a debt which future generations are saddled with.


33 posted on 11/04/2023 8:45:58 AM PDT by Liz (“The only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Always remember that gun laws aren’t about public safety but are about punishing gun owners and inconveniencing them as much as possible, as well as invading their privacy. To a leftist, disagreeing with them is an unforgivable transgression.


34 posted on 11/04/2023 8:46:45 AM PDT by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: Sacajaweau

Worse than that. AGF was terminating FFLs over minor clerical errors. This would vastly expand the number of opportunities tor those.


35 posted on 11/04/2023 8:47:04 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about background checks on those buying paper and ink?


36 posted on 11/04/2023 8:47:25 AM PDT by Mark was here
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To: gundog

ATF....d’oh!


37 posted on 11/04/2023 8:55:53 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe I should register to buy milk and flour before making a cake?


38 posted on 11/04/2023 8:56:59 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

While the obvious idea is to stop us from buying ammo, this would also enable them to get a pretty good idea how much ammo you buy and how much you might have on hand. That would enable them to have a better idea how much of a SWAT team they need to bring to your house at 3:00 in the morning when they’ve decided you violated thought speech.

If my reading is correct the few Israelis that were allowed to have guns in their homes were limited to 50 rounds of ammunition for those guns. Has everybody already forgotten how well that played out? I don’t think the Democrats have, I think that’s exactly what they’re going for.


39 posted on 11/04/2023 8:58:39 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They are NOT stupid. They are evil. They know exactly what effect this will have and it is intended to make it more difficult for law abiding gun owners to exercise their 2nd amendment rights. I have long thought that the odious Warren is probably the most anti freedom senator currently in the senate and this strengthens that thesis.


40 posted on 11/04/2023 8:59:07 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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