Welcome to the First Coast Tea Party
Subject: Action item: Senate Committee OKs Gun Background-Check Bill
Local District Office
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a Democratic bill calling for background checks on all gun sales, which could potentially lead to the biggest change in U.S. gun laws in years.
But the likelihood of the full Senate approving such a bill is slim because of objections from Republicans.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/judiciary-approves-gun-backgr...
The Senate Judiciary Committee today passed a universal gun background-check bill on a strictly party-line vote: 10 to 8.
The committee also voted for a bill that would enhance school-safety initiatives with bipartisan support in a 14-4 vote. Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, were the Republicans voting to pass the bill. The committee will finish its consideration of the assault-weapons ban Thursday.
No Republicans voted in favor of the background check bill, which faced a snag last week after Republicans backed off negotiations with the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., was initially in talks with Schumer about the bill but ended his conversations with the New York senator last week. Sens. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and Joe Manchin, D-W.V., also said they could not support the bill as it’s written. The bill will now head to the Senate floor with language that might not pass.
Schumer told the committee that he is open to negotiations with senators to amend the bill before it receives a final vote.
“I’ve been talking and am continuing to talk with colleagues across the political spectrum and across the aisle about a compromise approach and I remain optimistic that we’ll be able to roll one out. But we’re not 100 percent there yet,” Schumer said in the committee meeting today.
Current legislation only requires background checks to be performed when guns are purchased by licensed dealers. Schumer’s bill would expand the requirement of background checks to private sales between individuals.
Republicans have voiced concern about the bill leading to national registration and confiscation and infringing upon the rights of lawful gun owners.
“This bill would unnecessarily burden private sales,” Grassley, the committee’s ranking member, said. “I think it has unintended consequence. Obviously, criminals still get guns. They obtain them because they do not comply with background checks.
“The bill greatly restricts the right of law-abiding citizens,” he added.
Schumer said, “It’s sad. Right after Newtown, there was a view that maybe the right place that we could all come together on was background checks because background checks, unlike some of the other proposals here, which I support, do not interfere with the law-abiding citizens’ right to bear arms.
“The argument that my colleagues make that, ‘Well, they’ll still be people who will get around the law,’ that’s true. This isn’t going to be a perfect bill but it will sure reduce crimes.”
A new ABC News-Washington Post poll released today showed that 91 percent of the public supports a universal background-check bill.
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill last week that makes “straw” purchases illegal, the first gun measure since the December shooting deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/senate-committee-oks-g...
Views: 591
Comment
-
Comment by amanda choate on March 13, 2013 at 11:59am
-
In 1999 the NRA supported registrationa nd background checks. What?
That is right.
It is common sense.
-
-
Your first amendment rights are limited by laws that prohibit you from saying anyhting you like. I propose no limits on gun ownership, just registration. If your gun is involved in a crime and you haven't transferred ownership to another person legally able to own that arm, you are accountable.
If you were found to be in possession of an unregistered arm, then you would be fined, a search warrant issued and you would be fined for or forfeit all, unregistered weapons in your home.
It isn't a slippery slope and it is constitutional.
-
Comment by Bob Honiker on March 13, 2013 at 7:40am
-
Make no mistake about it, Amanda, "progressives" see our Constitution and it's underlying principles as a stumbling block in their path to tyranny. If the Second Amendment falls the Bill of Rights will follow it. The issue here isn't violent crime, the issue is power, government power!
-
Comment by Vince Cavallo on March 13, 2013 at 7:40am
-
Yup, our illustrious representatives, masters of deceit and obfuscation. When one has to fall back on terminology as "it depends upon what does "is" mean, you know there is a problem in DC.
On a related subject, I hope the conservatives are not misled by our Phaeroh's latest reaching across the aisle tactic for the uninformed. If they believe this guy is seeking compromise, they are all balls lost in the high weeds.
-
Comment by Patricia M. McBride on March 13, 2013 at 7:26am
-
I have just recieved this from the NRA. They are watching this issue carefully and below you will find the statement I just received concerning this legislation. My concern, as always, is what they have tucked in to the law to make things more dicey.
Statement from Chris W. Cox, NRA-ILA Executive Director, regarding inaccurate NBC story alleging that NRA won't oppose background check bill
An article appearing today on NBCNews.com is falsely reporting that NRA will not oppose legislation being negotiated in the U.S. Senate that would mandate background checks for all gun purchasers. The story posted on NBCNews.com alleges that NRA will not oppose expanding the background check system to include all private firearm sales, "provided the legislation does not require private gun sellers to maintain records of the checks". This statement is completely untrue. The NRA opposes criminalizing private firearms transfers between law-abiding individuals, and therefore opposes an expansion of the background check system. The NRA supports meaningful efforts to address the problems of violent crime and mass violence in America, through swift and certain prosecution of violent criminals; securing our schools; and fixing our broken mental health system.
-
-
Vince, you are ever so right. We already have laws for background checks with the caveat the information only be kept on file for a specific period of time, and those background checks include GUN SHOWS who are by law kept to the same standards as everyone else. If someone wants to sell their gun to a family member, and make the judgement the person is fair to sell or leave a family heirloom to, then, they should be able to do it. This is a 'federal' background check for the sole purpose of amassing a list of gun owners and anyone who has a clue, as you do, already knows what the objective is.
As far as "fair" goes, life is not fair and never was, and most adults learned that at an early age and were better for it. It is not anyone's responsibly to make someone else's life "fair" by giving them their property (or anything else). Everyone is responsible for their own life and the outcome of that life and is not entitled to cause harm to someone else to make their own life fairer by their own definition or anyone else's.
-
-
Thanks for the info. The national news has been silent on what is going on up in DC on the fireamrs issue. Meanwhile, the "universal background check" is a cover for gun registration so I am 100% against it. I have no problem with someone being felony free and prove it to buy a firearm but ANY registration of any firearm is not intented to save anyone...it is intended to form a listing of owners who will be harassed by the government to give up their guns, first through some kind of "insurance" deal and then finally by confiscation. The whole idea of registration stopping crime is bogus. When a crook uses a gun during a crime, does he leave the serial number at the scene? Not unless he leaves the firearm and if the gun is there, the crook is generally lying near by so how does that stop a crime? The only crime will be when the blood sucking attorneys find whom was the registered owner and begin harassing him for money even though the gun was probably stolen.
I love the other posters "its fair" comment....fair does not appear in the Constitution, anywhere. Remember, when seconds count, the police are minutes away. Fair is also a code word used by our dear Phaeroh when he presses to share the wealth.
-
Comment by Barry Lee Phillips on March 13, 2013 at 6:41am
-
So Amanda. The blog is asking you to contact your elected representatives over this issue. Apparently you agree with Chuckie Shumer and the other knuckle-headed morons in Congress who could care less about 2nd Amendment or the rest of the Constitution for that matter.
A rose by any other name is still a rose. Any attempt to limit 2nd Amendment rights under the guise of a "universal background check" is still an assault on the Constitution as a whole. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
I don't care if 100% of NRA members support a universal background check. This NRA member does not, because I recognize it for what it is. The knuckle-headed morons in Congress continue to focus on the wrong problems and offer nothing but irrational solutions.
Count me in Patricia.
-
-
Thank You Ms. McBride for the info. I will be calling and i hope everybody will do the same.
-
-
Amanda the "progressive" goal is a total ban on all civilian possession of anything they want to call a weapon. If they get registration confiscation will be next.
“They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
National Debt Clock
The First CoastTea Party is a non-profit organization. We have no deep-pocketed special interest funding our efforts.
You may contact us at:
First Coast Tea Party
1205 Salt Creek Island Dr
Ponte Vedra, FL 32082
904-392-7475
Helpful Links
Blog Posts
RYAN NICHOLS - Hardened Criminal?? Seriously??
If you're not already aware. This is what's going on in DC while dangerous criminals are allowed back out on the streets. It's horrifying that this is happening to our citizens and veterans for protesting the hijacking of our election process. This is still happening! They are STILL being tortured and treated like full on terrorists.
You may not be aware of the typical things they're forced to go through...…
ContinuePosted by Babs Jordan on August 14, 2022 at 8:44am
© 2025 Created by LeadershipCouncil.
Powered by
You need to be a member of First Coast Tea Party to add comments!
Join First Coast Tea Party