In a show of bipartisanship gang rape Republicans are already capitulating on Second Amendment rights.
As expected.
Dim Senator Chris Murphy ran down the list of new, planned infringements in a Twitter thread.
Major funding to help states pass and implement crisis intervention orders (red flag laws) that will allow law enforcement to temporarily take dangerous weapons away from people who pose a danger to others or themselves.
State-level due process violations, instead of federal. This is actually fairly clever for semi-sapient Senators; a single federal red flag law could be challenged once and done. Fifty laws in fifty different jurisdictions will tie up more of pro-rights people’s and groups’ time and money.
Billions in new funding for mental health and school safety, including money for the national build out of community mental health clinics.
Will those clinics be facilities where the dangerously mental ill can be institutionalized, and get real help, instead of handing out Bluetooth headsets and letting them wander the streets?
Close the “boyfriend loophole”, so that no domestic abuser – a spouse OR a serious dating partner – can buy a gun if they are convicted of abuse against their partner.
I’ll need to see the actual bill language, but that’s essentially expanded ex post facto re-sentencing for misdemeanor convictions. While these idiot senators are patting themselves on their backs, prosecutors are likley to see that — mandatory ex post facto life sentences — as something a plea deal-breaker.
First ever federal law against gun trafficking and straw purchasing.
First ever?
18 U.S. Code § 922 – Unlawful acts
(a)It shall be unlawful—
(1)for any person—
(A)except a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer, to engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms, or in the course of such business to ship, transport, or receive any firearm in interstate or foreign commerce; or
And if straw purchases aren’t illegal, how the heck was this woman convicted for straw purchases?
Enhanced background check for under 21 gun buyers and a short pause to conduct the check. Young buyers can get the gun only after the enhanced check is completed.
Reportedly that mean opening up juvenile criminal records to searches. But… either the entire NICS gets the addition, or dealers will have to make two separate check calls if a customer is under 21. Plus a waiting period. Any bets on which they decide is more efficient?
Clarification of the laws regarding who needs to register as a licensed gun dealer, to make sure all truly commercial sellers are doing background checks.
“Clarification” would nice. We’ve only been asking for that since the Clinton administration. But the devil is in the details: “all truly commercial sellers.”
All commercial seller already have to be licensed; see 18 U.S. Code § 922 above. Rather than clarification, this is going to be redefinition, setting a new number of sales threshold, and I’d be willing to bet that it will include what were private sellers at gun shows.
Or worse. In recent years, I’ve seen multiple state-level attempts to redfine “commercial sale.”
“We ask them to increase the background check system to expand it to cover commercial sales – that’s gun shows, online sales, anytime an individual is selling to a stranger,” says Goddard.
In Virginia a person who does not have an FFL can buy and sell guns at gun shows and from their own homes. They can advertize the availability of guns via the internet at specialist site such as Armslist.com and many others. They can even advertize the availability of guns via local newspapers etc.
These treacherous turncoats claim to have ten Republicans on board with this already; enough to invoke cloture and pass these bills. So we’re looking at the end of lawful private sales.
My unduly elected Senators are Dims who brag on this stuff. But if your Senators might be reachable, contact them to let them know what you think. At the very least, you can explain how unwelcome they’ll be back home should this stuff pass.
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I life in Michigan, so my Senators are Stabenow and Peters. They are both famous for voting with the party line almost every single time, unless Shumer sets it up so that they can vote when it doesn’t mean anything, to try and prove how conservative they are.
I have written to them both on multiple times. I always get form letters from Stabenow, especially on guns, telling how she grew up in Claire, MI, with a dad and brothers who had guns and hunted, etc. And how she supports gun rights, blah, blah, blah.
Peters pretty much the same, except that he has a flunky write his responses. To be quite honest, I have gotten so disgusted with them, the last time I wrote to them, I told them that no matter who ran against them, would be getting money from me, and I only gave money to one candidate in my life.
I posted online that if a red flag law for guns is good, than one for someone who might post a threat against someone online is also good. Like if I suspect that someone might post online that people should harm Justice Barret or her kids, then the cops should take their computer, their tablet, and their phone, along with anything else that might allow them to get online. Of course, they could hire a lawyer, at their own expense, and go to court and try and prove that they were not going to post any such thing, and get their electronics back. It probably would not take any more than a month or two.
I mean, hey the 4th amendment is not absolute, right? And what is good for the 2nd amendment is just as good for the 1st amendment, is it not?
As we have all said, and know, if a person is such a threat that they can’t be trusted with firearms, then they should not be walking the streets, without a mental health evaluation.
I don’t think that the ruling elite in Washington actually understand just how angry some 75 million plus people are, with not only the state of our nation, with the runaway inflation, but also the total lack of empathy coming from the White House. I had 1/4 of a tank of gas in my car today, after getting home from a vacation. So I went and filled my car up, at the local gas station. It cost me over 81$. That is the most money in my nearly 62 years that I have ever put in one vehicle. And it was not even a full tank. My wife and I were on a bus trip out east, and we saw some places where the price of gas was over 6$ per gallon.
I lived through this back in the early 1980’s, during the last of Carter and the start of Reagan. I predict a recession, only because the Democrats are doing nothing to attempt to reign things in. In fact, it would almost seem like they don’t care about inflation at all. Well, come November, they damn well will care, when they lose control of both branches of the legislature, and possibly enough of a loss to not be able to filibuster in the Senate. I know that sounds extreme, but with this latest assault on our liberties, and the huge number of new gun owners, who will have started to educate themselves on gun rights, and why gun right supporters are so zealous about our 2nd amendment rights, they might have cut their own throats. Of course, they probably are counting on their normal method of getting out the vote, from the minorities, including from the cemeteries around the country. I imagine it will be much like it is reported that Joe Kennedy said about JFK. Just enough to win, I won’t pay for any landslide.
I am as angry as I have been in a long time, about not just guns, but about the entire federal government, both parties. They will find out that this will hang around to bite them where it hurts the most. In the campaign coffers.