Kirk and Manchin backing away from Schumer’s background-check proposal
All three senators have been working, along with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), on compromise universal background-check legislation for gun purchasers. Those negotiations appeared to slow this week with the group of senators in an apparent deadlock over a bill by Schumer that would would require a background check for virtually every gun sale and require private sellers to verify the person they are selling to is not prohibited from buying a firearm.
“We are committed to continuing to work in a bipartisan effort with Sens. Schumer, Coburn and others in order to find a commonsense solution for enhanced background checks, however, Sen. Schumer’s current proposal is one we cannot support as it stands today,” the two senators said in a statement Wednesday evening. “Our goal is to pass a bill that will close loopholes in the current background check process in a way that does not burden law-abiding citizens.
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LOL. The whole purpose of the ridiculous and generally useless background checks is to burden law-abiding citizens. The fact that I have to go through a background check EVERY SINGLE TIME I want to purchase a gun is asinine and it’s all too easy for someone to fake who they are for these checks, if they really care to.
For almost all other federal, state, or local paperwork they just ask you questions that you sign for, on penalty of perjury, but for guns they have to burden you with a call to the FBI to check a list – a call that costs money and takes much more time now and will take far longer if these idiots get their wish of forcing background checks for everything.
Meanwhile, the ineligible dog-eating America-hater occupooping the White House has never had to prove anything about himself in order to take control of the most powerful office in the land – an office that he has abused and basically destroyed since he has not one iota of American sensibilities about him. I have to go through a background check to buy something I have a Constitutional right to but Barky had no background checks and he thinks he can drone strike me dead in the street by my home.
These people in Washington are such utter scum and criminals of the highest order.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on March 7, 2013 at 11:32 AM
The lesson, as always: Don’t make deals with Upchuck Schumer.
Bitter Clinger on March 7, 2013 at 11:33 AM
Maybe they are figuring out there is no way to enforce this part.
cozmo on March 7, 2013 at 11:35 AM
Your goal is, and always will be, acquiring and maintaining power over law-abiding citizens. Everything you do is a burden to us.
You are modern day Pharisees, saddling people with burdens you yourselves would never consider carrying.
CurtZHP on March 7, 2013 at 11:36 AM
Been saying from the beginning: if your deling with Schumer, your an idiot or a fool.
He wants universal checks so they can begin keeping records of who has what firearms and where. The whole argument they are simply working to ensure only authorized people have access is ridiculous on its face.
This has nothing to do with safety.
It’s abuot the incrementalism towards registration/confiscation.
catmman on March 7, 2013 at 11:38 AM
I dunno if many people saw it yet, but Senator Feinstein just said that veterans shouldn’t have access to “assault weapons” because of this “new thing called PTSD” that’s caused by the Iraq war.
Spade on March 7, 2013 at 11:57 AM
We WON.
We took the political horns of the beast and ground them into the dirt.
We have raised our sword over our fallen foe and the crowd has given the “Swords Up!” signal!
We have looked over the field of battle through the smoke and thunder and blood and we see our men pushing forward.
Bulletchaser on March 7, 2013 at 12:04 PM
First pass a law requiring gun dealers and sheriffs to destroy all of the form 4473′s in their possession. Them I’ll think about expanding background checks.
agmartin on March 7, 2013 at 12:07 PM