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Senate Goes After Gun Rights: 2nd Amendment In Danger
President Barack Obama’s prospects for winning near-universal background checks for gun purchases seemed shaky as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepared for Congress’ first votes on curbing firearms since December’s horrific shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.
The Democratic-led panel had four bills on its agenda Thursday as lawmakers began shaping their response to the slaughter of 20 first-graders and six staffers in Newtown, Conn. The shootings elevated guns to a top-tier national issue, though many of Obama’s proposals have encountered opposition from the National Rifle Association and many Republicans.
Besides expanding background checks, the other measures would ban assault weapons and ammunition magazines carrying more than 10 rounds, make gun trafficking and the purchase of firearms for people barred from owning them federal crimes, and provide more money for schools to buy video cameras and other safety equipment.
All four measures were expected to pass the committee, perhaps Thursday. But their fate when the full Senate considers them, probably in April, was less certain. The trafficking measure by panel Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., was thought to have the best prospects and the assault weapons ban by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., seemed to have the slimmest chance. MOREHERE
And I say. Usurper obama the illegal alien infiltrating communist conquering enemy prospects for winning communist u.n near-universal background checks for gun confiscations seemed shaky as the complicit treasonous traitor NDAA loving Senate Judiciary Committee prepared for Congress’ first votes on curbing the very firearms that would be needed to stop their blatant new world order one world tyranny since December’s horrific black-op hoax staged shootings at the movie set Sandy Hook Connecticut elementary school.
But… nothing happened at Sandy Hook. I don’t get it.