WASHINGTON— The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he’s interested in writing legislation this year that would improve background checks for gun buyers and cracking down on illegal firearms sales.
In an interview, Virginia congressman Bob Goodlatte says the federal background check system should be fixed to make sure people with serious mental illnesses don’t get firearms.
Read more at Official Wire. By Alan Fram.
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This is a warning to any gop senator who goes against the 2nd amendment. We will vote you out!
You people are a bunch of morons ! Crazy people do not go and get permits for guns !…..they steal them !!!!
Ifg this simple fool thinks that he’s going to impact illegal arms sale; he’s nuts. Legislation is only going to encourage it. I had a background check and there’s nothing wrong with that. Anyone who buys a gun at a gun show or store has to have the check. But will that stop black market sales? Hell no, and it’s going to encourage burglary to obtain arms as well. Remember what prohibition did ?
ANOTHER USEFUL IDIOT
iT ISN’T DESIGNED TO MAKE ANY SENSE FOLKS. mARXISTS AND LIBERAL
COMMUNISTS NEVER NEED TO HAVE ANY LOGIC OF FACTS ON THEIR SIDE.
nEITHER OF WHICH EVER HAVE OR EVER WILL SUPPORT THEIR POSITION (SCUM LOVE DICTATORSHIPS)
tHEY ONLY NEED TO SOUND EMOTIONALLY PLAUSIBLE TO THE STUPIDLY BWEILDERED.
iT ISN’T ABOUT MAKING ANY SENSE AT ALL.
iT IS ALLLLL ABOUT HOW DO WE TAKE CONTROL OF EVERYONE ELSE SO AS TO MAKE THEM BELIEVE THEY ARE GIVING UP EVERY RIGHT THEY EVER THOUGHT THEY HAD SO WE CAN KILL AND MOLEST AND STEAL FROM THEM WITH IMPUNITY.
NOTHING MORE.
It’s not hard to understand why Congress only has an 11% approval rating. I don’t believe that rating will be on the rise real soon either. What a bunch of worthless dits. I suppose next they will approve themselves another unauthorized pay raise for all their hard work.
This is a smokescreen to detract from the real issues like unemployment and immigration. They are wasting their time on gun control. They are only starting a huge fight.
All this endless talk about gun control is maddening, especially since the vast majority of gun restrictions that have been proposed are totally irrational. For example, possession of an AR-15 will continue to be legal if it was obtained prior to it becoming illegal. The same twisted logic will also allow the continued purchase of an AR-15 if it is absent a pistol grip.
Many other examples could be given that reflect not only irrational thinking, but a total lack of knowledge of the features of various types of weapons such as the semi-automatic AR-15 and it’s identical twin, the M-16, which unlike the AR-15, is fully automatic capable.
The only sensible argument for stricter controls is that fully automatic weapons, such as the Thompson sub-machine gun, have been strictly regulated since 1934 with the passing of the National Firearms Act (NFA), so why can’t others now be regulated as well?
The answer to that and other questions was attempted in 2012 by Supreme Court Justice Scalia. He stated, (inconclusively in my opinion) that “dangerous and unusual” firearms, such as M-16 rifles, military-style assault weapons, extended magazines, cop-killer bullets and universal background checks would likely all be permitted under the Second Amendment. However, he did not single out the AR-15 or other semi-automatic weapons and, like all others to date, he did not adequately define an “assault weapon.”
Conditions that made the NFA possible during Prohibition do not exist today, i.e., there are no turf wars and Tommy guns being fired indiscriminately by bootleggers on city streets. However, never letting a crisis go to waste, gun control advocates, led by President Obama, are hanging their hats on recent mass murders, but without mentioning that their killers, like many others before them, were mentally unstable and, as previously stated, that currently owned and even new AR-15s will still be legal. And, contrary to the intent of the Second Amendment, which clearly was to give citizens the right to own and bear arms for defense against a tyrannical government and nothing else, President Obama focuses only on hunting, target shooting and protection against home invasion.
Of course, only flintlock rifles and pistols were available when the Second Amendment was passed, so it is now not unreasonable to question which of the many different types of weapons that exist in millions of households, should or should not have Second Amendment protection.
My answer is that all law abiding citizens should have the same right of self protection that government officials and their families have as provided by the Secret Service, with the exception of existing prohibitions and restrictions on firearms possession. To that end, all of our hand-wringing politicians need to get off of their soap boxes and instead of fear mongering, focus on getting the mentally ill off of the streets. After all, they are the ones doing the mass killings.
What criminal or mentally ill person is going to register their guns. UH, NONE, you idiots. Only the law abiding person does that. But that may change if all this garbage continues. Criminals get their guns on the street, out of trunks of cars, black market any where but in a legal manner. Stupid is as stupid does.