H.R.121 - To provide for the hiring of 200 additional Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents and investigators to enforce gun laws.
H.R.125 - To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for a 7-day waiting period before a semiautomatic firearm, a silencer, armor piercing ammunition, or a large capacity ammunition magazine may be transferred.
H.R.127 - To provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of certain ammunition.
H.R.130 - To require the safe storage of firearms and ammunition, and to require the investigation of reports of improper storage of firearms or ammunition.
H.R.167 - To prohibit the transfer of a firearm at a gun show by a person who is not a federally licensed firearms dealer.
They have been inching to ban guns. They don't want the people to have any power to fight back.
Guns aren't power; they're a force multiplier, a tool. And like any other tool, guns don't mean shit if you have no will to use them. And will comes from a hungry belly. The comfortable don't revolt, even if they're told to shut up and take it. And even now, it's still comfortable. Look forward a couple of years, when the Dempression puts people in bread lines and has them living in mass shelters.
Additionally, people don't need guns to overthrow tyranny. It makes it easier, but if it ever gets to the point where millions are dead-set on resisting, boomsticks will be forceably acquired from the tyrants, regardless. And until then they'll use bricks, rocks, sticks, hammers, pitchforks, molotovs and other IEDs, etc., etc., etc.
Banning guns could be one of the best things they could do to accelerate a response, because they're just going to criminalize even more people, make even more radicals out of the peasants they so deeply detest.
You can't be advocating "Defund the Police" and gun control at the same time. That's too much hypocrisy even for the Left.
Congress has been "D" for six days now. On the 21st, the WH will be "D".
Consider the anecdote from the first Clinton Inaugural: There were several military fly-overs and other martial displays on that day. One lefty was grousing to another one about the activities, but another lefty responded, "You're looking at this all wrong; those are our planes and troops now."
"Hypocrisy" isn't the operative word. Doublethink is.
So does that mean, "hey I saw my neighbor with his gun lying on a table (was he nearby? I won't say)" is enough to get a visit from the police/ATF and have to show them your gun safe(s)?
As far as I've seen, the full text hasn't been added to the record yet, but I would probably take it in the worst way possible.
It would also probably have the requirements be something ridiculous, like you need a safe that can hold some minimum amount even if you just have a handgun, or the only safes that are secure enough are the multi-thousand dollar models that require digital registering and stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried something like requiring a separate safe for each gun.
atf should have been disbanded
The GA Senate loss was pure fraud.
I honestly thought Mitch might have been savvy enough to secure his job, in exchange for going with the fix, and rig it for at least one Republicuck to win. He was always waiting to stab Trump, but he couldn't even figure out how to secure his own position in the process. Pathetic.
But he did secure his position: controlled opposition where he doesn't have to do much besides play the role of complainer and delayer for at least 2 years.
I forget how much they love cucking. I keep foolishly assuming they have the priorities of Men.
Never underestimate the ability of Republicans to cuck out. PrecisionStrike is exactly right
Second ing this. Everything that went wrong with the November 4th election occurred again for the senatorial race.
It wouldn't surprise me if some of these morons actually continue to think they'll enjoy constituent support simply because of the R next to their name.
Sadly, they're not completely incorrect, because institutional R voters have always been party to Trump's ascension, just not the reason he won.
Their statements are better, but their actions are pathetic. They could've passed national reciprocity after Trump won, thanks to the majority they held at the time.