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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswithout one single republican senators vote....
Background checks for guns clears Senate committee in party-line voteA bill to require nearly all gun buyers to undergo background checks narrowly passed a Senate committee Tuesday in a party-line vote.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 to approve Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer's bill, which would close loopholes that allow some people to buy guns from private sellers without undergoing a criminal background check. No Republican supported the measure.
The bill, Schumer said after the vote, is the "sweet spot" of gun legislation that actually has a chance of attracting enough bipartisan support to pass.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top ranking Republican on the committee, said he opposed the bill in part because he believes it would set up a national gun registry, which is prohibited under federal law. The bill would require licensed dealers to keep records of weapon transfers, and would allow people to transfer weapons without background checks only to immediate family members and in certain sporting or training events. "Criminals will continue to steal guns and buy them illegally to circumvent the requirements," Grassley said in a statement.
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without one single republican senators vote.... (Original Post)
spanone
Mar 2013
OP
According to the Nader creed, there is no difference between corporatist democrats and
bluestate10
Mar 2013
#5
annabanana
(52,791 posts)1. Their masters feast on gore and offal.
Arms manufacturers own the Republican Party, lock stock and barrel.
spanone
(135,873 posts)2. along with the NRA
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)3. a similar bill failed in WA state
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)4. Full Speed Ahead!
Ram it down their fucking throats.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)5. According to the Nader creed, there is no difference between corporatist democrats and
republicans. Fuck yeah!!!