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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:31 PM Jun 2016

House to vote on gun bill next week

Source: The Hill

A week after Democrats staged a nearly 26-hour sit-in demanding a vote on gun control measures, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said the House will vote next week on legislation to block suspected terrorists from buying guns.

In a conference call Thursday, Ryan told rank-and-file Republicans that the House will take up a terrorism package that will include measures to disrupt radicalization and recruitment, as well as a provision to prevent suspected terrorists from purchasing guns, according to a source on the call.
It’s unclear exactly which bill will be brought to the floor.

Democrats launched an historic, daylong protest on the House floor last week demanding a vote on such legislation in the wake of the Orlando shooting rampage that killed 49.

Ryan on the call reiterated that it’s important to ensure suspected terrorists can't obtain guns, calling it common sense. But the Speaker said he wanted to approach the issue deliberatively to protect due process and Second Amendment rights.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/286122-house-to-vote-on-gun-bill-next-week

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House to vote on gun bill next week (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2016 OP
It'll probably deny guns to brown terrorists only. onehandle Jun 2016 #1
There was no mention of race in the article metroins Jun 2016 #5
The devil's in the details. lark Jun 2016 #2
Why the no-fly list was declared unconstitutional askeptic Jun 2016 #3
Well lah-di-dah! Dems were right all along. ffr Jun 2016 #4
Poison Pill n/t charin Jun 2016 #6
Well this is a shitty victory celebration anigbrowl Jun 2016 #7

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
1. It'll probably deny guns to brown terrorists only.
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:36 PM
Jun 2016

Can't upset their white terrorist base of Trump lovers.

metroins

(2,550 posts)
5. There was no mention of race in the article
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:52 PM
Jun 2016

But I guess if you are always looking for something, you can magically find it.

Good job Democrats on forcing the republicans to take a vote. I'm personally against gun control measures, but the Democrats are getting a contentious issue raised without shutting down the government like the GOP did.

lark

(23,003 posts)
2. The devil's in the details.
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:38 PM
Jun 2016

It'll be interesting to see what the Repugs put forth. Can't imagine it's anything good, but we'll see soon.

askeptic

(478 posts)
3. Why the no-fly list was declared unconstitutional
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:50 PM
Jun 2016

Just so long as Constitutional measures are used to deny Constitutional rights...

Imagine you’re in an airport en route to visit family abroad when suddenly you’re surrounded. Then you are detained and interrogated. You not only miss your scheduled flight, but can’t get on any other flight. Not to see your family. Not to travel for work. Not for any reason. And nobody will tell you why. It’s as though you’ve been blacklisted.

A federal judge has ruled Tuesday, June 24, 2014, that the U.S. government violated the rights of 13 people on its no-fly list by depriving them of their constitutional right to travel, and gave them no adequate way to challenge their placement on the list. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Portland Imam Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye is one of 15 men who say their rights were violated because they are on the U.S. government’s no-fly list.(Rick Bowmer/AP)
That was the experience of 13 American Muslims – including four military veterans – who challenged the government’s no-fly list imposed after 911 to keep terrorists out of U.S. airspace. None of them have ever been charged with terrorism-related offenses. They were barred from boarding flights, but nobody would tell them if they were on the list and, if so, why.

On Tuesday, a federal judge in Oregon ruled the government’s no-fly list is unconstitutional because Americans on it have no meaningful opportunity to contest their inclusion. Here’s the opinion.

The judge didn’t say the government has to get rid of the list. But it does have to come up with a better way for people on the list to challenge the fact that they are on it. The government must also disclose to those on the list any unclassified information used to justify their inclusion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/25/judge-rules-no-fly-list-unconstitutional/

ffr

(22,649 posts)
4. Well lah-di-dah! Dems were right all along.
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:52 PM
Jun 2016


Sometimes Republicans can be thickheaded and finally realize they're being thick headed, instead of doing what's right for the people who elected them!
 

anigbrowl

(13,889 posts)
7. Well this is a shitty victory celebration
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:34 PM
Jun 2016

The sit-in last week was successful in getting ryan to act. Now, the bill that comes out will probably be rather crap, or be a good bill that fails, but everyone knew quite well that the Democrats might well lose a vote on a bill given their low numbers in the House this Congress. The point was to get a bill onto the floor for a debate and a vote so Republicans have to go on the record about where they stand. In that sense, it's a great success.

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