House Dems Launch Full Court Press on Background Checks Ammoland Inc. Posted on
House Democrats are launching a full court press on Background Checks.
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- House Democrats, aided by three Republicans, on Tuesday announced the introduction of H.R. 8, the so-called “Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021,” confirming reports from a day earlier that the House of Representatives under Speaker Nancy Pelosi would soon be launching a full-court press on gun control.
The announcement confirms a report at Politico stating, “Next week, the Dems’ agenda will be universal background checks, the Charleston loophole and a labor rights bill called the Pro Act as well as the massive coronavirus bill that comes over from the Senate.”
Democrats Start Their Push For Gun Control: 1st Attack- Universal Background Checks, iStock-designer491
WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(Ammoland.com)- AmmoLand News’ sources inside the U.S House of Representatives have confirmed Democrats are readying a push for so-called universal “
enhanced” background checks. Dropping two related bills BackGround Check bills, both taking away your privacy and restricting your rights.
Bipartisan Background Checks Act (H.R. 8)
California Democrat Mike Thompson’s “Bipartisan Background Checks Act” (H.R. 8) would end the way private sales of firearms are handled in the majority of the country.
The bill would require a gun to be transferred to a licensed dealer before the gun can be sold to another private party. Democrats have long called this the “gun show loophole,” even though most gun buyers go through a background check at a gun show.
monday. and it has been almost two years since a former student opened fire at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida, the deadliest high school shooting in u.s. history where 17 people were kill and 17 others injured. now the father of one of those victims is speaking out in a scathing new op-ed directed at president trump and mitch mcconnell. fred guttenburg writes in this op-ed, there is more to be done. until this white house and mcconnell are ready to stop politicizing gun violence and to complete the work sent to them by the house of representatives, more americans will die. we ll hear from fred guttenburg in a moment. but i want to share this. since the parkland shooting and many others, there has been a loud chorus for change. but not much has actually happened. at least on the federal level. we are still waiting for the senate to take up two bills the house passed back in february. hr-8 known as the bipartisan background checks act of 2019.
leland: a look at what those proposals would do on your screen right now. these are the bills that came out of the house and are now up for a vote if mitch mcconnell ever brings one in the senate. the bipartisan background checks act, the enhanced background checks act. remember, republicans have a lot of issues with those. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi just came out today saying they had a phone call with the president and unless this stuff is included in any new measures, they view them as dead on arrival. first to you, you say this is the democrats new issue. is this a hill to die on? is this a hill to die well, people are dying on it? guess what, we don t even have to get there. i think the problem right now is we have 15 million, a assault weapons out there already in the environment. we have hundreds of millions of guns out there. the problem with a lot of these bills is that they are future possibility. the problem is they don t
democrats? there s got to be pressure not just from democrats in congress, but he has to be hearing from people throughout the country. we know from a poll that just came out, the abc washington post poll, that 89% of the american people, republicans, democrats, independents, support the universal criminal background check legislation, the legislation that the house passed that is sitting in the senate. so this is the moment for people to be calling their senators and mitch mcconnell and demanding a vote. if mitch mcconnell wants to vote against something that is supported by 90% of the american public that s his choice, but he shouldn t block the senate from acting. you had speaker pelosi and senator schumer sending a letter to the president urging him to support this background checks act. will it get a senate vote? well, what mitch mcconnell