BANG! Latest Gun-Ban Scheme Gets Shot Down in Congress | The Gateway Pundit

‘Democrats are demanding that the American folks hand over their liberty’

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Republicans within the U.S. Senate have shot down Chuck Schumer’s newest assault on the Second Modification, blocking his try and undertake an “assault weapons” ban and common background checks.

The Hill reported that Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., objected to calls for by Schumer, D-N.Y., the Senate majority chief, to make use of unanimous consent to undertake the modifications.

Schumer had insisted that what he referred to as the “scourge” of gun violence is a nationwide disaster, and “The American persons are sick and bored with enduring one mass capturing after one other. They’re sick and bored with vigil and moments of silence for household, pals, classmates, coworkers.”

The plan, initially introduced up by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would have outlawed semiautomatic rifles with pistol grips, ahead grips and folding or telescoping shares, all of that are widespread on weapons for looking or for self-defense.

It additionally would have outlawed a number of different options on weapons.

The Hill reported Barrasso defined to supporting Democrats that their plan would violate the Second Modification and “deprive law-abiding gun homeowners of an essential liberty,” the report mentioned.

“Individuals have a constitutional proper to personal a firearm. Day by day, folks throughout Wyoming responsibly use their Second Modification rights to maintain and bear arms,” he mentioned. “Democrats are demanding that the American folks hand over their liberty.”

He additionally famous that, as typically occurs, Democrats are attempting to ban weapons “due to the way in which they give the impression of being.”

It was Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who later needed unanimous consent for a legislation concerning common background checks.

He claimed America doesn’t have extra psychological sickness or angrier folks, or spend much less on legislation enforcement, as justification for his request.

“Now we have extra weapons and we’re way more permissive on this nation about permitting felons, harmful folks, to get their arms on weapons,” he mentioned.

The New York Daily News had defined Schumer was making an attempt to “resurrect” a ban that expired within the legislation virtually 20 years in the past.

The report famous how unlikely its success truly was.

“Schumer’s push to move the invoice would possibly charitably be described as a Hail Mary: Democrats maintain a 51-to-49 benefit within the Senate, and much more modest gun security efforts have run aground within the chamber and within the Republican-ruled Home.”

Even after the Sandy Hook college tragedy in 2012, the report mentioned, the “Senate skewered a bid for a brand new assault weapons ban, with 40 votes in favor and 60 in opposition to.”

Schumer, nonetheless, has continued pushing for such a ban, in all probability not less than partly as a result of it’s been a purpose of Joe Biden’s administration.

His scheme would have banned the manufacturing and sale of 205 variations of weapons.

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