It didn’t take long for team-left to move from COVID-19 stimulus to gun reform.
The House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday to expand background checks on anyone trying to purchase firearms in efforts to ramp up gun control measures.
“This bill is a critical step toward preventing gun violence and saving lives,” Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), who sponsored the measure, said.
The legislation, titled the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, passed 227-203, receiving eight republican votes for and one democrat vote against, the Epoch Times reports. Five republicans co-sponsored the bill as well.
Who voted for this gun control bill? Check the roll call here.
According to a summary, the legislation will “utilize the current background checks process in the United States to ensure individuals prohibited from gun possession are not able to obtain firearms.” Right now, any firearm purchased at a store or online must go through a background check and has to involve a licensed firearm dealer. The new bill would require background checks for private sales as well.
The House separately passed another gun control measure, introduced by Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), which extends the window for background checks from three days to ten, giving law-enforcement more time to review individuals before they can purchase guns.
Democrats have long advocated for stricter gun control measures. Despite the Second Amendment, they want to make it tougher for citizens to exercise their right.
Republicans, however, have urged that these gun control measures ultimately won’t make Americans safer the way team-left says they will.
“The idea that this is going to make us safer is laughable,” Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill) said. “Criminals looking to get their hands on firearms to use in crimes are not going to submit to background checks. Only law-abiding citizens will follow the law. This is a back door means of setting up a national registry of firearms something I completely oppose.”
She added that there are “enough gun laws” but we need to “make sure the laws we have are enforced.”
“We need better enforcement, not more laws,” she said. “Instead of passing terrible legislation like H.R. 8, we need to do a better job of providing law enforcement agencies with the resources they need to enforce existing gun laws.”
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By, By Second Amendment, the communists are confiscating everything we have. The Democrat communist party, one of the great names, in the destruction and fall of the United States of America. The hammer and sickle is here in America. Good by freedom!
Signing a law and implementing it are two different things… unless the communist occupiers think they can kill over 100 million of us…and they themselves will escape being killed… it will never happen.
Based on everything we’ve see thus far, I think most gun owners will simply hand them over. Our side likes to talk a lot, but we’re very short on action. And now, the scenario that has played out in EVERY OTHER COMMUNIST TAKE-OVER is about to play out here. You think they wouldn’t disappear tens of millions of people? That’s EXACTLY what has happened, historically, when these authoritarians take control.
SINCE the military, police and FBI are already IN THE POCKETS of the left, and based on evidence on HOW MANY AMERICANS gladly turned in their citizen cards, and became lemmings over covid, i think you are WELL WRONG In thinking there’s enough folks that would resist…
Yes, it can and will happen here. The FBI, Justice Department, all federal bureaucracies and most state bureaucracies are compromised, and it means their livelihood to comply, so they will comply faster than you put on a mask without thinking about what you are doing. We have people turning on one another already over the silly mask fiasco, and guns are a more volatile issue for the left wing communists among us, or at least a majority of democrat socialists and suburban women. If they can cover up fraud in a few state elections, cover up the lawlessness of changing voting rights federally without state legislatures doing it as is Constitutional, they are emboldened to do anything. Why do you think they are moving so abruptly on this issue? They have us weakened, and with weapons they realize we won’t willingly load ourselves in the boxcars. Sad for America, that our constitutional republic is over with this group of communist leftists.
Democrat controlled Detroit “has the highest murder and violent crime rate of any major city in the country.” Democrat Party controlled Chicago has the country’s most gun laws and the most restricting gun laws in the country.
But Chicago the 2nd most gun murders and shooting in the country. In 2014, Chicago racked up a total of 16 murders in just one weekend.
Why is it that no Democrat politicians ever mention:
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a) Black males make up about 6% of the U.S. population but commit 53% of all the murders and 55% of all robberies in the U.S... Every year there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 95% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White police officer was involved?
2019 data:
Deadliest Cities in America (cbs 2019)
City Rate per 100,000
1. St. Louis, Missouri 60.9
2. Baltimore, Maryland 51
3. Detroit, Michigan 51.0
4. New Orleans, Louisiana 35.1
6. Memphis, Tennessee 28.5
7. Dayton, Ohio 26.4
8. Shreveport, Louisiana 26.4
9. West Palm Beach, Florida 25.7
10. Washington, D.C. 22.8
11. Richmond, Virginia 22.6
12. San Bernardino, California 22.5
13. North Charleston, South Carolina 22.2
14 (TIE). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 22.1
14 (TIE). Buffalo, New York 22.1
16. Chicago, Illinois 20.7
The reason they never mention it, is “RACISM”..
In 2015, Barack Obama was in office and Gerry Brown was Governor of California, a state that has had the above mentioned universal background checks and registration AND a ten day waiting period.
None of this made a whit of difference when an illegal immigrant who had been previously deported, was a diagnosed schizophrenic, and a felon was in possession of a stolen .40 Caliber handgun that was originally issued to a federal agent. It is a safe bet to assume background checks would not have prevented this individual, Jose Zarate, from using that stolen gun and shooting Kate Steinle in the back as she walked with her family on a pier in San Francisco.
One might assume that Mr. Zarate is in prison for those multitudes of crimes including manslaughter, but they would be wrong. Instead, the trial focused on Ms. Steinle’s family’s White Privilege, and Mr. Zarrata’s immigrant status. He was given a suspended sentence and released from jail after serving only a few months. He was released, not deported back to Mexico, released back onto the streets of California.
From this instance and others, I have come to the opinion that liberal politicians and gun control advocates are not at all concerned about limiting gun crimes or any other criminal activity. They fear only one thing and that is Patriotic Americans, and they will do whatever is in their power to condemn and control us.
For evil to prevail, good men must do nothing.
Update, The federal prosecutor eventually caught up with Zarate and he is currently serving time for gun charges in Federal Prison. You can thank Donald Trump for that.
well….
Until biden pardons him anyway.
pardon… nothing… make him part of the communist occupiers administration.
Don’t scare us by even IMAGINING that.
I can just picture all the gang members lining up to get their “back-ground check” so they can carry their stolen gun.
I just wonder, when some drubb in office, thinks “WELL let’s backround check for ammo purchases!” LIKE they do in some CA towns iirc.
Phew! What a relief. Now the 99.4% of gun owners who would NEVER have any intention of breaking any laws are not a threat to American liberal/communists. And it likewise seems to reason (per left wing mad hatter logic) the black-lives-don’t-necessarily-matter thugs will not be killing each other in their democrat sanctuary cities at the rate of tens of thousands each year. All because law abiding citizens will not have guns?
The twenty-seven words of the Second Amendment are ALL that stand between Freedom and Tyranny. Without those twenty-seven words, America ceases to exist.
this conflict with our own government is not going to end well!
GUN CONTROL… AGAIN? (he asked incredulously)
A better plan would be
FIREARMS TRAINING K-12!
Teach everybody everything there is to know about all types of weaponry, what damage they cause and how to safely handle them.
Even starting the next school year, high school graduates could walk off the stage with a diploma AND A CONCEALED CARRY PERMIT!
The Military and Police would have fully trained marksmen.
With ever increasing numbers of the population being armed, the criminal element will slip back into the shadow and never return.
ALL crimes from petty crimes to rapes and Murders will drop.
Overbearing attitudes will fade and People will be more CIVIL to each other.
The NEED for large police departments will fade as the crime rates drop.
The ONLY DOWNSIDE would be the LOSS OF POWER THROUGH FEAR BY THE LEFT .
IF you check, when SCHOOLS HAD GUN courses/training, back in the 50s to 80s you rarely if ever SAW ANY of these school shootings.. That is why i agree, WE NEED to get back to doing that.
The operative word has always been “Control” – just ask Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim, Chavez, Maduro, Castro, et al.
While expanded background checks are OK, they aren’t the answer to the real problem!! The problem is that the level of sanctity of Life is challenged by abortion! Some women are stressed out when they find themselves pregnant and the law tells them it legal to abort/kill their previously conceived child [meeting the definition of MURDER]. When others become stressed out they draw the incorrect connection that it’s OK for them to kill whatever/whoever stresses them [kids, co-workers, strangers, etc]
I’m more in favor of BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR ALL POLITICIANS AT ALL LEVELS first!
If they can’t pass the background, there is no government position in their foreground.
Like “The Squad” for instance, or Swalwell, Alcee Hastings, Hirono, Liew and the rest of the dumpster dwellers?
I disagree with backround checks.
DO You need one to vote? NO.
Do you need one to register to vote?
No.
Do you need one to do permitted demonstrations? No.
SO WHY SHOULD YOU need one to own a gun?
Gun control only disarms the victims. The liberal “solution” is to disarm all those who have never committed a crime. The only ones left armed will be criminals and the government, but that would be redundant…
First, the fence, Then, permanent NG in DC. Now, stricter gun control. Next?
They can pass whatever laws they want…. we won’t comply.
Their armed gestapo, the fbi/military/cops/etc, will FORCE that compliance..
Last year, 120 MILLION LAW ABIDING GUN OWNERS DID NOT COMMIT ANY GUN RELATED CRIMINAL ACTS…..
During the same time period 85% of all democrats committed numerous crimes from Misdemeanors to FELONY MURDER WITH FIREARMS.
It’s not the LAW ABIDING GUN OWNERS that cause the problems
I am just wondering, once all the schools get back to being open, HOW SWIFTLY the left, will engineer a ‘school shooting, just so they can PUSH GUN control back into the limielight..
Hopefully it won’t pass in the Senate, if it does, a lot of Lawyers will get rich filing lawsuits
AND pray tell, WHAT JUDGES do you think will even HERE any of those cases??
Nevada’s Gov. Sisolak and Dems passed a law like this which became effective Jan. 2020 prohibiting any sale or transfer of firearms between private parties, friends or familes without extensive background checks. Our Las Vegas Sheriff stated he won’t enforce this law because it is virtually impossible to enforce.
It goes like this, Hey how did you acquire the firearm? Oh officer it was passed down to me by my father summer of 2019, just ask him he’ll tell you.
Will Fraudulent Biden (or more likely Vice-Fraudulent Harris) be requesting United Nations troops or other foreign entities to occupy the former United States of America in order to implement the kick-in-the-door-and-seize legal property of law abiding and patriotic AMERICANS?
IT certainly wouldn’t surprise me if they DID..
Is that when the ammo stockpiles become necessary?
If you think this is bad, checkout Feinstein’s bill
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/feinstein-assaultweapons-rifles-ban/2021/03/12/id/1013651/
Don’t make me puke…. I STILL have no idea, WHY SHE keeps getting re-elected? ARE all those in her district, DUMBER than zombies?!
How will criminals get guns after this new law? Do what they always have; steal them or borrow them from a friend.
Only peace-loving honest people will be impacted by this law, not the drug pushers, rapists, thieves, and murderers who will always have guns regardless of any law.