{"id":53576,"date":"2014-07-09T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53576"},"modified":"2014-07-09T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T17:23:14","slug":"gun-control-fight-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53576","title":{"rendered":"Gun control fight in the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that new gun laws are being proposed for adding into the Bipartisan Sportsmen Act (S.2363<\/a>) which will make it easier for sportsmen to hunt and fish on government land and make more shooting ranges available. But the new proposals are strictly written down partisan lines;<\/p>\n

Republicans want to overturn the ban on large-capacity magazines and assault weapons in the District of Columbia; expand the right to purchase or transport firearms and ammunition across state lines; limit when a military veteran can be denied a firearm due to mental illness; and allow gun owners to carry weapons into post offices or other federal sites. Democrats said they are working on proposals to limit the sale of certain weapons and ammunition; expand the national background-check system; and stiffen penalties for gun straw purchasers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll go along with the stiffened penalties for straw purchasers, but I wonder what “expand the national background checks” mean and which “certain weapons and ammunition” they want to regulate. So I went to Congress.gov and I see that Feinstein<\/a> has an amendment that doesn’t have the text linked to it yet, so does Shaheen<\/a>. Shaheen’s amendment has 5 co-sponsors, including Susan Collins, but no public text yet. In fairness, the Republican amendments haven’t been posted either. But if there is going to be debate this week, shouldn’t the public know what the debate is about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that new gun laws … Gun control fight in the Senate<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}