Expanded background checks fails in Washington State
The big money battle in Washington State played out when gun control proponents couldn’t summon the votes to expand background checks to private sales yesterday. From CBS;
Gun buyers currently must undergo a background check when they purchase a weapon from a federally licensed firearms dealer. Pedersen’s proposal, crafted in conjunction with Republican Rep. Mike Hope, would have extended such reviews to cover private gun transactions.
Hope, a Seattle police officer, had expressed concern that criminals have been bypassing the current system of background checks and acquiring guns through private transactions. He said the proposal won’t stop gun violence but would make it harder for criminals to get weapons.
Yeah, well, you don’t prevent crime by regulating the law abiding public. Criminals are buying guns from each other, so regulating sales between private citizens won’t help much.
Proponents of gun control had recently formed a coalition to lobby on behalf of the background checks plan. Christian Sinderman, a political consultant who aided the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, said it was a stark reminder of how hard it is to get votes on the issue.
Well, when the voting public punishes politicians who needlessly restrict them in their day-to-day lives, it should be hard. How about mandatory sentencing guidelines for people who commit crimes with a gun? How about stricter guidelines for reporting people who have mental problems/criminal history to restrict them from buying guns? But, it’s easier to restrict the law abiding population because they’re ones who obey the law, aren’t they?
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Oooooh, I can’t wait to see the backlash at the polls next year!!
By that, I mean against the libtards trying to inflict this crap on us!
Yeah, as if requiring Shorty to pass a background check when buying a gun in an alley from Slim would have worked.Jeez.
Buttheads.
This is very promising. Occasionally the elected, law-making body shows some good sense and this is one of those occasions.
Rep. Mike Hope is a Republican talking like a liberal Dem…think its time for the hook.
Mike Hope seems to be unable to distinguish between law-abiding citizens and criminals.
Send him to a re-education camp.
I would have lost money betting that would pass in Washington before it passed in Colorado. A little bit of good news in the midst of insanity.
As someone who lives in WA. state a big thumbs up! Now..if only we could get rid of Murray.
Read on FR that 3 of the flaming Colorado demorats that voted for their crap already have recall petitions going around.
Damn, Tom Colburn is talking about retiring and this is his last term.
Next ….
Ahh what the media isnt saying is that this is the same bill with some language changes that was sponosred by Adam Kline (D) which gave authority to LE to do warrantless search of private citizens homes to verify compliance with the safe storage portion of the bill. The same bill that he proposed since 2005 and he claimed after getting called in it last month by the 2nd amendment foundation was a “mistake because I didn’t read the bill”
I need to move back to Washington.
The HIPPAA laws will not allow mental patients to be put on a list of any kind… It doesn’t matter what anyone says about it. Those Hipaa laws are very strict about the right of privacy and you know the ACLU will be right there with a hundred lawsuits if something like that gets passed.
That is why this is such a fallacy…
It is being marketed as yet another liberal panacea to solve the problems of the country…
The stupidity of libs never ceases to amaze me, they pass laws to guarantee privacy then want to break the laws they passed !!!
Wayne La Pierre brought this up to Stuart Varney in his interview on the Fox Business Channel. Good interview and as usual for Mr. Varney very balanced !!!
Thanks
Thunder
How the hell do you enforce such things? Mandatory registration of all firearms and yearly searches?
FatCircles0311: IMO, though they won’t come out and say it, mandatory registration with annual renewal is exactly what many gun-control advocates want.
To begin with. What comes later seems rather obvious.
crafted in conjunction with Republican Rep. Mike Hope,
Remind me again why when people ask me if I’m a Republican or a Democrat, I tell them, “I’m a CONSERVATIVE.”
I reread this article and I have just one question:
Is it feasible to say that the people who cook up these pieces of legislation are actually space aliens living amongst us?
I only ask, because they don’t seem to be from MY planet, which is Earth.
The Stupid really burns.
1) this law will keep criminals from buying guns
2) if you don’t follow this law, you are a criminal
America is truly getting the government it deserves.
We were successful beating down this background check nonsense. My senator and two reps all are very much in favor of the Second Amendment. I am pleased that some of the common sense Dems stood firm since they do have the majority in both houses and the Governors office. We kept pointing out the fact that we already have a state law that makes it a class C felony to deliver any firearm to a person that is ineligible to possess a firearm. That seems to me like that is all that is necessary! The nonsense about the house checks was really a blessing in disguise, it a gave us a lot of national media coverage.
I tell my friends to not lower their guard, I can see a citizens initiative coming at us and it will be well funded by Bill Gates and the other billionaires in the state. I am sure George Soros will chip in too. We beat down a stupid initiative in the 90’s that would make trigger locks mandatory on all guns! Fortunately our state sheriff’s association is pro Constitution unlike a lot of the large cithy police chiefs that have to kiss their mayors ass.