There is a real issue that needs to be addressed. What about firearms that are transferred to family members. For example in many rural families it is a right of passage for a father to give the first hunting rifle or shotgun to his son or daughter. How do you do background checks in that case. That situation is not all that unusual and is an example the NRA uses to spook its members. If you want to solve the gun issue and not just fund raise off of it Democrats have to propose a reasonable solution.
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Nominee for ATB? GQP just got really really excited over having something new to message about…someone new to try to destroy.
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Bingo.
Biden will propose something like universal background checks/closure of loopholes and Republicans will scream he’s planning to microchip gun owners to make the future mass gun confiscation easier.
The only change I think that is worth pushing for that may actually be possible is repealing the gun industry’s immunity law:
Get rid of the law and force changes to the industry through civil suits.
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Not sure how long I can maintain this stance…
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In a generation everyone is going to have a microchip of some sort under their skin. For payment on goods, for travel, for ID purposes. It’s futile to fight it. It would be like announcing today you aren’t getting a Social Security number. Good luck with that.
No need.
Just about everyone carries the functional equivalent at all times:
The fact that it says “Apple” or “Samsung” instead of Uncle Sam on the label doesn’t mean the government can’t get access to it just about anytime it wants.
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This one?
President Biden will announce a top official from a leading gun-control group as his nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — a key agency in combating gun violence that has gone without a permanent director for years.
Two people familiar with the matter said Biden plans to nominate David Chipman, a veteran ATF special agent.
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Well then…yep…they’re going to lose their shit haha
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In addition to holding the house in 2022, we’ve got to move heaven and earth to elect at least 3 more dem senators so that we can tell Manchin and Sinema that we’re nuking the filibuster with or without them…
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I wonder if Nancy and Chuck could get each of their chambers to play the game of “who here doesn’t know someone who has been killed by a gun”? Accidental discharge, suicide, or killed by another all would count.
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I’m pretty confident they’re going to change the filibuster rules in some manner that Manchin and Sinema can describe as “reform” rather than just repeal. And then we can go back to finding a 2024 primary opponent for Sinema anyway because she’s just the worst.
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Mr. Chipman was a special agent at ATF for over 20 years. That’s someone who can restore integrity to the agency since it’s been hollowed out since Reagan signed the Firearms owners protection act which gutted it.
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Is Joe Manchin the new Mitch McConnell? It sure is beginning to feel like it.
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Criminals “know one another.”
Gawd. And Mitch is at least honest about it, never mind being the opposition party.
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Right?
This grows ever more tiresome since it’s gotten to be a constant thing.
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Biden will direct his administration to begin requiring consumers of “ghost guns,” which are homemade or makeshift firearms lacking serial numbers, to undergo background checks.
That’s just patent bullshit. They should be made illegal and made a Federal Class C felony (punishment of less than twenty-five years, but more than ten years), at the least. There’s only one reason anyone wants to possess an untraceable gun, fer chrissake.
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Require gun owners to have liability insurance, same as car owners.
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So less executive actions than executive affectations.
There is very spotty reporting on this (Manchin and the upcoming legislation) .And, because of the treachery of the GOP, I can somewhat understand it.