S. 436 Fix Gun Checks Act of 2011, The Other Side Of The HR 822 Passage

[twyacht]

Well the gamesmanship continues. HR 822 passed the House...Will it pass the Senate? Or get BHO to even sign it?

Chucky Schumer, has his own plans....And no the House won't pass it either...

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Quote Of The Day
The Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism held a hearing yesterday on one of Mayor Bloomberg's pet projects. The bill, S. 436, the Fix Gun Checks Act of 2011, was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The witnesses were what might be expected from in the Democrat controlled Senate with one exception.

Attorney David Kopel appeared to testify before the subcommittee in opposition to the bill. He correctly tore the bill to pieces. His conclusion is the quote of the day.

    S. 436 violates the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due of law, the Fifth Amendment guarantee of equal protection of the law, and the Tenth Amendment’s reservation of state authority over purely intrastate activities. S. 436 further violates the Tenth Amendment by imposing on the vast majority of states an extremely repressive system of restrictions on law-abiding gun owners which those states have already rejected.

    Ever since 1776, Congress has recognized that a national gun registry would be a dangerous violation of the right to keep and bear arms. S. 436 creates such a registry.

    S. 436 has no legitimate constitutional basis of authority, because S. 436 attempts to twists Congress’s real power to regulate interstate commerce into the power to regulate what is not interstate and not commercial.

    S. 436 treats arrests as if they were convictions.

    S. 436 takes the current gun ban for the criminally insane and applies it to non-dangerous people who have been ordered to get counseling for mental problems that have absolutely nothing to do with dangerousness—including stuttering, lack of sexual desire, and nicotine dependence.

    Whatever good intentions might lie behind S. 436, the actual bill as drafted is grotesquely overbroad, and a Pandora’s Box of the dangerous consequences that are the inevitable result of making it a felony for law-abiding Americans to possess and use firearms.

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[santahog]

And why on Gods green earth did the House leadership pass it? Can it be that the name was a perceived campaign plus? Why was the NRA so gangbusters behind this bill? I didn't get the chance to look this over. All I knew was that NRA wanted it and GOA didn't, (and NRA tried it's damnedist to endorse Harry Reid in 2010).
Kinda reminds me of my Congressman, (Aderholt) voting for the "Super Committee" and the guy sits on Ways and Means. How much more "Super" can one get???
I know. He needed to be able to blame somebody else for what he can't bring himself to face...

Sorry that turned into a mini rant.. Can't say that I feel better about it..

[Timothy]

The House passed H.822 supported by the NRA

The Schmucky Schumer bill, S.436 is just now hitting the floor for discussion and the NRA is fighting that one!

H.822 will die in the Senate most likely and if it does squeak by, the Dipshit in Chief won't sign it!