Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Background Checks, Not Without Controversy (Congress, school, party)

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Some states are putting their own restrictions in place in spite of congress but it would make more sense to pass this nationally, what good do strict background checks do if not enforced universally. This should not have been so strictly along party lines, 10-8. Almost 80% support background checks. This may pass the senate but probably not the house, we will see.

In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shooting that left 20 elementary school children dead, universal background checks seemed like one gun bill that could fly through the Senate. But a party-line vote in committee Tuesday revealed the appetite for gun-control legislation on Capitol Hill might be smaller than anyone outside the beltway imagined.

The Senate Judiciary Committee--which is considering a host of new gun legislation--voted 10 to 8 Tuesday to pass a universal background check bill out of committee. The bill would close the so-called gun show loophole, which allows unlicensed individuals to sell their wares at gun shows without running a background check on buyers.

Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Background Checks, Not Without Controversy - US News and World Report

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Originally Posted by Goodnight

Some states are putting their own restrictions in place in spite of congress but it would make more sense to pass this nationally, what good do strict background checks do if not enforced universally. This should not have been so strictly along party lines, 10-8. Almost 80% support background checks. This may pass the senate but probably not the house, we will see.

What you're not hearing in the mainstream media is that universal background checks can be a stealth tactic to confiscate and catalog lawfully owned guns.

With a universal background check, you can sell a gun only through a licensed dealer and you need proof of ownership, e.g. proof of purchase.

How many people are going to have their purchase receipt five or ten or twenty years later?

Failure to produce proof of ownership sets you up for confiscation of the gun you are trying to sell, plus home inspection by ATF and discovery and confiscation of other firearms you may lawfully own.