When Trump was in the White House they were in favor of it, now that Biden is president they are against it. What is “it”? The banning of bump-stocks.
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., sought unanimous consent to pass the BUMP Act, but Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., objected for the GOP, effectively blocking the legislation.NBC NewsBy Sahil Kapur and Frank Thorp VJune 18, 2024Senate Democrats sought to pass legislation Tuesday banning bump stocks for firearms after the Supreme Court overruled a previous ban, but a single Republican objected on behalf of his party, effectively stalling the bill.Backed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., sought “unanimous consent” to pass his BUMP Act that would prohibit the devices, which modify semi-automatic weapons to fire bullets more quickly.The New Mexico senator said he’s a firearm owner who sees no purpose for bump stocks other than to facilitate mass shootings, as in Las Vegas in 2017, when a gunman killed dozens of people at a music festival and more than 500 people were injured.
But the Republicans now see an advantage in blocking the bill because now the bill is evil… it will take away your Second Amendment right… those evil Democrats always trying to take away your guns!
But the bill was met with an objection from Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., blocking it from moving forward. The objection was backed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and many other Republican senators, marking a turnaround after many of them championed a bump stock ban imposed by the Trump administration after the Las Vegas massacre.Ricketts labeled the bill “a gun-grabbing overreach," saying it is written vaguely and could give the Biden administration power to target “common firearm accessories, not just bump stocks.”“That’s really, really scary,” Ricketts said, calling the measure an infringement on the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
Playing politics with your lives!
They are so Two-faced and they think you are that we the voters will not not notice it.
Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is seeking re-election this year in Nevada, where a gunman killed 58 people in 2017 with firearms equipped with bump stocks.NBC NewsBy Frank Thorp V and Sahil KapurJune 17, 2024Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., tore into Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Monday over remarks he made about bump stocks as the Senate grapples with whether to ban them.Vance, who is widely considered a vice presidential contender on the GOP ticket with former President Donald Trump, called efforts by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and other Democrats to ban the devices “a huge distraction.”“I think that we have to ask ourselves: What is the real gun violence problem in this country, and are we legislating in a way that solves fake problems? Or solves real problems?” Vance told reporters. “And my very strong suspicion is that the Schumer legislation is aimed at a PR problem, not something that’s going to meaningfully reduce gun violence in this country.”
Now this is from a Senator who approved Trump’s Executive Order ban on bump-stocks but now it has become evil because the Democratic introduced the bill!
Lets step back a bit… What did the Supreme Court do last week?
ReutersBy Andrew Chung and John KruzelJune 14, 202The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declared unlawful a federal ban on "bump stock" devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, rejecting yet another firearms restriction - this time one enacted under Republican former President Donald Trump.The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, upheld a lower court's decision siding with Michael Cargill, a gun shop owner and gun rights advocate from Austin, Texas, who challenged the ban by claiming that a U.S. agency improperly interpreted a federal law banning machine guns as extending to bump stocks. The conservative justices were in the majority, with the liberal justices dissenting.The rule was imposed in 2019 by Trump's administration after the devices were used during a 2017 mass shooting that killed 58 people at a Las Vegas country music festival.Democratic President Joe Biden, whose administration defended the rule in court, said the decision "strikes down an important gun safety regulation.""Americans should not have to live in fear of this mass devastation," Biden added, saying he has "used every tool in my administration to stamp out gun violence.""I call on Congress to ban bump stocks, pass an assault weapon ban and take additional action to save lives - send me a bill and I will sign it immediately," Biden said.
But now Two-faced Trump did a 180 and is now against the ban on converting semi-automatic weapons to fully-automatic weapons!
Our lives are for sale for votes. Votes for Trump by the far-right gun nuts.
Watch the Republicans trying to squirm and weasel out of answering the questions!
My local television stations' local news is the endless shootings by children and young adults. It is widely held the male brain is not fully developed until age 25. Yet, SCOTUS deals with gun ownership and the mechanics of a gun as if it is the 1790's when there was only smooth bore muskets and a good marksmen could shot and reload 3X per minute. I am waiting for SCOTUS to proclaim there were no age restrictions back in 1790 so everyone can get an assault rifle for his or her sixth birthday. SCOTUS is out of touch with reality.
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