AlexanderA
Member
Immediately following Obama's SOTU speech, a group of antigun House Democrats introduced a resolution (which, btw, won't go anywhere) which reads in pertinent part:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/congress-gun-control_n_4689909.html
Notice what this agenda doesn't include. What's left? Commercial sales (that is, sales by FFL holders) are already subject to background checks. Who is against "improving the mental health system"? And gun trafficking and straw purchasing are already federal crimes. These congresspeople, at this point, are just throwing meaningless bones to their antigun constituents. Everybody knows that gun control is dead this year.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that gun violence is a public health issue and Congress should enact by the end of the 113th Congress comprehensive Federal legislation that protects the Second Amendment and keeps communities safe and healthy, including expanding enforceable background checks for all commercial gun sales, improving the mental health system in the United States, and making gun trafficking and straw purchasing a Federal crime.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/congress-gun-control_n_4689909.html
Notice what this agenda doesn't include. What's left? Commercial sales (that is, sales by FFL holders) are already subject to background checks. Who is against "improving the mental health system"? And gun trafficking and straw purchasing are already federal crimes. These congresspeople, at this point, are just throwing meaningless bones to their antigun constituents. Everybody knows that gun control is dead this year.