Senator Joe Manchin, D-W. Va
Yahoo News
Talks between two influential senators have emerged as the most promising route for a bipartisan breakthrough on expanding federal background checks for gun buyers, a pivotal part of President Barack Obama's plan for combating gun violence.
One possibility being discussed by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., would involve expanding background checks to gun show sales and firearms transactions online, Senate aides said. Sales between close relatives and temporary transfers between hunters may be excluded, but an agreement along those lines could give Obama's guns agenda a significant boost and would be a major expansion of the current system, which covers only sales handled by federally licensed gun dealers.
I suppose this would be better than nothing, but not much.
What do you think? Please leave a comment.
You still don't get it. Requiring checks for letting someone try out a gun at a range was always stupid. Does this still insist on such things?
ReplyDeleteBut remember, the House is in no mood to pass any of this nonsense. Enjoy the political theater.
The only results this will yield will be more invasions of privacy than we currently have.
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