Statement: “I believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners will not prevent a deranged individual or criminal from obtaining and misusing firearms to commit violence. While steps must be taken to improve the existing background check system, I will not support the Manchin-Toomey legislation, which I believe would place unnecessary burdens on law-abiding gun owners and allow for potential overreach by the federal government into private gun sales.” This could well be the death knell for the bill. Watch this space. Again, click here for live coverage of the Senate debate.
“So Mr. Reid is retiring.”
Either that or Nevada is “evolving” on gun rights. He is known to calculate rather carefully.
The fight still wages on in the states. California just approved a boat load of tyrannical bills in committee yesterday. Several of which had died in committee in years past, others are worse than similar bills defeated last year. One hopes Brown vetos any that pass (and he might…he is an odd duckling, as AG he filed an amicus in McDonald urging the court to incorporate the 2nd amendment, arguing that Californians deserve to have that protection and they lack it in the CA constitution…), but he may not, or he may sign a token one. It depends on pressure fellow Dems put on him. He thinks we have enough laws and is focused on the goals he already had. He may sign just to move things along in order to start talking about other things…who knows. One of the bills makes reality what never has been except on TV…mandatory registration. The same bill bans the Ruger 10/22, and any semiauto with a detachable magazine. Oh vey.
And similar matters in other states. And it matters, to all states. An attack on the freedoms of fellow Americans should not be brushed off. They will just move the attack to the next state, and you know, the are more gun owners in CA than any other state other than Texas…dismissing the fight in CA is like a general blowing the brains out of 1/10th of his soldiers. A severe handicap.
Is the reticle in the first focal plane? The link doesn’t seem to indicate.