Friday, March 29, 2024

Senate Passes ‘Unconstitutional’ Gun Bill – House Republicans Pledge to Fight It

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The Senate voted 65-33 this evening to pass their radical package, crafted in the wake of recent tragedies such as the one that took place at Robb Elementary School in , Texas last month.

As previously reported, this legislation contains several provisions that are clear violations of law-abiding Americans' rights.

While the legislation does include some rational measures, the restrictions on law-abiding citizens are too great.

The two most glaring violations of Second Amendment rights are the expanded background checks on would-be purchasers between the ages of 18 and 21 and the millions of dollars in funding that states would be provided with to enforce “red flag laws.” 

Would-be buyers in the 18-21 age group could be subject to a waiting period of up to 10 business days – potentially up to two whole calendar weeks –  before being able to purchase a firearm.

Through funding provided by Byrne JAG grants, states will be given additional dollars to support “extreme risk protection orders” (ERPO's). Those orders – known colloquially as “red flag laws” – temporarily require a person to surrender their firearms to officials and also do not allow individuals to purchase or possess firearms or ammunition.”

Senate Republicans who supported today's legislation were Mitch McConnell (R-KY), (R-TX), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), (R-AK), Todd Young (R-IN), Rob Portman (R-OH), Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Mitt Romney (R-UT).

Fox News reported earlier this week that House Republican Whip Steve Scalise is planning to do all he can to stop the legislation from making it through his chamber. However, his efforts may not go far enough as Democrats still outnumber Republicans in the House.

The House Freedom Caucus officially took a position on the legislation two days ago when it was formally introduced in the Senate. The group of conservative Republicans took issue with the bill's provisions that would enhance the implementation of red flag laws by backing pre-existing state laws with federal dollars.

Congresswoman Lauren Bobert – another member of the House Republican Conference and a prominent defender – joined Laura Ingraham on Fox News yesterday to slam the Senate's anti-Second Amendment bill.

House Republican Conference Chair has also issued a statement in opposition of the Senate's legislative package.

In her eyes, “this bill contains unconstitutional gun control provisions and allows the implementation of red flag laws that take away due process rights. It would restrict men and women who are able to serve in our military from purchasing a firearm and would strip the Constitutional rights of gun owners by broadening the scope of punishment for even nonviolent misdemeanors. As this blatant overreach seeks to make gun owners second-class citizens, I will continue to stand up for the Constitution and push for solutions, including advocating for increased mental health resources across the country.”

As the legislation now moves to the House, many more Republicans are sure to make their opposition to the legislation known with insiders predicting a floor vote as soon as 9:00 AM Friday morning.

Victoria Snitsar Churchill
Victoria Snitsar Churchill
Victoria Snitsar Churchill is a proud immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen with a decade of experience in grassroots politics and community organizing. Her writing has been featured in many online publications, including Campus Reform, The Daily Torch and The Daily Signal. As an undergraduate at the University of Kansas, Victoria appeared in media outlets such as CBS News, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The Blaze and NRATV. Victoria is also a former NCAA D1 student-athlete and Kansas College Republicans State Chair. After moving eleven times in six years, Victoria resides in Arlington, Virginia and enjoys overpriced brunch on Sundays with her husband.

36 COMMENTS

  1. Have You Really read the 2nd Amendment? Every one of your points are Mute. The 2nd Amusement First and Formosa does NOT grant everyone the right to bare arms.
    We already have firearm restrictions that have been ignored by the majority of the people caring weapons today.

    • Obviously you can’t read either: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
      Yes there are gun laws that are illegal generated by politicians. The latest being one of many.

      • I would have not problem with people carrying around muskets. The founders of this country could not even have conceived of an AR15, and there is no doubt they would not have approved of the populace carrying around such weapons in public. There are still places called ARMORIES where people would store their weapons. It is unfortunate that civil society has become so uncivilized that people need to carry weapons to go out in public. Will it soon be required that people will need to wear Kevlar vests to go anywhere? Perhaps we should outfit our kids with Kevlar vest as part of their school uniforms?

        • Your comment is ludicrous, the statement recognizing our right to bear arms was made at a time when muskets were the weapon of the time. To suggest you are OK with carrying muskets to fight any kind of out of control government or an invader of this country is utter nonsense! If they had known what weapons were going to be available in 100 years or more I am sure they would have changed their wording, what they did make extremely clear is that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed on, that is the right that the radical left is trying to remove with these attacks on our right to own weapons. This is how tyranny starts, you first have to disarm the people, when they have done that the rest is easy!

          • That seems to be their long range goal, once they can disarm us then there goes the rest of our rights. If this bill actually gets passed into law it will end up in front of the SCOTUS the same as New York’s unconstitutional gun law, and will end up being thrown out also.

        • then leave this great country if you dont like people carrying firearms. the founding fathers knew that the government would be this way, they would have never imagined fighter jets either. their point was to be armed against government overreach! high time we real the idiots in who are the government today. any gun laws are unconstitutional so therefore unacceptable!!!

        • What you assume is they were to stupid to understand the world advances . Those men were a lot smarter than anyone in congress today . Government has modern weapons so the American people should also it wasn’t about hunting it was about fighting government.

        • Let’s see: The Puckle machine gun was patented in 1718. In common use were handguns with up to 12 barrels. The Constitution clearly says that Congress has the right to allow private ships of war to war on the nation’s enemies (Article 1, Section 8, Claus 11). And you have the gall to say that the second amendment did not envision rapid-fire weapons?

        • you ignoramus. mental health and not enforcing the current laws is the problem. speaking of mental health and regarding your comments…….

    • that is an idiotic statement as the second amendment guarantees citizens of the usa the right to bear arms period!!! smh?

    • I don’t know what Formosa has to do with this conversation. Pretty sure the citizens of Formosa don’t care about our rights any more than some people in Congress.

    • Please quote the words of the second amendment that says weapons may be restricted. I’ll wait.

      Oh, and while you are at it, please read the Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Claus 11, where Congress has the authority to issue orders to private citizens to use their private ships to wage war on behalf of the USA.

  2. This what should be in this bill and is Not;
    1) The term Militia needs to be clarified to mean Legal.
    2) In today’s society, other organization should be brought under the umbral of this term.
    3) Anyone who is a member of a Legal Militia Must drill on a regulated basis under a Qualified Certified Official.
    4) Military grade weapons should ONLY be part of the training and Armory of these Legal Militia to be used ONLY in designated types of operations under the designated leadership chain of command.
    5) We have NO laws about ownership for these Military grade weapons, but the 2nd Amendment Does restrict Who can carry them in public. Anyone found carrying one of these weapons outside of the parameters of the 2nd Amendment would have it and ALL ammunition Confiscated and the owner to be accessed a Very Heavy Fine.
    6) The Assault weapon ban should be reinstated PERMANETERL with the only exception is When this country is invaded by another Army, like the conditions found in the Ukraine today.
    7) All Firearms owners should be required to have a license and show proof of Need verified by law enforcement and a mental health exert, Training and Insurance covering Loss, Theft and Liability to cover all damage resulting from the use of the weapon including medical, death expenses and legal fees. This would protect the owner as well as the public. Law enforces need not have access to this information until a clime is made. The information would be provided to to Law enforcement by the insurance company at the time a clam is reported.
    8) All firearms sold MUST go through a Likened Gun dealers shop as primary sailor or intermediary seller by individuals for legal transfer of tidal.
    9) Today, it is only fair that Firearms should be insured the same a motor vehicles. We have More deaths recorded today by firearms than mote vehicles.
    10) Firearm Safety training on an annual bases showing the proper care , operation and locked storage with a locking mechanism that would prevent accidental discharge, trigger locks and locked storage lockers. Firearms and ammunition should Never be stored in the same locker.

    • So – I’m wondering why you are sending us emails and posting this comment – practically cut and paste to multiple articles. It is flagged as spam every time – and your site signup and so forth are coming from the same IP block in SF. Please only post original comments, and attempts to spam us will have you blocked. Thanks.

    • Please check your numbers on deaths by auto vrs guns. Unless you’re including suicides, I quickly found some numbers and they don’t match your claim. 2021 42.915 deaths in auto accidents;
      2021 20,726 gun deaths, excluding suicides .

      I don’t disagree with some of your suggestions, but some can’t be managed and some are too demanding. The problem with most “gun laws” is that they are ignored by the very people you need to control – mentally unbalanced and criminals. Applying this suggestions to law abiding citizens in order to keep guns from the insane and the criminal seems unrealistic to me. I suggest putting the gun clubs back in high schools so kids are taught proper safety and apply harsher sentences for the criminals. We’ve really forgotten the mentally unbalanced of our society. Only the wealthy can afford help and we’ve virtually shut down most of the institutions that helped or cared for these people.

    • Utter nonsense, none of the BS you put in your post was implied by the constitution, the people who wrote it could see a point in the future where the people of this country may have to deal with an out of control government. We are not far away from that now and you can bet they would not expect the people to fight an out of control government or protect ourselves from any invaders of this country using Muskets! We saw how our rights were trampled on with the so called pandemic with a government ready to force people to stay home and ready to force people to have injections that they did not want. The people need the right to bear arms to protect themselves against enemies of this country and unfortunately they exist within this country and within our own government.

    • Wrong. Militia was any person with their own weapons that could volunteer their services to the nation. They were not trained as was the active military. They were farmers, hunters, and anyone else who wanted to protect their families, land and nation. Your idea to indoctrinate the population is exactly what the government is trying to do today, and neither you nor the government actually HAVE that right. The Constitution was written to LIMIT the power of the government, as is clearly defined in the 9th and 10th amendments which end with the words “OR THE PEOPLE.”

    • All you are trying to do is rewrite the Constitution and definitions defined when the Constitution was written. In other words, you are a person who does not support the Constitution.

    • You lost me with “show proof of Need” …. Heck no….. once China invades us, you will wish America was armed ….. don’t expect China to announce the invasion to allow us to then arm ourselves with AR15,,,,,

  3. My Senator, Graham voted for this unconstitutional trash! I called his office and told him off, this RINO! Why does this party back these RINO slime? This is what we have to look forward to if the Republicans win the Senate and House! Wait…you will hear them say, “ we need to work with our brothers across the aisle.” We need another party for true conservatives.

  4. I never realized there were 65 communist democrats in the senate. Sorry I forgot there were 15 Rino’s also. Oh, what a web we weave when we first deceive.

  5. Treating 20 vs 21 year adult differently is clearly unconstitutional.
    Anyone lawyer that voted for this bill should be put up for investigation by the bar and probably should lose their law license. Investigation first unlike the red-flag they just passed.

  6. Hey ball-less republicans talk is cheap and about all you do. Have ANY lawsuits been filed today? The ACP would have filed yesterday against Trump.

  7. Stripping an enumerated Constitutional right from citizens prior to their having been convicted of a crime is blatantly illegal, and the courts will eventually deem it thusly. Unfortunately, these policritters know that and have chosen to ignore the clear rule of law. Remember that in November. If they aren’t voluntarily retiring…throw the rascals out!

    Let’s go, Brandon!

  8. COMPROMISE & FLIP-FLOPPING POLITICIANS

    Any government devoid of an immutable/unchanging ethical standard (found only in the Bible’s triune and integral moral law) as its foundational law is marked by compromise and flip-flopping politicians.

    And guess who does the compromising?

    Not the most liberal, but those who claim to be the most conservative.

    It’s an inevitability of government run by unequally yoked civil leaders that the righteous (more righteous, often hardly righteous*) are the one’s who overwhelmingly compromise their “convictions” and “values.”

    This is one of the dire consequences of Article 6’s Christian test ban whereby mandatory biblical qualifications were also eliminated.

    For more, see Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of free online book “Bible Law vs, the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at Bible versus Constitution dot org. Click on the top entry on our Online Book page and scroll down to Chapter 3.

    For more regarding Article 6’s Christian test ban, see Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land.”

    Then find out how much you really know about the Constitution as compared to the Bible. Take our 10-question Constitution Survey in the sidebar and receive a free copy of the 85-page “Primer” of “BL vs. USC.”

    *See blog article “Right, Left, and Center: Who Gets to Decide?” Search title on our blog.

  9. And we are supposed to vote in Republicans in November because?

    The traitors really think we are this stupid.

  10. I’m just wondering how people who think this removal of a right, and the 2nd Amendment states: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed – is a good idea. I’m also wondering if and when somebody with a gun (legally obtained or not) decides to rob them and then kill them and they are unarmed what they’re going to do. I also wonder what happens when the government comes after their 1st and 14th Amendment rights. Are they going to give them up too? The founding fathers would be disgusted with what our country has become with regard to limp wristed liberals.

  11. Well, where to start. We are the biggest arms dealers on the planet and these arms kill hundreds of thousands of men, women and children all over the world, so hypocrisy is a problem. Before all the gun laws were enacted, we really did not have a huge gun problem. Remember the Brady bill was enacted because he was shot with a, here it comes, handgun! Ronald Regan, shot with a handgun and yet it was not a notional pastime to shoot thousands of people with handguns! All the mass shootings that have taken place were with military automatic weapons, not handguns, shotguns or hunting riffles so the real problem is automatic military weapons. Before Bush Jr, (shrub Bush) let the ban on these weapons lapse and did not renew it, all these weapons came into the country by the hundreds of thousands, then the mass killing started. Ban these weapons and this will fix the problem, not more gun control. What they are after is to eventually disarm all of us and it will include all guns. Let’s not be naive here because this is what they have been slowly chipping away at for decades and way before guns became a problem. To all the trolls making negative comments about gun owners on this site, do Thay pay you for your posts or are you just so liberally blinded that you do not get it???

  12. What punishment did it set forth for murderers in antifa and bLM(lower case b = total dis)? And does it take guns from thug #1’s and #4’s? Ask police friends/family what those are.
    Hey chuckie, MOLON LABE.
    Few people know this, we do not have to follow un-Constitutional laws.
    “Shall not be infringed” ring a bell. Communist left, as everyone is, very concerned about children victims but care less about 66,000,000 dead babies’ blood on their hands.

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