President Joe Biden signed into law yesterday the gun control legislation passed on Friday by Congress.
Upon signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law, the President tweeted “while this bill doesn’t do everything I want it to, it does include actions that I’ve long called for that will save lives.”
In a subsequent tweet, President Biden reiterated the same idea in an address that appeared to be pre-recorded.
This gun control package passed Congress with the support of Republicans in both chambers.
Senate Republicans who supported the package were Mitch McConnell (R-KY), John Cornyn (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), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Todd Young (R-IN), Rob Portman (R-OH), Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Mitt Romney (R-UT).
House Republicans who supported the bill were Liz Cheney (R-WY), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Tom Rice (R-SC), John Katko (R-NY), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Chris Jacobs (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Peter Meijer (R-MI), Fred Upton (R-MI), Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Mike Turner (R-OH), David Joyce (R-OH), and Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH).
As previously reported, this bill contains the following provisions:
Expanded background checks on would-be purchasers between the ages of 18 and 21 and 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 law enforcement officials and also do not allow individuals to purchase or possess firearms or ammunition.”
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Senators Ted Cruz and John Barrasso did introduce an alternate piece of gun legislation that did not contain federal funding to support state-operated red flag laws implementation, but their bill has not yet been considered by their fellow Senators in any serious manner.
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Bill + points:
Funds for school safety
& improved background checks
Mental Health care
Otherwise No
Same traitor RINOs who always vote for anything that that goes against their liberal agenda. The sad part of it is, they STILL get re-elected! THAT is the real problem.
“To Hell with the fact that it contains chunks of unconstitutionality! Let’s just sign the damn thing so I can get my four day weekend going ASAP!” So says Joe nut job Biden.
Based on the ruling by the SCOTUS last week there are parts of this misguided bill that will get overturned once it reaches the courts.
Every bill passed by congress in the past 60 years has been designed by layers to have to be decided by the courts. The only reason for this is the enrichment of lawyers throughout the land. There is rarely a final decision. Tha’s by design, so lawyers a can keep them going for decades. and make millions off them.
“…it does include actions that I’ve long called for that will save lives.”
Yup. I expect it’ll save at least as many lives as the “gun free zone” designations have.
But…where are the riots? The protests at the infringement of an enumerated, adjudicated civil right? Oh…wait…is all the oxygen being taken up by lefty baby-killers upset over the imagined “loss” of a “right” that was originally conjured up out of whole cloth by an activist court? What’s that, you say? The “right” wasn’t lost, but merely sent back to the states where it belonged in the first place? Oh…O.K. … Now, about the actual right that’s being infringed…
We just gave 40 Billion dollars to arm Ukrainian citizens with real automatic weapons and shoulder fired missiles but let’s ignore the second amendment and talk about how we can disarm American citizens and limit magazine capacity, etc., etc.. It’s abhorrent and disgusting and all the Republicans going along need to be targeted during primaries and sent packing. Simple procedures like locking school doors and armed Resource officers and allowing (not requiring) teachers to carry if they are trained and willing is what prevents school shootings. In fact a locked door would have prevented the Uvalde disaster; not “Red Flag” laws which are unconstitutional and allow no due process. It’s not reported but there have been at least three potential mass school shootings prevented since 2018 (one just a week ago in Gadsden, Al.) because of these practices. Chuck Schumer and all the Democrats ignored a proposed law after Uvalde to implement these “Best Practices” identified ten years ago after the Parkland school shootings and invite these shootings to advance their agenda. Tell everyone they are responsible and have the blood of innocents on their hands.
Biden too naive to understand he has done NOTHING to stop criminals from committing gunviolence.