GO TO the White House website and you’ll see the continued push for gun safety, here and here. The hastag on Twitter is #NowIsTheTime. Senators Manchin and Toomey got the job done in the Senate, with their legislation online. Speaker Boehner initially threatened this week to only “review” the gun measure, because of the Hastert [...]
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Maryland Passes Strict Law Requiring Finger Prints for Gun Buyers, Ban on Magazines Over 10 Bullets
The Maryland House of Delegates passed what would be among the nation’s most restrictive gun-control measures Wednesday, voting to ratchet up the state’s already tough rules by requiring fingerprinting of gun buyers, new limits on firearm purchases by the mentally ill, and bans on assault weapons and on magazines that hold more than 10 bullets. [...]
Guns: Our Choices Will Never Be Perfect
“Anyone who really wants a gun will always find a way to get one” is a familiar argument, and likely accurate. And in one specific, even if a ban on “assault weapons” passed, it wouldn’t eliminate all possibility of their use in murders. Of course, if perfection was the requirement for passing laws, we might [...]
(UPDATE 2) Ye GADs: Gun Appreciation Day
UPDATE 2 Make that: 5 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Shows on Gun Appreciation Day UPDATE: Via Think Progress: 4 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Shows On Gun Appreciation Day. Today is Gun Appreciation Day. I’ll admit it sounds a bit odd to me, to “appreciate” a gun, but then, we treat other [...]
Top Story — Obama Moves Forward on New Gun Safety Measures *Updated*
A new federal assault weapons ban and background checks of all gun buyers, which President Obama is expected to propose on Wednesday, might have done little to prevent the massacre in Newtown, Conn., last month. The semiautomatic rifle that Adam Lanza used to shoot 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults complied with Connecticut’s assault weapons ban, [...]
Top Story — The N.R.A. is a Minority Group, 87% of Americans Want Universal Background Checks
“There is an emerging set of recommendations — not coming from me but coming from the groups we’ve met,” Biden said. “There is a surprising, so far, a surprising recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks.” These recommendations were not only about “closing the gun show loophole,” he said, “but total universal background [...]
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