Time to contact these gentlemen and say NO!
Also contact your own Senators to tell them to apply pressure to these guys to cut it out and that it is dead on arrival.
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Dem, GOP senator working on deal to expand background checks, boosting gun control hopes | StarTribune.com
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/201828811.html
I just sent Sen. Toomey and email asking him to rethink his position and to support our 2nd Amendment rights instead of proposing compromises that would degrade them. There was a bit more to my email but that was the gist of it all. I’ll post his reply if I get one.
The left will get half of what they want, and we get nothing in return as usual.
This is bull. Proposal would increase background check to online purchases. Wtf that’s already a law. Bunch of idiots man.
Yep. Compromise is nothing more than chipping away towards the end goal.
-Jax
Yeah but sounds so feel goody. Was listening to the news on the radio a short time ago and they said the exact thing…“background checks to now include online purchases”. This is strictly a firearms only proposal as of now right? Could the background check pertain to ammo? That’s not how I read the article but who knows.
-Jax
I’M surprised that a PA senator would be going a long with some anti gun bull as PA is a very Strong 2A/NRA state. Once you ignore Philadelphia and Pittsburgh’s anti gun agendas the rest of the state is 100% Pro-Gun.
Why isn’t the NRA all over this online gun purchase thing? I buy 90 percent of my guns online and they all MUST go to my ffl. It’s that simple… I know everyone here knows this but wtf!!!
What they are really talking about are places like ArmsList, where people arrange face-to-face in-state sales via ads on the internet.
Just a bunch of people who don’t know the laws confusing things when they report them.
They better stop letting people sell fucking coffee pots and kitchen cutlery online then too since more deaths result from those types of items and firearms…
The criminals are laughing at us…
I actually voted for Toomey, talk about buyers remorse. What I dont understand why Toomey is doing this, Isn’t this political suicide? I emailed him, called his office, and said I will not vote for him next election if he supports UBC and more gun laws. He will loose the gun vote and next election, dems will vote for their own candidate anyway
Yes it as amazing that he is involved in the compromise. Both Senators from my oldHome state of Pa are for gun control.
In WV another VERY pro 2A state, their D-Senator is working with Toomey.
How sad.
The 2014 mid terms will be a bloodbath.
-brickboy240
One can only hope, but OTOH it wont matter O’shitta will still be in the WH and will veto any pro gun bills and by that time they’ll have passed UBC
You could say the same thing about Albany, NYC, and New York.
You are from the east. People there do not understand what real conservatism is or what people live like in the south and west, in the real free states.
No it won’t
A real compromise would be a trade for UBCs for a repeal of the Hughes Amendment and a repeal of the import ban.
The fact that the fucking republicans aren’t doing this, is a reason why they haven’t seen a dollar from me since 2004.
Yes it will, but if gun laws have to do with it or not is yet to be seen. I think traditionally the off year in a second WH term the opposition usually does better (that would be when the Democrats grabbed Congress when Bush was President).
But more importantly, Obamacare kicks into high gear in 2014 and the true costs and effects will be seen by a lot more people. 2014 is already giving the Democrats nightmares because of these (if you read any of the punditry). Add guns into the mix in some parts of the country it will just exacerbate it.
Contact Pat Toomey by email here: http://www.toomey.senate.gov/?p=contact
Seriously. Stop browsing pictures of AR-15s and take a moment to make sure pictures aren’t all we’ll have in a few years.
Here’s my message:
Senator Toomey,
Please drop your support for so-called “universal” background checks and oppose any attempts to further restrict gun rights.
As I’m sure you’re aware, the paper trail created by these background checks is a form of de-facto registration. Once firearms are recorded on background check forms, little stands in the way of mass confiscations.
Furthermore, expert criminologist John Lott has researched the topic, finding 93% of background check denials are in fact “false positives” that bar law-abiding citizens from purchasing firearms, infringing their second amendment rights. (Source: http://www.newsmax.com/JohnLott/bradylaw-gunownership/2011/06/14/id/399967)
Do not compromise by allowing further infringement of the civil right to self-defense.
Sincerely,
Done.