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With House Passage, What’s Next For Background Check Bills?<\/a><\/p>\n

Now that the House, as expected, has\u00a0approved a pair of gun control bills<\/a>\u00a0dealing with background checks on firearm transfers, the measures are headed over to the Senate. On today\u2019s Bearing Arms\u2019 Cam & Co we delve into Wednesday\u2019s\u00a0floor debate<\/a> on H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446 as well as taking a look at the prospects for passage of the gun control bills on the Senate side of the Capitol.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, wasting little time and taking advantage of the opportunity to preen in front of the cameras,\u00a0said shortly after the House vote<\/a>\u00a0that he plans on bringing both bills to the floor of the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past, when they sent it over to us last time, it went into [fomer Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell\u2019s legislative graveyard,\u201d Schumer said during a press conference Thursday. \u201cThe legislative graveyard is over. H.R. 8 will be on the floor of the Senate, and we will see where everybody stands. No more hopes and prayers,\u00a0thoughts and prayers. A vote is what we need, a vote, not thoughts and prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly hundreds of thousands \u2014 maybe millions \u2014 of people walking the streets today because we passed [the 1994\u00a0Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act]\u00a0would be dead,\u201d Schumer, who authored the Brady Act requiring\u00a0background checks on\u00a0all U.S. firearm buyers, said during the briefing.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cBut when we passed the law, little did we know, it had some loopholes in it that we didn\u2019t know at the time. We didn\u2019t know there would be an internet, so we didn\u2019t prohibit internet sales without a background check.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s an incredibly dumb comment for a couple of reasons. First, the Internet was actually a thing back in 1994, though we were restricted to dial-up back then.<\/span><\/p>\n

The issue isn\u2019t online sales of firearms, because every retail gun sale already has to go through a background check, whether online or in-person. What Schumer is really talking about are private transfers of firearms, and those too were a thing back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

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Schumer himself was the author of the Brady Bill in 1993, so he was the one ultimately responsible for the legislation. It\u2019s utterly depressing that he can get away with talking about \u201cloopholes\u201d that nobody knew about at the time without reporters calling out on his B.S., but frankly, I\u2019d be shocked if many reporters on Capitol Hill today are even aware that he was the one drafting the bill in the first place. As a result of their lack of background knowledge on the issue, the senator can get away with blatantly lying about how the bill was put together.<\/p>\n

The reason why Congress didn\u2019t attempt to impose background check requirements on private gun transfers at the time is because the support simply wasn\u2019t there. Background checks on private sales are the first step towards a national gun registry, and that idea was a non-starter for Congress in 1993. Chuck Schumer knows that\u2019s the case, but he\u2019s trying to rewrite history.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0should\u00a0<\/em>be a non-starter today as well, but the Democratic Party has become much more unified in its hostility towards the Second Amendment than it was 25 years ago, which brings us back to the prospects for H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446 in today\u2019s U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

We know that Sen. Joe Manchin has previously supported\u00a0expanding background checks<\/a>, though the bill he co-authored with Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey back in 2013 was slightly less onerous than the measure approved by the House on Thursday. Under his proposal, all private gun sales conducted online or at gun shows would have had to go through a background check, but person-to-person private transfers would have been exempt.<\/p>\n

Manchin could try to water down H.R. 8 in the Senate, but I don\u2019t know how much support there would be for that among his fellow Democrats. Meanwhile, there\u2019s little to no chance of ten Republican senators signing on to the new background check bills, which leaves Schumer with a choice: bring the bill to the floor for a vote and watch it go down to defeat, or try to figure out a way to pass the legislation with just 51 votes.<\/p>\n

If I had to make a bet today, I\u2019d lay my money on Schumer first trying to get passage with 51 votes, but that would require nuking the filibuster. If that proves to be impossible, I suspect Schumer will run the bill and try to use the objections of Republicans to paint them as \u201ctools of the gun lobby\u201d more intent on protecting gun companies than the lives of the American people. Of course that would be a lie, but we know that Schumer\u2019s pretty good at peddling untruths without being called out by the press.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With House Passage, What’s Next For Background Check Bills? Now that the House, as expected, has\u00a0approved a pair of gun control bills\u00a0dealing with background checks on firearm transfers, the measures are headed over to the Senate. On today\u2019s Bearing Arms\u2019 Cam & Co we delve into Wednesday\u2019s\u00a0floor debate on H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446 as … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65727,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65723\/revisions\/65727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}