Wednesday, April 17, 2013

REPUBLICANS PUSHING AMENDMENT TO GUN CONTROL BILL TO ALLOW PEOPLE WITH CONCEALED WEAPONS LICENSES TO CARRY THEIR GUNS IN ALL STATES

Senator John Cornyn’s proposal is giving Democrats fits because it is adopted several Democrats in favor of strict gun control will not vote for the gun control bill now before the Senate. And if his amendment is adopted and a gun control bill does pass both houses, Gov. Cuomo, Sen. Schumer and other New York Democrats, as well as Sen. Feinstein and other California Democrats, will poop in their pants when us wild Texans start coming to New York and California carrying our concealed .45 caliber pistolas.

REPUBLICANS TO SEEK CONCEALED-WEAPON AMENDMENT TO GUN MEASURE

Bloomberg News
April 16, 2013

Senator John Cornyn said Republicans will offer an amendment to gun legislation that would allow people with concealed-weapon permits to carry hidden firearms into other states.

“I could see something like this passing with broad bipartisan support,” Cornyn, a Texas Republican, told reporters today. “I’ll be interested to hear what the objections are to it.”

Senate Democratic leaders say such an amendment could unravel support for gun-safety legislation being debated on the chamber’s floor this week. Adoption of a concealed-carry amendment could sink an effort to enact the toughest new U.S. gun laws in 20 years.

“I have a great deal of concern about concealed carry,” New York Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat, said in an interview yesterday. “New York City is not Wyoming,” he said. “You talk to our police in New York state, they think it really interferes with police work.”

Regarding concealed-carry permits, Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has said people like him who have such permits should be allowed to take their weapons to other states. That measure, which came within two votes of Senate adoption in 2009, would make it tougher for gun-control advocates to support the legislation.

“That would be a bitter pill for gun-control advocates,” said Dennis Henigan, former vice president of the Washington- based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which advocates stricter gun laws. Such a law would “block states like California and New York from enforcing their strict laws against out-of-state visitors who have concealed-weapon permits,” he said in a telephone interview yesterday.

The proposal to require states to honor concealed-carry permits issued by any state has been “a major priority of the gun lobby,” Henigan said. “In terms of the list of poison pills, that may be right at the top” as an amendment that could scuttle the gun legislation.

About half of the 50 states have some type of conceal-carry law.

Among those who have sponsored the concealed-carry proposal is Alaska Senator Mark Begich, one of two Democrats who voted last week to block the gun legislation from advancing. He and Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor, who cast the other Democratic vote opposing debate on April 11, are seeking re-election next year in states won in November by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Rubio, during an April 14 appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” said state conceal-carry permits should be honored at gun shows in place of a background check because “someone who has a conceal-carry permit has been background-checked.”

Henigan countered that “a lot of states that have very liberal concealed-weapons laws have virtually no standards at all for issuing permits.”

Expanding the use of conceal-carry permits has had widespread support in the Senate, where the proposal won 58 votes in 2009 when South Dakota Republican John Thune offered it as an amendment to a defense bill. Reid, a Nevada Democrat, was among those voting for the proposal, which fell two votes short of the 60 votes needed for adoption.

1 comment:

bob walsh said...

I forsee a huge state's rights issue here. Even in Nanny Bloomberg's city a New York STATE concealed carry permit is not good in New York City.

Its not about guns, it's about control. (And race. That's what the first gun control laws were about, to keep the newly freed blacks helpless.)