2nd Amendment
Obama Moves To ‘Shame’ Congress Into Approving Gun Control Package
President Obama moved Thursday to put the muscle of the White House and his network of supporters behind a gun control package tracking toward the Senate floor, calling on voters to pressure Congress into backing it as the proposal runs into resistance on Capitol Hill. The president, in a set of brief remarks from the…
Read MoreLee Harvey Oswald’s Rifle Ignited National Gun Control Debate Of 1960’s
When President Obama unveiled his gun control plan in mid-January with a sense of urgency after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings, it was a political echo from Dealey Plaza, 1963. At his announcement, the president said, “To make a real and lasting difference, Congress, too, must act. And Congress must act soon.” Because history shows…
Read MoreSen. Reid Beefs up ‘Base Bill’ to Destroy American Gun Ownership
We now know a lot more about what’s going to happen with gun control legislation than we did a few days ago. First, the number of the bill we are fighting is S. 649. Harry Reid introduced it on Thursday and brought it directly onto the Senate calendar. This means the bill can now come…
Read MoreHow Important Are Guns To The U.S. Economy?
Guns are big business in America – so big, in fact, that despite making vastly more firearms than any other nation, the U.S. also is the largest importer of handguns, rifles and shotguns. Demand is so high, that on top of the 6.54 million pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns and other firearms made in America in…
Read MoreSenate Votes 53-46 To Stop Us From Joining Un Arms Trade Treaty
In the last batch of amendment votes to the budget, the Senate voted on several foreign policy proposals. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced an amendment that would prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in order to uphold the Second Amendment. His amendment passed on a 53-46 vote. Republicans…
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