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Topic: Connecticut senator wants background
checks for ammunition buyers |
Connecticut senator wants background
checks for ammunition buyers
CNN, by Carol Cratty
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 1/9/2013 4:45:07 AM
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| Washington - In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting, one of the state´s senators announced Tuesday he will introduce legislation requiring background checks to buy ammunition. "Ammunition is now the black hole in gun violence prevention," Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said. Blumenthal said it is illegal to sell either guns or ammunition to certain groups of people including felons, the mentally ill and those who commit domestic violence. But under current law someone can buy bullets from a gun store without any review of the person´s background.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/9/2013 5:03:11 AM (No. 9106374)
I don´t have a problem with some variety of enhanced background checks.But i don´t see a reason where the same person would have to get checked every time they buy ammo. One BG check should do it.
The left is just taking a bunch of air swipes at the problem. As long as they stay relatively harmless,I don´t see it as a big problem. The problem is the hardcore gun grabbers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Keekng, 1/9/2013 6:05:51 AM (No. 9106406)
Makes sense.....If it is difficult to buy ammunition,the crazies will give up and make bombs instead. s/o
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Michaelus, 1/9/2013 6:33:13 AM (No. 9106427)
Of course Nancy Lanza would have passed a background check so this law would have not made any difference to her son.
Jared Loughner passed a Federal background check even though he was manifestly insane and had been arrested for drug possession.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 1/9/2013 6:38:04 AM (No. 9106430)
No. It´s easy to see where this is headed. Leftist like blumenthal won´t stop until people have to present an ID to buy so much as a box of fifty 22 calibers. All such sales will eventually entered into a database which is part of an enormous expansion of big government. It is dangerous to allow the incremental confiscation of individual rights. G
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 1/9/2013 6:40:22 AM (No. 9106431)
Continued. Give liberals nothing on gun control. The 2nd Amendment is non-negotiable.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rabbit, 1/9/2013 7:14:59 AM (No. 9106472)
Most people with serious mental illness will not show up on today´s ´do not sell´ lists. The only ones who will show up are those who have been incarcerated or found incompetent by a judge. Under today´s rules, a seriously mentally ill person cannot even voluntarily get put on the ´do not sell´ list.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
arcady, 1/9/2013 7:22:54 AM (No. 9106481)
Letting Liberal Democrats set your gun policy is like letting pedophiles run your children´s day care. It may turn out alright, but I wouldn´t bet that way.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
provide, 1/9/2013 7:25:13 AM (No. 9106484)
Our own government is smelling like King George. Next will be a search for "ammunition stores".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 1/9/2013 7:36:20 AM (No. 9106497)
Just remember that one of the only pieces of legislation that Present Obama put his name on during his meteoric rise (other than " No Second Chance for Abortion Survivors´) had to do with heavy restrictions on the purchase/availability of ammunition.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Keekng, 1/9/2013 7:51:18 AM (No. 9106515)
Here´s a better idea; Perform an in depth background check on EVERY wannabe Congress critter, then publish the results prior to elections.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 1/9/2013 9:19:19 AM (No. 9106680)
Excuse me, but we don´t even run background checks on aides to members of the cabinet or Congress. Why is it more important to check out ammunition buyers than government employees? When the IRS bought hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, what checks were done then?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
AGGW, 1/9/2013 10:28:38 AM (No. 9106811)
The next step is to limit how much you can buy. Like buying decongestants at the drugstore.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NYbob, 1/9/2013 11:26:21 AM (No. 9106906)
Dick Blumenthal is the liar who was elected by liberals who will vote for any democrat, correct?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
GoodGrief, 1/9/2013 11:28:02 AM (No. 9106913)
Most "Gun Stores" don´t carry bullets, you need to go to a reloading supplies store to purchase, casings, powder, primers, shot and bullets -- ammunition components.
A magazine feeding bullets would fit on a high-end reloading press or an air rifle.
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