WASHINGTON, D.C. -(Ammoland.com)- The gun control framework is complete, and both sides have come to an agreement. The Senate is expected to use another bill from the House of Representatives as a vehicle to pass the gun control package more quickly.
The news came early Monday morning that the barriers between Democrats and Republicans on the framework have been breached. Republicans and Democrats agreed to a framework both parties could live with and believe could be sold to their bases. The bill is expected to be filed late today or tomorrow.
The parties have agreed to use a House bill as a vehicle to help it clear any further roadblocks preventing the gun control measure’s journey through Congress. Under Congressional rules, the Senate can take a House bill and strip it of its language and substitute a Senate version of the language. This method could see the bill skip the usual steps of review, debate or discussion that a bill must pass to make it to the President’s desk sooner than later.
According to the Punch Bowl, The central sticking point in the gun control negotiations had nothing to do with firearms or due process problems with Red Flag gun confiscation laws. The major roadblock was federal funding for abortion. Republicans wanted language included in the bill that prevented any of the federal grants in the bill from going to pay for abortions. This clause is known as “Hyde” language, named after pro-life Republican Senator Cyndy Hyde-Smith.
Senator John Cornyn from Texas led the Republican side of the negotiations along with nine other Republicans. Senator Chris Murphy led the Democrats in the debate. The bill has the blessing of both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rick Scott (R-FL) are expected to back the bill. The bill’s bipartisan support gives it a super-majority saving the gun control measure from a filibuster in the Senate.
If the bill gets filed by 5:30 pm EDT Tuesday, June, 21st 2022, Sen. Schumer can set into motion a vote and move the bill back to the House, where the House can accept it or reject it. The House is expected to overwhelmingly support the bill. The next step will be for the gun control measure to head to the desk of President Joe Biden to sign into law. The President has expressed support for the framework and is expected to sign it once it reaches him.
If the bill isn’t filed by 5:30 today, Schumer will have to wait until tomorrow to move for a vote on the proposal. Sources in the know tell AmmoLand News that Senator Schumer is pushing to get the bill today. With the language worked out, it isn’t a matter of if the gun control bill will be introduced. It is just a matter of when it will be brought to a floor for a vote.
Right now, it looks like a sure thing that that bill will pass, but gun owners are still encouraged to reach out to their Senators and Demand they vote no on the gun control measures.
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Try to keep track of the gun law under the walnut shells as they are swished round back and forth. The Senate will take an already passed law from the House, remove the original language, slide the (unknown) gun law stuff in it’s place, and vote for the whole mess at about 3 oclock in the morning.
Once again, the governments answer to crazy people,is to pass MORE laws that restrict law abiding citizens. If criminals are already ignoring existing laws, what makes you think they will care how many more you pass? Pretty soon, you have passed so many laws that nobody can keep track of them. Words written on paper do NOT stop bad people from doing anything. You don’t put them in prison when they do get caught. If by some miracle they do get a stiff sentence, some woke judge will let them out and put them right back on the streets. We… Read more »
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. Seems pretty simple to me. ANY of this bullshit is an infringement. And ANY one who enforces it is your ENEMY. We are having WAR declared on us. What do you do in a WAR??? “Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” ~ John Locke (1690) He who attempts to get another man into his absolute power does thereby put himself… Read more »
Lets not forget the idiots who voted on this bill when election time comes around for them to stay in Washington DC….lets send them home for the good of the people….
Once again gun owners get shafted by demoncrats and backstabbing rinos!
What else is new.
These slick, slippery, slimy, self serving, seditious politicians whose behavior borders on treason have declared war on us
If we hand in our guns to the government either piecemeal or all at once what will protect us from the government?
PS.
Said Hyde amendment was named after Congressman Henry Hyde, a partner in crime to Congressman Jekyll.
Any senator or representative that votes for this bill should never receive a vote from a gun owner. It infringes on the right of any gun owner to own and bear arms.
The number of armed self-defense incidents is probably way higher, due to unreported events. I know in my instance, a guy pulled a knife on me, and rudely asked for my money. I drew my S&W 442 and demanded his knife. He didn’t advance, dropped his Kershaw assisted-opening folder and I didn’t shoot him in the back (fair trade) I also didn’t call the police. That Kershaw knife is my EDC to this day.
and the clock is ticking….
The Progressives of the Republican Party once again trade your liberty for their benefit and conspire with the demonically driven New Left Progressives of the once-democratic party to destroy our Constitutional Republic. I am sure they will all get a nice check from George Soros and Mikey Bloomberg for their efforts. I have never been one for conspiracy theories but I have done major investigations in my life and know how to string together findings of fact in to opinions and then in to conclusions and recommendations. Our Federal government has been rogue for decades. They are detached from any… Read more »