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« Firearm sales increasing | Main | Election getting foul already »

House to vote today on DC bill

Posted by David Hardy · 9 September 2008 08:39 AM

Story here. Sounds like the leadership IS rushing the bill along. A lot of blue dog Demos in tight races were demanding the vote, to show their gunny credentials.

Again, how far the nation has changed. I can't picture Pelosi allowing it, or having her comrades pushing hard for a vote on it, a few years ago, and ten years ago arguing that something like this would happen would have seemed delusional. I remember the fight for FOPA, 21 years ago. We had to work hard, and make a lot of amendments, just to get the Reagan Admin. aboard, the House stuck us with a full auto ban as a price, the Senate added on amendments that made no sense just to keep the media at bay, and the whole thing took six or seven years to accomplish.

· Heller aftermath

4 Comments | Leave a comment

Paul W | September 9, 2008 8:52 AM | Reply

I hope it doesn't pass - let DC get slapped down in the USSC again, and set more precedents. I hate to see great cases made moot by pandering politicians (/oxymoron).

LLR | September 9, 2008 9:15 AM | Reply

I think that the legislation was sponsored by my rep Travis Childers. He said in his campaign ads that he was “pro-gun” and this legislation proves it. He might be a Democrat, but he is going to get my vote come this November. You gotta love a Democrat that sticks it to the leadership on the 2nd amendment.

Andy Freeman | September 9, 2008 10:48 AM | Reply

They're throwing him a bone so he can keep voting for Pelosi, so they'll continue to have an anti-gun House leadership.

Flash Gordon | September 9, 2008 11:29 AM | Reply

I hope the price of this isn't as high as it was for FOPA. I think the full auto ban was too steep a price to pay for FOPA. A total ban of anything is never going to be worth it as a trade for anything else.

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