by HR 1808 passed the House this evening by a vote of 217-213. Interestingly, the Clerk of the House still has not released the roll call vote on the bill even though it was 1 1/2 hours ago.
All bills have to have a “purpose” stated. The official purpose of HR 1808 is “To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.”
To ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited? In other words, the elites on the Democrats side plus the two Republican turncoats don’t want minorities, Red Staters, the working class, or anyone else who is part of the Great Unwashed to be armed with anything that might just threaten their grip on power.
Given there are over 24 million semi-automatic rifles in circulation, I think those who voted for this bill are just spitting in the wind. Also banned would be any semi-auto pistol with a threaded barrel and any semi-auto shotgun with a pistol or bird’s head grip whose tube held more than 5 rounds. I don’t even want to estimate the number of standard capacity mags in existence.
Unless the Republicans in the Senate cave entirely, this bill will be dead on arrival there.
Let’s hope the RINOs don’t RINO in the Senate… sigh
I blame the GOP turncoats. If they had voted No, it would have been 215-215 and not passed.
When the roll call is released, those two need to be defeated in November. Even if that means seating a Democrat in their place for a term. “With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?”
More likely the 2 R votes allowed a couple D Nays to avoid more pressure in this November election. A common tactic to allow someone to vote No even though they agree with the legislation because you have enough votes without them.
When Chris Jacobs (R-NY) who was one of the two Republicans to vote in favor of the bill announced after the Buffalo murders that he would vote for an AWB, the pushback was so strong that he stopped running for re-election. He is the lamest of lame ducks.
The other Republican, Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) was endorsed by Giffords in the past. Need I saw more.
“Unless the Republicans in the Senate cave entirely, this bill will be dead on arrival there.”
They will. They same ones that sold us down the river last time will do it again. After all, they are not up for re-election.
Does this list of names look familiar?
Here are the Senate traitors who vote for this sort of thing.
1. Liz Cheney of Wyoming
2. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois
3. Tom Rice of South Carolina
4. John Katko of New York
5. Maria Salazar of Florida
6. Chris Jacobs of New York
7. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania
8. Peter Meijer of Michigan
9. Fred Upton of Michigan
10. Tony Gonzales of Texas
11. Steve Chabot of Ohio
12. Mike Turner of Ohio
13. David Joyce of Ohio
14. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
15. Mitch (The Bitch) McConnell of Kentucky
Familiar?
Yes. For a list of Representatives, not Senators.
All of them, except for McConnell, are Representatives.
Never underestimate the ability of the Republicans to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
One fig leaf that might cause RINOs to vote for this bill is all the exceptions carved out for cops and even retired cops. You know, that special class in our supposedly classless society that is more equal than you and I.