Sen. Coburn will not support background check bill

[AlexanderA]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/background-check-bill_n_2814310.html

The main sticking point for Coburn has been the same for weeks: if Democrats are going to demand that records of private gun sales be kept, whether by an individual gun seller or the federal government, no deal. Democrats say that keeping records of private sales is crucial to enforcing the background check system, particularly because it would help police trace back the history of a gun used in a crime. It appears this may be the provision negotiators couldn't work out.

The question is, how many Republicans will follow Coburn's lead in this, and how many will follow Sen. Mark Kirk (Ill.), who appears to still be on board with the bill.

If the bill passes, at least we can hope that the records of sales would be kept only by the individual sellers, and not by FFL dealers, manufacturers, or the government. That would be Coburn's contribution to the process, whether or not he ends up finally voting for the bill.

 

[Kim]

Kirk has always been anti-gun. Always. He is like a Democrat that votes Ney for abortion. A rare and weird bird.

 

[Kim]

I should add the MSM will take him and talk about bipartisanship. You would never hear MSM talk about bipartisanship regarding abortion. Never.

 

[Dean Weingarten]

To the MSM, bipartisanship means caving to leftists. "Compromise" means "you get nothing, we get some of what we want".

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

They have already floated this to Susan Collins and John McCain, trying to get them to co-sponsor if Coburn walked. Time to write those Senators.

And once again, notice what the snag is - universal records of all sales. Some Democrats (unnamed) were supposedly willing to exclude certain sales (CHLs who already have a background check?) but Schumer insisted on records of ALL sales. You don't have to be clairvoyant to see where this is going.

 

[BigBore44]

Coburn is my senator and I wish he would run for president. He may not be the "coolest" guy out there. And he's not a big fan of teleprompters or big government, or free stuff. But the guy knows how to cut pork spending and he's very pro military and 2A.

 

[dab102999]

I am most confused that anyone in government can support back ground checks that include a paper trail but at the same time support gun buy backs that they claim get crime guns off the street but do no checks on those guns to see if they were used in a crime. This is nothing more then flat out wanting to know were guns are. But we all know that.

 

[MagnumDweeb]

I thought this died in the Judiciary? I think I'm confused.

 

[Ryanxia]

I started a thread in activism to urge everyone to contact their own Senators and urge them NOT to support any 'universal background check'. We need to keep up the pressure now where we have a chance of winning.

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Keep contacting those Senators, it is paying off - Joe Manchin and even NRA F-rated Mark Kirk are refusing to back the background check bill Schumer has submitted to the committee as a placeholder. There is always a chance the bill could be amended on the floor but if Mark Kirk won't back it, that means zero Republican support and probably a few Dems besides Manchin bucking Chucky and refusing to vote for it as well.

 

[BullfrogKen]

Good!

 

[Hacker15E]

To think that just a couple weeks ago, people were calling for Coburn to be burned as a witch simply because he was involved in talks on the UBC proposals.

 

[Dean Weingarten]

Senator Coburn Holds the Line Against Universal Gun Registration

Citizen disarmament advocate Charles Schumer (D-N.Y) has shown that the cry for universal background checks has always been a subterfuge to move toward universal firearms registration.

Senator Coburn (R-OK) has offered a compromise allowing for background checks as long as no records are kept. Such systems are easily implemented and controlled through sting operations. The advantage of such a system is that can not easily be used to construct a universal registration database. Gun registration has historically been the precursor of gun confiscations, either slowly and individually, over time, or in groups during a crises.

It appears that the potential of registration is more important to those who advocate citizen disarmament than requiring universal background checks, as they remain adamant in requiring record keeping as part of any new law.

©2013 by Dean Weingarten Permission to share granted as long as this notice is included.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/03/senator-coburn-holds-line-against.html

 

[Ryanxia]

God willing we'll stop this bill cold.