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Why Are Recall Elections Increasing?
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged Colorado Recall Elections, elections, gun control, gun rights, mobile apps, Politics on September 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
McAuliffe Gets Dinged By PolitiFact on Cuccinelli and Gun Bill
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged gun control, gun rights, Ken Cuccinelli, Politifact Terry McAuliffe on September 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Terry McAuliffe has tried very hard to make Ken Cuccinelli look as extreme as possible, most recently on the issue of firearms. Last week McAuliffe sent out this tweet:
“In 2004, Ken Cuccinelli voted against making it a misdemeanor to carry a missile into an airport terminal,”
“Fast Terry” was referring to a 2004 bill that
Cuccinelli was one of 16 people in the 40-member state Senate that voted against that would have barred people from entering an airport terminal carrying a “gun or other weapon designed or intended to propel a missile or projectile of any kind.” According to PolitiFact, it can be argued that the description does encompass missile launchers, but that’s an interpretation that doesn’t weigh the debate at the time the bill was considered.
McAuliffe’s tweet focuses on the term “missile” and suggests that the bill’s purpose was to ban warheads from airports. But the term “missile” is undefined in state law and could mean bullets, rocks, or even a cup of soda if it’s thrown maliciously.
So there’s a trace of truth to a deeply distorted and inflamed statement by McAuliffe. We rate his claim Mostly False.
I think that is a good way to rate McAuliffe’s entire campaign.
Reason-Rupe Poll Respondents Say Congress Should Forget Gun Control
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged Congress and gun control, Emily Ekins, gun control, gun rights, Reason on May 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A recent Reason-Rupe Poll found that 54% of Americans say Congress should cut spending from current levels and 62 percent say Congress should forget about gun control and move on to other issues.
You can hear Emily Ekins her talk about it below.
Hat Tip to Cam Edwards and NRANews
Bloomberg Ignors Harry Reid Warning
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged background checks, gun control, gun rights, Harry Reid, Jeff Flake, Kelly Ayotte, Mark Pryor, Michael Bloomberg on May 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Politico reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg that targeting Democrats on gun votes could backfire and harm the party. Bloomberg decided to ignor the warning.
Ads from the Bloomberg-funded Mayors Against Illegal Guns are going up soon in Alaska, Arkansas and North Dakota — three states with Democratic senators who broke with the White House on last month’s background checks vote.
The group is also moving as many as 60 field organizers into about a dozen states where senators — Democrats and Republicans — voted against bill, with the goal of building infrastructure and countering gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association.
In Arkansas, Bloomberg is placing ads in markets in Black communities, a segment of the voters that Politico notes Democrat Mark Pryor must carry to win re-election. Senate Democrats want Bloomberg to focus on “flipping” Republicans who voted against the gun control legislation. Biden, in an Op/Ed in this past weekend’s Houston Chronicle wrote:
In the end, I believe we will prevail. And those who wrote off gun safety legislation last month will come to realize that moment wasn’t the end at all. It was the turning point.
Biden pointed to poll numbers that suggest those who stood with law abiding gun owners have seen their poll numbers sink and those who want to criminalize private transfers have seen their poll number hold or increase.
We will see if those numbers hold. In the end, it’s not about what the polls tell politicians, but what their constiuients tell them, and by most accounts, senators voting against Schumer, Manchin, Toomey heard from a lot more gun owners than they heard from gun ban supporters. So, keep holding their feet to the fire and make sure they know we are watching.
Manchin and Toomey May Amend Background Check Amendment to Gain Support
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged gun control, gun rights, gun show loophole, Senator Mark Warner, universal background checks on April 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The vote count continues to be close but looks to be short of the 60 votes needed for approval, so Senators Manchin and Toomey are trying to sweeten the deal to appeal to rural senators who may be concerned about the requirement that advertised private sales be done through a licensed retailer because some constituents may not have easy access. This from Politico:
Late Monday night, the New York Times reported that Manchin and Toomey are considering a possible revision to their bill that would exempt residents in rural areas living hundreds of miles from licensed gun deals from some of the requirements of the bill.
The revision, which would be added only as amendment if the Manchin-Toomey proposal is adopted, is designed to appeal to Begich and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), said aides familiar with the issue. Manchin huddled with both Alaskan senators on the floor after a vote Monday night.
However, only four Republicans are voting for the bill at this time. They include Toomey, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Susan Collins of Maine and John McCain of Arizona.
Other Republicans are on the fence and undecided, such as Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Dean Heller of Nevada. Democrats believe they will pick up some of these Republicans.
In related news, Virginia Senator Mark Warner just spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate and his comments indicate that he supports the Manchin-Toomey-Schumer background check amendment. Please call Senator Warner and let him know that you do not approve of his support of this amendment. Tell him that the amendment is not pro-rights but is actually a “Bonanza of Gun Control“.
These Senators Could Determine Fate of Manchin/Toomey/Schumer Background Check Amendment
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged background checks, gun control, gun rights, gun show loophole, Joe Manchin. Pat Toomey, universal background checks on April 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
David Hawkings of Roll Call lists the senators that could decide the fate of the Manchin/Toomey/Schumer background check amendment to the senate gun control bill.
Among the Republicans, only four have so far committed to voting for the background check compromise: Toomey, Mark S. Kirk of Illinois, Susan Collins of Maine and John McCain of Arizona.
And the rest of the lobbying attention is being focused on six of the GOP senators who voted last week to bring the bill to the floor in the first place. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Dean Heller of Nevada, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and John Hoeven of North Dakota.
Hawkings notes that a key to knowing if they have 60 votes is if they bring up the vote early (i.e. Tuesday). If the vote is put off one day, then they are likely close. The longer it is put off, the less likely it is they have the votes and the harder it will likely be to get to the magic number.
Hat tip NRANews.
Bloomberg, NRA Headed to Battle
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged gun control, gun rights, Michael Bloomberg, universal background checks on March 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Roll Call reported yesterday after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre appeared on Meet the Press that the two are headed for a showdown over legislation now pending in the U.S. Senate:
Mayors Against Illegal Guns hopes to be a counterweight to the NRA in the weeks leading up to Senate action on legislation that would require more background checks for gun buyers and an amendment that would ban some assault weapons, Bloomberg said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He and LaPierre appeared in separate segments of the program.
Bloomberg told Meet the Press Host David Gregory that opinion polls show strong support, even among gun owners, for extending background checks on purchases at gun shows or other venues. He even repeated the now discredited “40 percent of gun purchases occur in private sales” number.
On those polls, they tend to be push polls to generate a specific response. I’m a little more interested in polls like this Gallup Poll that show only 38% of those polled are dissatisfied with current gun laws and want stricter laws while 43% are satisfied with current laws. Granted, those dissatisfied are higher than it was before the Newtown shooting, the fact that even after Newtown (the poll was conducted Jan. 7-10, 2013) almost half of those polled thought that the nation’s gun laws were fine.
So, let Bloomberg delude himself there is this massive outcry for gun control that will result in political payback if legislators vote against them. Gallup showed just ahead of the President’s State of the Union Address that the public is more concerned about the economy and jobs. Gun control ranked 6th on the list of concerns with 6% of respondants saying it was the most important issue, well behind the Economy at 25% and Jobs/Unemployment at 19%.