Gun Rights Advocate Reveals Key Role In Writing Manchin-Toomey Background Checks Amendment

[Tx4obama]

Gun Rights Advocate Reveals Key Role In Writing Manchin-Toomey Background Checks Amendment

The Second Amendment Foundation’s Alan Gottlieb shared a little “inside baseball” about the recent Senate compromise on background checks for gun purchases with a group of supporters at a Portland, Oregon golf club Friday. According to Gottlieb’s speech, caught on camera by Daylight Disinfectant‘s Dan Sandini, members of the gun rights organization were in the room with Senators Joe Manchin III (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) when they were writing their amendment, with the intention of creating a “pro-gun bill.”

“I spent hours and hours with Senator Manchin and Pat Toomey going over what’s in that bill,” Gottlieb told the crowd. He went on the outline the various “protections” he says he helped insert into the amendment that would prevent gun dealers from prison terms and lawsuits for failing to properly conduct the background checks that the bill is intended to require.

“It’s a Christmas Tree,” Gottlieb asserted, “and we just hung a million ornaments on it. We’re taking the background check and making it a pro-gun bill.” He predicted, “this will probably break on Monday in the Wall Street Journal. So your getting a little ‘inside baseball’ right now.” He admitted that he was working to implement some background checks in an effort to prevent more comprehensive and effective legislation from passing in Congress. “I think we snookered the other side,” Gottlieb concluded, “and they haven’t figured it out yet.”

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Full article and VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-gun-rights-advocate-reveals-key-role-in-writing-manchin-toomey-background-checks-amendment/

[Tx4obama]

1. Kick! n/t

[neverforget]

2. Let the arms race begin

Oh wait, it's been on-going for years

[octoberlib]

3. What a farce. nt

[geek tragedy]

4. The 'compromise' bill is worthless and toothless.

Let it die with the public seeing the truth rather than pass this crap off as reform.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. More likely all involved will call it a success and other legislation

will fade away.

[geek tragedy]

12. It's the best the gun lobby could have hoped for. nt

[ProgressiveProfessor]

14. By the time things get done, it could be a net plus for gun rights

depending on what amendments make it through the process and then the house.

Reid and the administration are looking for something they can take credit for, and this may well be all they get.

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[aikoaiko]

6. The current compromise will help keep some guns out of the hands of the dumb and unmotivated.

That's something.

[Tx4obama]

7. The 'loophole' in it is too big ...

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As under current law, transfers between family, friends, and neighbors do not require background checks. You can give or sell a gun to your brother, your neighbor, your coworker without a background check. You can post a gun for sale on the cork bulletin board at your church or your job without a background check.

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Article here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022649387

So, folks can still privately sell their guns to ''... friends, family, and neighbors..." without background checks who may be felons and/or have mental issues.
And to folks at work and church that they might not even know.

That is a HUGE LOOPHOLE!

[friendly_iconoclast]

8. Why are you surprised? Gun control advocates were *always* going to get played.

The White House, for all their fine words, knew from the start that substantial new gun control
measures would never make it through the House.

[aikoaiko]

9. To a certain extent this legislation is a product of the gun controllers rhetoric

For years they screamed about the "gun show loophole". Now when a law is framed that way they are saying it needs to be more conprehensive. Well that's not what they've been selling for the last decade.

[99Forever]

10. I'm stunned to hear this.

STUNNED I SAY!

[Blue Idaho]

13. Do you remembr the days when government kept corporations in check

Instead of corporations keeping government in check?


Remember the NRA is just the weapons industry's lightening rod - ignore them and go directly after the gun makers and it will have outlived its usefulness.