Gun-rights group endorses Manchin-Toomey background check bill

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Source: Washington Post

A split developed in the usually united gun-rights lobby Sunday as a well-regarded Second Amendment organization enthusiastically endorsed compromise legislation proposed by Sens. Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey that would expand background check requirements for gun sales, a position opposed by the powerful National Rifle Association.

“We decided to back it because we believe it is the right thing to do,” said Julianne Versnel, director of operations for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, which counts 650,000 members and supporters among its ranks.

In explaining the decision, Versnel cited the value of a strong background check system for most gun sales and provisions that would prohibit establishment of a gun owner registry by the federal government.

Supporters of the Citizens Committee were informed of the endorsement Sunday morning by e-mail, Versnel said. Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced the endorsement publicly on Sunday afternoon.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gun-rights-group-endorses-manchin-toomey-background-check-bill/2013/04/14/f4ae8ae8-a51e-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html

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The right wing forums and websites are already trashing Toomey, who was among the cast of Tea Party candidates elected in 2010. Now because of this CCRKBA org...I must add a

[msongs]

1. 2 republicans with their poison pill legislation why not hold out for a good bill? nt

[geek tragedy]

4. No bill is better than this crap, which will include an amendment forcing

states like New York to honor concealed weapons permits issued in places like Oklahoma and Alabama.

Let it die, and let the NRA get all the 'credit.'

[geckosfeet]

2. I like it. Holding out for interstate carry among other things.

That will be tough for all states to agree on though. It might even drag this out for a while.

[geek tragedy]

3. If those nutjobs favor it, it's a bad piece of legislation that shouldn't pass.

Of course, the fact that Toomey and Manchin authored it is proof it shouldn't pass.

[HockeyMom]

5. Don't pass this

They having been trying to pass that National Reciprocity Carry for YEARS. Horrible, horrible. The expanded background checks is NOTHING in comparison to allowing this. It would increase guns from state to state.

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6. Of course, it's a pro-gun bill

It makes firearms easier to obtain and to carry, why wouldn't they like it?

It limits private sales at gun shows, that was really the only gun restriction in the thing and will have little impact if any.