Swordsmyth
03-26-2018, 01:53 PM
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=anthony+man+debbie+wasserma n+schultz&target=all&spell=on), D-Weston, said Monday she wants a federal law that would require background checks for ammunition buyers.
“I really think it’s important to underscore that without bullets a gun is just a hunk of useless metal, and a would-be killer lacks the means to actually kill or maim,” she said.
It’s already illegal for convicted felons, domestic abusers and dangerously mentally ill people to buy firearms and ammunition. Background checks are already required for some firearms purchasers, but nothing prevents anyone from buying ammunition, without having to provide as much as a first name to the seller.
The current system allows someone to “buy as much ammunition as they want, without so much as being asked their first name, and walk out,” Wasserman Schultz said, a situation she described as “such a gaping and grave and dangerous loophole that I could not wrap my mind around it.”
The legislation is sure to provoke opposition from many gun owners. Wasserman Schultz dismissed the argument that what she called “common sense gun safety laws” would infringe upon Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms granted by the Constitution.
“You do not have the right to bear bullets,” Wasserman Schultz said at a news conference at the Pembroke Pines Police Department, where she was joined by political leaders, a police representative and teachers and students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/education/schools/high-schools/stoneman-douglas-high-school--OREDU0000447-topic.html).
Mei-Ling Ho-Shing, a Stoneman Douglas junior, praised the proposal. “If we can attack the bullets, we can stop how many people who can get shot with high-capacity magazines,” she said.
More at: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/fl-florida-school-shooting-wasserman-schultz-legislation-20180323-story.html
Bullets are part of the arm idiot.
“I really think it’s important to underscore that without bullets a gun is just a hunk of useless metal, and a would-be killer lacks the means to actually kill or maim,” she said.
It’s already illegal for convicted felons, domestic abusers and dangerously mentally ill people to buy firearms and ammunition. Background checks are already required for some firearms purchasers, but nothing prevents anyone from buying ammunition, without having to provide as much as a first name to the seller.
The current system allows someone to “buy as much ammunition as they want, without so much as being asked their first name, and walk out,” Wasserman Schultz said, a situation she described as “such a gaping and grave and dangerous loophole that I could not wrap my mind around it.”
The legislation is sure to provoke opposition from many gun owners. Wasserman Schultz dismissed the argument that what she called “common sense gun safety laws” would infringe upon Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms granted by the Constitution.
“You do not have the right to bear bullets,” Wasserman Schultz said at a news conference at the Pembroke Pines Police Department, where she was joined by political leaders, a police representative and teachers and students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/education/schools/high-schools/stoneman-douglas-high-school--OREDU0000447-topic.html).
Mei-Ling Ho-Shing, a Stoneman Douglas junior, praised the proposal. “If we can attack the bullets, we can stop how many people who can get shot with high-capacity magazines,” she said.
More at: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/fl-florida-school-shooting-wasserman-schultz-legislation-20180323-story.html
Bullets are part of the arm idiot.