Posted on 02/28/2018 5:11:24 PM PST by OneVike
President Donald Trump embraced Sen. Joe Manchins (D-WV) gun control bill but rejected Rep. Steve Scalises (R-LA) push for national reciprocity during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers Wednesday afternoon. After listening to Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT), Trump looked at toward the end of the table and asked Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) to detail their gun control bill.
The Manchin/Toomey gun control bill is the same universal background check legislation supported by Barack Obama in the wake of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School. It the very bill that was defeated in the Democrat-controlled Senate on April 17, 2013.
Toomey described it for Trump, saying the bill strengthens the reporting of information into the background check system and requires background checks on all commercial sales. This is code-talk for requiring background checks on private gun sales, which Toomey described as sales at gun shows and online (even though online sales already require a background check).
Manchin then spoke and suggested that West Virginians will support the Manchin/Toomey gun control bill if Trump will support it. He did not mention that the Manchin/Toomey bill would not have prevented the Florida attack just as it would not have prevented the Sandy Hook attack that spawned it.
Trump spoke of the using the Manchin/Toomey bill as a base to which other gun bills can be added, and then continued taking comments from various senators and representatives in attendance.
When it was Rep. Scalises time to speak, he highlighted the crime-fighting value of concealed carriers and the need to pass national reciprocity legislation.
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That's right!
The most sweeping, dramatic gun control act since 1968 -- including the New! Improved! DiFi Bill! -- would NOT pass if a single pro-RKBA clause was included!
Folks, we dun got played. C'est la merde...
For many of us, Clue One will be when the left quietly drops all serious efforts to push through an impeachment.
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