Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Pelosi pledges compromise on assault weapons ban
The Hill ^

Posted on 04/07/2009 8:03:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Pelosi pledges compromise on assault weapons ban @ 10:29 am by Michael O'Brien

The ball is in Congress's court to craft a compromise in reinstating regulations on assault weapons, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged Tuesday.

During an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," Pelosi said that the Congress will work to find some middle ground between the previous ban, which expired in 2004, and the precedent laid by the Supreme Court in a ruling enumerating more concrete gunowners' rights last term.

"We have to find some level of compromise," Pelosi said, citing 53 victims of gun violence nationwide in less than a month. "And we have to rid the debate of the misconceptions people have about what gun safety means."

"Yes, it is," the Speaker said when asked if the ball is in Congress's court now that Democrats control the White House. "And we are just going to have to work together to come to some resolution."

Pelosi indicated that new regulations might entail registration and prohibitions on transporting some firearms across state lines.

The Speaker also expressed displeasure at the attachment of a gun rights provision to legislation that would grant Washington, D.C. a voting member of Congress.

"Right now, we have the debate in Congress over the District of Columbia wanting a vote on the floor of the House, something we all want. That's a civil rights issue," she said, pledging to find "middle ground" on the issue. "And, yet, they want to put a gun…bill, attach that to that. I don't — I don't think that that should be the price to pay to have a vote on the floor of the House."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; awb; bang; banglist; bho44; bhobanglist; breastfedbyjanetreno; congress; cwii; democratcongress; democrats; donttreadonme; fascism; nra; pelosi; rapeofliberty; shallnotbeinfringed
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160161-163 next last
To: Vendome
Please Pray for my friends and their family

Prayers up, FRiend.

121 posted on 04/07/2009 3:04:52 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

why so series?


122 posted on 04/07/2009 3:08:25 PM PDT by teeman8r
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Smokin' Joe; palmer

Thank you and my friend made it to his flight on time


123 posted on 04/07/2009 3:11:43 PM PDT by Vendome
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 121 | View Replies]

To: oldfart
It already controls the food industry through import/export rules and agricultural subsidies. By locking up several million acres of range land in National Monuments and Parks .gov has impacted our supply of meat.

Don't forget the NAIS.

124 posted on 04/07/2009 3:12:56 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 112 | View Replies]

To: Smokin' Joe

Now, lots of my gun nut friends are going to scream bloody murder at my notion that a fundamental right should be qualified by this kind of process ...

Yep.


Of course, I understand. The point is that they wouldn’t even dream of agreeing to this.


125 posted on 04/07/2009 3:13:21 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Security sucks. I want my freedom back.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 120 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

BTTT


126 posted on 04/07/2009 3:19:14 PM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Joe Brower; Travis McGee; MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER; potlatch; devolve

Compromise, Nancy? Give up your plane--for the chil-dren.

127 posted on 04/07/2009 3:28:50 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: PhilDragoo

Looks like she is getting the Botox involuntary lip curl, frozen smile and stare into space.


128 posted on 04/07/2009 3:32:47 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 127 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Sure, I propose a compromise, Nance. You vote it in and we vote you out. Pity you won’t be needing that private airliner anymore.


129 posted on 04/07/2009 3:43:57 PM PDT by Billthedrill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PhilDragoo

The “O” in the word of, is the perfect ten ring.


130 posted on 04/07/2009 4:11:48 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (my tagline is over-stimulated)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 127 | View Replies]

To: oldfart

Ham and CB radio, courier’s ect


131 posted on 04/07/2009 5:13:12 PM PDT by Charlespg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 112 | View Replies]

To: EdReform; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ...
NO DEALS!



Libertarian ping! Click here to get added or here to be removed or post a message here!
132 posted on 04/07/2009 5:13:14 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Comment #133 Removed by Moderator

To: Vendome

My brother took his own life with a gun. That the was just a tool, it could just as easily been an overdose.

Guns don’t kill people, people do, and no amount of nonsensical talk can change the truth. The knife problems in England prove this without a doubt.


134 posted on 04/07/2009 5:25:37 PM PDT by xmission (www.iwilldefendtheconstitution.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: mgc1122

Here’s a better response; “ and the donkey you rode in on”


135 posted on 04/07/2009 5:36:44 PM PDT by Redcitizen (December 2012; there's change for ya!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

Comment #136 Removed by Moderator

To: SonOfPyrodex
Americans, regardless of race, creed, color, or gender had the Constitutionally guaranteed Freedom and Right to Keep and Bear Arms exactly many score-plus years and Amendments before they had the Constitutionally guaranteed Freedom and Right to Vote?

Think about that for a while.

137 posted on 04/07/2009 6:07:21 PM PDT by shoutingandpointing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 136 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Montana Poised to Buck Federal Gun Control
Flathead Beacon | 04-05-09 | Kahrin Deines
Posted on 04/07/2009 4:26:56 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224434/posts


138 posted on 04/07/2009 6:45:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Here is what Pelosi, Obama and the Dims are going to ram down our throats...

1. An expanded HR 45, gun owner licensing. All gun owners will have to have these licenses, even owners of facilimie weapons (AKA Airsoft and BB). Licenses will only be granted if the records of the applicant are clean (This includes misdemeanors from decades ago). Licenses will have high renewal fees ($100-300/yr). Licensees will be required to hold $1 million in liability insurance. Possession of otherwise permitted weapons (See #3) without license is a felony.

2. Ammunition accountability... All ammo will be required to be microstamped and will be taxed $1/round. All non stamped ammo will be required to be turned in or thrown away. Possession of non-marked ammo is a felony. This part of the act also bans “Cop Killer” bullets. Furthermore, this will require the gun to leave a microstamp of its own on the ammo. (BTW, this will also affect law enforcement and military ammunition stocks, as they will be required to have stamps of their own)

3. Expanded “Assault Weapons” ban— This includes most all semiauto rifles, anything that can be “Bump Fired”, Semiauto handguns, and Semi-auto shotguns. It also includes pump-action shotguns and “Sniper Rifles” AKA your deer rifle. The AWB will also require people with “Prebans” to register their guns as Machine Guns, and that the tax stamp will go up to $10,000 per weapon. If you can’t afford this, you have to turn the weapon in without compensation...

4. Expansion of the Lautenbach amendment: Removes “Domestic Violence” as disqualifier to gun ownership, inserts any misdemeanor as disqualifer... Anyone with a misdemeanor on their record will be prohibited from owning a firearm. This includes DUI and traffic offenses, and offenses decades ago.

Finally, all CCW permits will be voided. Also, all gun and ammo imports will be banned.


139 posted on 04/07/2009 7:06:52 PM PDT by Thunder90
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

I don’t know why we should give a crap about what Nancy Pelosi thinks.


140 posted on 04/07/2009 7:10:36 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160161-163 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson