This is the Democrats tit-for-tat moment. They are adding this amendment as a response to the republicans adding the healthcare repeal as an amendment to the same FAA legislation.
This amendment won’t survive the senate. If it does it will get axed by the house IMO.
Thanks for posting. Just called my two senators here in Pa and also called Sen Warner. Webb’s phone was full.
I'm not sure what the proper response is, but this is not unexpected.
I’ll trade a hi-cap ban , with a sunset provision if the Republicans enter an amendment to repeal Chapter 4 of the GCA of 1968.
Will Sen. Manchin(D) WVA vote for this? If so, we can all thank the NRA (sarc).
Just received this from VCDL.
I just got word that there may be an attempt to slip a magazine ban similar to the one proposed by anti-gun Congresswoman Caroline McCarthy into a normally benign Federal Aviation Administration bill using an amendment in the U.S. Senate.
They can’t really “sneak” it on without a vote on the amendment and therein lies our defense against it.
I contacted Senator Warner’s and Senator Webb’s office and they confirmed that they have gotten phone calls on this issue this morning from concerned constituents. They say nothing is on the docket for *today* and they can’t yet confirm the validity of the rumor, but they are working on doing so.
Either way, we need to play this safe and flood both offices with calls letting both Senator Warner and Senator Webb know that magazine bans are not acceptable and to please oppose any effort to impose such a ban in any way.
Call Senator Jim Webb’s office at: 202-224-4024
Call Senator Mark Warner’s office at: 202-224-2023
Let’s Roll!
VCDL web page: http://www.vcdl.org [http://www.vcdl.org/]
We might as well ban SUVs, Trucks, etc. Since they can be used as a weapon, and kill more people that a Smart Car.
the stupidity in DC is beyond words these days....
Their plan is to sneak Carolyn McCarthy's Magazine Ban into law as an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration Bill, a routine piece of generally non-controversial legislation.Thanks Cheeks.
And if there were a real man among them, the Republicans would attach NATIONAL RECIPROCITY to every piece of legislation. It failed by one vote last year, it won’t fail this time if they have the balls to introduce it.