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Pat Toomey aide: Gun deal close at hand, appearance with Sen. Joe Manchin set for Wednesday
NBC Politics ^ | 04/09/2013 | Kasie Hunt, Luke Russert and Kelly O'Donnell

Posted on 04/09/2013 5:21:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey is close to a deal with Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia on background checks for gun show and Internet gun sales, his office said Tuesday night. The two are planning a joint press conference for Wednesday morning.

A Toomey spokesperson on Tuesday told NBC News that the two senators have agreed on all but the final details of a compromise.

Manchin told reporters Tuesday that the compromise would close the gun show loophole by mandating background checks for those transactions and also require background checks for all Internet gun sales.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: Pennsylvania; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 113th; awb; banglist; guncontrol; guns; joemanchin; manchin; pattoomey; pennsylvania; secondamendment; toomey; westvirginia
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To: SeekAndFind

Remember when Toomey was the Tea Party candidate to beat Arlen Spector? I guess that isn’t working out. They think that once elected they can do anything they want so as to fit in with the club.


41 posted on 04/09/2013 6:01:34 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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42 posted on 04/09/2013 6:02:17 PM PDT by onyx
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To: shankbear
How do you get a gun on the internet? I have ordered online but I had to pick it up from an FFL who called in abackground check. Is there a double secret probation internet purchase method off the record deal, thingamabob?

Exactly!!! This just shows how stupid politicians are. I dare any one of them to show us where anyone can purchase a firearm on the internet without it having to go through an FFL. You CAN NOT do it. It is already ILLEGAL! This also goes to prove how stupid the general public is. I bet 90% of the people who read this think it's a good "common sense" idea. God help us.
43 posted on 04/09/2013 6:04:17 PM PDT by rickomatic
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To: ScottinVA

I thought you meant it as in “’sewage canal’ of Republicans...

Democrat Senators up in 2014:

Baucus, Max (D-MT)
Begich, Mark (D-AK)
Coons, Christopher A. (D-DE)
Cowan, William M. (D-MA)
Durbin, Richard J. (D-IL)
Franken, Al (D-MN)
Hagan, Kay R. (D-NC)
Harkin, Tom (D-IA)
Johnson, Tim (D-SD)
Landrieu, Mary L. (D-LA)
Lautenberg, Frank R. (D-NJ)
Levin, Carl (D-MI)
Merkley, Jeff (D-OR)
Pryor, Mark L. (D-AR)
Reed, Jack (D-RI)
Rockefeller, John D., IV (D-WV)
Shaheen, Jeanne (D-NH)
Udall, Mark (D-CO)
Udall, Tom (D-NM)
Warner, Mark R. (D-VA)


44 posted on 04/09/2013 6:04:36 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: old curmudgeon
I’m suggesting taking whatever action is called for to reverse the path we’re on.
45 posted on 04/09/2013 6:10:09 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s time to get the Tea Party organized!


46 posted on 04/09/2013 6:13:55 PM PDT by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think that all Internet guns sales already require background checks. The firearm has to be sent to the customer via an FFL, who runs a background check while you wait.


47 posted on 04/09/2013 6:25:28 PM PDT by expat2
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To: Slings and Arrows

And, it’s not even a Federal issue, in fact.

As long as we allow our rights to be stripped away, we should not be surprised that the elected elite continue to chip away at our freedoms.
If we want the country back, we’ll have to take it...one step, one argument, one vote at a time.


48 posted on 04/09/2013 6:34:57 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: EternalVigilance

49 posted on 04/09/2013 6:46:22 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

I can’t wait until we start throwing these ***holes in jail for violating our Second Amendment rights.


50 posted on 04/09/2013 6:49:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
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To: SeekAndFind

In 2010, I was certain that Toomey was a conservative and Corbett was a RINO.

My, how the tables have turned.


51 posted on 04/09/2013 7:05:17 PM PDT by Cato in PA (Land of the free and the home of the brave? Wrong on both counts.)
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To: Pox

So, no concrete plan. No well thought out suggestions.

Just another windbag.


52 posted on 04/09/2013 7:11:31 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: PubliusMM

Something is going to break.


53 posted on 04/09/2013 7:25:50 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: sneakers; rightwingintelligentsia; GregB; prisoner6

Did Yinz see this?!?!?!

Sold out AGAIN by our “conservative” Senator Pat Toomey.

RWI, who was it on the Rush thread (if you remember) who claimed “shouldn’t be ‘rough’ on Toomey because he has the highest conservative rating....blah blah blah...in the Senate. Yet here he is, all cozy with WV’s Manchin.

I’m sure during the coffee breaks those two veered off topic to “kill the coal industry and end fracking and then just giggled that now maybe they’ll get invited to the White House concerts too!”

Sold. Out. Primary Toomey!!!


54 posted on 04/09/2013 7:27:35 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom ( Mourning in America.)
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To: fatnotlazy

Toomey or any other republican that votes FOR ANY TYPE of gun legislation should be voted out of office. Once again a national background check is nothing more than a national firearms database on Americans. When martial law comes the democrats will know who has guns and they will come for them. And if you don’t believe it can happen, remember Katrina. The US Army confiscated (stole) law-abiding Americans guns from them. They went door to door and if you had a gun the US ARMY took the damn thing........and you didn’t get it back!!


55 posted on 04/09/2013 7:28:01 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("The only glory in war is surviving")
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

THAT STINKS!!! I’m sick of ‘conservatives’ whom we send to DC, only to have them cave - over and over again - and side with dems! I wish some true conservative would challenge him in the primaries!


56 posted on 04/09/2013 7:34:34 PM PDT by sneakers (Go Sheriff Joe!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s see....
McCain... Dead to me
L. Graham... Dead to me
Rubio... Dead to me
Coburn... Dead to me
Toomey... Dead to me.

No reason to whitewash it any longer....


57 posted on 04/09/2013 7:39:21 PM PDT by man_in_tx (Islam is a Hate Crime. (Blowback: Faithfully farting towards Mecca five times daily!))
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To: sneakers

And lets NOT forget that while Rand Paul was filibustering (and Ted Cruz was aiding him by asking long winded, well thought out questions on drones, our RINOPat (after making a quickie camera appearance to ask some dimbulb question of Paul) DASHES off to dine with Barry! Such a mover and shaler he is now!

I’ll bet he is at Memphis night at the White Hut right now.


58 posted on 04/09/2013 7:41:47 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom ( Mourning in America.)
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To: ez
"Sounds like they punted and passed a bunch of stuff that is already law just to make it look like they “did something.”

That's pretty much how it looks to me. If someone would have told me three months ago, this is all that would be passing out of the Senate, I would have been pleasantly surprised! They ended up appearing to fight like hell just to get this much from the dem controlled Senate, when it could still be dead on arrival in the House.

As a die hard 2A supporter and owner of lots of scary looking 'black guns', I'll take this as a huge victory. Just be sure to scream and raise hell about it, just to make them think it hurts....

59 posted on 04/09/2013 7:58:43 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Slings and Arrows

Ha, Joe showed up at our small local Chamber of Commerce annual banquet. I had to laugh because he was hugging all the women and glad-handing the men, but most everyone was trying their best to avoid him. One guy was laughing when he said he went to the restroom to avoid Joe and when he came out he ran into him. Joe is scared. I told him he had better switch parties while he can. I remind him frequently that he wasn’t raised on the values he is now trying to promote. He thinks he can sit on the fence. NOT.


60 posted on 04/09/2013 8:02:33 PM PDT by WVNan
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