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On the Hill: Senate Narrowly Rejects Pro-Gun Amendment, While House Committee Approves Protection...
NRA-ILA ^ | May 10, 2013 | NA

Posted on 05/12/2013 1:36:44 PM PDT by neverdem

On the Hill: Senate Narrowly Rejects Pro-Gun Amendment, While House Committee Approves Protection for Veterans

On May 8, the U.S. Senate took up consideration of S. 601, the "Water Resources Development Act of 2013." During the debate, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) offered an amendment to extend the Right to Carry to lands administered by the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Corps manages over 11.7 million acres, including many recreational areas. In 2009, Congress passed legislation protecting the Right to Carry in national parks and wildlife refuges, but lands under Corps of Engineers management are not covered by that law.

With strong bipartisan support for the amendment, the final vote was 56-43. However, under the rules for consideration of the bill, 60 votes were required for passage.

On the same day, the House Veterans Affairs Committee voted to approve a provision to require a judge or magistrate to declare that a person who receives veterans' benefits is a danger to himself or to others, before the person can be prohibited from possessing or acquiring firearms.

Currently, the Department of Veterans Affairs adds beneficiaries' names to the federal instant background check database when they are merely unable to manage their finances. Supporters of the provision argued that the need for help with managing money does not make a person dangerous. The chairman of the committee, pro-Second Amendment Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), said of the current situation: "It's arbitrary. It's inconsistent and it's unreasonable."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; concealedcarry; guncontrol; secondamendment

1 posted on 05/12/2013 1:36:44 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: Joe Brower; george76; CedarDave; MplsSteve; P.O.E.; Perdogg; afraidfortherepublic; Baynative; ...
BANG!

Senate Roll Call Vote

Check out some of the pro Second Amendment pretenders!

2 posted on 05/12/2013 2:11:47 PM PDT by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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That asswipe Kirk from Obama’s state was the sole Republican that voted in the negative. At least,Toomey from PA and Manchin from WV learned their lessons. It doesn’t change a thing for me. I will never vote for
Toomey again. (that f’n unprincipled,,so-called, TEA,Party a-hole. Don’t ask me how I really feel)


3 posted on 05/12/2013 5:45:41 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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