Backdoor Gun Grab: Congressional Dems Push Background Checks on Ammo Purchases, Seek to Criminalize Middlemen Buyers

Citizen Watch Report ^

[davikkm]

Democratic members of Congress have introduced a bill that would impose restrictions on bulk ammunition sales, licensing requirements on ammunition vendors, and background checks for ammunition buyers.

Democratic U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and Democratic U.S. Representatives Robert Garcia of California and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida introduced the bill on Nov. 2, according to news releases from Warren and Garcia’s offices.

Under the Ammunition Modernization and Monitoring Oversight Act, businesses selling ammunition must possess the same federal licenses gun dealers are required to obtain, according to the bill’s sponsors.

Furthermore, ammunition vendors must conduct background checks on purchases under the bill.

According to the bill’s sponsors, the legislation helps compensate for the lack of regulation on ammunition sales.

The AMMO Act would take what is current policy in California and make it a federal policy.

https://twitter.com/RepRobertGarcia/status/1720203126211485858

We don’t have a gun violence problem, we have a thug problem using illegally obtained firearms. You want to cut down on gun violence? Start enforcing laws already on the books and not playing the catch and release game. Until the DA’s start charging and prosecuting people and the judges start locking them up, just another law that will be ignored by people who don’t care about laws.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The cost of liberty is eternal vigilance.

[Openurmind]

What happens in Ca never stays in Ca. They are why we have the mess we have now.

“Their problem... They voted for it” is a huge mistaken assumption that what happens in Ca will not also happen to us all. It has been the testing ground for the “soft” incremental implementation of Communism for 80 years or more.

The whole nation should have dumped millions and millions into lawsuits against the unconstitutional laws Ca. imposes as a preventative measure against the cancer spreading to the whole nation.

Now they are seasoning a dictator who will be in command of our whole country.

[Liz]

The same pols gleefully grabbing guns from law abiding American, trampling
2A rights in the process, are all too eager to massively arm foreign countries.

Gun grabber Sen Lindsay Graham led a delegation of US Senators....5 Repubs and 5 Dems.... to Israel. Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin, Rhode Island Democratic Jack Reed, Alaska Republican Dan Sullivan, Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, Susan Collins (Maine Republican), Cory Booker (New Jersey Democrat), Katie Britt (Alabama Republican), Chris Coons, Delaware Dem Senator, John Thune, Repub SDakota Senator.

They met with Israeli Leader Yair Lapid (center) who
was assured of a generous US military aid package.

[FiddlePig]

The entire purpose of the DemonRat party is to demote us from citizens to serfs! They’re not just unconstitutional they’re anti-constitutional!

[Liz]

During the Speaker’s fight, some were UPSET the House was shut down a few days; we just weren’t sending your tax dollars to foreign countries fast enough. The same “Congress” that gleefully tramples 2A rights, is hell-bent on supplying weapons to foreign countries. Read on.

whitehouse.gov
MARCH 16, 2022
Briefing Room

Fact Sheet of MARCH 16, 2022-——U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine

President Biden today, MARCH 16, 2022, announced an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine, bringing the total U.S. security assistance committed to Ukraine to $1 billion in just the past week, and a total of $2 billion since the start of the Biden Administration.

The assistance will take the form of direct transfers of equipment from the Department of Defense to the Ukrainian military to help them defend their country against Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion.

The MARCH 16, 2022 new $800 million assistance package includes:

800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
2,000 Javelin, 1,000 light anti-armor weapons,
6,000 AT-4 anti-armor systems;
100 Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;
100 grenade launchers, 5,000 rifles, 1,000 pistols, 400 machine guns, and 400 shotguns;
Over 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenade launcher and mortar rounds;
25,000 sets of body armor; and
25,000 helmets.

In addition to the MARCH 16, 2022 weapons listed above, previous US assistance committed to Ukraine includes:

Over 600 Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
Approximately 2,600 Javelin anti-armor systems;
Five Mi-17 helicopters;
Three patrol boats;
Four counter-artillery and counter-unmanned aerial system tracking radars;
Four counter-mortar radar systems;
200 grenade launchers and ammunition;
200 shotguns and 200 machine guns;
Nearly 40 million rounds of small arms ammunition
Over 1 million grenade, mortar, and artillery rounds;
70 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs) and other vehicles;
Secure communications, electronic warfare detection systems,
Body armor, helmets, and other tactical gear;
Military medical equipment to support treatment and combat evacuation;
Explosive ordnance disposal and de-mining equipment; and
Satellite imagery and analysis capability.

In addition to the U.S.-produced short-range air defense systems the Ukrainians have been using to great effect, the United States has also identified and is helping the Ukrainians acquire additional, longer-range systems on which Ukraine’s forces are already trained, as well as additional munitions for those systems.

The United States continues to expedite the authorization and facilitation of additional assistance to Ukraine from our Allies. At least 30 countries have provided security assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began.

In 2022, the Department of State authorized third-party transfers of defensive equipment from more than 14 countries, a number that continues to grow as Allies and Partners increase support to Ukraine.

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defense.gov
Immediate Release
Oct 26, 2023

Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine

Today, Oct 26, 2023, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs.

This announcement is the Biden Administration’s forty-ninth tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.

This Oct 26, 2023 package includes additional air defense capabilities, artillery ammunition, anti-tank weapons, and other equipment to help Ukraine counter Russia’s ongoing war of aggression and fight for its independence and freedom.

This package utilizes assistance previously authorized for Ukraine during prior fiscal years under Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) that remained after the PDA revaluation process concluded in June. This security assistance package is another visible signal of the United States’ continued commitment to supporting the Ukrainian people in the face of Russian aggression.

The United States remains committed to working with Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its immediate battlefield needs, and the Biden Administration calls on Congress to meet its commitment to the people of Ukraine by passing additional funding to ensure Ukraine continues to have what it needs to defend itself against Russia’s brutal war of choice.

Security assistance for Ukraine is a smart investment in our national security. It helps to prevent a larger conflict in the region and deter potential aggression elsewhere, while strengthening our defense industrial base and creating highly skilled jobs for the American people.

The capabilities in this package, valued at up to $150 million, include:

• Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
• AIM-9M missiles for air defense;
• Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;
• Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
• 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
• Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
• Javelin anti-armor systems;
• More than 2 million rounds of small arms ammunition;
• Night vision devices;
• Demolitions munitions for obstacle clearing;
• Cold weather gear; and
• Spare parts, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment.

[laplata]

If the anticipated terror attacks from sleeper cells coming up through the southern border comes to pass, gun control will be dead.

[Openurmind]

Yep, sure enough. Thank you again for the details Liz.

[Openurmind]

“If the anticipated terror attacks from sleeper cells coming up through the southern border comes to pass, gun control will be dead.”

Except for the reality that even then they won’t care and will continue to make us helpless victims. That is the whole plan anyhow, they want to exterminate as many of us as they can. If anything they will use it as an excuse to go door to door looking for terrorists and grab our guns while they are at it.

[DugwayDuke]

Every few years the gun control advocates come up with this idea that if they can’t restrict guns they can go after ammunition. I’m sure USSC would rule that ammunition is essential to RKBA.

[Pajamajan]

Does the Constitution mean anything?

Why do the Rats and RINOs get away with constantly attempting to violate the people's rights?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Are you kidding? The Rats will redouble their efforts because the blame is always on the gun. No matter ho many laws the criminals and terrorists break to get guns, they will insist that a few new laws restricting our 2A freedoms will cure the problem. And when those fail, they will want even more laws until the 2A doesn’t exist.

[Blood of Tyrants]

And if you resist their illegal confiscations, it’s because you are a terrorist.

[Highest Authority]

He Demokrat party is a terrorist organization!

[Openurmind]

“And if you resist their illegal confiscations, it’s because you are a terrorist.”

Yep, and they will just eliminate you. How can anyone not see we now already live in a true communist country? We are just going through denial and withdrawals at this point.

[Liz]

y/v/w

[sauropod]

Nope.

[bunkerhill7]

On April 18, 1775, British troops marched out of Boston to confiscate the American gunpowder ammo dump at Concord.. Well well well..

[faithhopecharity]

These commies and Nazis will try any sneaky thing they can get away with to render Americans defenseless and to enslave us.
They’re very dance toys and must be identified and stopped, removed from power

[telescope115]

Would Speaker Johnson even let this come to the floor?