http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pro-gun-measures-snuck-into-new-government-funding-bill.php?ref=fpb
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate bill preventing a federal shutdown would make four long-standing gun protections permanent, including one preventing the Justice Department from requiring firearms dealers to conduct inventories to make sure weapons haven’t been stolen, congressional aides from both parties said.
Another provision made permanent would prevent the government from changing the definition of antique guns, which can sometimes be easier to obtain than modern weapons. Two others would block the department from denying a license to firearms dealers who report no business activity, and require the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to include language in firearms data stating that the information can’t be used to make conclusions about gun crimes.
this is giving murderous crazies, right wing zealots and the progressive ones too a green light to business as usual and the only change is a bunch of words.
we need to take note that even with constant publication of polls in favor of gun control are being totally ignored mainly by the republicans but this time instead of telling us what "the American people want" they are taking it upon themselves to rollover the peoples desire to their own. 2014 mark it down.
Aides said that since at least 2004, the annual spending bill financing the Justice Department has carried six pro-gun provisions that Congress has enacted for a year at a time.
They say that for this year’s bill, the Republican-led House wanted to make all six of them permanent. In a deal, four were made permanent in exchange for the House dropping a seventh provision — opposed by Democrats — barring the government from requiring gun dealers to report some sales of two or more rifles and shotguns said to be popular with Mexican drug cartels.
shades of Reagan and Iran Contra? we can not depend on our politicians to many obstacles but we have the majority and the vote no matter how the republicans try to deny us they did not hear us the first two times next election, third one is the charm!
