Legislation to fund the Justice Department is chock full of GOP-backed language designed to keep the Obama administration from moving ahead with gun control regulations.
The Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill, which cruised through the House this week, contains several provisions directed squarely at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) rule-making authority.
Under the measure, the ATF would be prohibited from banning certain forms of armor-piercing ammunition or blocking the importation of military-style shotguns. Another provision would block federal agents from creating what critics say is a gun registry.
Critics of the administrations efforts to impose new federal firearm restrictions see the GOP Congress’s power of purse as their best chance to block new rules.
“We need to stop the Obama administration from making end-run around Congress on gun control,” National Rifle Association spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said.
The bill, approved in the House by a 242-183 tally, would prohibit the Justice Department from using any of the money to enforce certain gun regulations.now we see who is really tring to block Pres. and gun control laws not the republicans they are just the puppets of the NRA who btw seem to think armor piercing bullets military grade hardware belongs in your basement republicans runaround talking about protecting murderous cops while shilling for NRA to put more armor piercing bullets in the hands of those who would shoot those same cops.
no one on the right cares about anything but more money, they talk out one side for the crooked police than say out the other side "they are on their own", it's all about the Benjamin's not the cost of lives that come with it. faithful only to the root of all evil.
