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The Senate quashed a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks for gun purchases Wednesday. While the Senate vote was 54-46 in favor of the amendment offered by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., it fell short of the 60-vote threshold the Senate has established for gun bill amendments. Ref. USAToday

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President Barack Obama on Wednesday blamed the defeat of a compromise deal on stricter gun laws on "The gun lobby and its allies," saying those against the legislation "Willfully lied" about its provisions.

Obama spoke angrily about two proposals defeated Wednesday in the Senate. One would expand background checks on firearms sales, and the other would ban some semi-automatic firearms modeled after military assault weapons.

Due to procedural steps by Republican opponents, the amendments required 60 votes to pass in the 100-member chamber, meaning Democrats and their independent allies who hold 55 seats needed support from some GOP senators to push them through.

The final vote on the background checks provision was 54 in favor to 46 opposed with four Republicans joining most Democrats in supporting the compromise while four Democrats voted with most Republicans against it. Ref. CNN

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America prides herself on being able to bear arms and not be restricted in any way. Pres. Obama probably felt that the recent massacres would change the mind of some people including our country's leaders, but it obviously hasn't so now what's plan B?

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Thursday afternoon that the Senate will suspend work on the gun bill after a bipartisan background check agreement was blocked Wednesday. Reid said that delaying further votes on the bill would allow senators time to continue negotiations, and he pledged to bring the bill back up for further votes in the future. Ref. USAToday

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Obama taking action on gun background check system:

Stung by the defeat, Obama vowed to keep up the fight for the background check expansion but also to do what he could through executive action. Ref. Source 1

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We don't trust you Barack and you'll not have our guns
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The Newtown killings had anti-gunners licking their chops from CNN to Capitol Hill. Years of working to undermine the right to keep and bear arms had come virtually to naught for gun confiscationists, but they knew the deaths of 20 children could be manipulated any way they liked, allowing them to make the most asinine and unsupportable claims imaginable about the evils of gun ownership. Call it a benefit of owning the national media. So Barack and friends spent months dancing on the graves of 20 sons and daughters while cooking up senate bills and executive “actions” advocating every conceivable...
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73441399 Gun Purchase Background Checks Under Obama; NJ Spikes 41% in May
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There have been 73,441,399 background checks for gun purchases since President Obama took office, according to data released by the FBI. In 2009, the FBI conducted 14,033,824 background checks. If we subtract the month of January (Obama did not assume office until the end of the month) we get 12,819,939. The FBI conducted 14,409,616 background checks in 2010, 16,454,951 in 2011, and 19,592,303 in 2012. Add to that the first five months of 2013 (2,495,440, 2,309,393, 2,209,407, 1,714,433 and 1,435,917 respectively) and the total number of background checks under President Obama comes to 73,441,399. Since December 2012, when the gun...
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LA: Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments On Enhanced Mandatory Sentencing For Gun Possession
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In 2012, the voters of Louisiana approved a constitutional amendment to the state Constitution that removed the constitutional provision that gave the State the power to regulate concealed weapons.   It added the requirement that the court use the strongest level of judicial review, strict scrutiny, for Amendment 2 cases.   There is a a good discussion of the history behind this amendment at the Volokh Conspiracy, by David Kopel.  The amendment passed with over 73 percent of the vote. The court has already upheld bans on the possession of handguns by minors without parental approval and on felons on...
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