Dammit, AWB gets re-authorized :( EDIT: Smacked down!

[ShotgunSteven]

Where can we look to see how our senators voted?

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Where can we look to see how our senators voted?

Here

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Where can we look to see how our senators voted?

Here

Thanks.

Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Stevens (R-AK), Nay

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Where can we look to see how our senators voted?

Here

Thanks.

Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Stevens (R-AK), Nay

How I will be voting come next election for both of these candidates:
Voinovich (R-OH), Nope
DeWine (R-OH), Nope

 

[Viper GTS]

Smith (R-OR), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea

Grr...

I'll have to write him.

[EDIT]Make that them[/EDIT]

Viper GTS

 

[K1052]

The senators from IL are a lost cause.

We can barely keep the state legislature and gov. off our backs as it is.

 

[olds]

I thought maybe the Average White Band was getting back together.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Kennedy (D-MA), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea

:disgust:

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Where can we look to see how our senators voted?

Here

Thanks.

Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Stevens (R-AK), Nay

How I will be voting come next election for both of these candidates:
Voinovich (R-OH), Nope
DeWine (R-OH), Nope

Add Taft on the no list as well.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Kennedy (D-MA), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea

:disgust:

Well, no one really expected Mass. Senators to vote this down. Unless Kennedy was seeing double while voting.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Kennedy (D-MA), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea

:disgust:

Well, no one really expected Mass. Senators to vote this down. Unless Kennedy was seeing double while voting.

Or drunk.:wine::beer::wine::beer:

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Kaervak

Originally posted by: Mookow
How I will be voting come next election for both of these candidates:
Voinovich (R-OH), Nope
DeWine (R-OH), Nope

Add Taft on the no list as well.

I'm not adding Taft to the "no list", he's already got his spot up near the top.







Waaaaaaaaay up at the top, neighboring Hillary Clinton.

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: Kaervak

Originally posted by: Mookow
How I will be voting come next election for both of these candidates:
Voinovich (R-OH), Nope
DeWine (R-OH), Nope

Add Taft on the no list as well.

I'm not adding Taft to the "no list", he's already got his spot up near the top.




Waaaaaaaaay up at the top, neighboring Hillary Clinton.

Damn, he's not that high up on my list.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Kennedy (D-MA), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea

:disgust:

Well, no one really expected Mass. Senators to vote this down. Unless Kennedy was seeing double while voting.

Or drunk.:wine::beer::wine::beer:

Well, I left the words "so drunk he was" out. This being Sen. Kennedy, though, I didnt think it necessary to add them.

Damn, had I known this was going to pass, I'd have knee-capped both OH senators, and sent Kennedy a case of scotch, thus preventing any of them from voting, either due to hospitalisation... or hospitalisation (and stomach pumping).

 

[BuckNaked]

CNN is reporting that the bill has now been repudiated...

 

[K1052]

Senate Republicans Scuttle Gun Bill
By JESSE J. HOLLAND
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -

Senate Republicans scuttled an election-year bill to immunize the gun industry from lawsuits Tuesday after Democrats amended it to extend an assault weapons ban and require background checks on all buyers at private gun shows.

The National Rifle Association began pressuring senators to vote against the bill after Democrats won votes on the two key gun control measures. The 90-8 vote against the bill virtually ends any chance for gun legislation to make through Congress this year.

"I now believe it is so dramatically wounded that I would urge my colleagues to vote against it," said Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, the sponsor of the gunmaker immunity bill.

Democrats won close votes on their amendments to change the Republican legislation, a strategy aimed at pressuring the GOP-dominated House to accept the restrictions to gain passage of the gunmaker-immunity bill.

While Democrats won't get the gun ban extension and the gun show legislation, they called the vote a success. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said, "The immunity bill was a terrible bill. We're better off at the end of the day than we were at the beginning of the day."

Underlining the importance of the day to Democrats, presidential contenders John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina broke away from the campaign trail to cast their first Senate votes of the year, joining the 52-47 majority on the assault weapons ban and the 53-46 majority on the gun show bill.

A dozen Republican senators voted for one or both of the provisions, allowing minority Democrats to gain victories on the amendments.

The House last year passed a bill to shield gunmakers and dealers from liability suits by crime victims. But Republican leaders in the House refused to allow a vote on continuing for another decade the assault weapons ban, which is to expire in September.

Democrats had hoped their victories in the Senate on gun shows and assault weapons would force Republicans to let the House also vote on them. But the White House said the two amendments would only kill the effort to immunize the gun industry from lawsuits.

"Some are simply more interested in undermining that piece of legislation than they are in necessarily getting the other legislation passed," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday.

 

[Mookow]

Strangely Appropriate

 

[K1052]

Someone tell Viper GTS to edit his title.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: K1052
Someone tell Viper GTS to edit his title.

I will still remember this come election time.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: K1052
Someone tell Viper GTS to edit his title.

I will still remember this come election time.

As well you should. I am definately going to be voting the the next elections here. We really need to get rid of our governer. He is going to ruin the state. He dosen't have a freaking clue what he is doing.

 

[BuckNaked]

If you have any desire at all to protect your rights, I urge you to either join or contribute to an organization that fights to protect the Second Amendment such as the NRA, Gun Owners of America, or other of your choosing. The fight is on now, and once you loose your rights, you may never have the chance to get them back.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

So, how long before new stock high-capacity magazines hit the shelves again?

EDIT: Time to get a real stock and pistol grip for my Hungarian AK-47, too, instead of that goofy thumbholed slab of wood. I don't mind the thumbhole stock for my Bulgarian AK though, it's decent. It could use a bayonet lug, though...

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
So, how long before new stock high-capacity magazines hit the shelves again?

Well I think the original ban expires in September. Depends how fast manufacturers can spool up production of their formerly LEO only mags.

This is one reason I love the FAL,G3, and CETME. Even with the ban in place I can still get them for $3 to $4 per mag.
The M14/M1A1 owners will be very happy. Those mags are pricey. Not to mention Glock, SIG, etc..

 

[K1052]

Now I am going to delay my Galil build so I can get it built as it should be.

Edit:sp

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
So, how long before new stock high-capacity magazines hit the shelves again?

Well I think the original ban expires in September. Depends how fast manufacturers can spool up production of their formerly LEO only mags.

This is one reason I love the FAL,G3, and CETME. Even with the ban in place I can still get them for $3 to $4 per mag.
The M14/M1A1 owners will be very happy. Those mags are pricey. Not to mention Glock, SIG, etc..

Yeah, if the ban goes out in September, I will definitely make sure to keep extra stock on hand of the magazines I use, just in case such an asinine ban gets put back into effect at a later date.