Democrats continued on with their gun grabbing civil rights offending agenda Friday
(Bloomberg) House Democrats said Friday they won’t support legislation Speaker Paul Ryan plans to bring to a vote next week that seeks to prevent terrorists from purchasing firearms.
Following their dramatic 25-hour House chamber sit-in last week to demand votes on gun bills, Democrats contend the Republican proposal doesn’t provide strong enough action and warn that renewed protests are possible after the House reconvenes Tuesday. (snip)
Instead, they will continue to press for votes on legislation broadening background checks for gun sales and banning firearm sales to people on the government’s “no-fly†list of suspected terrorists. Democratic calls for such legislation intensified after the killings of 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Ryan’s bill, HR 5611, is essentially exactly the same as the ones offered by Democrats in the Senate, except that it provides Due Process guarantees, putting the burden on the Government to prove that a person shouldn’t be allowed to purchase a firearm, and the government cannot use secret information that will be hidden from the plaintiff. It even institutes the notion from that “bipartisan” Senate bill which would have the government picking up the legal tab if the government loses.
Apparently, Democrats are against the Constitution.
Comic by ACLU and @JenSorensen about how the the no-fly list actually works https://t.co/HICM1EcLll
— ACLU (@ACLU) June 23, 2016
