In the end, the Brady Bill was only able to pass during Thanksgiving break, when a mere three Senators were present to vote on it. All three supported the bill, prompting Vice President Al Gore, then presiding over the Senate, to declare the bill's "unanimous" passing. [More]The type of integrity we've come to expect from domestic enemies...
Well. What a masterpiece of accuracy. Has Time been bought out by The Onion?
ReplyDeletethe Brady Bill was only able to pass during Thanksgiving break, when a mere three Senators were present to vote on it. All three supported the bill, prompting Vice President Al Gore, then presiding over the Senate, to declare the bill's "unanimous" passing.
Not according to Senate records.
www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00394
It was a roll-call vote.
Counts:
YEAs 63
NAYs 36
Not Voting 1
...instituting a five-working-day waiting period and background check for any gun purchase...
No, a waiting period for handguns, until the NICS was set up.
In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that forced federal background checks were unconstitutional; these days, background checks are carried out by state and local officials.
No, see above. NICS, run by the FBI. In Printz v. United States, SCOTUS ruled the local backgrounds checks were unconstitutional unfunded local mandates.
I don't even pretend to understand the convoluted process with all the confusing and mutable "rules"--perhaps they are referring to this agreement?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gunownersalliance.com/turkey.htm
"I sat there with the majority leader [Sen. George
Mitchell] and everybody else had gone home, and we
made an arrangement. We let that [Brady] bill pass."
***(Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), August 23, 1994
(p. S 12363 of the Congressional Record)
There is a youtube vid out there about "ghost voting" in the state legislatures... where senators turn around and vote using their absent colleagues button.... stunning. I think at least one .50 cal ban was "passed" this way.
ReplyDeleteRules? Who cares about rules? At least, that's what Progressives seem to think.
ReplyDeleteWhat "rules" allowed the "Hughes Amendment" to pass in the dead of night? Well, ask Charlie Rangel.