Senate blocks gun control

[Adrenolin]

Looks like the senate has blocked new legislation for background checks, Dianne Feinstein’s reintroduction of the AWB, mag limits, national carry, etc.

http://www.guns.com/2013/04/17/breaking-senate-rejects-bipartisan-plan-to-expand-background-checks/

[Just Bill]

 

[oldgraygeek]

As an armed liberal, this is one of the days that I'm glad the Democrats are so helpless and ineffective...

[Lumspond]

YAH for helpless and ineffective Democrats! 

[Newlife503]

Finally something went our way!!

[SturmRugerSR9]

A great job by the NRA and it's never say die members.

[Adrenolin]

Now if we can only have as much luck here at home.....

[Radnor]

Now if we can only have as much luck here at home.....

+1  Hope we can.

[Hawkeye]

Here is the funny part

“The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill,” Mr. Obama said.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/17/obama-denounces-gun-rights-groups-willful-liars/

OK, let’s talk about lies and guns

--President Obama, remarks on gun violence, Jan. 16, 2013
“Studies estimate that nearly 40 percent of all gun sales are made by private sellers who are exempt from this requirement.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-stale-claim-that-40-percent-of-gun-sales-lack-background-checks/2013/01/20/e42ec050-629a-11e2-b05a-605528f6b712_blog.html

Even Uncle Joe won’t claim the 40% is the truth.

But that figure is based on an analysis of a nearly two-decade-old survey of less than 300 people that essentially asked participants whether they thought the guns they had acquired — and not necessarily purchased — came from a federally licensed dealer. And one of the authors of the report often cited as a source for the claim — Philip Cook of Duke University — told our friends at Politifact.com that he has “no idea” whether the “very old number” applies today or not. Even Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged that the statistic may not be accurate in a speech at a mayoral conference on Jan. 17. Biden prefaced his claim that “about 40 percent of the people who buy guns today do so outside the … background check system” by saying that “because of the lack of the ability of federal agencies to be able to even keep records, we can’t say with absolute certainty what I’m about to say is correct.”

http://factcheck.org/2013/03/guns-acquired-without-background-checks/

Obama put a lot of political capital on the outcome of gun control and came up short. Let's see if that causes a couple of seat changes in 2014.

[Kimber HD]

Unfortunately for us - there's still a battle to come on the home front.  I have little faith that we will escape this unscathed...

[poster formerly know as Silverbullet]

Seeing how ticked Obama was as he is used to getting his way was priceless. The fact that members of his party voted against the bill also was great.

IN all fairness I think the ones who voted against it only did so because they face the voters this year.

The look on Obama's face was almost as agood as when Alabama won the national championship this year.

[Radnor]

We're not out of the woods yet.  We still have this BS at home to deal with....

[BobW]

Far from over. We never thought that Obamacare would pass. The lies and misstated facts will start flying!

[seniorgeek]

Far from over. We never thought that Obamacare would pass. The lies and misstated facts will start flying!

Your right Bob. We need to be diligent in our fight.

[poster formerly know as Silverbullet]

Far from over. We never thought that Obamacare would pass. The lies and misstated facts will start flying!

I actually knew it would. I wont say why as I have gotten into issues in the past with people because of pointing some things out, but as someone who studied history, political science and sociology I knew Obama would get a "win" on that because of wanting to protect his legacy.

He probably would have gotten this if not for many dems getting the boot over the obamacare vote