Lots of bluster. The dems will never get the votes to do anything substantial.
They did it in 1994, even though as bad as that one was, their proposals are even worse.
Right. And it became so unpopular that even reinstating that since-retired ban is a political non-starter.
The 94 ban had a built-in 10 year sunset which happened to expire under a Republic administration.
Joe* campaigned on a new raft of gun regs. It's part of his* platform.
* Joe's handlers
I don't think we're disagreeing on anything. Renewal attempts faded the last time dems had total control and I don't see any way they even get unanimous party support in the Senate for this, let alone a filibuster-proof majority.
Lots of bluster. The dems will never get the votes to do anything substantial.
They did it in 1994, even though as bad as that one was, their proposals are even worse.
Right. And it became so unpopular that even reinstating that since-retired ban is a political non-starter.
The 94 ban had a built-in 10 year sunset which happened to expire under a Republic administration.
Joe* campaigned on a new raft of gun regs. It's part of his* platform.
* Joe's handlers
I don't think we're disagreeing on anything. Renewal attempts faded the last time dems had total control and I don't see any way they even get unanimous party support in the Senate for this, let alone a filibuster-proof majority.
Lots of bluster. The dems will never get the votes to do anything substantial.
They did it in 1994, even though as bad as that one was, their proposals are even worse.
Right. And it became so unpopular that even reinstating that since-retired ban is a political non-starter.
The 94 ban had a built-in 10 year sunset which happened to expire under a Republic administration.
Joe* campaigned on a new raft of gun regs. It's part of his* platform.
* Joe's handlers
I don't think we're disagreeing on anything. Renewal attempts faded the last time dems had total control and I don't see any way they even get unanimous party support in the Senate for this, let alone a filibuster-proof majority.
Joe Biden will enter the White House this month at the head of a political party that in recent years has been overtly hostile to self-defense rights, even to the point of advocating impossible-to-enforce bans on popular firearms. But the opportunity has passed for the restrictions he peddles as "common sense reforms." In an era of political instability and distrust in government, Americans of varying political beliefs are purchasing guns in record numbers. And those millions of new weapons and their owners are bound to remain beyond the reach of politicians' wish lists of restrictive laws.
In recent years, whites and Republicans have been far more likely than minorities and Democrats to report owning guns, but many of the new owners come from different backgrounds than the traditional stereotype. "The highest overall firearm sales increase comes from Black men and women who show a 58.2 percent increase in purchases during the first six months of 2020 versus the same period last year," noted the NSSF.
"First-time gun buyers favor Biden over Trump," the Dallas Morning News reported of pre-election Texas survey results. "In fact, 51% of first-time purchasers surveyed favored Biden, while 43% favored Trump."
As you might expect, this complicates matters for Democrats who have long used gun restrictions as an easy way to bash political enemies while doing minimal harm to their own constituents. With gun ownership becoming a nonpartisan taste, restrictive laws threaten to inconvenience and anger supporters as much as opponents.
Sure enough, "Americans' appetite for gun control is the lowest it has been since 2016," according to Gallup. And while a large majority of Democrats still favor tighter restrictions, support has declined even in that group by five points. New gun owners, along with long-time shooters, are likely to respond to stricter gun laws with prickly defiance.
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Joe* campaigned on a new raft of gun regs. It's part of his* platform.
* Joe's handlers
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrats-filibuster-rule-change-2021-senate-white-house/story?id=71843410
"First-time gun buyers favor Biden over Trump," the Dallas Morning News reported of pre-election Texas survey results. "In fact, 51% of first-time purchasers surveyed favored Biden, while 43% favored Trump."
As you might expect, this complicates matters for Democrats who have long used gun restrictions as an easy way to bash political enemies while doing minimal harm to their own constituents. With gun ownership becoming a nonpartisan taste, restrictive laws threaten to inconvenience and anger supporters as much as opponents.
Sure enough, "Americans' appetite for gun control is the lowest it has been since 2016," according to Gallup. And while a large majority of Democrats still favor tighter restrictions, support has declined even in that group by five points. New gun owners, along with long-time shooters, are likely to respond to stricter gun laws with prickly defiance.