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Bullet control? Wasserman Schultz wants background checks for ammunition buyers

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants background checks for ammunition buyers

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is introducing legislation to require background checks for purchasers of ammunition.

Anthony ManBy Anthony Man•Contact Reporter
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March 26, 2018, 6:35 PM

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants a federal law that would require background checks for people who buy ammunition.

“I really think it’s important to underscore that without bullets a gun is just a hunk of useless metal, and a would-be k**ler lacks the means to actually k**l or maim,” she said Monday.

It’s already illegal for convicted felons, domestic abusers and dangerously mentally ill people to buy firearms and ammunition. Background checks also are required for some firearms purchasers, but nothing prevents anyone from buying ammunition.

The current system allows someone to “buy as much ammunition as they want, without so much as being asked their first name, and walk out,” said Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston.

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By itself, the proposal wouldn’t have prevented high-profile shootings: the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, in which 17 people were k**led and 17 wounded; the Oct. 1 shooting that k**led 58 in Las Vegas; or the J*** 6, 2017, shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in which five people were k**led and six wounded.

And the legislation is sure to provoke opposition from many gun owners. The NRA didn’t respond Monday to requests for comment by email or through the organization’s website.

A good sign, Wasserman Schultz said, is that the legislation already has 36 co-sponsors. A not-so-good sign: None are Republicans.

Democrats are the minority party in the House and Senate and rarely have a chance to advance controversial legislation. The fate of the legislation depends on whether leaders in the Republican majority who control the flow of legislation allow its consideration. Republican leaders in the House and Senate have blocked legislation that would restrict firearms.

Wasserman Schultz dismissed the argument that what she called “common sense gun safety laws” would infringe upon Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms.

“You do not have the right to bear bullets,” Wasserman Schultz said at a news conference at the Pembroke Pines Police Department, where she was joined by political leaders, a police representative and teachers and students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Mei-Ling Ho-Shing, a Stoneman Douglas junior, praised the proposal. “If we can attack the bullets, we can stop how many people who can get shot with high-capacity magazines,” she said.

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In connection with other proposals to combat gun violence — such as banning assault weapons and making it harder for mentally ill people to get firearms — Wasserman Schultz said an ammunition-related background check would have a positive effect.

“Put together, woven together, it will provide the safety net that is essential to reduce gun violence. That’s our goal,” she said.

California will require background checks for ammunition buyers beginning July 1, 2019 — something that’s being challenged by the NRA, which has filed multiple lawsuits against the state’s laws regulating ammunition and firearms that it labels “gunmaggedon.”

New York also will soon require background checks for ammunition sales, Wasserman Schultz’s staff said. Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey require background checks to obtain licenses to buy or possess ammunition.

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Wasserman Schultz’s legislation wouldn’t require background checks for people who buy ammunition at shooting ranges or hunting camps and intend to use it at those locations.

Wasserman Schultz, who was joined by her 18-year-old daughter at the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, has seen the effect of gun violence. One of her closest friends, then-U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., was left with a severe brain injury after a Jan. 8, 2011, assassination attempt in which six people were k**led and 13 wounded. Wasserman Schultz was in the hospital room a few days later when Giffords opened her eyes.

Giffords later resigned from Congress and co-founded a gun violence prevention organization with her husband Mark Kelly, a Navy veteran and retired NASA astronaut.

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jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

teabag09 wrote:

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Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong.

This time I h**e being right!

For several years I have been saying that they will get our guns through ammo.

Cut off the supply, which enough of these liberal judges slam the ammo manufacturers with some l*****t garbage to slow down production, and or even stop it temporarily until states like California that already require background check to buy ammo can pass a no ammo law. I'll long believed that somehow ammo will be the tool to ban guns without "infringing" according to the l*****t interpretation of the constitution.

I understand that something has been added to the gun powder currently used in ammo that makes it go bad after a certain time period. I'm not clear on any specifics. But I remember someone saying that loading your own, it's possible to purchase gun powder that will last decades.
What's the point of stocking up on ammo that goes bad.
Do you have any insight?

teabag09

I don't Jack. I do know that they shut down the last lead smelter in this Country a couple of years ago so the ammo makers have switched to copper projectiles. There's always a way to skin a rat if we put our mind to it. Mike

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jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

teabag09 wrote:

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Moving to Idaho is sounding better by the minute, Montana if it wasn't do close to the super volcano. Lol

Ya know, my wife and I moved to California nearer her native American tribe with plans to open a mental health facility /agency and now living here we have learned, most restrictions that Do effect everyday life, the most business unfriendly state and we're in the farthest North (Redding) an over 70% conservative population run by liberals. This city gets paid from cities around California to house p*******es, sex offenders, has unheard of regulations to open and operate a business.
Purchase a piece of property just outside city limits and your in danger of agenda 21, as the state has been forcing people off their land just after they built their dream home to retire in. It's 40k permit to build, and that's just the opening permit followed by many others, highest taxed gasoline in the nation, the ammo ban and a hundred other gotta be completely nuts laws.
We're dead serious about leaving this state and giving a different state and community the benefit of opening a mental health facility.

If you want to know what the lying, deceiving l*****t liberal progressives plan to pass in congress, just keep a watchful eye on this absolutely beautiful state completely destroyed by liberals.

teabag09

Can totally agree with you about Ca. You need to remember that the winds move from west to east. If YS goes up I'm in more danger here in Va. than you are in NCA. Plus you can get live Dungeness, I have to do with frozen. Although I can get and catch Chesapeake Blue Crabs. Jack, I just hope that when the time comes, how ever it comes, we have enough time for a prayer. Mike

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jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

teabag09 wrote:

Can totally agree with you about Ca. You need to remember that the winds move from west to east. If YS goes up I'm in more danger here in Va. than you are in NCA. Plus you can get live Dungeness, I have to do with frozen. Although I can get and catch Chesapeake Blue Crabs. Jack, I just hope that when the time comes, how ever it comes, we have enough time for a prayer. Mike

It is coming Mike, Christians feel it in their soul, and it's not something good. Is the Lord going to provide an escape pre, mid, or post, but he will. Just not sure if we'll have to endure for a short period of time. We feel it coming. Watching Ezekiel 38 Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iran setting up joined together in Syria. Then the peace plan Trump is putting together, while it may not be "the" plan, it very well may forge the way to the seven year plan.
It is by chance that Israel celebrating there 70th birthday (very close to a generation) and Trump declared Jerusalem the Capital? 7 being God's number of fulness, ten sevens or 70th year reborn and the "Apple of God's Eye" Jerusalem officially the first time in thousands of years declared the Capital? No, I believe things are moving according to the will of God to fulfill prophecy.

On another note, I do miss living on the straights of Juan D Fuca filling our crab traps with giant Dungeness Crab. Had the crab cooker on the boat, warmed butter, it just doesn't get any fresher. Silver and King Salmon runs were like fishing in a bucket, 35-50 lb Halibut, True Cod. It was amazing, and pushing my wife to at least consider it a place to call home again.

teabag09

On another note, I do miss living on the straights of Juan D Fuca filling our crab traps with giant Dungeness Crab. Had the crab cooker on the boat, warmed butter, it just doesn't get any fresher. Silver and King Salmon runs were like fishing in a bucket, 35-50 lb Halibut, True Cod. It was amazing, and pushing my wife to at least consider it a place to call home again.

Jack, I think I just began to h**e you! OMG, I'm drooling and I ate at Joe's Crab Shack today.

Yes it's coming and thankfully I and mine are ready, both physically, spiritually and willing to either depose or go willingly depending on what is put before us. Mike

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PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama

I can go to Wall-Mart, buy lead for fishing. Go home, melt the lead down. Put the lead in my Lee Loader with a cartridge and make bullets. So, now we have to ban the sale of any kind lead or metal that can be used for ammunitions . I was trained in IED's. I can go into your kitchen and bathroom right now and make a bomb. Do I want to do it, HELL NO. Would never do it or show anyone else how to do it. The point is do we pass legislation to ban these common household items ? How you gonna get your kitchen sink and commode clean ? How far do we take this ?

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teabag09

You are right. The left has been trying to ban lead sinkers for a good while as they pollute the oceans. The point was that the last lead smelter in this country has been closed down by obas**t and your sinkers are going to cost you more as we have to ship our lead ore over seas to be smelted.

I agree, there are so many chemicals in my house with which to make bombs, gases etc. which can be used to k**l people that most folk don't know about. I always keep a ballpoint pen in my pocket. Mike

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Gatsby

They have been after ammunition since the early 70's, then they used the CPSC in attempt to ban handgun ammunition a hazadous product.

How do they intend to fund a 10 fold increase in NICS staff, to deal with these additional background checks?

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Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

I'm not worried about DWS, she has a one-way ticket to GITMO. As for the end times, it's closer, it will happen, Jesus could return any moment but the tribulation won't begin for at least seven more years. God has things for Trump and Netanyahu to accomplish before that happens with the Temple being just one of many. The Dead Sea has to be brought back to life, Israel has to be so wealthy, safe and secure they remove their walls, China has to finish that highway to the middle east. That dam above Eygpt has to be full of water before it can fail and destroys much of Egypt. And those lost tribes have to be brought back to Israel. Just a few things that have to be in place before the final round up. If and when Donald and Bibi step down from center stage, then things will get iffy really fast. Just my opinion.