On Tuesday, March 2, congressional Democrats unveiled proposals to take steps to implement new gun control provisions, in response to which the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) expressed strong opposition to the series of bills.
In reintroducing the Bipartisan Background Check Act, House Speaker-Pelosi, Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Chairman Mike Thompson (R-Texas) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) all hope the bill will be approved soon.
Gun industry sources say the plan could skip the committee process and go straight to the House. But once it passes, it will face an uncertain future in the Senate, where some Democrats from pro-gun states are expected to veto it.
“Late last night, Congressional Democrats introduced two extreme gun control bills pushed by Biden and Pelosi,” the NRA tweeted, saying Thompson’s bill would criminalize private gun transfers and Rep. Whip Clyburn’s (Calif.) bill would give the government the right to indefinitely delay gun The right to purchase.
The new legal tweaks make background checks more complicated and give the FBI the option of approving or denying the sale for three days before the gun transaction period. Previously, comparable approvals took only minutes.
This bill increases the burden on small business firearms retailers and spreads the burden of proof on the customer,” said Lawrence Keane, NSSF senior vice president. It would make it so that law-abiding citizens would need to self-prove when exercising their Second Amendment right to purchase a firearm, rather than the government being responsible for proving personal identity. This could result in a law-abiding citizen being denied the right to purchase in a month-long case of evidentiary hardship. That’s not the American way.”
More people bought weapons last year than ever before, in part due to personal safety concerns caused by the Communist virus, violence related to protests like the Antifa, and the turmoil of the 2020 election. Gun sales surged again in January of this year. During the period, more minorities joined the ranks of gun owners, with 8.4 million more new gun owners.
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