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Maraya1969

(22,441 posts)
Wed Jun 14, 2017, 08:20 PM Jun 2017

House committee was set to ease more restrictions for hand gun silencers today


House committee was set to quietly ease gun restrictions hours before baseball field rampage



A Mere hours after a gunman opened fire at an early-morning Congressional baseball practice, a House committee was set to consider a bill that would make it easier to buy silencers for firearms.

The House Committee on Natural Resources Wednesday cancelled “until further notice” the legislative hearing on the SHARE Act. As mic.com reports, embedded in the GOP version of the bill is a provision that would loosen restrictions on firearms, including allow felons and domestic abusers to buy silencers.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/house-committee-was-set-to-quietly-ease-gun-restrictions-hours-before-baseball-field-rampage/
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