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In reply to the discussion: Bad News for the NRA - people are fugging serious [View all]farminator3000
(2,117 posts)But Biden on Thursday cast the coming recommendations as coming from the groups he has met and not the administration. He said he's repeatedly been told there's a need for universal background checks on those who purchase guns, and that a ban on high-capacity magazines is necessary.
"There is a surprising so far a surprising recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks, not just close the gun show loophole but totally universal background checks including private sales," Biden added.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/276539-biden-gun-violence-proposals-will-hit-obamas-desk-by-tuesday
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/nyregion/new-york-nears-gun-control-tightening-laws.html?pagewanted=1
In his State of the State address Wednesday, the governor told lawmakers it was their duty to stop the madness of violence.
Forget the extremists its simple, Mr. Cuomo said to a crescendo of applause. No one hunts with an assault rifle. No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer.
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"I can't imagine a better team," writes novelist Douglas Anthony Cooper in a Huffington Post op-ed Wednesday titled "Now We Know Who's Going to Take Down the NRA." Bloomberg alone has "singlehandedly demonstrated that the NRA can indeed be conquered in the manner proposed: by doing precisely what [NRA chief lobbyist Wayne] LaPierre's militia does, with comparable funding, and here's the crucial difference principles."
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Meanwhile, Giffords, Bloomberg, Cuomo, and a handful of other high-profile figures are expected to ramp up a well-funded ground campaign to try to challenge the NRA and its opposition to any kind of gun control.
"If they continue to make it a priority, it could succeed," says Spitzer.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0110/Gun-control-dream-team-is-born-Can-it-rival-NRA-for-political-firepower