Sunday Shooting Review

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63. you walked right into THAT one!

so if whiney wayney is an idiot for opposing background checks, that other thing he opposes, the AWB, must be good, too!

in REALITY, most people want gun laws, and the nra are fucking it all up as usual.

An unlikely coalition of gun-rights advocates and firearms opponents joined forces in the House of Representatives on Friday, June 18 to kill gun-control legislation by a 280-147 vote. Gun control advocates, mostly Democrats, said the bill was fatally weakened by an amendment passed early Friday morning. Some gun-rights members opposed even the milder restrictions. see vote.

At issue was a National Rifle Association-backed amendment to the bill sponsored by Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich.

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/guns/House_breakdown.php

Democrats generally voted against the measure and Republicans generally voted for it, but the deviations from the party lines tended to correspond to the gun-rights money members had raised for their campaigns.

Among Republicans who accepted no gun-rights contributions in 1997-98, votes were almost evenly split. But among the 150 Republicans who took money from gun-rights contributors, just 12 voted against the amendment. Likewise 152 of the 163 "no" votes by Democrats came from members who accepted no gun-rights money. Of the 44 Democratic members who took gun-rights contributions, 33 favored Dingell’s amendment.