Larry Craig and Dianne Feinstein strike deal on S 397
This "deal" better not make it to the President.[/align][/align]Senate moving to protect gun industry
By Joanne Kenen
Reuters
Thursday, July 14, 2005; 6:09 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The gun industry is likely to win sweeping protection against civil liability lawsuits in the U.S. Senate this month, reflecting a more firearm-friendly Senate after the 2004 elections, lawmakers said on Thursday.
Last year the Republicans killed their own bill, meant to shield gunmakers, gun distributors and gun sellers against many liability suits, after gun opponents attached amendments to it, including an extension of the 1994 ban on assault rifles.
But the November elections left a bigger Republican majority and the Senate is now a more conservative and more pro-gun rights body. Several Democrats, particularly from rural states, also back the immunity measure.
Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, lead backer of the legal protections bill, said he was confident it would win Senate approval with few unpalatable amendments. A vote is likely in the next two weeks.
Even if mostly Democratic gun control advocates do manage to attach some amendments, Craig said the strategy this time would not be to dump the bill but remove anything objectionable in conference with the House (of Representatives).
"We hope we can defeat amendments and keep the bill clean except for the one amendment I agreed to let Senator Feinstein pass.," Craig said in a brief interview.
California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a co-author of the 1994 assault weapons ban that Congress allowed to expire last year, said she would still try to amend the liability bill, but in more modest ways than last year.
For instance, instead of trying to reinstate the assault weapons ban, she said she would try to limit sales of powerful 50 caliber weapons so that they could only be sold through federally licensed dealers, not at gun shows.
"Senator Craig said he would vote for my sniper rifle bill if that is all I offered. I really don't like the underlying bill but it's probably the only way to get restrictions on ultra deadly sniper weapons. I accept Senator Craig's compromise. If it passes the senator has assured me he will fight to keep it even in conference"
The Senate Republican majority gained four seats, and some of the new Democrats are also opposed to tightening gun controls.[/align]
RE: Larry Craig and Dianne Feinstein strike deal on S 397
Right no deals!
These polticans love to play stroke me i will stroke you-with each other.
I still remember the one time i wrote sen, Al simpson- excentric consertive? alien? - the letter i got back - sounded morelike chucky shumer instead.
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"Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago.
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RE: Larry Craig and Dianne Feinstein strike deal on S 397
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and, be honest, a restriction on 50 calibers isn't alot to give.
If you give me your finger can i take your arm? Why give up anything?
Why stop at the 50. cal?Why not take all the so called " deadly sniper rifles?"
No reason not too? Those who shoot them are but a small minority in this country.
Honest? When it comes to poltices it is easy to see who you are- just another liberal gun grabber-
I make no deals- you will have to take what is mine &what you want that is mine.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~Will Rogers
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
"Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago.
There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. R.Reagan-1960
RE: Larry Craig and Dianne Feinstein strike deal on S 397
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ORIGINAL: Knightia
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and, be honest, a restriction on 50 calibers isn't alot to give.
If you give me your finger can i take your arm? Why give up anything?
Why stop at the 50. cal?Why not take all the so called " deadly sniper rifles?"
No reason not too? Those who shoot them are but a small minority in this country.
Honest? When it comes to poltices it is easy to see who you are- just another liberal gun grabber-
I make no deals- you will have to take what is mine &what you want that is mine.
i don't have a problem with your opinion...it's ok.
i am somewhat amused at the name calling though....it makes me laugh a little.[8D]
Larry Craig and Dianne Feinstein strike deal on S 397
