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BREAKING: Manchin-Toomey Amendment Defeated In Senate

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Posted on April 17, 2013 by Dan Zimmerman

After Pat Toomey touted his gun ownership and NRA A rating, followed by Joe Manchin stating that “if you want to remember those 20 babies and six brave adults in Newtown, you’ll consider voting for this bill” the Manchin-Toomey background check amendment went down to defeat in the Senate this afternoon. The amendment, which needed 60 votes for passage, only drew 54 affirmatives.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

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By a vote of 54 to 46, the Senate defeated the Manchin-Toomey Amendment to S649, the gun legislation bill which Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) introduced last week. The amendment would have expanded background checks for the purchase of firearms as well as create a commission to study the causes of mass violence in the U.S. There are eight more amendments to be voted on.



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    • alan479

      I’m sure that this amendment would not have stopped at background checks. The goal of the fascists is for background checks for all gun owners to determine where and who has any guns and then confiscate them.

      • UKBlows

        It actually DID allow for a national registry to be created by the AG (Eric “gun runner” Holder) from retired FFL files. Rest assured they won’t stop and the definition of “mentally ill” will surely become a LOT broader in scope. They are already pinning false crimes on people through NICS who have clean civilian records and having the CITIZEN pay to fix it. They need to fix the current one and actually enforce the current laws, which they don’t now.

      • Equalizer

        Over the weekend, we came four votes away from the United States Senate giving our Constitutional rights over to the United Nations. In a 53-46 vote, the senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
        The Statement of Purpose from the bill read:
        To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
        The U.N. Small Arms Treaty, which has been championed by the Obama Administration, would have effectively placed a global ban on the import and export of small firearms. The ban would have affected all private gun owners in the U.S., and had language that would have implemented an international gun registry on all private guns and ammo.
        Astonishingly, 46 of our United States Senators were willing to give away our Constitutional rights to a foreign power.

        LIST OF TRAITORS

        Here are the 46 senators that voted to give your rights to the U.N.

        Baldwin (D-WI)
        Baucus (D-MT)
        Bennet (D-CO)
        Blumenthal (D-CT)
        Boxer (D-CA)
        Brown (D-OH)
        Cantwell (D-WA)
        Cardin (D-MD)
        Carper (D-DE)
        Casey (D-PA)
        Coons (D-DE)
        Cowan (D-MA)
        Durbin (D-IL)
        Feinstein (D-CA)
        Franken (D-MN)
        Gellibrand (D-NY) Harkin (D-IA)
        Hirono (D-HI)
        Johnson (D-SD)
        Kaine (D-VA)
        King (I-ME)
        Klobuchar (D-MN)
        Landrieu (D-LA)
        Leahy (D-VT)
        Levin (D-MI)
        McCaskill (D-MO)
        Menendez (D-NJ)
        Merkley (D-OR)
        Mikulski (D-MD)
        Murphy (D-CT)
        Murray (D-WA)
        Nelson (D-FL)
        Reed (D-RI)
        Reid (D-NV)
        Rockefeller (D-WV)
        Sanders (I-VT)
        Schatz (D-HI)
        Schumer (D-NY)
        Shaheen (D-NH)
        Stabenow (D-MI)
        Udall (D-CO)
        Udall (D-NM)
        Warner (D-VA)
        Warren (D-MA)
        Whitehouse (D-RI)
        Wyden (D-OR

        These Senators voted to let the UN take our guns. They need to lose the election. We have been betrayed. These 46 Senators Voted to Give your 2nd Amendment Constitutional Rights to the U.N.

    • YEA RIGHT

      CAPS ON CAUSE I’M SCREAMING,,,,,,,,,,,

      BACKGROUND CHECK THE USELESS MO FO IN THE WHITE MOSQUE,,,,,,,,

      NOW,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • WatchingWatchers

      46 TRAITORS

      • UKBlows

        54 TRAITORS, a lot who will be leaving office

    • wizard

      Burn their institutions to the ground or you will never get rid of them.

    • foresight

      Oh grow up. You people think that crazy people can only use guns to kill and injure people and kids? Look at Boston. Your great idea is to reduce the rights of law abiding gun owners and citizens, while illegal guns sales will soar. You are in your home with your beloved family, 3 armed home invaders crash in, and now what? You will defend your family with a knife. Or you will succumb and let them do as they please with your family?

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