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You all need to calm down.
Congress isn't going to do shit in an election year. This is all political theater because the Liberals are screaming for gun control.
No matter how much they say they want more gun laws, they want to keep their jobs more.
I'm not saying don't call and write your reps, but the panic is stupid and does more harm than good.
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The majority of those in office would rather have Clinton win than have Trump.
The GOP is no friend of the 2nd Amendment.
Republicans and Democrats are guilty there. The Republicans created the mess you see as TSA, DHS, etc.... the Patriot Act too. Republicans in NY conspired with Democrats to help pass the SAFE Act. Republican Governors signed AWBs into law in MA, NY, and CA. Bush 41 in 1989 banned the importation of firearms into the country and Bush 43 later in his term banned the import of parts kits with barrels.
We all know the Democrats are Anti-Gun, but don't forget that the Republicans wave the 2nd Amendment around as a carrot on the stick. Sometimes we get the carrot, and sometimes we get the stick.
Gov. George Pataki ran on a pro gun campaign in NY. He passed their AWB.
Gov. Mitt Romney passed their AWB.
Gov. George Deukmejian passed California's first one in 1989.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger passed California's .50 Caliber ban.
NY Senate President Dean Skelos was the lynch pin that got the SAFE Act passed in NY.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich voted to have the 1994 Federal AWB passed when he was in Congress.
President GHW Bush in 1989 restricted "Non Sporting" Firearms from being imported into the country.
President GW Bush in the 2000s restricted parts kits with barrels form being imported since they were "Machine Gun" Parts.
President Reagan in 1968 when he was California Gov. outlawed Open Carry and passed the 15 Day waiting period. In 1989 he said that Americans should not be able to own AK and other "Assault Weapons". His own words. "I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense," he said. "But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home."
All were Republicans.
As I said..... we know that the Democrats are scum sucking leaches that wish to strip us of our rights but the GOP is not the innocent creature of Pro 2nd Amendment ideals that many think they are.
Paul Ryan said that the Republican Party is not the Conservative party. And that sent everyone into raving madness when he said it. Only in the last five to ten years has there been any substantial development of republicans being interested in individual rights and that is used as a carrot on a stick to keep us voting for them and even then they aren't for true individual rights and freedoms.