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McCarthy: House leaders begin bipartisan talks after deadly shootings
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This effort to build a bipartisan group is on a separate track from talks about a Republican gun measure. House conservatives have opposed that bill, arguing it infringed on Second Amendment rights, so Ryan and other leaders had to delay any action on it after initially planning a vote this week. And House Democrats continue to insist they want votes on a bill to expand background checks for private gun sales and on a measure to ban guns to those on a terror watch list. |
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PHORTO
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Two things:
1) Private sales are not commerce, so the federal commerce clause power does not extend to them. There is no delegation of federal power to regulate them.
2) "No-fly list" prohibitions on gun sales are patently unconstitutional because fundamental rights cannot be suspended without due process of law.
I don't hear any noise about these two irrefutable points from any of "our" side up on Capitol Hill, do you? |
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