Liberals are truly seizing the day, using the fervor generated by this past weekend’s March For Our Lives rally and all the anti-gun sentiment floating around online to introduce a new bill that’s designed to control ammunition.
The new legislation, which was recently announced by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, would require folks looking to buy ammunition to submit to a background check.
The Daily Caller has more details:
“You do not have the right to bear bullets,” said Congresswoman and former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz at a press conference Monday announcing the introduction of a bill that would require instant background checks to purchase ammunition.
The Ammunition Background Check Act was introduced by Wasserman Schultz in the House and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) in the Senate. Like its name implies, it would require anyone looking to buy bullets to be subjected to background checks, similar to the one required to purchase a firearm in the first place.
Without background checks on ammunition sales, there’s nothing to stop dangerous people – barred from buying guns – from amassing vast ammunition arsenals. This ludicrous loophole puts lives at risk.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) March 26, 2018
I’m introducing the Ammunition Background Check Act w/ @DWStweets. This commonsense measure will enforce federal law by requiring background checks on sales of ammunition.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) March 26, 2018
Background checks on ammunition sales will make it harder for dangerous people to circumvent law and acquire the resources to commit gun violence. We should pass this simple, commonsense fix right away.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) March 26, 2018
This is simply a “backdoor” measure to place more strict gun control laws in place without actually controlling the weapons themselves. This allows establishment politicians on both sides to back a bill that isn’t technically gun control, but will also please Democrat voters.
After all, what good is it to own a gun if you don’t have ammunition?
How sad is it that a woman who is a government representative of an entire segment of the United States population doesn’t understand that the Second Amendment right to bear arms obviously includes ammunition, as they are a part of what makes a gun an “arm” to begin with?
It seems people in this country are having a real hard time grasping that whole “shall not be infringed” part of the amendment, doesn’t it?
