Pelosi: Universal Background Checks Are ‘Base’ From Which To Start

By Tom Knighton

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi isn’t a fan of guns.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Breaking news and all that. She, like most Democrats in Congress, have been on the gun control bandwagon for a while now. The lack of movement during her previous stint as Speaker wasn’t because she liked guns, but because she knew it was political suicide. Now, though, Democrats are emboldened and ready to push through efforts to infringe on the Second Amendment.

Now, Pelosi is ready to deal and it looks like Republicans are willing to give Democrats at least some of what they want on guns.

Democrats are feeling pretty full of themselves. So full, in fact, that they’re making demands.

Lawmakers hope to gain support for a Senate vote on House Resolution 8, or HR 8, a bipartisan bill that would require background checks for private gun sales — including those from gun shows and made over the internet — and would close loopholes for certain kinds of gun sales. The push comes in the wake of recent shootings in Texas and Dayton.

The Democratic-controlled House passed H.R. 8 in February in a 240-190 vote, with eight Republicans and all but two Democrats supporting …Read the Rest

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