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Maybe he wants the gun control act of 1968 repealed. That would be new and improved. ;-{>8

Ted Cruz. Not Tom Cruise.

Isaiah 44:18.

An increase in Gun control is more gun control, no matter how you spin it.

Why is this year old stuff suddenly hot news? Ted�s alterative gun control bill was endorsed by the NRA.

By Jonathan Easley - 04/17/13
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) unveiled an alternative gun control bill on Wednesday.

The announcement comes on a day when the Senate appears likely to block further debate on a bipartisan background checks bill.

�Rather than restricting the rights of law-abiding Americans, we should be focusing on keeping guns out of the hands of violent criminals, which this legislation accomplishes,� Cruz said. �While the Obama Administration continues to politicize a terrible tragedy to push its anti-gun agenda, I am proud to stand beside my fellow senators to present common-sense measures that will increase criminal prosecutions of felons who try to buy guns, criminalize straw purchasing and gun trafficking, and address mental health issues.�

Grassley and Cruz, along with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Dan Coats (R-Ind.) introduced the bill at a press conference Wednesday morning, just hours before the Senate will vote on it and other gun control measures.
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The bill criminalizes straw purchasing and trafficking, measures Grassley supported in committee hearings on the gun control bill that will go before the Senate later this month. It also seeks to increase safety at schools, keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, and increases accountability for prosecutions at the executive level by requiring the Department of Justice to submit reports to Congress.

The senators were particularly critical of the Obama administration�s record of prosecuting background check violations, saying it only took up a small portion of such cases.

The bill does not expand background checks, but rather �focuses on making the backgrounds system work better�by encouraging states to report mental health records,� Cruz said.

The National Rifle Association said it supports the bill.

The bill includes provisions making it easier to purchase and transport firearms across state lines.

The bill would allow for the interstate sale of firearms, and for the interstate transportation of firearms providing certain conditions are met. Guns transported across state lines will have to be unloaded, locked in a vehicle or kept in the trunk.

Another pro-gun provision of the bill will allow military members to buy guns in the states where they�re stationed.

Grassley said the bill was the result of �the combined efforts of many members of the Senate,� and called it �a sensible alternative� to Democratic gun control reform efforts that �addresses problems we�ve seen without burdening law abiding citizens.�


Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...esent-alternative-gun-bill#ixzz2zU9iLFu3

The NRA endorsed the Brady background check system too.
I couldn't disagree more, and am an NRA Life member.

Lets make it real simple.
More gun control is more gun control.

We in the NRA fought the Brady Bill tooth and nail for seven years.

�The National Rifle Association fought the bill with an intense, well-funded lobbying campaign. In the end, the Brady Bill was only able to pass during Thanksgiving break, when a mere three Senators were present to vote on it. All three supported the bill, prompting Vice President Al Gore, then presiding over the Senate, to declare the bill's "unanimous" passing.�
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�Once the Brady Bill was signed into law in 1993 � instituting a five-working-day waiting period and background check for any gun purchase � the NRA funded lawsuits that challenged its constitutionality. In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that forced federal background checks were unconstitutional; these days, background checks are carried out by state and local officials.�


I stand with Ted and the NRA in support of better, fair and more effective means to keep whacko�s and felons from getting firearms.
Those mass shootings headlines do the rest of us no good and harm legal gun owners.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/nra-gun-show-loophole_n_2593937.html


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...8e-a875-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_blog.html


http://www.salon.com/2013/02/01/nra_once_supported_universal_background_checks/


http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...a-says-nra-used-support-expanded-backgr/


Go read the sticky at the top of this page, Then tell us why you think back ground checks work again.

1968 we were told it was the end to all gun control and now in some parts of this nation we have confiscation happening.

Background checks equal soccer mom feel good, make me safer mentality.

I have read that page several times Pat, which leads us right back to what has already been posted about Ted's bill with his "INCREASED" Gun control bill.



http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...esent-alternative-gun-bill#ixzz2zU87cxFy

Go read the sticky

I stand with Ted and the NRA in support of better, more fair and more effective means to keep whacko�s and felons from getting firearms.
Those mass shootings headlines do the rest of us no good and harm legal gun owners.

People kill people.
Anyone who thinks that making it easier for sick people to kill people needs to do a rethink.

Everyone is in favor of better and more effective mental heath programs to stop at least some of those sick people from killing people.
Very few want to address the problem of keeping guns out of the hands of those sick people.

Lock up the whacko�s and felons away from the guns or lock up the guns away from the whacko�s and felons.

Picking up guns and ammo at the local Walmart on your way to shoot a bunch of kids at the local school would not help our odds of picking up our guns and ammo at the local Walmart on our way to shoot a deer or two.

huh?

You left out this part�

The bill criminalizes straw purchasing and trafficking, measures Grassley supported in committee hearings on the gun control bill that will go before the Senate later this month. It also seeks to increase safety at schools, keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, and increases accountability for prosecutions at the executive level by requiring the Department of Justice to submit reports to Congress.

The senators were particularly critical of the Obama administration�s record of prosecuting background check violations, saying it only took up a small portion of such cases.

The bill does not expand background checks, but rather �focuses on making the backgrounds system work better�by encouraging states to report mental health records,� Cruz said.

The National Rifle Association said it supports the bill.

The bill includes provisions making it easier to purchase and transport firearms across state lines.

The bill would allow for the interstate sale of firearms, and for the interstate transportation of firearms providing certain conditions are met. Guns transported across state lines will have to be unloaded, locked in a vehicle or kept in the trunk.

Another pro-gun provision of the bill will allow military members to buy guns in the states where they�re stationed.

Grassley said the bill was the result of �the combined efforts of many members of the Senate,� and called it �a sensible alternative� to Democratic gun control reform efforts that �addresses problems we�ve seen without burdening law abiding citizens.�

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...esent-alternative-gun-bill#ixzz2zU9iLFu3

Yep, here's your wonderful background checks at work.

Sure is refreshing to know we're all safer now, and that no ones rights were trampled on in the process.

Go read the sticky



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/2...n-buyer-in-deadly-kansas-city-shootings/

Maybe you should read something�the whole point of Ted�s bill and supporting statements is that the present background checks are not �wonderful.�
He has said in a dozen different ways, the NRA has said, I have said, that the background checks we are now using have not made us safer nor more free.

His bill must have been doing something right. Dingy Harry killed it in the Senate.

What part of increase don't you understand?
If it saves just one life/child. Who cares whose rights it violates.



Enough!
You like the guy it is OK, I happen to think he is a phonyphuck spin BS politician

Donald Trump: Why I donated to Ted Cruz
By JONATHAN TOPAZ | 4/21/14 Donald Trump isn�t ready to make his presidential endorsement just yet.

The real estate magnate clarified on Monday that a donation he made to Ted Cruz�s political action committee doesn�t mean that he�s supporting Cruz for president in 2016.

Appearing on �Fox and Friends,� Trump praised Cruz, saying, �He�s a nice guy. I get along with him.� But when asked whether his donation signaled his support for Cruz, he said, �No, it doesn�t.�

Last week, it was reported that Trump donated $5,000 to Cruz�s political action committee in January, prompting some to suggest that Trump might be backing the Texas Republican for a possible 2016 White House run.

Explaining the contribution, Trump on Monday also noted that Cruz had spoken at the developer�s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. At an event in February, Trump called the senator �a very special guy� and joked that he liked Cruz because �he�s not controversial.�

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/donald-trump-ted-cruz-donation-105857.html#ixzz2zXrZ0YSP

Obama Signs Bill Sponsored by Ted Cruz


Tuesday, 22 Apr 2014 02:23 PM

By Michael Reagan

It is said politics makes strange bedfellows and it would be tough to find a stranger couple than President Barack Obama and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. But for a brief, shining moment the two elected officials were united in a �bipartisan� moment as Obama signed a bill sponsored by Cruz.



Even better that this example of bipartisanship was not the usual �bipartisan bill� that means Democrats were forced to agree to spend a tiny bit less money, while Republicans got nothing.



This bill was specifically targeted at Hamid Aboutalebi, an Iranian national who was involved in the 1979 invasion of our embassy in Iran and subsequent capture of U.S. citizens who were held hostage. Aboutalebi was recently appointed as Iran�s U.N. ambassador. The Cruz bill forbids issuing him a U.S. visa and effectively bars him from ever entering the country.



The language of the bill specifically bars terrorists, or others felt to be a national security threat by the White House, from using an appointment to the United Nations as a pretext for sneaking into the country. I know you�re probably thinking: Why does it take federal legislation to keep a terrorist out of the USA? Isn�t using common sense enough? But when a country harbors an institution steeped in anti-Americanism like the United Nations, it often requires legislation to make the U.N. behave.



This marks the first time any legislation proposed by Cruz has actually become law. And in this instance the bill was so popular it passed both the House and the Senate by a unanimous voice vote. As Cruz described it in a Business Insider story, �It is a terrific moment of clarity for this country that Congress can act in a bipartisan manner in unison � voting 535-0 � that we should keep acknowledged terrorists out of this country."



Naturally political reporters looked at the Cruz bill through the prism of presidential politics and speculated that it was �a shrewd move that could bolster any ambitions Cruz has toward running for president in 2016.�



Unfortunately, Obama had to ruin the moment by declaring during the signing ceremony that he will �use discretion in enforcing the law.� This turned quickly turned a love fest back into the usual Washington paranoia party.



When one remembers how the president has used �discretion� in enforcing immigration law, adhering to the Obamacare law, and monitoring IRS enforcement practices, it�s hard to see that statement as a positive development.



Michael Reagan is the son of President Ronald Reagan. He is president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation and chairman of the League of American Voters. Mike is an in-demand speaker with Premiere. Read more reports from Michael Reagan � Go Here Now.

Hmmm...a Bill, on Foreign Policy no less, passed unanimously and signed into law written by that "far right extremist" that can't work with anybody else. A "duh" no brainer you say? Why didn't somebody else do it?