It’s also known as The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) Modernization and Reform Act. A summary of the bill is here. The text is here. My SWOT analysis is it’s an incremental step in the right direction. Note to absolutists, if you drive a truck 20 miles in, you have to drive it 20 miles out.

That said, here’s the latest stuff:

Jeff says our old buddy Diane ’38 in her purse for me but not for thee’ Feinstein has used that Senate hold thing on the bill:

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has frozen a bill that she says would gut federal agents’ ability to shut down or severely penalize reckless gun dealers.

Bloomberg is a step away from taking his toys and going home:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg unleashed a tirade on Congress yesterday for pushing gun legislation that, he said, leaves it easier to track the origins of tainted spinach than a cache of illegal firearms.

Speaking yesterday near the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., where he called for tougher gun laws in that state, Bloomberg drew a direct link between gun-related violence and proposed legislation that makes it harder to track illegal guns and penalize rogue dealers.

McCarthy, as usual, channels Captain Coo Coo Banana:

“In my 10 years in Congress I’ve never seen a bill with a more misleading name than HR 5092, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Modernization and Reform Act of 2006. Instead of modernizing or reforming the ATF, this bill simply undermines the Bureau’s ability to crack down on the most corrupt and negligent gun dealers and traffickers.

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