Lies repeated often enough
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday won an early round in his high-profile campaign for greater access to federal gun-tracing data.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said she would remove language from a massive spending bill that restricts how much information the government can share about the dealers and purchasers of guns used in crimes.
The language, known as the Tiahrt amendment, has been part of appropriations bills every year since 2003, when Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., first offered it.
While the bill remains in the early stages of review in a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, Mikulski’s action as chairwoman of the panel makes it more difficult for the Tiahrt amendment to survive this year.
“It is time to remove this provision to help bring corrupt gun dealers to justice,” Mikulski said.
A House subcommittee is taking up its version of the bill next week.
Bloomberg and the anti-gunners are full of it. But don’t take my word for it, take the word of the Fraternal Order Of Police or the word of The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.
Update: Hello Babs. I see from my referral logs that someone from your office spent about a minute reading this post. Hopefully, it did some good.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:51 am
I called her office to voice my displeasure and guess what……she has instructed her staff not to pass along comments from non-constituents. When I helpfully pointed out that what she is proposing is a nationwide issue, he basically said “We don’t give a shit” Nice. Guess I will have to call the Harry Reid and complain and Mitch McConnel.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Why is it I see an annual gun registration fee in the future? This is where Bloomberg is going.
They will just keep incrementally making these laws until we have to have a license to have a firearm locked in the closet. H. Ross Bloomberg is a menace to the Constitution.