Gun Show Bill and the 2nd Amendment Update

Alan Gottlieb discusses the latest gun show bill, 2nd Amendment rights and current lawsuits in Washington D.C., Chicago and California.

Twice before, the U.S. Senate has passed a particularly controversial gun-control bill, only to have it wind up in a ditch when it moved to the House. So why are gun-rights advocates getting heated about the Senate's third attempt?

Alan Gottlieb, Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, says it has a lot to do with the political landscape in Congress this time.

The issue at hand is known as the "gun show loophole," an exception to the Brady Bill signed into law in 1993 that requires an instant background check of anyone wanting to buy a handgun. The loophole is this: In 30 states, the background check is not required when individuals are buying or selling their own personal firearms at gun shows.

"There is no rational reason to oppose closing the loophole," argues Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), one of the sponsors of the bill. "The reason it's still not closed is simple. The continuing power of the special interest gun lobby in Washington."

But Gottlieb says Lautenberg's anti-gun bill is really aimed at putting gun shows out of business. It is written so that gun shows where gun owners also exercise their First Amendment Rights to politically organize will become extinct.

Alan is the Publisher of Gun Week and The Gottlieb-Tartaro Report. He is the Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, serves on the Board of Directors of the American Conservative Union, President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, President of the American Political Action Committee and President of NoInternetTax.org.

Comments

[Clay Shooting]

I have got my own opinion about this issue.I personally believe that the only people who should be denied the right to bear arms are those with debilitating or dangerous mental illness (e.g. not depression, etc) and felons with *violent* felony convictions (murder, assault, rape, and *not fraud, embezzlement, etc). In other words, those who are much more likely to use a firearm in a criminal act.