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unfy:
http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Gun-control-debate-continues-Coburn-offers/TDLWA7ThkEy9L8k5tDi5jg.cspx

Coburn (MD) amendment mentionings...

unfy:
Sorry for post bloat

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/17/1202553/-Senate-prepares-to-vote-on-nine-gun-amendments-Few-will-be-approved


--- Quote ---• Manchin-Toomey amendment
• Grassley substitute amendment: would provide more money for school safety, for stepped-up prosecution of felons, and for mental health; stepped-up prosecutions of felons who try to get guns; allow interstate transport of guns
• Leahy-Collins amendment: would impose tougher penalties on gun trafficking and straw purchasers
• Cornyn amendment: would federalize interstate reciprocity for concealed-carry permits
• Feinstein amendment: would ban assault weapons and impose an ammunition magazine limit of 10 rounds
• Burr amendment: would mandate that people can only be barred from buying firearms for mental health reasons when a judicial authority has made that determination
• Lautenberg-Blumenthal amendment: would impose a limit of 10 rounds in ammunition magazines
• Barrasso amendment: would penalize states and constituent jurisdictions for releasing gun data regarding private citizens
• Harkin-Alexander amendment: Mental health programs in schools

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Reading the text of the Collins amendment... uhhhh.... that's an AWB, not a straw purchase thing.  WTF ?

Lmbass14:
Got this from NRA:

Today, the misguided Manchin-Toomey-Schumer proposal failed 54-46 in the U.S. Senate. Six other amendments were also defeated:

Grassley-Cruz-Graham substitute amendment – Failed 52-48
Leahy-Collins trafficking amendment – Failed 58-42
Cornyn right-to-carry reciprocity amendment – Failed 57-43
Feinstein gun & magazine ban amendment – Failed 40-60
Burr protection of veterans’ gun rights amendment – Failed 56-44
Launtenberg-Blumenthal magazine ban amendment – Failed 46-54

See how your Senators voted here: http://tinyurl.com/acpl6sy

unfy:

--- Quote from: unfy on April 17, 2013, 06:27:41 PM ---Reading the text of the Collins amendment... uhhhh.... that's an AWB, not a straw purchase thing.  WTF ?

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OK, I suck at the Internet or using indexes.

It was in relation to straw purchase stuff and horribly done at that heh.

GreyGeek:

--- Quote from: unfy on April 17, 2013, 03:59:43 PM ---edit: i suck at typing
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But not at posting interesting technical msgs!

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