Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has something to say to gun owners: "Own a gun; lose your coverage!" Baucus' socialized health care bill comes up for a Finance Committee vote on Tuesday. We have waited and waited and waited for the shifty Baucus to release legislative language. But he has refused ...
The first major federal firearms law passed in the 20th century was the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934. It was passed after Prohibition-era gangsterism peaked with the Saint Valentine's Day massacre of 1929. The era was famous for criminal use of firearms such as the Thompson submachine gun (Tommy gun) and ...
BLUMENTHAL: This amendment would ban high-capacity magazines which are used to kill more people more quickly and, in fact, have been used in more than half the mass shootings ... They are in common use, not unusually dangerous, and used by law-abiding citizens in self-defense, as in the case of law enforcement.
Baucus has used the term "uniquely American solution" to describe the end point of current health reform and has said that he believes America is not ready yet for any form of single payer health care. This is the same term the insurance trade association, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), is using. AHIP has ...
Sep 11, 1994 ... Gun lovers call the military-style semiautomatic weapons that will be banned by the crime bill "ugly guns. ... Harriton swung the gun up on his workbench and used a screwdriver to free the cartridge. ... "The attack on the Constitution has nothing to do with crime, or health care, or safety, or the children.
The Baucus health care bill "could be used to ban guns in home self-defense."