Ted Cruz Debates Democrat Senators On Background Checks

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Many short-sighted and ignorant people always ask what's wrong with background checks as if their solution is just so obvious. Well, Ted Cruz educates the Senate why their gun control proposals are wrong and he himself provides the real solution to gun violence.

Expanded background checks, assault weapons ban, and magazine limits won't work.

What WILL work: Target and prosecute violent criminals, felons, and fugitives who try to purchase guns. Provide resources to improve the existing background checks to red flag mental health issues. Provide resources to keep our schools safe.

www.cruz.senate.gov

In the video you will see Senators Leahy, Chuck Schumer, and Joe Manchin question Ted Cruz. Cruz responds with precision and clarity. He also demolishes his opponents gun control proposals.

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Many short-sighted and ignorant people always ask what's wrong with background checks as if their solution is just so obvious. Well, Ted Cruz educates the Senate why their gun control proposals are wrong and he himself provides the real solution to gun violence.

Expanded background checks, assault weapons ban, and magazine limits won't work.

What WILL work: Target and prosecute violent criminals, felons, and fugitives who try to purchase guns. Provide resources to improve the existing background checks to red flag mental health issues. Provide resources to keep our schools safe.

www.cruz.senate.gov

In the video you will see Senators Leahy, Chuck Schumer, and Joe Manchin question Ted Cruz. Cruz responds with precision and clarity. He also demolishes his opponents gun control proposals.

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Kinda hard to implement Cruz's measures when the ATF is hamstrung by the GOP.

A review of congressional legislative records, federal lobbying disclosure forms, as well as interviews with former ATF agents, shows how the NRA has repeatedly supported legislation to weaken several of the nation's gun laws and opposed any attempt to boost the ability of the Bureau of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to enforce current laws, including:

•The Firearms Owners' Protection Act of 1986. This law mandated that the ATF could only inspect firearms dealers once a year. It reduced record-keeping penalties from felonies to misdemeanors, prohibited the ATF from computerizing purchase records for firearms and required the government to prove that a gun dealer was "willful" if they sold a firearm to a prohibited person.
•The Tiahrt amendments. Beginning in 2003, the amendments by then-representative Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., to the Justice Department's appropriation bill included requirements such as the same-day destruction of FBI background check documents and limits on the sharing of data from traces.
•Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Reform and Firearms Modernization Act. Most recently introduced in 2011, the bill proposed changing several regulations, including redefining the burden of proof for agents investigating firearms dealers accused of selling to prohibited individuals and capping fines for other violations.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/02/07/nra-interferes-with-atf-operations/1894355/