SCOTUS Bump Stock Ban Decision, Stephen Halbrook, and Senate Actions
BY Herschel Smith
6 months ago
Here is Mark Smith on the recent bump stock ban decision.
Here is Stephen Halbrook’s article in Reason. I haven’t read the comments – I never do at Reason because it’s made up mostly of arrogant and argumentative communists who think they know more than they do.
In recent news, the senate took up this matter.
Senate Republicans blocked Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) attempt to move forward legislation to ban bump stocks, reigniting a pre-election messaging battle over gun control measures.
Why it matters: The Supreme Court’s decision to toss a Trump-era ban on bump stocks has given Schumer an opening to put some of the chamber’s Republicans in the position of defending the gun attachment, which was used in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) asked senators for unanimous consent Tuesday afternoon to pass a bill that would ban bump stocks, but Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) objected, thwarting the effort.
The bipartisan bill had little chance of passing the chamber and was instead introduced to force Republicans to reject it.
I would have proudly rejected it and explained to my constituency why I did so. I would have run on that rejection. The senate republicans had better reject it.
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On June 18, 2024 at 11:27 pm, Georgiaboy said:
If the members of the “world’s greatest legislative body” a.k.a. the United States Congress, were actually doing their jobs as oversight for agencies like the ATF and FBI, someone – perhaps a group of legislators – would be turning over rocks and digging into the mass-shooting at Las Vegas in 2017 at the country music festival.
The reason is that there are any number of inconsistencies and unanswered questions concerning that event, including the official conclusion that a classic loner/patsy, a Lee Harvey Oswald sort by the name of Stephen Paddock was responsible for the carnage.
Military veterans, including some with combat experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, were present at the site of the shooting, and several eye-witnesses reported that – contrary to the officially-sanctioned version of the episode, there was not a lone gunman firing from the hotel/resort but multiple firing positions with aural/visual signatures consistent with fully-automatic weapons and not a bump-stock AR15. Moreover, not only were there multiple gunmen, but they were firing from different floors.
The fact alone that the FBI “big-footed” the local investigation by the Las Vegas authorities ~ in other words, showed up and took over and promptly clamped a lid on things ~ is yet more evidence that the “official version” of those events was well-short of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
And why would the agency – the FBI – need to clamp such a lid of secrecy on the whole thing, unless there is something that the deep-state deemed too-sensitive for the population at large to know? People with nothing to hide, which is what the feds are claiming to be, do not behave in such fashion.
And the claim that Paddock managed to get a whole room full of weapons, ammo and tactical gear into a room and past the numerous overlapping security measures without being detected is risible on its face. Resorts like Mandalay Bay are among the most-secure and surveilled places of their kind on earth; there are security cameras, controlled access, security guards, and numerous other safeguards in place to prevent the sort of incident which occurred. It beggers belief that none of his preparations were caught on camera or in some other manner.
It is also highly suspect that the room itself did not resemble one in which a high-volume of small arms fire had taken place. Firing positions of the kind that Paddock was alleged to have constructed/used have a characteristic appearance, odor, and even taste to them. Hundreds or even thousands of spent brass casings, the smell and taste or cordite in the air, etc. A great deal of soot, dirt and residue, all of which are forensically significant.
The photos of the crime scene released by the Feds appear far-too-pristine to be what they are claimed to have been.
Is it too much to ask that Congress actually establishes the truth – the real and authentic version of what happened on that day – before presuming to make policy based upon those same events? Apparently, even this modest demand is too much for them, since no one with any clout has challenged the official report.
Question: Why do the black-bag types use false-flag operations and other such deceptions so often?
Answer: Because they work, and because the voters (a.k.a. rubes) keep falling for them…
On June 19, 2024 at 9:07 am, Matt said:
@Georgiaboy: I agree with your analysis. I also think that Paddock was the Oswald in the LV shooting. Could he have easily open fired from the 32nd floor down into the crowd? Absolutely. I’ve stayed at Mandalay Bay and had a room whose view was into the concert area that night. So my conclusion upon seeing this was, yes-it would be shooting fish in a barrel.
I just don’t think he was the only one shooting into a crowd that night. The behavior of the Feds makes me too question what might have really been going on.
On June 19, 2024 at 12:31 pm, Josey Wales said:
The fact that the “shooter” supposedly removed an 800lb window from the 32nd floor, single handedly, and placed it, undamaged, in his room is enough for any thinking person to understand he could not have possibly committed this act alone.
On June 19, 2024 at 10:47 pm, 41mag said:
Even better idea.
Reject the bill but bring up the ATF witholding evidence on the Paddock shooting. Ask the ATF to provide all photos from that day, all testimony, and being hard copying videos of that day.
Open the whole closet on that day.