Republican Susan Collins is going to get a ‘test vote’ on her gun-control amendment today in the Senate, a bill which once again puts the onus of due process on the individual and not the state. In other words, there is no due process.
The reason it’s being called a ‘test vote’ is simply that the vote will be whether to table the amendment. It will need 60 votes in order to stay alive:
THE HILL – Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said her bipartisan bill to block those on terrorist watchlists from buying a gun will be getting a test vote as soon as Thursday afternoon.
“There’s an agreement to get votes and I’m very happy about that,” she told reporters. “That will allow me to determine whether we have majority support, and I’m hopeful that we will.”
Her comments came as Republicans huddled to discuss the compromise gun legislation.
Collins said it was her “best bet” that a vote on a motion to table her proposal, which is being offered as an amendment to a broader spending bill, would take place Thursday afternoon.
The legislation would allow the attorney general to block the sale of a gun if an individual is on the no-fly list or what’s called the “selectee list,” which requires additional screening at an airport.
It would also allow the decision to be appealed and would notify the FBI if someone who was the subject of a terror investigation within the past five years buys a gun.
Susan Collins is playing right into the hands of Democrats. Instead of putting the focus on the failures of the Obama administration in stopping the Orlando shooter, she’s proposing more gun-control.
And her legislation does what the Democrat legislation did. It allows the AG to BLOCK a gun purchase and then the wannabe-gun purchaser must appeal the decision to get it overturned.
The 2nd amendment is a fundamental right and cannot just be taken away because someone is on a list. There is no due process in this whatsoever. If the court wants to take away the right, they need to prove their case or at least prove they have a case against someone.