Fri, Feb 04, 2011
Senator Frank Lautenberg Is Leading The Effort In Support Of
Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy
In the U.S. House of Representatives, which is now being led
by Republicans, amendments to legislation are supposed to be
"germane" to that legislation by House rules. In the Senate, there
is no such prohibition, and amendments can be completely unrelated
to the underlying bill.
That may be the reason Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) has
reportedly asked Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) to try to
introduce her bill to ban gun magazines of over 10 rounds as an
amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill which is currently
pending in the Senate.
ANN got wind of the move from a reader who directed us to
ammoland.com, which is issuing a call to action to its readers to
contact their Senators to oppose the amendment. Representative
McCarthy crafted the bill as a response to the recent shooting in
Tucson, AZ. In a news release on her website, McCarthy said the
bill "brings the nation to the same 10-round-maximum standard used
in four other states today, as well as nationwide for a decade
while the previous federal assault weapons ban was in effect. It
closes a gaping loophole in the previous ban in which magazines
manufactured before the law went into effect could still be sold or
transferred."
McCarthy's husband was killed and her son seriously wounded by a
gunman on the Long Island Railroad in 1993.
Aero-Analysis: We'll leave the debate over gun
control and the Second Amendment for another time. The FAA
Reauthorization bill is critically important to the aviation
community, and should not serve as a vehicle to attempt to pass
controversial, non-germane legislation. Congresswoman McCarthy
likely knows her bill would not stand on its own merits in a
Republican-controlled House of Representative. We would urge the
Senate to pass a clean FAA Reauthorization bill, and leave the
non-aviation issues for another day. We've been left in limbo too
long to let another side issue derail this important
legislation.
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