Senator Reed Takes Up
Lautenberg's Torch
Jack Reed (D-RI) |
Anti-gun extremists in the U.S. Senate do not intend to miss a
single opportunity to sound their anti-gun charge, and this week,
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) began blowing his own horn.
Reed
held a news conference on Tuesday to announce that he would
introduce legislation next year targeting gun shows, which will
likely closely mirror retiring Sen. Frank Lautenberg's (D-N.J.)
efforts to end gun shows as we know them today from this past
Congress.
At the news conference, which was attended by Sen. Dick
Durbin (D-Ill.), Lautenberg, and several other proponents of
attacks on the Second Amendment, the retiring New Jersey Senator
stated, "I hope my absence won't make the NRA's heart grow
fonder. They're not going to fare any better without me." Reed
commented, "Unfortunately, regrettably and indefensibly, the
House leadership bottled this (Lautenberg's legislation) up and
failed to bring it up for a vote."
Of course, it was a group of
anti-gun Democrats in the House that worked to defeat legislation
that addressed gun shows in the last Congress.
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