Gun Control Measures Taken In Congress
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Both U-S senators from Arkansas were among a
small minority supporting an amended bill to immunize the gun
industry from lawsuits.
The Senate rejected the bill 90-to-eight today after gun-control
measures were tacked onto the bill as amendments. Those amendments
would extend the assault weapons ban and require background checks
on buyers at gun shows.
Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, both Democrats,
supported both of the amendments. Many Republicans rejected the
final version of the bill because of the changes, which narrowly
passed.
Pryor and Lincoln joined fellow Democrats Tom Daschle of South
Dakota, John Breaux of Louisiana and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut
in supporting the amended bill. Republicans George Voinovich of
Ohio, John McCain of Arizona and Richard Lugar of Indiana also
supported the amended bill.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
