{"id":18333,"date":"2019-01-09T14:17:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T19:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18333"},"modified":"2019-01-09T14:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T19:17:52","slug":"rep-kings-priority-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18333","title":{"rendered":"Rep. King&#8217;s priority item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peteking.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Pete King<\/a> has a long history of being a RINO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wskg.org\/news\/republicans-from-new-york-pennsylvania-back-expanded-gun-background-checks-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That tradition continues in the new Congress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Tuesday, on the eighth anniversary of the 2011 Tucson shooting that gravely injured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giffords.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giffords<\/a> and left six people dead, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced gun legislation to extend existing background check requirements to almost all gun sales and most gun transfers, including Internet sales, at gun shows and person-to-person transactions, with certain exemptions for immediate family. The bill is co-sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/mikethompson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reps. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/peteking.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter King, R-N.Y.<\/a>, and includes four additional original GOP co-sponsors: Reps. <a href=\"https:\/\/fitzpatrick.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/upton.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fred Upton of Michigan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/chrissmith.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Smith of New Jersey<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mast.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Mast of Florida<\/a> &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bill has not yet been assigned a number.\u00a0 You can see <a href=\"https:\/\/mikethompson.house.gov\/sites\/mikethompson.house.gov\/files\/THOMCA_001_xml%20%28002%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the draft<\/a> in Thompson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mikethompson.house.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/chairman-thompson-joins-democrats-and-republicans-to-introduce-bipartisan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> from yesterday.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D18333&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18333\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18333\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18333\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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That tradition continues in the new Congress: &#8220;&#8230; Tuesday, on the eighth anniversary of the 2011 Tucson shooting that gravely injured Giffords and left six people dead, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced gun legislation to extend existing background check requirements to almost all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D18333&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18333\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18333\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18333\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18334,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions\/18334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}