Trib: Jeers To Crapo, Risch

In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Lewiston Tribune editorialist Marty Trillhaase gives jeers to …

… U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, R-Idaho. Disagreements aside, rarely have they given us reason to be ashamed of them. Wednesday was just such a day. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin and Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey had worked out a modest gun purchasing background check compromise. They needed 60 votes. Thanks to Crapo, Risch and others, they came up six votes short. What were Crapo and Risch afraid of? Not the bill. This wasn’t an assault weapons ban. It didn’t curtail the size of high-capacity magazines. The Second Amendment remained intact. Manchin-Toomey merely extended a law that already applies to gun sales in retail stores to those purchased at gun shows. It didn’t interfere with most private sales. It banned any attempt to transform background checks into a registry. More here .

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