I will first quote an excerpt from AG Kathleen Jennings’ statement on yesterday’s Texas massacre:
Our state and our nation must choose change, including a ban on the military-style assault rifles that both shooters are reported to have used. It’s also long past time for Delaware to pass into law Senate Bill 3, legislation creating a permit to purchase firearms. This proven, popular legislation would broadly and substantially reduce gun homicides, gun suicides, and gun trafficking. The Senate passed SB 3 nearly 400 days ago. The House has the power right now to save lives by sending this bill to the Governor’s desk; in doing so it would have not only my support, but the support of 70% of our State. It is not too late for us to do the right thing.”
The bill, or, more precisely, this substitute, passed the Senate in April of 2021. 13 Y, 8 N. It almost assuredly has the votes to pass the House. It cleared the House Judiciary Committee on May 11, 2021. However, Pistol Pete inexplicably reassigned it to the House Appropriations Committee two days later, and it has languished there for over a year.
Did I say ‘inexplicably’? That’s not true. He reassigned it there because he wants it to die there. He’s got both his gerbil-brained go-fer Lumpy Carson on that committee along with ‘They want to take away my assault weapon’ Kim Williams. This is how Delaware’s real top cop stops good bills from being passed. Especially if cops don’t want to have to give up their ‘recreational’ assault weapons. Pete just puts the bills in inhospitable committees, committees that he created.
I just thought you should know.
Who knows: Maybe someone who is not afraid of being screwed by the Kabal (Bentz? Kowalko? They’re both retiring) will try to petition the bill out of committee. And, yes, it’s time for us to do our part. We need to call our state reps.
Nothing happens on gun control until the Kop Kabal is out of power or–in this case–overruled by the House rank-and-file.