Universal Background Checks. Magazine of no more than 7 bullets.

Since the massacre at Sandy Hook, many corporations have distanced themselves from the extremist, right-wing gun culture promoted by the NRA. But the daily deals web site LivingSocial has refused to take action in the wake of Newtown. LivingSocial continues to offer deals that encourage buyers to engage in a dangerous mix of alcohol and guns. In some cases, customers are even sold packages combining the shooting of assault weapons like the ones used in the Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colorado massacres, and a night of drinking beer or bourbon. Tell LivingSocial: End your gun and gun range deals that glorify drinking and shooting assault weapons. Some of LivingSocial’s deals, which are created by gun range proprietors, and then edited and solicited by paid LivingSocial staff, would make even the NRA blush -- and with good reason: 86% of gun murders are committed by people who were drinking before they opened fire. Most of the deals are careful to say that the shooting comes first, and then the drinking. But many of the deals include transportation on a party bus, and some have a meet-up point at restaurants that offer beer and burgers, giving buyers the chance to drink before the event begins. LivingSocial’s flip hucksterism buys into the gun manufacturers’ marketing strategy that seeks to bring new customers to shooting ranges in the hopes of pushing them toward gun ownership. But the evidence is clear that when more people own guns, more violence and death occurs. Competitors to LivingSocial, like Groupon, have already dropped their gun deals and have agreed not to offer them on their site in the future. Now LivingSocial must do the same. Tell LivingSocial: Enough is enough with your dangerous alcohol and shooting package deals. Remove gun deals from your site and promise not to offer them again. SOURCES: 1. [PDF] Page 3, "Deals to Die For." CREDO Action and the Gun Truth Project, May 12, 2013. https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.credoaction.com/images/dyingsocial-05-12.pdf 2. "Shootin' + Drinkin': AK47, AR15, Pistols, Food + Beer." LivingSocial. https://www.livingsocial.com/adventures/352064-shootin-drinkin 3. Shareen Pathak, "Salespeople Fuel Growth at Groupon, Living Social" Fins, April 5, 2011. http://sales-jobs.fins.com/Articles/SB130090099092197185/Salespeople-Fuel-Growth-at-Groupon-Living-Social 4. Andy Sullivan, "NRA Membership: For U.S. Gun Clubs, Joining Has Its Privileges." HuffingtonPost/Reuters, February 3, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/03/nra-membership_n_2610006.html 5. “Homicide.” Harvard Injury Control Research Center. http://act.credoaction.com/sign/livingsocial_guns/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/%E2%80%9D

The Newtown murders of 20 children the age of my own grandchildren illustrated the tragedy and folly of allowing "sportsmen" to play with their deadly toys. We cannot countenance the idea that our schools must be turned into armed camps because of a lack of weapons control.

I'm tired of reading about deaths due to gun violence. Additionally, someone I went to high school with was murdered by her ex-husband when he shot her to death.

We need gun control. Why is it that the U.S. House and U.S. Senate can protect other countries but not our own citizens. Very few in Congress actually represent America. You care more about your re-election than the killing of children. How does that feel? Anybody who is against gun control at this point is a NRA ROBOT or worried more about their political future. Everbody in Congress who voted against Manchin-Toomey should be fired!!

Current law requires a permit to carry a concealed and loaded weapon. This proposal would legalize anybody, including criminals, to carry a loaded and concealed weapon without permission.

Every American citizen will be affected by this. People have the right to bear arms but assault weapons and what's the big deal about background checks. Really????

Too many innocent people are losing their lives because the gun industry thru the NRA and other irrational extremists are misusing the 2nd Amendment by all means possible to further their profits and justify their irrational behaviour towards a democraticaly chosen government.

Senator Max Baucus recently voted against a bill to expand background checks for gun purchases. 79% of Montanans and an even higher percentage of the rest of the country supported this bill. Senator Baucus has since said he would listen to what Montanans have to say about this issue and would take that into consideration if the bill is re-introduced for a vote. What's even more disturbing about Senator Baucus' "no" vote, is that he has stated that he will not be running for re-election in 2014 and has decided to retire. It's unconscionable that Senator Baucus and the rest of Congress can't even pass this one little step to address the issue of the horrible gun violence that has infested this country.

Sponsored by Mark Dion, LD 1240 requires universal background checks for anyone purchasing a firearm. The name of the bill is: An Act to Promote the Safe Use and Sale of Firearms. For more information, or to see a current copy of the bill, visit http://mcahv.org/legislation/

We are Americans who stand in support of the Second Amendment. We want Congress to pass legislation containing comprehensive background checks for people purchasing firearms. We want limited magazine capacities. We want a ban on automatic weapons. We want to make sure our children and fellow citizens are safe.

When this amendment was passed, we were a fledgeling nation The Second Amendment was based partially on the right to bear arms in English common-law, and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689. This right was described by Blackstone as an auxiliary right, supporting the natural rights of self-defense, resistance to oppression, and the civic duty to act in concert in defense of the state. With a standing army of almost 1 million and the strongest defense apparatus in the world, with state and local police forces as capable as most countries armies, there is no longer a need for every citizen to have the right to bear arms. At best, they should ask for the privilege based on compelling circumstances