Unions Help Kill Delaware Gun-Grabbing Law

The Lid: A set of three Delaware gun control bills bit the dust in May, but not from any Republican victory. They failed because of a split between Democrats. Wait, what? It was Union Democrats that split from their own party platform to kill what liberals call “common sense” gun legislation. That doesn’t happen every day.

Delaware State News reported,

Opposition from union members, a traditional Democratic constituency in Delaware, likely played a part in sinking the bills.

Gun control advocates were outraged when they learned the bills wouldn’t be released from the Senate Executive Committee for debate and a vote on the Senate floor. The bills had sought to prohibit a variety of semi-automatic firearms classified as “assault weapons,” criminalize magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds, and establish a permitting process to buy a gun.

Two Democrats on the panel decided not to support the bills’ release to the floor despite the Senate’s top lawmaker promising months ago they would receive a vote before the full Senate.

That lawmaker, President Pro Tempore David McBride, justified his decision by saying the bills didn’t have the votes to pass.

I got a sense that my caucus isn’t interested in doing this. I can tell you that straight up,” the New Castle Democrat explained. “You know, part of my job, I have to read tea leaves around there. And one of the things you do to be successful in this building — you have to learn how to count.

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