Scalise: House Dems Infringe on Gun Rights of Law-Abiding American Citizens

WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's The Ingraham Angle to discuss the most recent step Speaker Pelosi has taken to pursue House Democrats' radical agenda. Scalise blasted House Democrats for passing a bill that would take away the gun rights of law-abiding American citizens, but rejecting a Republican amendment that would have required ICE to be notified if an illegal immigrant tries to buy a gun.

On Speaker Pelosi's infringement on the gun rights of law-abiding American citizens:

"I wish it was a bad dream and this is just one more step in Nancy Pelosi's socialist agenda that she's pushing through the House with the complicity of all of the House Democrats who continue to vote to take away more of our rights. Today they went after our gun rights with the bill to make it harder for law-abiding citizens to get guns. As your last guest mentioned, every day in America people use guns to save the lives of themselves and their families and yet this bill would make it much harder. In fact, right now there's a three-day waiting period. This could make it open-ended, there could be no limit to how many days unelected bureaucrats held up your application to get a gun if you're an American citizen. However, [House Republicans] had the amendment, as you mentioned, that says if someone's here illegally and they tried to buy a gun illegally, that name should be turned over to ICE. Well, guess what? The Democrats voted against that, so they think it's okay for someone illegally in America to get a gun, but they don't want you to be able to get a gun. They are going after our rights left and right in Washington."

On fighting to preserve Second Amendment rights:

"Well, [Democrats] would love to get a registry of where all the guns are. We saw it in New Orleans after Katrina – people went door-to-door, law enforcement went door-to-door taking people's guns after Katrina. I watched it happen. We passed a bill to prevent it from happening again, but this idea that you should have a registry, that you should be able to prevent someone you don't like from buying a gun at all, unless you're illegal, that's what they passed today. That's not where America is. We believe in our Second Amendment; we're going to fight to preserve the Second Amendment rights."