Freelance writer and editor Mark Chesnut is the owner/editorial director at Red Setter Communications LLC. An avid hunter, shooter and political observer, he has been covering Second Amendment issues and politics on a near-daily basis for the past 20 years.
While the U.S. Senate still hasn’t revealed the proposed gun control legislation that allegedly has 10 Republicans supporting it, a look at the so-called “framework” provided when the “compromise” was announced is enlightening and puts all 10 Republicans on the wrong side of the Second Amendment debate.
The framework, released by a bipartisan group of senators headed by Sen. Chris Murphy, D- Connecticut, and John Cornyn, R-Texas, would push states to pass so-called “red-flag” laws, expand background checks for 18- to 20-year-old Americans for some gun purchases, and fund school…