John Conyers: “Of course they would. Criminal sales of guns to felons would be caught by the protective provisions supposedly going to…”

“Of course they would. Criminal sales of guns to felons would be caught by the protective provisions supposedly going to protect small businesses, mom and pop stores. We have heard mom and pop all day. These gun manufacturers are not mom and pop stores. Our definition would not put them out of business. All it would do is it would apply to all of those that have revenues in excess of $5 million a year. If they have revenues smaller than $5 million a year, they would enjoy the protections. So this is not an antigun, all-guns-are-evil argument in which I have to refer to a constitutional provision. I am merely trying to take these gun manufacturers out of the protections that the gentleman from California is inadvertently giving them in trying to protect so-called small business.”