James Traficant: “I voted for Brady, I voted to ban semiautomatics, and I am done voting. I think it is time to start enforcing the laws.…”

“I voted for Brady, I voted to ban semiautomatics, and I am done voting. I think it is time to start enforcing the laws. And I think it is time to start looking at political issues around here. I think we are playing a lot of football with guns. On that juvenile crime bill I passed a little amendment that said, look, a teenager or kid that is involved with a gun that gets caught loses their driving privileges until they are 21. Where are we enforcing this law? Not this one, I hope, that becomes law. Where is the aggressive record of this administration and even the past administration going after people that violate laws with the use of guns? I think we are throwing an awful lot on the NRA that need not be on the NRA. My God, when kids are building a bomb in the basement of a home, where is mom and dad? It is not the NRA's fault. I do not want anybody's guns taken away. And I am telling the Democrats this: with the language that the Democrats have for these gun shows, there will be more illegal sales at gun shows than there will be legal sales if it was just left alone. I do not want to argue the case, I say to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers).”