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The Ingraham Angle
March 11, 2021
10:43 p.m. Eastern
APRIL EVANS, NRA MEMBER: It's all about training in order to keep a safe environment. Taking guns away from someone like myself, who my husband works night shifts and it's just me and her alone, how does that keep anybody safe? We both would have been dead, I'm sure.
LAURA INGRAHAM: April, thank you for sharing that story tonight. Unfortunately too many people in the United States don't hear those stories. They hear only the awful stories. Thank you. And while House Democrats worked tirelessly to keep American citizens from buying guns, it's open season for illegals who want to lock and load. Today Pelosi and pals rejected an amendment that would require ICE to be notified if an illegal tries to buy a gun. Joining me now is House Minority Whip Steve Scalise. Congressman, this seems like just a bad dream, all of it, but they don't seem to be concerned about guns falling into the hands of certain wrong people.
STEVE SCALISE, HOUSE MINORITY WHIP: Good to be with you, Laura. 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 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, we have the amendment, as you mentioned, that if someone is 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.
INGRAHAM: Congressman, this issue of banning private sales between individuals -- or making it very difficult -- people have to understand why they're doing that. To enforce a ban on private sales, what would you need? You would need ultimately a national firearms registry, correct?
CONGRESSMAN SCALISE: Well, they would love to get a registry of where all the guns are. We saw it in New Orelans 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 in less 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.
