In this video excerpt of a US House floor debate from Tuesday, Rep. Michele Bachmann spends nearly five minutes discoursing on the Second Amendment. The occasion was a bill that included the prohibition of guns in facilities owned by the federal Public Housing Authority. With Bachmann playing point, GOP firearm enthusiasts forced Democratic leaders to pull the entire bill over the gun provision.

The fireworks commence around the 4:45 mark, when California Rep. Maxine Waters fires a fusillade of her own in response to Bachmann’s speech.

Excerpt:

“Madame Speaker, I rise almost in disbelief that my friends on the opposite side of the aisle, led by Ms. Bachmann, would dare bring to this floor a motion that basically would say to us that the federal government cannot direct this issue on federal property. We own these public housing authorities… We are confronted with a problem in America. And that problem is, unfortunately and painfully, we have poor people who are isolated and they find their power and their strength in the gun. There are far too many guns raging every night in America in public housing authorities.”