Posted on 08/12/2013 1:27:36 PM PDT by Sasparilla
As California Congressman Henry Waxman promised, he has introduced a Bill to ban the sale of “Parts kits” for “Assault Rifles, Assault Shotguns, and Assault Pistols." This also includes a ban on Receiver blanks.
The Bill defines an “assault weapons parts kit as: “ any part or combination of parts not designed and intended for repair or replacement but designed and intended to enable a consumer who possesses all such necessary parts to assemble a semiautomatic assault weapon…”
Which raised the question of vagueness in the law as to which components of an “Assault Weapons Parts Kits” could be sold legally to repair an existing gun. Would it be a replacement bolt assembly consisting of a number of parts? Or, a stripped bolt? Or, replacement front and rear sights? Or, a grip assembly for say, an HK 91? Or, an upper for an AR15? How about an AR15 lower? Or, you fill in the blank?
This new ban would be enforced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The Bill also contains new mental health Provisions and does not prohibit a physician or from asking a patient about the ownership, possession, use, or storage of a firearm or ammunition in the home of a patient, speaking to a patient about gun safety, or reporting to the authorities a patient’s threat of violence...
(Excerpt) Read more at secondamendmentfreedom.blogspot.com ...
Nostrilicus has surfaced!
NostrilDumbAss
Democrats are always trying to ban things, except abortion, and yet the “meme” the sheeple get is that the GOP is all a bunch of bullies.
Our media is THAT biased
Wow! that is very cool!
“No more home built $150 AKs”
I seriously doubt that this will pass.
I doubt it too, but Gonzales banned foreign battle field rifle barrels.
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