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Feinstein to push assault-weapon ban
L.A. Daily News ^ | 2/26/2005 | AP

Posted on 02/26/2005 1:02:36 PM PST by Sterrins

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To: Sterrins

Just because you got problems in LA doesn't mean you need to ban guns in my county which has ZERO murders (and 6000 NRA members) in 2004.


21 posted on 02/26/2005 1:27:07 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("There out ta get me! They won't catch me! I'm #@^#@# innocent! They won't break me" - Guns N Roses)
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To: Bommer
Correct my mis-understandng, but were not actual AK-47s, being select-fire, illegal in the US before, during and after the "assault weapons" ban?

Or was this gun something that looked like an AK-47?

22 posted on 02/26/2005 1:28:39 PM PST by Sooth2222
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To: Sterrins
Someone is mistaken, this can't have happened in California, that rifle is banned in California, Sampson can't own that gun, this is all a lie.

Di Fi needs to be made to explain how a fedral ban on assult weapons will prevent these shootings, when the California Ban on owning them didn't prevent this shooting.

Banning city workers would do just as much to resolve the problem.

23 posted on 02/26/2005 1:29:06 PM PST by c-b 1
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To: Bommer

well not all Californians are stupid to keep her in office...unfortunately even the 5 million that voted for Bush are outnumbered by Dems here......it is too bad that the coasts attact liberals but it is the demographic we have to live with for now.....I'd rather we could get rid of Boxer first.......she is heads and tails much more liberal than Feinstein......


24 posted on 02/26/2005 1:33:12 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: ExtremeUnction

Unfortunately, Zell Miller isn't in the Senate any more.


25 posted on 02/26/2005 1:39:03 PM PST by John Jorsett (email: mistersandiego yahoo.com (put the at sign in between those two))
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To: NorCalRepub

And New York State has also jumped on the bandwagon with Assemby Bill - A03371, which would add semiauto rifles, shotguns or pistols manufactured on October 1, 1993 and lawfully possessed prior to September 14, 1994 to the definition of assault weapons. It would repeal New York State's grandfather clause for such weapons. It's clearly ex-post facto legislation and in direct conflict with Article 9, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits ex-post facto legislation.

Believe me, this fight is far from over! Molon Labe!


26 posted on 02/26/2005 1:42:37 PM PST by Spottys Spurs
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To: Sterrins

What the hell differnce does it make what kind of gun he used


27 posted on 02/26/2005 1:44:24 PM PST by uncbob
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To: Sterrins
There's a philosophical problem here. The AK-47 was designed and manufactured by state arms factories in Feinstein's favorite country, the USSR!

Using the "in for a dime, in for a dollar" doctrine (so useful inside the Mafia or the Democratic party), seems to me she's now terminally conflicted.

28 posted on 02/26/2005 1:44:48 PM PST by muawiyah ( (do I really have to put the /sarcasm tag on things like this?))
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To: wk4bush2004
Does Feinstein even recognize the Second Amendment?

She's a dim which means that she only recognizes laws she agrees with and diregards those she doesn't. for a dim laws are a la carte.

29 posted on 02/26/2005 1:46:39 PM PST by AFreeBird (your mileage may vary)
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To: wk4bush2004
"Does Feinstein even recognize the Second Amendment? "

Have you heard that expression "Once a Dumbass, always a Dumbass!"
30 posted on 02/26/2005 1:49:41 PM PST by F105-D ThunderChief (That "THUD" you heard was the Collapse of the DemocRats!)
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To: Spottys Spurs

from what I read, what NY proposed is even more severe than Calif assault weapons ban......Feinstien to my knowledge is not trying to get rid of semi-auto shotguns or hunting rifles....don't get me wrong, I don't support any ban but NY"s bill is even more severe than Calif's........I see now that Iowa is also trying to do this.....


31 posted on 02/26/2005 1:50:48 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: NorCalRepub

Believe me, they are BOTH trying to get rid of them. They are equal wolves dressed in the sheep's clothing of trying to "protect" us all from criminals and terrorists. If these initiatives got passed, criminals and terrorists would still have anything they wanted to use against us.


32 posted on 02/26/2005 2:00:10 PM PST by Spottys Spurs
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The crime was murder, but FineSwine obsesses on the tool to commit it. Even if FineSwine had her way and we all lived in a disarmed fascist police state, what's to prevent this nutball from killing people with a common blunt instrument?

Or more to the point, a "weapon of mass destruction" consisting of a wine bottle filled with some unleaded regular.

33 posted on 02/26/2005 2:03:31 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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To: Spottys Spurs

well of course I know that criminals get guns at will, so the AWB is frivolous.....what I meant is that even in Calif, you get into regular firearms and she would have a problem.....don't let what you see in the news about Calif all the time fool you....more guns owned in Calif than any other state and it is like 20% of the firearms sold or something like that...the problem with Calif is if an issue doesn't effect someone too much than people here blindly follow the party line.......but if it is a huge issue, common sense usually prevail......this state passed prop 187 which cracked down on illegals but the damned court struck it down......and we even passed the marriage amendment that said marriage was between man and woman and did this years ago before the debate began.....


34 posted on 02/26/2005 2:06:59 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: Sooth2222
Correct my mis-understandng, but were not actual AK-47s, being select-fire, illegal in the US before, during and after the "assault weapons" ban? Or was this gun something that looked like an AK-47?

It probably was merely a semi-auto look alike. But actual AK-47s are not illegal. If they were produced/imported/"made" before the ban and the appropriate tax has been paid on them, they are perfectly legal to own as far as the federal government, and those of many states, are concerned. Not California of course.

35 posted on 02/26/2005 2:07:23 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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Oh yeah, while we're at it, let's ban heroin and cocaine at the federal level, too. That will surely stop people from driving to neighboring states to bring drugs into Kalifornia. Whoops, those are already illegal everywhere.

Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, et al. are actually quite aware of what they are doing. It has nothing to do with crime, despite their loud claims to the contrary. I think it is very calculated. They want the state to have ultimate power, and armed citizens are the biggest obstacle to this. These liberals are working to erase everything the nation's founders tried to establish. The Nanny State can morph into the communist/fascist state as soon as the last obstacles to this transformation are out of the way.

Then again, most of you already knew this. Preaching to the choir, as they say.

This time it isn't going to be as easy as it was for the Nazis or the Bolsheviks. More people know the strategy this time around.


36 posted on 02/26/2005 2:08:27 PM PST by lastlostfight
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To: Sterrins
Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Friday that she will reintroduce legislation banning assault weapons after a city maintenance worker allegedly shot and killed two fellow employees with an AK-47 assault rifle.

Rock on, babe.

T'ain't goin' nowhur. <-- A little Georgia Lingo for ya, there.

37 posted on 02/26/2005 2:09:57 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: lastlostfight
Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, et al. are actually quite aware of what they are doing. It has nothing to do with crime

A federal study recently showed incontrovertibly that ALL gun controls have no effect on crime.

This has nothing to do with facts whatsoever.

38 posted on 02/26/2005 2:11:13 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
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To: Hank Rearden
The odds will be much better with a generation not raised into believing the old, rusty, worthless FDR crap that Big Stupid Government is the way to go.

Sorry Hank, but you are either woefully uninformed or remarkably naïve. (Or, perhaps, overcome by wishful thinking?)

Have you failed to see the graduates of the total Leftist political indoctrination being churned out of the brainwashing camps we call schools and universities? Their group-think mentality, their total repression of opposing ideas, and their absolute absence of moral values can honestly be compared to that of the Nazi brown-shirts. (Don't forget, the Nazis were National Socialists.)

These young men and women are far more dangerous than anything this nation has seen within our borders in the past. Many of the 60's-generation radicals were misguided idealists who did not have the benefit of history to show them the true results of communism and socialism (not that I'm making excuses for them). However, many of today's youth are activist-supporters of socialism, communism, and even Islamic-fascism, in spite of witnessing the direct results of socialist, communist, and Islamic fundamentalist regimes over the past sixty years.

Don't get me wrong, I despise--and can't wait to be rid of--Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, Woolsy, Kennedy, Sanders, et al. They are dangerous individuals. But the "offspring" of modern "Liberalism" are more dangerous than their "parents." They are far more dangerous than those they will be replacing.

39 posted on 02/26/2005 2:11:28 PM PST by SpyGuy (Liberalism is slow societal suicide. And screw political correctness: Islam is the Religion of Death)
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To: El Gato
Or more to the point, a "weapon of mass destruction" consisting of a wine bottle filled with some unleaded regular.

They've already got that one covered in New Jersey. In the new "destructive device" bill they are introducing, they are also going to re-outlaw Molotov cocktails. It's like magic-- make a law, problem solved! Make a redundant law, problem solved twice!
40 posted on 02/26/2005 2:14:31 PM PST by lastlostfight
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