Posted on 02/28/2010 10:04:30 AM PST by Thunder90
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.
"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told reporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
CCW may also be revoked nationwide with this bill
The Democrats, if they go along with this, are really asking for it.
uh huh....let them try...
Do you have a story about this? From where does that quote come?
Do you have a story about this? From where does that quote come?
He is becoming a laughing stock.
I mean, even MORE of a laughing stock. My gawd this guy has absolutely no idea what the world looks like.
Just got a scope put on my recent AR 10 purchase this weekend. Going out tomorrow to sight it in. Guess I better pick up another 500 rds of ammo too just in case, no pun.
I cannot wait for this crowd to be voted out of office.
Bring it.
[The Democrats, if they go along with this, are really asking for it.]
Looks to me like they are insane, they already have a hundred times more on their plate than they can chew.
Bradywatch PING!!!
I have been saying this for awhile but here goes again...
Obama will seek these 4 elements in a gun bill:
1. An expanded HR 45, gun owner licensing. All gun owners will have to have these licenses, even owners of facilimie weapons (AKA Airsoft and BB). Licenses will only be granted if the records of the applicant are clean (This includes misdemeanors from decades ago). Licenses will have high renewal fees ($100-300/yr). Licensees will be required to hold $1 million in liability insurance. Possession of otherwise permitted weapons (See #3) without license is a felony.
2. Ammunition accountability... All ammo will be required to be microstamped and will be taxed $1/round. All non stamped ammo will be required to be turned in or thrown away. Possession of non-marked ammo is a felony. This part of the act also bans “Cop Killer” bullets. Furthermore, this will require the gun to leave a microstamp of its own on the ammo. (BTW, this will also affect law enforcement and military ammunition stocks, as they will be required to have stamps of their own)
3. Expanded “Assault Weapons” ban— This includes most all semiauto rifles, anything that can be “Bump Fired”, Semiauto handguns, and Semi-auto shotguns. It also includes pump-action shotguns and “Sniper Rifles” AKA your deer rifle. The AWB will also require people with “Prebans” to register their guns as Machine Guns, and that the tax stamp will go up to $10,000 per weapon. If you can’t afford this, you have to turn the weapon in without compensation...
4. Expansion of the Lautenberg amendment: Removes “Domestic Violence” as disqualifier to gun ownership, inserts any misdemeanor as disqualifer... Anyone with a misdemeanor on their record will be prohibited from owning a firearm. This includes DUI and traffic offenses, and offenses decades ago.
Finally, all CCW permits will be voided. Also, all gun and ammo imports will be banned.
It looks like the Dims are realizing that they are not going to be reelected, so they are going to cause as much damage as possible. Immigration reform and massive defense cuts are probably also instore, along with Health Care “Reform”
As if Obama doesn’t have enough political opponents now?
The boy just doesn’t seem to be able to understand America and know what it means to be an American. I guess that’s why being an American born on U.S. soil was a qualification to be POTUS. Any moron can be a U.S. citizen. Being an American is not something you get from a piece of paper with a couple rubber stamps on it. Those things are only good to help you get welfare benefits.
.308 Has become my least favorite range ammo to buy. I totally love the caliber, don't get me wrong. I myself have a PTR91. The ammo is just difficult to come by in bulk(compared to others) anymnore, and costs MUCH more than .223. It seems that .308 is quickly becoming a NON-plinking round.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1
What’s the source for this? Holder is a racist control freak, but I’m pretty sure I recognize that quotation from last year.
HR 45 is pushed every year by Bobby Rush, the former Black Panther, militant separatist, and violent felon, but it hasn’t made any headway.
Chitcago’s pistol ban and onerous registration are about to get thrown out by the Supreme Court (McDonald v Chicago starts this week), and once they rule that cities and states can’t trample 2nd Amendment rights, I don’t see how IL’s complete ban on bearing arms will stand.
While I’m sure they’d like any and every infringement and ban they can get, they’re going to have enough trouble just trying to slow the restoration of our rights—much less piling on new restrictions.
Of course he will. Did you think he was not going to seek retribution for his stumbles on health care?
Obama stumbling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc
Grandstanding. Not even Obama is arrogant and stupid enough
to think this can be done.
Looks to me like they are insane, they already have a hundred times more on their plate than they can chew.
They don’t care if we ALL choke on it, if it furthers
socialism.
This move does not lose Obama any votes, so there’s no downside to it, from his narcissistic point of view.
You’re absolutely right. The Kenyan has no idea....absolutely no concept of what it means to be an American.
I see a lot of turmoil by this summer.
This statement is a year old.
Welcome to a year ago, when the Obama Administation thought that they had all the political clout in the world.
There’s no way in hell another “assault weapons” ban will pass the House, especially this year. There just aren’t enough RINOs to vote for it to offset the amount of democrats that will vote against it. It would be dead on arrival once it reached the floor. It would have a bit of an easier time in the Senate, but it wouldn’t be easy to pass there either. The dems would be stupid to even try it I think. Just the talk of it will anger many people.
If they do somehow manage to pass an AWB this year, they truly must be suicidal.
The Democrats are past caring. They don’t listen to polls any more. If they get enough of these bills passed they don’t have to either.
That will be cause of a civil war there.
This is great news. Thanks Holder! Clinton list 74 House seats and the Congress in 1994 thanks to this stupidity. And gun rights are 17 pts more popular now than then.
I cannot wait for November. This islamo-marxist is holed up in the white hut like hitler in his bunker. He is clueless at how he is enraging the public. The Democrat Party is PURE evil.
What about bugger-guns?
Obama picks nose at summit [Yes]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2460243/posts?page=45
ETL and Impy both confirmed that this is NO HOAX:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2460243/posts?page=101#101
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oQmLzdTl_U
Kerry had his sperm suit. Dukakas had his tank ride. Obama? He takes the cake. [And ‘buggers’ it up.]
Not sure where you’re getting the Feb. 28, 2010 date, but I went to the original story at the link you provided and it’s from February 25, 2009.
How’s that saying go? Measure twice cut once?
Let them know they can come over to my place and ask me how I feel about this.
of course...something to distract from all his other failures
Well why doesn’t Onada and his angry band of commies eliminate state government?
This will go no where except to the US Supreme Court if Onada pushes this. With all the crap Onada already has on his plate one wonders why he wants to open this wound right now. Is he planning some other nasty surprises—like refusal to hand the presidency over to the next duely elected president? If he tries that he’ll want to get as many firearms as he can out of the hands of Americans as fast as he can.
This is a year-old story. Nothing has been done since and it would solidify GOP majorities in both houses if they tried.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Holder snuck this one by us during the health care summit on Thursday.
MOLON LABE!
So what if you have one already?
Thanks for noting this is a year old story. That should have been noted by the poster of the article when it was posted.
“The boy just doesn’t seem to be able to understand America and know what it means to be an American”
He understands, he just doesn’t like it and wants to change it.
The article is a year old...we’ve been through all this. Remember the great gun buying panic of 2009?
He still might try for an new AWB, but at the moment he’s a little tied up with Obamacare...
Wow, that’s a dumb move.. but go ahead Obama and push us some more.. Its almost a guarantee that you will be voted out of office in 2012 AND we will get even more seats in the house and senate.
I am going to post this far and wide, I can assure you every gun owner in the nation will be talking about this within a week.
Stock up folks.
You got that right. Stocking up on all the surplus .308 about 10 years ago would have been a great investment.
"I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum." Holder said at a news conference on the arrest of more than 700 people in a drug enforcement crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S.
Glad to hear he's got the Mexicans' best interests in mind.
They can KMA. Other than that, no comment.
So is his Civilian Defense Force going to go to every house to confiscate weapons? That I’d like to see ....
Weird how 2010 is shaping up to be like 1994. Unpopular Healthcare bill. Unpopular Assault weapons ban. Scandal involving the chairman of Ways & Means (Dan Rostenkowski and the House Post Office Scandal then, Charlie Rangel and his problems now).
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