I hear ya. This was last week.
Posted on 01/23/2013 4:21:18 AM PST by marktwain
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office confirmed that she will be introducing in the Senate Thursday a new version of the so-called assault weapon ban. A spokesman said the full text will be released at a press conference on Thursday.
The California Democrat intends to expand on the ban that expired in 2004, by including handguns and shotguns, in addition to rifles. She would decrease from two to one the number of cosmetic features on a gun to have it be considered an “assault weapon.” This means that if a gun has just one item like a pistol grip or bayonet lug, then it is illegal. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the same ban in New York last week.
Furthermore, instead of grandfathering in current firearms, she would create a national gun registry for the government to track lawful gun owners. Magazines would again be limited to 10 rounds.
The Clinton-era bill was not renewed by Congress after the Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement agencies reported that it was ineffective in reducing crime.
President Obama said that a top priority is to get “an assault weapons ban that is meaningful” passed this year.
A summary of Mrs. Feinstein’s legislation is below.
Bans the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacturing of: 120 specifically-named firearms; certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one or more military characteristics; and semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds.
Strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and various state bans by: Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test; eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test; and banning firearms with “thumbhole stocks” and “bullet buttons” to address attempts to “work around” prior bans.
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I’m beginning to think they are being staged. I mean, what are the odds? Unless the stupid liberal college kids are trying o assist him on his gun control agenda. Would I have considered it a possibility 5 years ago? No. Today? Yes. It’s obvious the liberals are using the Alinsky playbook and that the end justifies the means to them. At any cost. Oh what’s a few lives when you need to get a bill passed that will be for the good of all? Yeah, that’s the mentality in the WH we’re currently dealing with.
Are these people insane? Pistol grips and bayonet lugs do not kill people. When was the last time one private citizen was bayoneted by another?
I think the DC dwellers have forgotten about the ‘consent of the governed’ Thing.
the house may impeach...but the senate will NOT convict....this may come down to physical conflict...
MOLON LABE
I think it was stag arms that said they are up to a two year backlog in orders now. Heck, I literally bought my rock river AR a few days before conn. Fired leas than two hundred rounds through it in just one visit to the range to sight it in. I could probably sell it for triple what i paid for it. But i won’t, its too damn much fun to shoot, and it pixxes off liberals that i have one.
Senator Feinstein, with all due respect (which is NONE for you, beyotch) - Canada already spent $2 billion to do this in a country with 10% of the USA's population, and finally gave up.
Are you really stupid enough to think that you're going to succeed with a government boondoggle of that magnitude when it's already been proven that it can't be done? Especially in a country with the gun culture and history of resistance to gun laws that we have in the US? What an incredible waste of the Senate's and the American people's time.
She can propose a completely unworkable law that likely won't even make it out of committee, but they can't pass a #$%## budget? It's time for a new Tea Party, again.
I propose that Swineslime release all of her armed security protection and walk the streets alone like the rest of us.
I suspect they are being choreographed. These things happen, and can be shaped by a choreographic media and the regime-types that pull their strings.
Oh, they’re out there but you gotta bring your wallet.
That is true, but for 27 years, no new registerable automatic weapons have been manufactured. The registry is closed, and the number of machine guns transferrable to 'civilians' (non-LEO/mil) is fixed. That is why they are so expensive.
And every time they are transferred, the FedGov wants a bunch of fingerprints, forms, and $200. Every time. A buddy told me the average time these days is between 6 months and a year. Just to transfer a gun.
If Frankenfeinstein makes all 20 million or so AR-15's into the same class (registered with NFA, $200 transfer, fingerprints), how long will it take to transfer one of those?
Answer: you'll never get it. And she knows it.
RESIST, my friends.
“I’m beginning to think they are being staged”
No, I don’t see that happening, YET! There may be some copycat incidents occuring. In this crazy world, there are just some people who cannot separate video games, movies, and TV shows from reality. Then something in their life triggers an incident. Just like the latest incident where the 15-year old killed his whole family. He was heavily into video games, had a 12-year old girlfriend, and probably thought his parents were too restrictive. Voila, just shoot them, like in the video game, that will take care of the problem.
“I’m beginning to think they are being staged”
No, I don’t see that happening, YET! There may be some copycat incidents occuring. In this crazy world, there are just some people who cannot separate video games, movies, and TV shows from reality. Then something in their life triggers an incident. Just like the latest incident where the 15-year old killed his whole family. He was heavily into video games, had a 12-year old girlfriend, and probably thought his parents were too restrictive. Voila, just shoot them, like in the video game, that will take care of the problem.
Women like power more than sex. This is a power trip. You need to learn more about women.
I know many who did it before the last ban. They still have them, the ones that didn't go down with the boat anyways.
Don’t forget that this is a Kabuki theater presentation.
DiFi’s bill is SO egregious, on purpose, and from a “safe” senate seat, there’s no way anyone expects it to pass.
However, “in the name of compromise”, something less onerous, but still far more restrictive and unconstitutional that we can allow, will make it up for a vote.
Look for a reinstatement of the 1994 ban on mags and features.
Bingo! This is their modus operandi. And the GOP is too stupid to see it.
You underestimate the GOP's ability and desire to stab America in the back and shred the Constitution in order to get invited to cocktail parties with the beautiful people.
stupid or complicit?
For her to introduce this as a separate bill means nothing, because everyone knows it would never pass as such. It’s a PR stunt.
If the Democrats were serious, and they might be, they will insert gun control language into unrelated “must pass” legislation, in the middle of the night on Friday, in a bill like the NDAA, which the Democrats have used twice now to insert repugnant and unconstitutional fascism.
Because they know that many Republicans will never vote against a defense bill, no matter what malignant cancer it contains.
The “indefinite detention of Americans by the military” law in the last NDAA is outrageously unconstitutional, far worse than the stupid “assault weapons and big magazines” bans. Yet Republicans didn’t stand up against it, so why expect they would stand against this?
My point is to look for the *real* villainy to arrive, not with a fanfare of drums and trumpets, but like a thief in the night, and importantly, a hundred or a thousand times worse than this bit.
Bottom line: the Democrats want full registration as a means to gun elimination, just as much as it exists in Australia and England. Anything they do right now is just a first step in that direction. They will take anything they can get, but they will always push to get more, until there is nothing left.
This is why it is so vital to slap them down, and hard, from the very start, because if they are serious, the Republicans will not stand in their way.
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