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Feinstein: 'Gun owners and gun people' have a 'hammerlock' on Congress
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Posted on 11/03/2013 8:50:44 AM PST by Sub-Driver
November 03, 2013, 11:05 am Feinstein: 'Gun owners and gun people' have a 'hammerlock' on Congress
By Jeremy Herb
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has led the effort in the Senate to pass new gun control legislation, said she does not plan to try again in the wake of the shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport Friday where a TSA agent was killed.
Feinstein said that passing a gun reform bill through Congress was simply not possible, after a bill failed this year following the shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.
ADVERTISEMENT “Would I do a bill? Sure I’d do a bill. I believe this down deep in my soul,” Feinstein said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday.
But asked whether she thought she could, Feinstein firmly said no.
“I don’t,” she said. “I think there’s a hammerlock on the Congress by the gun owners and gun people, and it doesn’t matter.”
Feinstein was a major part of the push from President Obama and congressional Democrats this past year to expand background checks for gun purchases and reinstate the assault weapons ban after the Newtown shooting.
The measure to expand background checks failed to pass the Senate, and stood little chance in the Republican-controlled House.
Feinstein said that the LAX shooting suspect used a .223 caliber M&P-15 assault rifle, which she said was not designed for use by the general public.
“Now, it’s going to be interesting to see whether this weapon was outlawed in California and purchased in California,” she said.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 113th; banglist; guncontrol; gunvote; secondamendment
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Those darn Gun People..........
To: Sub-Driver
To: Sub-Driver
Feinstein just shut up.
Go away.
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:53:21 AM PST
by
Sir Francis Dashwood
("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
To: Sub-Driver
'Gun owners and gun people' aka; All Patriots and any citizen who believes in the U. S. Constitution!!
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:53:36 AM PST
by
harpu
( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:53:59 AM PST
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:54:53 AM PST
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: Sub-Driver
Fine-stein, government-communists have a gun pointed to the head of every law abiding American patriot in this country. They have a hammerlock on commerce and trade through EPA, DHS, ATF.... and do not allow freedom in the USA.
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:55:36 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Sub-Driver
Congress, a heaven for low achievers, and pure nirvana for ignorant sl*ts.
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:55:47 AM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:55:50 AM PST
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: Sub-Driver
The majority is getting their way on something?
That should be illegal!
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:56:12 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: Sub-Driver; All
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:56:27 AM PST
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:58:11 AM PST
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:58:33 AM PST
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: Sub-Driver
“I think there’s a hammerlock on the Congress by the gun owners and gun people, and it doesn’t matter.” "Gun owners" AKA American citizens...
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:58:35 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(Show me just ONE example of an Islamic country where non Muslims are treated with equality.TimLee)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:58:38 AM PST
by
JPG
(Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
Feinstein said that the LAX shooting suspect used a .223 caliber M&P-15 assault rifle, which she said was not designed for use by the general public. Here's her exact quote: "the weapon was a .223 MP-15, where the MP stands for military and police, clearly designed not for general consumption …"
She's so (willingly) ignorant on the subject that she thinks that Smith and Wesson's marketing departing labeling it the "MP" means that it's only for use by the military and police, when in fact the vast majority of purchases are by ordinary citizens. The fact that S&W advertises the rifle almost exclusively to the general public means that by definition it was designed for "general consumption" as she so awkwardly puts it.
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posted on
11/03/2013 8:59:27 AM PST
by
Kip Russell
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Sub-Driver
Don’t believe her. Liberals are like jihadis....they will lie to your face to get what they want. Taqiya.
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posted on
11/03/2013 9:03:07 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: Sub-Driver
She’s a gun owner and CCW holder too I believe...
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posted on
11/03/2013 9:03:21 AM PST
by
BuddaBudd
(F U B O)
To: JPG
I’d be very amused if one of these idiots had a negligent discharge when doing a speech.
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