Feinstein and Schumer Welcome President Bush's Support of Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization
Senators Feinstein and Schumer, authors of the original assault weapons legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives, will introduce legislation to reauthorize the ban shortly after Congress returns from recess. The legislation would:
Reauthorize the prohibition on manufacture, transfer, and possession military-style assault weapons, while protecting hunting rifles and other firearms.
Close the clip-importation loophole, which prohibits the sale of domestically produced high-capacity ammunition magazines, but allows foreign companies to continue to bring them into the country by the millions.
Preserve the right of police officers and other law enforcement officials to use and obtain newly manufactured semi-automatic assault weapons.
I now know the perfect "poison pill" amendment to kill this. Propose an amendment that removes the above. After all, we don't want those EVIL weapons to get into the wrong hands, do we? Ha ha.