"SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT FOR 10 YEARS OF REPEALED CRIMINAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO ASSAULT WEAPONS AND LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICES."
Then what is Section 2 referring to?
"There is no 10-year sunset clause on this one."Then what is Section 2 referring to?
The title of Section 2 mentions 10 years, but no part of the bill actually enacts or restores any sunset provision. Titles do not have legislative weight.
Bait and switch. You fell for the bait. The switch is failing to enact a sunset provision.
It's a title of the section. Nothing in the section, nor elsewhere, limits the provisions to 10 years. The only 10 years mentioned is the (up to) 10 year imprisonment for using an semi-automatice assault weapon in certain crimes. Since the sunset provision removed the definition of "Semiautomatic assault weapon" from the code, they also took out the penalty for using one. If this passes, it's back.
In looking at that I discovered that while the bill would reinstate the appendix A list of non affected firearms, they took out the language that exempted them. They also took out the exemptions for:
any semiautomatic rifle that cannot accept a detachable magazine that holds more than 5 rounds of ammunition; or
- `(D) any semiautomatic shotgun that cannot hold more than 5 rounds of ammunition in a fixed or detachable magazine.
They also *added* semi-automatic rifles with fixed magazines of more than 10 rounds, except for .22 tubular magazines. (I think it would ban the 10/22 and other removeable magazine .22s)