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Details of assault weapons ban bill
Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider ^ | 1/24/2013 | Jamie Dupree

Posted on 01/24/2013 11:15:53 AM PST by MacNaughton

Assault Weapons Ban of 2013

The legislation bans the sale, transfer, manufacturing and importation of:

1. All semiautomatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature: pistol grip; forward grip; folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; grenade launcher or rocket launcher; barrel shroud; or threaded barrel.

2. All semiautomatic pistols that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature: threaded barrel; second pistol grip; barrel shroud; capacity to accept a detachable magazine at some location outside of the pistol grip; or semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm.

3. All semiautomatic rifles and handguns that have a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds.

4. All semiautomatic shotguns that have a folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; pistol grip; fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 5 rounds; ability to accept a detachable magazine; forward grip; grenade launcher or rocket launcher; or shotgun with a revolving cylinder.

5. All ammunition feeding devices (magazines, strips, and drums) capable of accepting more than 10 rounds.

6. 157 specifically-named firearms (listed at the end of this document).

The legislation excludes the following weapons from the bill:

a. Any weapon that is lawfully possessed at the date of the bill’s enactment;

b. Any firearm manually operated by a bolt, pump, lever or slide action;

c. Assault weapons used by military, law enforcement, and retired law enforcement; and

d. Antique weapons.

The legislation protects hunting and sporting firearms:

i. The bill excludes 2,258 legitimate hunting and sporting rifles and shotguns by specific make and model.

The legislation strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and state bans by:

ii. Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test.

The bill also makes the ban harder to evade by eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test.

iii. Banning dangerous aftermarket modifications and workarounds.

iv. Bump or slide fire stocks, which are modified stocks that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire at rates similar to fully automatic machine guns.

v. So-called “bullet buttons” that allow the rapid replacement of ammunition magazines, frequently used as a workaround to prohibitions on detachable magazines.

vi. Thumbhole stocks, a type of stock that was created as a workaround to avoid prohibitions on pistol grips.

vii. Adding a ban on the importation of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.

viii. Eliminating the 10-year sunset that allowed the original federal ban to expire.

The legislation addresses the millions of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines currently in existence by:

i. Requiring a background check on all sales or transfers of a grandfathered assault weapon.

ii. This background check can be run through the FBI or, if a state chooses, initiated with a state agency, as with the existing background check system.

iii. Prohibiting the sale or transfer of large-capacity ammunition feeding devices lawfully possessed on the date of enactment of the bill.

iv. Allowing states and localities to use federal Byrne JAG grant funds to conduct a voluntary buy-back program for grandfathered assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices.

v. Imposing a safe storage requirement for grandfathered firearms, to keep them away from prohibited persons.

vi. Requiring that assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices manufactured after the date of the bill’s enactment be engraved with the serial number and date of manufacture of the weapon.

List of Firearms Prohibited by Name

Rifles:
Pistols:
Shotguns:
Belt-fed semiautomatic firearms:


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KEYWORDS: guncontrol
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To: SampleMan
I think they are MUCH more worried about the Thompson Contender series pistols chambered for long range rifle rounds like .270. The rifles also are very easily converted into a very concealable 6-700 yard oathbreaking zombie eliminator.


21 posted on 01/24/2013 11:44:53 AM PST by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: MacNaughton
So what the hell Pookie and Ray-Ray are going to do? Stop buying them off the streets because they are illegal?!

They are talking about law abiding citizens, not ghetto thugs. Disarming us so resistance to the New World Order will not be a difficult transaction! Obey, it's for your own good! [sarc]
22 posted on 01/24/2013 11:45:26 AM PST by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian Black Man!)
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To: MacNaughton

If you want to continue to live with constitutional limits on government’s ability to make your life the same as a serf, you better not let them restrict the Second Amendment by bad laws such as this.

Please write, contact or email your federal senators and congressman (even if they are weasel Democrats) and tell them you are against any infringement on the Second Amendment. If you sleep on this issue, there will be a day when you wake up as an enslaved serf with the boot of a government agent on your neck.


23 posted on 01/24/2013 11:47:04 AM PST by RicocheT (Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
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To: MacNaughton

Never pass.


24 posted on 01/24/2013 11:47:13 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: MacNaughton

Law bans the sale, or TRANSFER of these guns. Does transfer ban mean that you cant will them to your kids and that you have to turn them in when you die?


25 posted on 01/24/2013 11:47:34 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: The_Victor

id say which weapons were blatantly and obviously missing from the list, but if theyre reading this they can f/o


26 posted on 01/24/2013 11:48:05 AM PST by Revelation 911 (hump scratching n'er do well.....all strung out on chicken wings and venison jerky)
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To: MacNaughton

horrible all of it; an unmitigated disaster for liberty and conservatism if any of it passes. better keep fighting.


27 posted on 01/24/2013 11:48:18 AM PST by dadfly
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To: MacNaughton

Ia there a nice way to tel Feinswine to go phuck herself?


28 posted on 01/24/2013 11:48:34 AM PST by Joe Bfstplk
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To: listenhillary

Meanwhile Fineswine has her security detail and a hard to get California concealed weapons permit. What a class A hypocrite. To hell with her.


29 posted on 01/24/2013 11:48:51 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ruger Mini-14 —

Barrel Shroud.


30 posted on 01/24/2013 11:49:00 AM PST by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: MacNaughton

is the blood of a DC politician capable of washing away the citizen’s blood that was spilled at the behest of said DC politician?


31 posted on 01/24/2013 11:50:36 AM PST by drypowder
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To: SENTINEL
Thompson Contender series pistols

A bit pricey for single shots, but truly beautiful guns.
Several friends have them in various configurations.

32 posted on 01/24/2013 11:52:03 AM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: MacNaughton

The purpose of RKBA is “as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in Government.” - Thomas Jefferson

The purpose of Amend II is to prohibit federal infringement or our RKBA.

The Bill of Rights was because the “Conventions of a number of the States; having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added”

DO NOT INFRINGE OR YOU VOID THE CONTRACT - THE CONSTITUTION - AND ARE ILLEGITIMATE.


33 posted on 01/24/2013 11:52:09 AM PST by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: SENTINEL

The Battle of Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law

Why we can’t give up.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2980970/posts


34 posted on 01/24/2013 11:52:53 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: BO Stinkss

I sold all mine to patriotic Americans through the “gun show loophole.”


35 posted on 01/24/2013 11:53:15 AM PST by Trod Upon (Civilian disarmament is the precursor to democide.)
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To: SENTINEL

James Files says he used simila gun to shoot JFK from the knoll. Oathbreaking zombies don’t like it.

http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/confession2.htm


36 posted on 01/24/2013 11:55:22 AM PST by Lexington Green (Keeping it real is keeping you down, fool.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Ruger calls it a “Handguard Assembly”

That makes it a safety enhancement.


37 posted on 01/24/2013 11:56:41 AM PST by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It looks to me like a Ruger Mini-14 would not be on the list.

It is on the list because that was a gun I explicitly looked for.

38 posted on 01/24/2013 11:59:15 AM PST by frogjerk (Obama Claus is coming to town!)
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To: Joe Bfstplk

Yes!FU Swinestein!!


39 posted on 01/24/2013 11:59:15 AM PST by Renegade
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To: MacNaughton

In other words, what this boils down to is another
“Assault Weapons Ban” similar to the first one but without an expiration date?


40 posted on 01/24/2013 12:03:18 PM PST by ozzymandus
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