THE LATEST: BIDEN CALLS FOR CIVILIAN BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS

AP ^ | June 17, 2016

[PROCON]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The Latest on the Orlando gay nightclub massacre (all times local):

12:20 p.m.

Vice President Joe Biden is calling for banning civilian ownership of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines following the mass shooting in Orlando.

[PROCON]

Meh...

Biden, 0bama and ISIS agree....

[Biggirl]

....And can be made easy to strike down in a fed court.

[Tenacious 1]

Is this Joe “shotgun” Biden?

[RC one]

I guess Joe doesn’t want to get anything accomplished again if he’s throwing this non-starter out.

[Yaelle]

Breaking: LAW BANNING ASSAULT RIFLES WOULD NOT HAVE STOPPED ORLANDO ATTACK. ASSAULT RIFLES STILL AVAILABLE TO CRIMINALS.

[DarthVader]

Leave it Joe. It is a non-starter to begin with. The debate is switching to to terrorist control quickly. The Feds dropped the ball on this big time.

[The Continental Op]

Maybe we need to ban democrats—the Orlando shooter was a registered dem, after all. Must be their hateful, divisive rhetoric.

[SandRat]

Biden would call my single shot, breakaway, IVERS-JOHNSON, .410, an ASSAULT WEAPON.

[Red Badger]

‘ASSAULT’ Weapons are already banned. You cannot legally purchase a fully automatic weapon, except as a collector and it must be registered with BATF and FBI and its location and condition must be known and verified at all times..... ...........................

[Louis Foxwell]

Biden would call a chopstick an assault weapon. Ban anything that can conceivably cause mortal harm by referring to it as an assault weapon, pretty much covers everything.

[Red Badger]

‘Assault Weapons’ are already BANNED.............................

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Idiot Biden thinks emptying your gun before you see the threat is good strategy.

[Louis Foxwell]

An assault weapon is not a type of weapon. It is a function of a weapon.

[Red Badger]

http://nypost.com/2016/06/16/japanese-man-kills-dad-with-a-chopstick/

[NorthMountain]

ou cannot legally purchase a fully automatic weapon, except as a collector and it must be registered with BATF and FBI and its location and condition must be known and verified at all times.

A collection of laws which is utterly repugnant to the Constitution. "... shall not be infringed."

[CivilWarBrewing]

What will Joe say when the terrorists use CAR BOMBS?

[Lurkinanloomin]

We need to ban muslims, they are religiously obligated to kill us.

[ctdonath2]

Beware unintended consequences, Joe.
You don’t want the subsequent court case which you’ll lose.

[PROCON]

It just boils my blood when I hear some clueless gungrabber call them "military type", "automatic", "weapon of war" ASSAULT WEAPON.

They lie on purpose.

[Louis Foxwell]

In the right hands chocolate pudding is an assault weapon.