Posted on 02/16/2018 6:35:31 AM PST by Simon Green
Lawmakers in the nation’s smallest state are planning a large package of bills in conjunction with gun control activists that could see bans on certain types of semi-automatics and their magazines.
Allied with the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence, Sen. Joshua Miller, D-Cranston, and Rep. Jason Knight, D-Barrington, are introducing proposals in both chambers of the legislature that would add the same types of firearms restrictions seen in neighboring Connecticut and Massachusetts. Knight argued the move is needed to protect public safety in the aftermath of a high-profile school shooting in Florida this week.
“It will take a multi-pronged strategy that includes banning the sale and ownership of assault weapons,” Knight said. “There (sic) purpose goes far beyond defense of self and home. There is no place for them in civil society.”
The measures, part of the local gun control group’s longstanding legislative agenda, aims to not only go after some types of semi-auto firearms currently legal in the state but also, through a measure sponsored by state Sen. Gayle Goldin, D-Providence, any detachable magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds.
Goldin’s bill has no provision for grandfathering targeted magazines already in circulation, leaving owners to sell them to a gun dealer, hand them over to police, or move them out of the state.
“High-capacity magazines turn already powerful guns into weapons whose sole purpose is to incur multiple deaths and injuries as quickly as possible,” said Goldin. “They are illegal for hunting, and they are unnecessary for protection. They are a tool that enables mass shooters to carry out their heinous acts, leaving countless victims dead every year, and there’s no valid reason to allow their use and sale here in Rhode Island.”
While shootings do occur in the state, especially in some urban areas, according to the FBI rifle use in murders across Rhode Island is rare. As detailed in statistics from the agency, of Rhode Island’s 29 homicides in 2016 for which the weapons used were, none were attributed to rifles of any sort– although nine were accomplished with knives. Likewise, there were no homicides in the state chalked up to rifles in 2015, 2014, 2013, or 2012, the furthest researched by Guns.com for this piece.
In addition to the bans, the package also includes a measure to put schools in the state off-limits for those who are carrying otherwise legal concealed handguns, with exceptions for law enforcement.
Ban liberals, NOT guns.
Lemme guess, the criminals and mentally ill are quaking in their boots over these proposals (do I actually need to indicate the sarc?), eh?
What is the compliance rate in Connecticut? 20%?
... and this would have prevented the tragedy how?
Gun Free Zones!!!!
Ban assault weapons?
Then AR-15s would be safe since they aren’t assault weapons.
If you live in RI, I’m willing to buy your deadly “assault weapons” at a good price. Good to me, that is.
Better yet, BAN MURDER! Wait...
As stupid as making a woman down the street having her tubes tied so you don’t get pregnant.
Just checked. Mine didn’t sneak out last night and do anything. I did see a post this morning stating that all military and LEO undergo psych testing before they’re allowed access to weapons. Oh, and dispatchers too. Well that should take care of things right? Face palm.
These are the laws that put guns in the hands of criminals and take them out of the hands of patriots.
Typical liberal idiocy.
They will pass a law that the LAW ABIDING already agree with. Then be shocked, shocked I tell you, when the criminal and insane “community”commit another horrendous crime.
At the same time, automobiles in the hands of drunken fools kill and injure innocent people probably ten time more often than the hated “assault weapon”.
Then bats, knives, bare hands, ropes and fists. All these murderous things must be banned in the name of public safety.
And to think, all anti-gun packages fifty years ago ended with these words....
“Long guns will not be affected.”
Now long guns like rifles and shotguns are affected. Never trust an anti-gun politician.
With bills like this one being contemplated by the horrible political class of our country, I think I will buy more than one .308 rifle.
JoMa
Hard to believe that back in 1934, the anti-gun packages then banned machine guns, sub machine guns, very short rifles, sawed off shotguns.
They tried, but failed to get handguns banned by claiming that a rifle and shotgun were better for home defense.
Now the rifles are “evil”!
Never trust an anti-gun politician.
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