Senator Murray,Senate Democrats Introduce Assault Weapons Ban

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) ^ | Nov 08 2017 | Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)

[mdittmar]

“While there’s no one solution to the epidemic of gun violence, it’s past time for Congress to take common sense steps to strengthen critical safeguards and stem the tide of rising gun violence plaguing our communities.”

(Washington, D.C.) – Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) joined a number of her colleagues today to introduce the Assault Weapons Ban of 2017, a bill to ban the sale, transfer, manufacture and importation of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.

“From last month’s horrific scene on the Las Vegas strip to the heart-wrenching stories coming out of Sutherland Springs, TX, too often we’ve had to reach for our thoughts and prayers to make sense of the unthinkable gun violence that continues to claim innocent lives, devastate families and ravage communities across Washington state and nationwide,” said Senator Murray. “But we need more than thoughts and prayers. We need action. No one should ever have to worry whether their child or loved one will come home safe, and as we’ve seen time and again, no community is immune to the tragedy of gun violence—even right here in Washington state.  While there’s no one solution to the epidemic of gun violence, it’s past time for Congress to take common sense steps to strengthen critical safeguards and stem the tide of rising gun violence plaguing our communities. Banning weapons designed for war is one of those steps.”

Led by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the bill would:

• Ban the sale, manufacture, transfer and importation of 205 military-style assault weapons by name. Owners can keep existing weapons
• Ban any assault weapon that accepts a detachable ammunition magazine and has one or more military characteristics, including a pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel or a folding or telescoping stock. Owners can keep existing weapons
• Ban magazines and other ammunition feeding devices that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, which allow shooters to quickly fire many rounds without needing to reload. Owners can keep existing magazines
• Require a background check on any future sale, trade or gifting of an assault weapon covered by the bill
• Require that grandfathered assault weapons are stored using a secure gun storage or safety device like a trigger lock
• Prohibit the transfer of high-capacity ammunition magazines
• Ban bump-fire stocks and other devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at fully automatic rates

As a voice for Washington state in the United States Senate, Senator Murray has long championed common sense efforts to address the gun violence epidemic, including sponsoring legislation to close a loophole that allows semi-automatic weapons to be easily modified to fire at the rate of automatic weapons, working to expand background checks to prevent people on the government’s terrorist watch list from purchasing guns, and requesting new government research on the effectiveness of the nation’s firearm storage awareness programs.

[mdittmar]

patty is gonna save us.

Here's an old song I like;)

Down To The River To Pray - Alison Krauss

[Red Steel]

With her ratty tennis shoes.

[raiderboy]

and it will be soundly defeated.

[2ndDivisionVet]

There goes whatever chance they had in 2018.

[Gritty]

I’ll bet the Mexican cartels and ISIS are splitting their sides in laughter - and hoping like hell it gets passed.

[lodi90]

I’m sure Tester and McCaskill would love to vote on this bill. McConnell should put it up for a vote.

[ealgeone]

Never underestimate the dims.

They've solidified VA. NC will be a battle.

[DakotaRed]

During the ten years of the last ban we saw;

1) 11/15/95 - Lynnville, Tn School shooting. 2 Dead, 1 injured, .22-calibre Remington Viper semi-automatic rifle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richland_High_School_shooting

2) 2/2/96 - Moses Lake, Wa School shooting. 3 dead, 1 injured, .30-30 caliber rifle, .357 caliber pistol, .25 caliber pistol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Middle_School_shooting

3) 2/19/97 - Bethel, Ak School shooting. 2 dead, 2 injured, Mossberg 500 12-gauge shotgun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Ramsey

4) 10/1/97 - Pearl, Ms School shooting. 2 dead, 7 injured. Marlin Model 336 .30-30-caliber rifle, knife

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_High_School_shooting

5) 12/1/97 - West Paducah, Ky School shooting. 3 dead, 5 injured. .22 caliber long rifle, 12 gauge pump-action shotgun, Ruger MK II .22-caliber pistol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_High_School_shooting

6)4/24/98 - Edinboro, Pa School shooting. 1 dead, 3 injured. .25 caliber pistol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Middle_School_dance_shooting

7) 5/21/98 - Springfield, Or School shooting. 4 killed, 24 injured. 9 mm Glock 19 pistol, sawed-off .22LR Ruger 10/22 rifle, .22LR Ruger MK II pistol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Kinkel

8) 4/20/99 - Columbine, Co School shooting. 15 dead, 21 injured. Intratec TEC-DC9, Hi-Point 995 Carbine, Savage 67H pump-action shotgun, Stevens 311D double barreled sawed-off shotgun, 99 explosives, 4 knives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

9) 5/20/99 - Conyers, Ga School shooting. 0 dead, 6 injured. .22 caliber long rifle and a .357-caliber revolver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_High_School_shooting

10) 11/2/99 - Honolulu, Hi Office Shooting. 7 dead, 0 injured. Glock 17

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_murders

11) 12/26/00 - Wakefield, Ma Office Shooting. 7 dead, 0 injured. AK-47 variant, 12-gauge Winchester 1300 shotgun, .32 caliber Retolaza pistol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_massacre

12) 3/5/01 - Santee, Ca School Shooting. 2 dead, 13 injured. Arminius .22 caliber long-barreled revolver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Andrew_Williams

13) 3/22/01 El Cajon, Ca School Shooting. 0 dead, 5 injured. Weapon unknown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Hills_High_School_%28El_Cajon,_California%29#Shooting

14) 1/16/02 Grundy, Va College Shooting. 3 dead, 3 injured. .380 ACP semi-automatic handgun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_shooting

15) 4/14/03 New Orleans, La School Shooting. 1 dead, 3 injured AK-47, semi-automatic pistol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McDonogh_High_School_shooting

15 mass shootings while so-called “Assault Weapons” were banned, 13 of them in our schools and this does not include thousands of other murders committed by other means.

It accomplished absolutely nothing!

[Dalberg-Acton]

This is not about guns, gun deaths or even getting the bill passed. It’s about being able to call Republicans names in the next election, so they likely hope the bill fails.
Remember, the Democratic base is further left than anytime in the history of the party.

[elcid1970]

Good d@mn luck, you gungrabbing creep!

Why don’t you repeal the 2nd Amendment while you’re at it. By voice vote!

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I need the list of those 205 weapons and the companies that make them. I’m putting buys in on their stock right now!!!

[SkyDancer]

Hypocrite Dem’s knee jerk again. Patty, there are millions of them already in the US and all you’ll do is create a huge demand for them like guns and ammo under 0bama. I guess she wants to be the next poster child on guns.

[gogeo]

Common sense, common sense, blah blah blah...

[sargon]

Senator Murray,Senate Democrats Introduce Assault Weapons Ban

Excellent! Please, God, let it be so! There's nothing like hysterical Democrat gun control—and the Tyranny it epitomizes—to energize the independent and conservative base going into the 2018 election cycle!

Yes. Please, let's have this debate, Senator Murray! Again. Let's pit the abject ignorance of the Democrat party regarding guns against the Unalienable Rights recognized—not granted—by the United States Constitution!

Sen. Murray and her ilk will help ensure that the Democrat party is relegated to minority status—at both the state and federal levels—for decades to come...

[RetiredTexasVet]

“...a threaded barrel....” ?

Being as ignorant as they are about rifles, are they talking about actual threading at the end of the barrel or “rifling” within the barrel as all modern rifles have?

[RetiredTexasVet]

“...a barrel shroud...” ?

What assault function does a barrel shroud perform?

[Sasparilla]

Democrats wouldn’t be satisfied even if this became law. This wont make any difference in shootings. And as designed to fail like Obamacare, their end game is total confiscation. But, that has to be done incrementally with this as just the next step.
Of course with total confiscation, it must be accomplished at a future date be it a long or short time from today if they don’t run out of confiscators when it finally happens.

[pfony1]

Since the majority of the mass-murderers were DEMOCRATS, why not pass a law that simply prevents DEMOCRATS from buying guns?

[jmaroneps37]

For the one hundredth time!

[GreyFriar]

She needs to also call for a pepper ban to accompany the ban on a salt. Tossing pepper in a person’s face makes it a weapon.