Posted on 09/25/2019 1:41:25 PM PDT by jazusamo
A former police officer made a bold proclamation during a congressional hearing Wednesday regarding a proposed assault-weapons ban: she would not comply.
Dianna Muller, who served in the Tulsa Police Department for 22 years and is the founder of gun advocacy group The DC Project, was among the witnesses at the House Judiciary Committee hearing. The session on an otherwise contentious issue flew largely under the radar amid the Trump-Ukraine controversy and Democrats' impeachment push. But reflecting the gun control divide in the country -- amid a spate of deadly mass shootings that prompted renewed calls for strict laws -- Muller said that such a ban would force lawful gun owners to either give up their arms or become criminals.
"Please don't legislate the 150 million people just like me into being criminals. It has happened. You've already done it," Muller said, referring to the Trump administration's ban on bump stocks, the devices that use a semi-automatic weapon's recoil to make it rapidly fire like an automatic. "I was a bump stock owner, and I had to make a decision: do I become a felon, or do I comply?"
Should the government pass an assault-weapons ban, Muller declared, "I will not comply."
Muller and others at the hearing focused on the practicality of a ban, pointing out what they claimed were mainly "cosmetic" differences between weapons such as the AR-15 and standard semi-automatic hunting rifles. This issue was also raised by Heritage Foundation senior legal policy analyst Amy Swearer when Rep.Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., went down the line of witnesses asking if they believed hunting rifles should be banned if they are semi-automatic.
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God bless her. Whoever isn’t armed today deserves their chains tomorrow.
“God bless her. Whoever isn’t armed today deserves their chains tomorrow.”
One of the Council members in my city said that they (the council) had the ‘right’ to restrict us to flintlocks if they wanted to.
Amen to that.
One of the Council members in my city said that they (the council) had the ‘right’ to restrict us to flintlocks if they wanted to.
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Elections have consequences. Idiots like the above need to be identified and not selected for any office.
Any elected official can pass any ‘legislation’ that they want. Like any individual can sue anyone for any reason they desire. It does not mean that it is correct, legal, or binding. Show this bum the door.
Well, lets see. There are about 15 MILLION AR-15s in private hands in the USA.
The Red Chinese Army, the biggest around, has 2.5 million men.
If AR-15s were a real problem I believe US would know it.
Does your state have a preemption law against local shenanigans like that?
If so, heeshee is just blowing smoke.
Brilliant. Yours, or were you quoting someone else?
What sparks? I didn’t read about any sparks, shouting matches, finger wagging, name calling, etc.
Sounded like dullsville to me.
Well, one silver lining to the most recent slander of Trump is that gun control is dead.
Dead.
Senate has already stated they will take up no bills this year.
One of your council members demonstrated perfectly why the founding fathers made the Second Amendment an immutable God given right.
The fact that she is attractive inside her cranium makes her even more attractive.
It’s a conservative thing...
Bump!
I'd love to know this as a fact. Do you have a citation?
Millions will not comply.
The elite effort to disarm America has been postponed in order to allow time for another elite attempt at a coup (the fake impeachment cluckfest).
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