Posted on 01/15/2011 12:00:26 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security Peter King, R-New York, announced today that he will introduce a bill that would ban knowingly carrying a firearm within 1,000 feet of certain high-profile government officials.
[Mayor Michael Bloomberg] and I have discussed that we are introducing in the next several weeks legislation which would make it a federal crime to carry a weapon within 1,000 feet of any event which is attended by the President, the Vice President, members of the Senate, members of the House of Representatives, Cabinet officials, including the CIA director as well as federal judges, King announced this morning at City Hall in New York City.
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What can we expect from the Peoples Republic of New York, where the left and RINOs like him and Gloomberg have created a virtual Nanny/Police-state?
Wuss...
Wouldn’t this law essentially ban guns in DC?
Such a law will simply ensure that no one will be armed to stop the next nut case that goes on a shooting rampage.
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