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Michigan Dems introduce ‘assault weapon’ ban in state House
guns.com ^ | Oct. 21, 2016 | Chris Eger

Posted on 10/21/2016 3:13:55 PM PDT by PROCON

Only weeks away from a general election and with two months left in session, Democrats in the Michigan House on Wednesday debuted a sweeping gun prohibition proposal.

The measure, introduced Oct. 19, would ban the sale of most semi-auto or pump-action firearms capable of accepting a detachable magazine and require those in the state to be registered under threat of a felony punishable by four years in prison.

The legislation joined eight other bills in a gun control package submitted in the aftermath of the terror attack at the Pulse nightclub in Florida that left 49 dead.

“None of these measures take away from our Second Amendment right to own a gun,” said state Rep. Robert Wittenberg, D-Oak Park, sponsor of the latest proposal, in a statement about the measure. “Instead, they regulate the safe use of firearms and ensure that those who aren’t fit to have a weapon — such as a suspected terrorist or a person who has threatened violence against a spouse — can’t walk into a store to buy one.”

Wittenberg’s newest effort, HB 5996, would define an “assault weapon” under Michigan law to be any semi-auto or pump-action centerfire rifle, pistol or shotgun that uses either a detachable magazine or a fixed magazine that holds more than 10 cartridges or any number of cosmetic features such as a muzzle brake or compensator, barrel shroud, pistol grip (on rifles), stock (on pistols) or revolving cylinder (on shotguns).

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: banglist; democrats; guncontrol
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To: PROCON

Well from the looks of things, Rep Wittenberg (Commie Capo RAT, former insurance agent) is pi$$ing into the wind, cuz both houses of the Michigan Legislature are in GOP control by hefty margins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Legislature

27R/11D Senate
61R/45D House


21 posted on 10/21/2016 4:21:52 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: PROCON

Gee, my uncle’s late 1940’s Remington .22 semi-automatic rifle with a tube magazine that held 17 x .22 Long Rifle shells is now and “assault weapon” in the same category as a full auto M-16, AK-47, or FN/FAL 7.62 rifle.


22 posted on 10/21/2016 4:22:57 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: PROCON

None of this works against suicide and toddler death. Utter bull sht


23 posted on 10/21/2016 4:28:16 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Travis McGee

NO.

Your move.


24 posted on 10/21/2016 4:34:07 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: Such a nasty woman ...)
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To: PROCON

Not all dems are anti gun, but anytime the dems are in the majority, you will lose gun rights. Elections do have consequences.


25 posted on 10/21/2016 4:49:54 PM PDT by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: PROCON

I remember fifty years ago when the most hated rifle in America was the 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifle.

A 5 shot bolt action POLICE rifle was A-OK even if it came off the same production line as the army rifle.


26 posted on 10/21/2016 4:52:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Evil women. Jezebel, Athaliah, Livia Drusilla, Messalina, Lucrezia Borgia, Hillary Clinton)
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To: umgud

He’s just sore because we have gone from a may issue to a shall issue state for CPL and there is legislation submitted to allow for concealed carry without any Conceal license.

He’d have a better chance of buying a Ham Sammich in Dearborn!


27 posted on 10/21/2016 5:06:55 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: PROCON

Only muslims can have assault weapons


28 posted on 10/21/2016 5:09:48 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: PROCON

They need to be up against a wall, not up for re-election.


29 posted on 10/21/2016 5:23:37 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: tumblindice
from your : http://housedems.com/state-rep-robert-wittenberg-biography “>www. http://housedems.com/state-rep-robert-wittenberg-biography

" Representative Robert Wittenberg is in his first term representing Michigan’s 27th House District, which includes Berkley, Ferndale, Hazel Park, Huntington Woods, Oak Park, Pleasant Ridge and Royal Oak Township...

Before joining the Legislature, Robert worked for more than nine years as a licensed life and health insurance agent, helping to enroll thousands of businesses and individuals on health insurance plans, most recently those that are compliant under Affordable Care Act."

Is he up for reelection ? This is his first term
Tie him into the Affordable Care cost increases (!), as well as 'Gun Control' and get him out of the legislature.
Its kinda late to notify the sportsmen in the area.

30 posted on 10/21/2016 5:28:35 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ("Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.”- Colin Powell)
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To: PROCON

Maybe I’m not up on things like I used to be but what kind of pump-action rifle accepts detachable magazines? I’m assuming they had something specific in mind when writing the legislation..


31 posted on 10/21/2016 6:03:37 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: GreyFriar

In for a penny, in for a pound.

After the first one, the rest are free.


32 posted on 10/21/2016 6:33:59 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: jughandle
Maybe I’m not up on things like I used to be but what kind of pump-action rifle accepts detachable magazines?

I have a collection of Remington Model 760 center fire, pump action rifles. They are fed by detachable magazines. All my mags are of the five round capacity but you can go online and buy much larger capacity mags if your heart desires.

They have a different model number now but my collection are the model 760s made in the mid 1970s.

33 posted on 10/21/2016 7:46:53 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: PROCON

Thank god for our state’s term limits. That being said, this clown is going nowhere fast. Michiganders are too smart for this gun ban nonsense.


34 posted on 10/21/2016 9:15:59 PM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: OldMissileer

Wow thank you, I really didn’t know such a thing existed. Something else for the list one day! (Guess I wasn’t as up on things as I thought...)


35 posted on 10/22/2016 5:17:00 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: jughandle
Wow thank you, I really didn’t know such a thing existed.

Don't hold me to it but I think came out with the Model 14 just before World War I. It was the first pump action centerfire rifle.

36 posted on 10/22/2016 5:51:51 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: TADSLOS

LOL, H->, is now carrying an assualt weapon back into the White Hut “gaol” built by slaves.


37 posted on 10/23/2016 12:38:11 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: OldMissileer

When was the first rifled shotgun barrel?


38 posted on 10/23/2016 12:39:16 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: PROCON

I think Michigan is safe for now from this sort of legislation passing. A Republican state house and senate and governor all would be obstacles.

This is grand standing before the election, and amounts to nothing but wishful thinking for the leftists.

They need to be gone. Lets vote them into retirement.


39 posted on 10/23/2016 10:43:30 PM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: PROCON

There is only one reason to deny military grade weapons to the public: to be able to do things to them that they would resist if they had the means to fight back.


40 posted on 10/24/2016 7:19:44 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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