Posted on 03/14/2021 5:27:11 AM PDT by Libloather
Senate Democrats introduced legislation that would ban 205 “assault weapons” Thursday, just hours after the House passed two other gun control bills.
Introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the legislation called the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2021” would also outlaw magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds and is co-sponsored by 34 other Senate Democrats.
According to a press release from Feinstein, the bill “bans any assault weapon with the capacity to utilize a magazine that is not a fixed 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.”
Some of the firearms listed in the proposed ban are “All AR types,” “All UZI types,” Beretta CX4, Sig Sauer P556 pistol, as well as belt-fed semi-autos.
Current owners of the “assault weapons” listed in the legislation would be allowed to keep them, but any private transfers would require an FBI background check prior to receiving the firearm.
Additionally, the bill prohibits bump stocks, which have already been illegal since March 26, 2019.
“It’s been 17 years since the original Assault Weapons Ban expired, and the plague of gun violence continues to grow in this country. To be clear, this bill saves lives,” Feinstein said in her announcement of the bill. “When it was in place from 1994-2004, gun massacres declined by 37 percent compared with the decade before. After the ban expired, the number of massacres rose by 183 percent.”
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“Some of the firearms listed in the proposed ban are “All AR types.”
The AR-7 as well?
Utter madness.
That pendulum isn't going to swing back by itself. The election was obviously stolen, and yet, nobody to date has suffered any consequences other than the good people of the Untied States. This won't be corrected until enemies start "disappearing". Arkancide needs to work both ways.
And worse, they totally control the election machines......
Show me a way we come back......I see none........
The US military, National Guard, Police number about 2,500,000 men.
VS.
20,000,000 civilian semi-auto rifle owners, and maybe 75 million other firearm owners, and over 400,000,000 firearms out there. 250,000,000 high cap magazines in private hands.
And the government thinks they can “regulate” that?
***Now all they need is another tragedy to occur.***
Don’t be surprised if the Dems have not got one in the works, much as California did when they shelved their AW ban bill.
Then released Pat Purdy from a mental institution, allowed him to violate State and US laws by buying guns, passing the waiting period for handguns, then he shot up the Stockton school yard.
The shelved AW ban bill was pulled out and passed before any opposition could be mounted against it.
AK types, too. Here’s the info.
Assault weapons ban, my ass. It should be called “The Criminal Empowerment Act”.
What a bunch od Sh*it-heads
“15 round Meg-Cars?”
How can it possibly be Constitutional to ban weapons based on their suitability for militia service, when the courts have used suitability for militia service as the standard for WHAT IS legal to possess? Sawed off shotgun, not protected by 2nd A. Rifle with bayonet lug, protected.
Dems have lied to us for the last sixty years over handgun bans. I have a long memory.
The lies we have been told over the years...
1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.
1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!
1981, Actress Lee Grant on GMA screams...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1984, they made a grab for the rifles, and missed, but played their hand.
1988,Josh Sugarmann, of the National Council to Ban Handguns tells how to ban rifles.
“Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over
fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons
—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine
gun— can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on
these weapons.”
– Josh Sugarmann
Gun owners now know that any time we negotiate with those who want to ban guns, we are up against a stacked deck.
Meg-Cars is a brand name
You can still “go cowboy” unabashed!
You can still “go cowboy” unabashed!
Nice list! Do I have permission to spread it around?
I didn’t use to think so, but I do believe that 99.8% will bend the knee. Everyone is fat, gay and on psych meds. This ain’t 1776. I have very little faith in the American people.
Remember back in the 1960s when they wanted to ban 5-shot bolt action Army Surplus rifles because they were “Military”. Too cheap compared to a US made sporting rifle, and they were issued to “Military”!
They got the ban in 1968.
So the importers started importing surplus “Police Rifles” that came from the same factories, Same calibers, same stocks, same proof marks. But they had NOT been issued to the military so they were A-OK for import.
This silliness was finally stopped in the 1980s and bolt action army surplus rifles were again allowed in.
Lets Ban Crazy Old Hags instead
How the newspapers have changed their tunes since 1934.
a FR post from 2014. this is ORR in the Chicago Tribune.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3153159/posts
Yes. Spread it around.
Here is another, by Nelson Pete Shields on how he proposed to ban handguns. His organization (now the Brady Center) is going after rifles. If they can get a rifle ban to stick, rest assured they will go after their first target, Handguns.
Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.
“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.
Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.
So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.
My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — TOTALLY ILLEGAL.”
-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58
“Yes, I’m for an outright ban [on handguns].”
-Pete Shields, Chairman emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc., 60 Minutes interview
HCI, around 1984, made a grab for the semi-auto rifles and shotguns, and missed. Then Josh Sugarmann tuned in. This has been the mantra ever since.
“ Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons —anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun— can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”
– Josh Sugarmann
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