Lautenberg Introduces Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act

lautenberg.senate.gov ^ | March 16, 2005 | Anonymous Lautenberg Lackey

[TERMINATTOR]

Measure Tougher and More Comprehensive than 1994 Federal Ban on Assault Weapons that President Bush and Republicans Allowed to Expire Last Year

WASHINGTON, DC --Acting forcefully to protect citizens and law enforcers, United States Senator Frank R. Lautenberg introduced today a bill which would restore the federal ban on dangerous assault weapons.

"Keeping assault weapons off our streets is common sense," said Senator Lautenberg. "Our first responsibility to the American people is to keep them safe."

The "Assault Weapons Ban and Law enforcement Protection Act" would permanently reinstate and significantly strengthen the federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazine that expired on September 2004. The Lautenberg bill would improve and simplify the definition of assault weapons; would expand the scope of the ban to include conversion parts kits that can be purchased through the mail and used to build an assault weapon; regulate the transfer of grandfathered assault weapons; clarify definitions of assault weapon characteristics; and enhance tracing of assault weapons.

"It is time to act in the interest of the American people, not the gun lobby," said Senator Lautenberg. "Innocent lives, including law enforcement officials, are at risk and we need to pass this legislation now. Gun laws should be there to protect the innocent; not help criminals and terrorists"

The Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) produced a detailed report at the request of Senator Lautenberg that found that at least 47 suspected and known terrorists who are listed on the nation's terror watch lists were allowed to legally purchase firearms. With the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban, these people could now upgrade from a hand gun or rifle, to an AK-47.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

I thought I saw Frankie in the movie, "Night of the Living Dead." He looks like the dried up husk of a doppelganger. Frankie's logic, make the common people beat their swords into plow-shears and they will then plow for those who don't. Liberal logic, is the epitome of self-destruction 101. NSNR

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Hey DocH, you sound like a right-wing extremist intent on the right to keep and bear arms. Welcome to the club Brother, and we are the "Patriots of America." When the machine breaks down we break down, and we are not going to allow it. NSNR

[planekT]

Stinky the Buck Goat expresses my sentiments towards this bill very accurately. :-)

[No Surrender No Retreat]

By the way DocH, the democraps are the terrorists in America. They want to see the USA fall, well it will not happen on our watch. (POA) NSNR

[Nebr FAL owner]

It's very simple really, these politicians are all members of the Democrat party . This political party has as a fundamental religious belief set in theological concrete the notion that you are far to STUPID to wipe your own back side, flush the toilet, wash your hands in the proper sequence when using the lavatory . The notion of a wretched peasant having a firearm is something that absolutely appalls/terrorizes them. After all they can't have the peons thinking for themselves that would in the view of these politicians upset the "natural order of things".

[international american]

Strike three!

[international american]

A few years ago, Feinstein was caught with a loaded pistol in her purse, remember??

[Southack]

A Democrat introduces a gun ban, and your *first* reaction is to blame President Bush.

That's a classic. President Bush, who as Governor of Texas, signed Texas' first ever Concealed Carry firearms bill into law. President Bush, who ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to inform the U.S. Supreme Court that the official U.S. position on the 2nd Amendment was that it protected our individual rights (not Leftist-imagined "collective" rights).

President Bush, who told the UN to go get stuffed over their proposed global ban of the 2nd Amendment with their International Small Arms Trafficking Treaty...and then appointed John Bolton to be UN Ambassador to insure that they heard him! President Bush, who signed *two* federal repeals of pilot gun bans into law...

...yes, you blamed *that* President Bush for a Democrat's proposed gun ban.

Please see your nearest psychiatrist immediately.

[ExtremeUnction]

Is there a betting line on how fast GWB will sign this bill if it ever gets to his desk? I say about a day after he says he has no choice but to sign to protect "the people" (the elite).

The good news is, it won't make it to his desk. It will die in the House.

[Republican Wildcat]

[Reinhard]

There are but a few lines in The Totalitarian Handbook. First you take away the guns; then you take away the rights; and then you take away the people. It starts first as always with the well intentioned attack on civilian ownership of firearms. In New Brunswick, Canada in 1755 the Acadian people were ethnically cleansed and deported to the swamps of Louisiana. Their property was taken to the advantage of the British. First of course was the turning in of their personal firearms. Those nasty flintlocks were the assault rifle of their day. Unarmed the redcoats had little trouble committing their crimes. I hope and pray we are not as gullible as in the past and fall for this age old trick again.

[Final Authority]

That would be good news indeed, if it never came to a vote. Do you have the same enthusiasm for GWB's intentions of pardoning criminal aliens and eliminating the border with Mexico?

[Final Authority]

Nice try. You do not get a "do over" here, in my book.

[gatex]

Thanks for expanding the list of gun-control nuts.

[Southack]

"Nice try. You do not get a "do over" here, in my book."

I don't *need* a do-over; I'm not the idiot who blamed a Republican President for a Democratic bill.

[Liberty Valance]

"United States Senator Frank R. Lautenberg introduced today a bill..."

Dream on Lautenberg.

[rdb3]

I don't *need* a do-over; I'm not the idiot who blamed a Republican President for a Democratic bill.

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Consider who you're conversing with here. He/she does that all the time.

[Spktyr]

It's a pellet/paintball gun. No hearing protection required, but he should be wearing safety goggles or a faceshield.

[hiredhand]

I imagine that the black cylinder above the magazine and to the right of the upper is filled with little plastic balls!

Yep! There's a hopper that makes it look more like a paintball gun. But the shooter's visibility is greatly increased by putting a cap on the hopper base (that round thing).

[Bogolyubski]

Actually, if your report is correct, most Americans already have less firearm rights than Iraqis. The AK-47 is a full-auto assault rifle. These are banned to regular citizens alttogether in many states (like Illinois) and a civilian has to be licensed and approved by the BATF in the states where they are allowed for civilian use.

It's been that way since the National Firearms Act of 1935, which severely limited the second amendment so that the citizenry no longer has equal access to the weaponry that the government and police do. Criminals have paid as much attention to that old chestnut of a gun law every bit as much as they do to all the others, of course. Bit by bit, the oligarchs in Washington are chiseling away at what's left of the constitution. Gun laws have never been about reducing crime, but at reducing the citizenry's ability to defend itself.