I don't think so!
Posted on 03/19/2005 5:51:26 AM PST by TERMINATTOR
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.
Shoot, that looks like a paintball gun. Naw, no hearing protection needed there, eye protection yes, hearing, no.
Even though I seriously doubt this bill will become law, I urge EVERYONE to write (an actual letter, not an email) their Senators and express your concerns.
Molon Labe!
Common sense if you are conniving politician up to no good. Can't have the rubes armed, now can they?
Technically a carbine. But that's still a rifle, just a short one.
Well, not quite. The barrel was likely longer, but that, like the selector, is part of the National Firearms Act, not the AW ban. It probably didn't have a bayonet lug and also probably had a muzzle brake rather than a flash suppressor, or no muzzle device at all, courtesy of the AW ban. Unless it was a pre-ban example. But that doesn't mean the ban wasn't a ban, it was just a ban on new production... just like the 1986 ban on production of new machine guns for sale to civilians.
It should be, but somehow the CongressCritters never got around to making it a crime and the Constitution irself protects them for what they do in Congress.
Art. 1. Section. 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
While we are on the subject of weapons I have a question. What happens if you are denied a purchase when they do the instant background check at the store? Do the Feds come after you? Just curious:-)
First priority after a report that al-qaeda is going to target schools and malls and movie theaters is to disarm their targets;us.
Violate your oath of office to uphold the constitution thereby making us vulnerable to promised attack while keeping your camp guards safe from the inmates.
I don't think they are ignorant as much as arrogant and conniving. Oh they generally aren't gun experts, but they also aren't all that ignorant. As for the Second Amendment, to them it means whatever they can get a court to say it means. Although in reality they know what it originally meant, the just believe in a Living Constitution, which means nothing, if the actual meaning gets in the way of their ambitions.
First priority after a report that al-qaeda is going to target schools and malls and movie theaters is to disarm their targets;us.
Violate your oath of office to uphold the constitution thereby making us vulnerable to promised attack while keeping your camp guards safe from the inmates.
Yup...you're right. It's a paintball gun. :-)
Lighten up (Senator) Francis.
I hear good things about Fulton Armory.
I thought fossils are an extinct species! Fossilized you understand...!
I don't think so!
I'm sure he mean just that last minute (literally!) addition to the bill that banned new production of machine guns for the nongovernmental market. But you knew that.
It's a perfect example of hiding a turd in a plate of especially aromatic spaghetti and meatballs, and hoping no one notices. The turd was so badly written, nobody really knew what it meant, although they did know what was intended, and that intent is what the BATFE and the courts are enforcing.
IIRC that was an executive order based upon the "sporting purposes" test of the '68 Gun Control Act.
BTTT!
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