Guns in general are made for killing. The Second Amendment STILL prevents you from licensing or confiscating semi-automatic weapons, or full autos for that matter!
Richmond was joined in his presentation by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and ranking members of the New Orleans Police Department, who brought confiscated assault weapons and ammunition to the hearing
Looks to me like some offials ought to be in jail.
Good work, LA
Did Ray "chocolate city" Nagin mention the OVER 1000 LEGALLY owned weapons that were seized from law abiding citizens during hurricane Katrina?
The 2nd Ammendment was written with these “fascists” in mind. Come and get em boys.......you better bring enough gun....
Good for La.
Last time I checked my "sports guns" were more powerful and killed critters just as easy, if not easier, then my "assault weapon"
If we can’t deal with the criminals, we’ll make criminals we CAN deal with.... D. LA.
Ye gods, registration, outlawing possession, criminalization for prior ownership,confiscation
the list goes on. Remember this is not an isolated instance, just the usual litany of what they have in store
for us.
Richmond’s bill would have required all assault weapons to be turned over to State Police by Jan. 1. It also would have required owners to register their weapons with State Troopers and pass a criminal background check.
Owners who qualify could pay a license fee and get an annual permit. Assault weapons would be confiscated from those who fail the background check. The bill called for a penalty of as long as six months in jail, a fine of as much as $500, or both for having an expired assault weapon permit. Individuals who did not have a permit could be fined as much as $2,000 and face as long as two years in jail, or both.
>Assault weapons would be confiscated from those who fail the background check
Uh huh. I suppose then that these are fully automatic assault and battle rifles?
Or just whatever they want to define as an assault weapon?
So where did these illegal assault weapons come from?
Possibly the same place those drug dealers acquired their merchandise from?
How would confiscatng my AR-15 change that?
In addition to firearms, I own a baseball bat with “TraumaKing” crudely carved in the wood. Its whole raison d’etre is to be a weapon with which I could assault an intruder. An assault weapon, in other words. But I shouldn’t worry. The bill is called “Assault Weapons Protection Act”, right?
Here’s a link to an NRA press release that talks about the definition:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?id=3782
Here’s a link to the actual HR 68 text:
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=462959
“HB 68 would ban pump-actions as well as semi-automatics, and millions more firearms than the Clinton “assault weapons” ban of 1994-2004. His definition of “assault weapon” would include numerous autoloading and pump-action deer rifles, autoloading .22 rimfire rifles, some 19th century pistols, as well as many firearms with a “military-style appearance” used for self-defense, target shooting and hunting. He even preposterously makes the claim that these firearms are “equally as dangerous as machine guns and explosive devices.” The bill goes on to ban firearm parts such as muzzle brakes, ported pistol barrels, and other commonplace firearm accessories, calling them “assault weapons conversion kits.” “
“Richmond was joined in his presentation by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and ranking members of the New Orleans Police Department”
Larry, Curly, and the “pretty boys” intellectual giants. I doubt any of them can spell Constitution. Richmond is a major shill for the anti-gunners in the dumbocrat party.
If that were to pass, I hope the people would have ignited the powder keg they’re sitting on.
Show them it can’t be done, and if they try it they’ll pay a huge cost.
It sounds as though if Nagin got rid of the drug dealers, he wouldn’t have to worry about the assault weapons.