Posted on 04/10/2009 6:49:06 AM PDT by marktwain
(CBS) The California senator who authored the nation's now-lapsed 1994 ban on assault weapons says she will hold off trying to renew that ban.
Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) tells 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl that the political timing isn't right and she will move to renew the ban at a future time of her own choosing. Feinstein appears in Stahl's report on the increase in gun sales taking place in America to be broadcast this Sunday, April 12, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Asked by Stahl if trying to renew the assault weapons ban would start a culture war and pose a distraction for an already overburdened Obama Administration, Feinstein replies, "I agree with you." "So you are going to hold off?" asks Stahl. "That's correct. I'll pick the time and the place, no question about it," Feinstein tells Stahl.
But even if she pursued the renewal, the votes may not be there today in either the Senate or the House. Both Houses of Congress gained pro-gun Democrats this past election, some of whom won the support of the National Rifle Association. "I am not going to disagree with that at all," says Feinstein. "The National Rifle Association essentially has a stranglehold on the Congress."
Has Congressional leadership or anyone from the Obama administration influenced her decision to put off the fight for renewal of the assault weapons ban? "No. Nobody said a word to me," Feinstein tells Stahl.
Feinstein appears in Stahl's report on the increase of gun sales in America. Stahl talks to gun enthusiasts who tell her Americans are buying more guns now, in part, due to fear of impending social unrest as a result of the financial meltdown.
Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a pro-guns advocacy group, explains: "We're being told all the time that, ‘The economy could just collapse and we could fall into chaos.’ Well, chaos is a good reason to be able to protect yourself… You could imagine if we truly had a collapse of the economy and it was hard to find food, those that did manage to hang onto food-might…find themselves in a precarious position.'" Van Cleave tells Stahl the other main reason is fear of potential gun control under new President Barack Obama.
Arrogant b*tch...
You have to remember that DiFi is looking toward the California Governor’s mansion.
She has to run to the middle to get there. Gun confiscation won’t get her to Sacramento.
It worked in 1994
Wonder how the DUmpsters are reacting to this..
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Some of those DUmpsters like their guns. The really nutty, Commie moonbats are skeered of those big, mean nasty, black killing machines.
Make no mistake, Feinstein is a tyrant but with the caution of a sneaky political opportunist. Ask if she has ARMED guards and security surrounding her. This hypocrite thinks only she should have the right to own guns and let the little people use sticks and try to stop her. While Hussein disarms our military, private citizens see what is coming and domestic arming is at an all time high for a very good reason.
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BINGO!
Right now, folks are outright PILING UP the ammo in their basements.
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I was reading some ammo posts on the gun forums and many of them have so much their floors won’t hold it due to the weight. They either bury it or use the basement. Some of the pictures look like they have enough for 3 world wars.
One guy had a truck deliver it. Cases and cases!
“some other indirect way to regulate guns”
Stamping identification on ammo casings and banning reloaders???
When she says the time isn’t right, she means that she will try to sneak it into a 10,000 page spending bill.
Most are patriotic Americans just like anyone else, but a writing I saw the other day (maybe JPFO), said if the feds could get all military and law enforcement to follow their lead... it would field them 1.5 million men.
There are about 65 million gun owners (which are now VERY heavily armed and well stocked)... so if you pull out the most committed 2A patriots that probably would jump into the fray, It would be some where in the neighborhood of 10 million (and a good chunk of those former military/LEO I might add), with the rest sitting on the fence to see which direction it would go.
Actually, I believe that if the Republic survives that long that this tsunami is virtually guaranteed by the degree to which the conservatives will have been agitated, coupled with the fact that the troglodyte Democrat masses won't have a single corrupt and vacuous figurehead to rally 'round.
Feinstein is a strong proponent of gun control, yet is known to have carried concealed handguns herself with a normally nearly impossible to obtain California carry permit - few people, other than politicians and celebrities, are able to obtain California CCW permits. At one time, she was the only person in San Francisco to possess a concealed carry permit.
I actually found 6 boxes of 5.56 at a Wal-Mart last week. Of course it was plinking grade stuff, but that was fine with me. I bought 3 of the 6 boxes, leaving some for other folks who may be looking for it. What sucks is out of the 5 Wal-Marts I visited that day, that was the ONLY 5.56 I saw. All of the stores were near bear empty of ammo.
I recall Feinstein appearing on 60 Minutes many years ago and admitting that her assault weapons law DID NOT WORK (as intended). Manufactures, rightly, simply removed the offensive features the law forbid, such as bayonet attachments and certain handles; cosmetic changes, etc.
In short, after her efforts the same weapons were being sold after being modified to conform to the new law.
When these misguided career bureaucrats renew their gun ban efforts (which they will), it will likey come in the form of a massive TAX and/or required gun “insurance”. Their intent will be the same - to take guns from law abiding citizens - but the legislative sales-pitch will be less overt and suggest the (new) tax revenue will be used in some benevolent way and thus solve of the Nations problems.
Such legislation is already being suggested in Illinois.
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http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/il-bill-introduced-to-require-1-million.html
Monday, February 23, 2009
IL: Bill Introduced to Require Million Dollar Liability Policies
If you can’t ban guns, make them too expensive to own or use. That seems to be the ideology of the gun grabbers these days. In the past we’ve seen attempts to make ammunition too expensive to buy. Obama has been in favor of increasing Federal Excise taxes on weapons & ammunition by 500%. The latest attempt is to require liability insurance that would be prohibitively expensive to buy, if it could be obtained at all.....(excerpt)
...the hogs will be well fed...
Agreed, and I don’t want to sound the least bit anti-police, but it won’t fall out like Lexington. It won’t be obvious. It will be a “pedophile” here, a “drug dealer” there, a “gun nut”, etc. You’ll be broken down bit by bit.
They’ll nail people like you - lions - and be left with just sheep to round up and herd. It won’t be easy for them to distinguish who are the good guys.
Here are some stats:
943K - total Fed/state/local law enforcement (from DOJ)
2.3MM - total Armed forces and reserves (from Wikipedia)
20 Dem Senators have already spoken out against cap and trade.
And further provocation and the Senate goes Repub big time in '10.
Good stuff!!!
Something everyone needs to study...However upsetting it is, it is better to know how they think, and what they think they’re going to...
What they do not know or anticipate is the fact at how hard we are going to fight against this rain or shine...
A good chunk of the Fed LEO are paper pushers, and a lot of the Military, in addition to being very patriotic Americans who took an oath to defend and protect THE CONSTITUTION, are also 1)Overseas 2)Reserve... and then again a good bit of them are REMFs.
Point is, if "the people" decide to fight back there would be no stopping it, you also have to realize that a lot of State Governments would also jump in the fray. So it would be no easy task to silence dissent, sooner or later false or political arrests would get out and the backlash would be devastating.
Yes, IIRC it takes like 16 to support a single infantryman on the line for the Army. Crazy ratio, but I think that is right.
I hope you are right, otherwise. Too few remember what the BoR or the Constitution say.
Have a great weekend.
RD
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