Posted on 12/24/2012 8:40:00 PM PST by neverdem
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that she and other gun control advocates are considering a law that would create a program to purchase weapons from gun owners, a proposal that could be compulsory.
“We are also looking at a buy-back program,” Feinstein said today in a press conference. “Now, again, this is a work in progress so these are ideas in the development.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., already discussed the possibility of a buy-back law for his state, but he made clear it would be a forced buyback.
“Confiscation could be an option,” Cuomo told The New York Times yesterday when discussing semiautomatic weapons. “Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option — keep your gun but permit it.”
Australia implemented a mandatory buyback program in 1996 following a mass shooting. “The law banned semiautomatic and automatic rifles and shotguns and put in place a mandatory buy-back program for newly banned weapons,” USA Today recalls. “The buyback led to the destruction of 650,000 gun.”
Some liberal activists want the policy imitated here. “That would be like destroying 50 million guns in America today,” the Center for American Progress’ Matt Miller wrote after noting that Australia eliminated 20 percent of the weapons in the country. “The Australian ‘outlaw and repurchase’ option is one approach. But if Congress balks at banning certain weapons entirely, it could make gun owners an offer they can’t refuse. Instead of $200 a gun, Uncle Sam might offer $500.”
Feinstein also said that that former President Bill Clinton had volunteered, on a phone call, to help her get a new gun law passed.
“[Clinton] was talking about the battle back in 1993 with the bill that, interestingly enough, was introduced and passed within the year fo 1993 and went into effect in 1994,” she said. “And, of course, he was president and the White House came alive and was very very helpful in enabling the passage of that bill both in the senate and in the House. So, to have him part of the team again is really quote special for us.”
Where are you going to post that?
if there is a ping list for it, i want on.
Gun Restrictions Have Always Bred Defiance, Black Markets
California state officials pulled a similar stunt, though with a shorter grace period. After the registration of so-called “assault weapons” subsequent to the passage of the Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989, Attorney General Dan Lungren reversed official position in 1997 to declare one of the rifles considered legal and subject to registration just a few years earlier—the SKS Sporter—to be illegal. Owners who had complied with the law were forced to surrender their weapons or transfer them out of state.
I don't know any more that that. It's from a fellow Noo Yawker.
“And this stupid bitch wonders why gun owners are paranoid.”
I’m not paranoid.
LOL!!!
I’ll post it here after the new year.
We need a list of the anti-gun legislators who own weapons, the number of and type of weapons, and where the weapons are registered.
Wow, aren't you forward thinking!
I’ll give Chi-Com Feinstein $10 for Her 357 Magnum.....
As long as the commies cut the price paid for the guns, Boner is game.
Great plan, Sen. Einstein. I’ll do it right after the Capitol Police, Secret Service, and DCPD sell back theirs.
Damn straight, I’m all good with buying people’s guns at pennies on the dollar. I’ll make sure they find a good home.
The libs like to throw that word around a lot. Notice how EVERY documentary about the Cold War has to throw in the phrase “Cold War paranoia” repeatedly, even the ones that are pretty pro-military. So now it’s paranoid to prepare for your defense when somebody tells you straight-up that they’re coming for you.
I got a $10 gift certificate to Starbucks, a leftist company, for each of the guns she owns...but she has to fork over all of them...owned by her or any member of her family...and all the accompaning high capacity magazines/clips.
Gotta include the armament of her body guard contingent too!
with whose money???
And then any mention of any second shooter just dropped out of the news.>>>>>>>>>
He was mentioned as a watcher from the woods in early reports. He was definitely there.He was not a second shooter, just an observer ( handler?).
How kind of you Benito!
What makes anyone think that The Messiah is going to bother with trying to get a bill passed. Have you not observed is methods to get what he wants?
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