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Posted on 03/14/2013 9:40:52 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a ban on the sale and manufacture of more than 150 types of semi-automatic weapons with military-style features Thursday in a party-line vote.
The 10-8 vote came after a heated exchange between Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who Feinstein scolded for giving her a "lecture" on the Constitution.
It’s the fourth piece of gun control legislation to make it out of committee, and perhaps the one with the longest odds of becoming law given opposition from Republicans to a new ban on so-called assault weapons.
Committee Democrats first beat back four amendments offered by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) that would have carved out exceptions to the ban. Cornyn asked for exceptions for victims of domestic violence, military veterans and those living on Southwest border states that he said were affected by Mexican gang violence.
Feinstein, the sponsor of the underlying bill, called the amendments “an effort to nip it and tuck it and create exceptions.”
Cornyn said it would Feinstein’s bill would leave citizens with “peashooters” and outgunned by criminals.
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They have declared war.
And this is their first big battle.
The filthy totalitarian pigs might win this battle. They just might. But I suspect it will cost them dearly. Everything from lost elections, non-compliance, non-enforcement, jury nullification, and, failing those, much worse.
Why are they even bothering with this? It will never get past the House, and they know it. It’s all for show..........
I think we are looking at retirement for Leahy pretty soon, or maybe a REALLY BIG STROKE ~
Please, please, please put it before the senate for a full vote. Let’s get the traitors on record.
You sure about that??
with the pubs you never know.
We thought Obamacare would never get passed, either.
Lindsey Graham was offended that the question was even asked!
As long as Republicans can hold the House, or maintain at least enough Senators to effect a filibuster.......
They want to ensure that voters will remember to vote them out of office.
Fixed it.
How would a Tory writing legislation designed to remove our framers muskets by the King’s men been received? Just asking.
Mrs. Feinstein looks very tired.
I don’t count on “Republicans” for anything any more. Wasn’t it a “Republican” who let Obamacare out of committee .... otherwise it would have died there (or something like that)? “Republicans” have had their chances and failed miserably on many fronts. They could defund Obamacare ... but they keep trucking along with it ... they could defund aspects of government that are behaving badly in many ways .... they keep tolerating it. Nope, I don’t think “Republicans” will oppose/prevent gun laws that curtail the Constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans.
Republicans didnt run the House. They couldn’t stop it, even if they wanted.
If the Republicans don't get their heads out of their butts and start fielding conservative candidates, come next election the RATs will win the House, too. Then all bets are off.
“”The video on Cruz v. Feinstein was entertaining””
I couldn’t find a video on that site - where is it? I need to see it because I haven’t been irritated enough today!!!!
“Mrs. Feinstein looks very tired.”
And I’m very tired of looking at her.
Being a tyrannical marxist 24/7 takes a lot of energy.
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