Posted on 11/10/2017 7:57:59 AM PST by Simon Green
The text of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault rifle ban bill is now available on her website and, contra Nick’s expectations, it isn’t simply a copy-and-paste re-run of the failed Clinton era assault rifle ban language. It’s worse. Much worse.
How bad is it? In the first four pages, it bans the popular GLOCK 17 9mm pistol, a gun that’s commonly used for shooting sports and personal self defense by hundreds of thousands of Americans.
That’s right, one of the most reliable, commonly-used pistols in the US, from one of the most popular firearms manufacturers in the world is now on the chopping block.
But it’s not just the G17. The Beretta 92, the CZ75, and the HK VP70 would also be forbidden. Heck, even the Luger P08 would be out.
Why? Because among the many things the bill prohibits — from the “CZ Scorpion Pistol” [sic], which it somehow defines as an “AK” to the jihad it wages against barrel shrouds that keep people from injuring themselves — the senior Senator from California wants to ban any “semiautomatic versions of an automatic firearm.” (See page 4 of the bill.)
That means that if a manufacturer ever made a fully-automatic version of a semi-automatic pistol (i.e. the GLOCK 18, a select fire version of the G17), the semi-auto gun would be verboten. Feinstein’s bill, if passed, would classify these guns as a “semiautomatic assault weapons” and, therefore, outlaw them.
Let’s be clear here: this isn’t a serious bill. This isn’t intended to generate a conversation leading to an acceptable compromise. This is pure red meat for the anti-gun base, written by a legislative staff who view the Bill of Rights with utter contempt. And it laughs in the face of Supreme Court precedent concerning commonly-used firearms.
To the civilian disarmament advocates who read this blog (and you know who you are): if you ever wonder why we fight you on every single issue, in every forum, on every two-bit propaganda show…if you wonder why rifles like the AR-15 and AK-47 have proliferated in civilian hands to an amazing degree in the past ten years…if you want to know why we burst into raucous laughter every time one of your acolytes in the legacy media parrots the falsehood, “no one’s coming for your guns,” this is why.
The bad faith, ignorance, and contempt for the Bill of Rights enshrined in Senator Feinstein’s latest 123-page abomination of a bill is why.
I think she holds stock in firearms companies. This will send sales through the roof if it makes it to the floor of the senate!
Have the libs banned Home Depot rental trucks yet?
Will all these politicians bodyguards quit using them?
Lol, I bought a Glock 17 years ago just before Clinton got them reduced. The wheel goes round in circles...
They ignore the fact that gun laws passed in past as the great ‘fix’ are abject failures, it’s always the next law that is the panacea. That’s why we must fight them all.
Not worried, but I’d better go ahead and get that Saint pistol sooner rather than later.
> Will all these politicians bodyguards quit using them? <
No. They will all get special permits to continue to carry them. Same goes for celebrity bodyguards. But sorry, you won’t be able to get such a permit. As George Carlin would say, “it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
I always wanted a Mauser C96 broomhandle but that will be banned too since it had full auto capabilities..
Have the libs banned Home Depot rental trucks yet?
= = =
Do they have automatics?
Democrats are an Assault Weapons on freedom.
why not just call it the “citizens voting ban”
that is the real goal.
Gun Control murders children.
Repeal Gun Control.
Gun control any Democrat, since they do the massacres.
Ask your Rep how many gun control laws did they repeal to help victims?
Repeal 5 Democrat Laws for each they pass.
“semiautomatic assault weapons”
I have read that the first a-s-s-sault rifle bill California wanted to pass, but failed, also wanted to ban the over 10 round lever action rifles.
Anyone remember when the voters of California, back in 1982, REJECTED Prop 15, to ban and register handguns in the state?
It failed. Since then, the state politicians have been trying to find ways around the will of the people, one little anti-gun nibble at a time.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_15,_Handgun_Registration_Initiative_(1982)
Rest assured they will be back for more.
The only things that need to be banned are Democrats.
You just gave me a idea for a meme ......
Pelosi, Schumer, Clinton, etc.. all standing side by side in a pose with the caption "Assault Weapons Against Freedom"....
You just gave me a idea for a meme ......
Pelosi, Schumer, Clinton, etc.. all standing side by side in a pose with the caption "Assault Weapons Against Freedom"....
As a Jewess on the US, I can only point out that the number of women who allegedly DATED, but had no sex with, Roy Moore is EXACTLY the same number who accused President Clinton of FORCIBLE RAPE, a FAR more serious offense. Now we know why all REAL Americans put our 2nd Amendment FIRST. Just sayin’!
But only new ones - you can keep the ones you already have....wink-wink...
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