Posted on 08/09/2021 1:45:36 PM PDT by PROCON
Legislation introduced in Congress this month would require any semi-automatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine to be registered under the National Firearms Act.
The bill, H.R.4953 {To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act any semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine.}, was filed last Friday in the House by U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, a Florida Democrat who is outspoken in his support of gun control measures.
"Congress passed the National Firearms Act after the 1929 Valentine's Day massacre to tightly regulate certain machine guns & shotguns," said Deutch on social media Friday, going on to say, "It's time to update this law & regulate the weapon of choice in mass shootings: semiautomatic rifles."
Lacking from the Congressman's talking points is the fact that FBI crime statistics for 2019, the most recent year available, list rifles of all kinds as the type of weapon used in 364 of 13,927 tracked homicides across the country, or in about 2 percent of cases. By comparison, knives were used in 1,476 cases, or more than four times more often, while bodily weapons such as hands and feet were used in some 600 cases. Non-firearm/cutting weapons such as rocks and blunt objects were used in 1,593 cases.
Semi-auto rifles are extremely popular on the American firearms market at all levels. First seen in domestic production with the Winchester Model 1905 – which used a circa 1901 patent – such guns have been available for well over a century. The follow-on Winchester Model 1907 was marketed with detachable 5-, 10-, and 20-round box magazines at about the time Theodore Roosevelt was president. Estimates are that the AR-15 and similar semi-automatics dubbed Modern Sporting Rifles by the NSSF, account for an estimated 19.8 million rifles in circulation, lending concrete numbers to the argument that such guns are in common use.
H.R. 4953 has been referred to the Democrat-controlled House Ways and Means Committee and has eight co-sponsors.
Indeed. RKBA is such a big fundraising issue for both sides that neither party has an incentive to actually win the fight.
Reminder:
- Much as I like Trump, he did nothing to improve RKBA.
- Much as I hate Obama, he signed National Park carry.
Let’s repeal the existing law first. Then, have a discussion about new law next—no Irgun sales to Islamic Cult members,], communists, socialists, etc. and prosecute 4473 violations.
Bump for later
The only reason the government would want to disarm you after 245 years is because they intend to do something that you would shoot them for.
In other news plumbing supply dealers report an unexplained surge in the sales of 4” and larger PVC pipe and end caps.
Molon Labe!
Good luck with that. Keep pushing people into a corner. It won’t be pretty.
Another stupid gun law that will do NOTHING to stop crime in Democrat cities.
Another great question.
Headline on Breitbart earlier about the Pentagon drafting language for mandatory “vaccinations”.
What happens when Joe won’t get the shot? How is he discharged?
Gonna be lots of folks getting out of the military soon, leaving our country defenseless. While the blocks have been laid for decades under the ever helpful eye of Congressional Republicans, it’s amazing that in just over 7 months CornPop, his administration and puppet masters have done so much damage.
Thank the Lord for the internet and alternative news sources, who the hell knows where we’d be right now.
All because one man and his supporters dared to stand up to them.
Time to rescind the internal revenue code?
These commies are going to turn me into one of them “sovereign citizen” types.
2A bump for later.....
Thanks, Bob434! Saving these quotes for later usage.
Zero chance of me complying with ANY new gun control measure.
Enough of this bullsh*t.
Crazy, my dad's .22 from his HS team qualifies, this people are nuts.
5hey are second quotes. If you lose them I posted them in my profile page
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