Assault Weapon Ban extension PASSES (Senate amendment to gun industry protection bill)

C-Span ^ | 3-2-04 | Sen. Dianne Feinstein D-CA

[Atlas Sneezed]

The vote was:

52 -Aye in favor of extending the ban 47 -Nay opposed to the ban.

[cc2k]

TheBigB wrote:

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The House will vote against it and it will be taken out in conference.

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I've heard that before (and it's no more true now than it has been in the past.

We have until 2:15 to call our Senators and express our opposition to S.1805, the "Assault Weapons" Ban Extension and Gun Show "loophole" Closing Act

This bill can't pass with these amendments. We need to send a strong message now.

Call your Senators now at 1-800-648-3516 and tell them you oppose S.1805.

[El Gato]

Its DOA in the House. Tom Delay has promised the AWB extension will never make it to the floor.

Assuming the bill passes in the Senate, there is no choice now. The best that can be done is that the House stand firm and either remove it in conference, or reject the entire bill, but there will be a vote in the House.

[KQQL]

Fitzgerald.....

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Voted for CFR.
Voted for AW Extention.
Voted aginst ANWR.

No wonder the RINO isn't running for re-election...because he would lose in a landslide

[section9]

I'll bet you twenty bucks that the House sunsets this orphaned child in conference. You've got my freepmail. If this thing is signed by Bush, I will send you twenty bucks. No paypal crap, either. A crisp 20 to your home address. Bush will lose the election if he signs this thing, and he knows it. That's why it will never reach his desk.

But if we get past Sept. 13th with no extension? I expect to see Andrew Jackson, proud gunowner, in my mailbox.

See, Bush wants this thing dead. He knows that AWB renewal is a trap set by Democrats to discourage his base voters and cause a split in the Party. So does DeLay. That's why this will die.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[ought-six]

500,000 votes would be more than enough to swing the election. This election is going to be about as close as 2000. Bush is at serious risk of losing the presidency, and on multiple issues. The AWB was the final straw for many. He signs this, he's in deep doo-doo.

[ArrogantBustard]

You forget nothing. That heinous bill passed the Democrat controlled House by precisely ONE vote.

I'll be pounding Allen, Bush, Wolf, and that friggin' PUTZ Warner about this ... And DeLay, too, for that matter. If Mr Bush wants my vote in November, AWB must be dead.

[Little Pig]

Right on. Soon as I can round up the scratch. I've already got access to a pre-ban M1 Carbine, so all I need now is the M1A, a Rem870, and a 1911.

[KantianBurke]

[OXENinFLA]

Scott McClellannis taking this question up now.

[dts32041]

Yeah but he might change his mind. //sarcasm off

[Colonel_Flagg]

CFR has proven to be pro conservative, yes?

Matters not. It's anti-Constitutional.

[section9]

Call me irresponsible, or just call me Johnson, but I don't think this election will be as close as everyone is saying. There is something about John F.. The more people see, the less they like.

Bush by five points. Book that.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[OXENinFLA]

He's say the two things are two different subjects. He's saying the Amendments are undermining the Bill.

[Lancey Howard]

The ideological divides are predictable when it comes to gun control.

Yep. Naturally, the big-government, big-tax tyrants don't want the people armed.
Hence, the scumbag Democrats love "gun control".

[SkyPilot]

Ten years---the first time they passed this ridiculous ban.

[ought-six]

"And just as a note, Bush has supported the AWB since 1999."

Yeah, but 9/11 changed a lot of things. We are not the same country we were in 2000. We have a dagger to our throat, so the rules have changed.

[Lancey Howard]

Agreed.
Bush in a landslide.

[Sabertooth]

People didn't see it as an assault on the 1st amendment.

But what they show your ignorance of political nuance all you want, that's your right and no one has taken that away.

When defending an abridgement of the First Amendment on the grounds that ignorant people, who didn't care one way or the other, don't see CFR as an assault on Free Speech becomes a self-congratulatory excercise in the Emperor's Nuance, I'm not especially concerned when dissembling shills such yourself call me ignorant, Dane.

Folks like yourself are to the GOP what the Clintonistas were to the Democrats; just an ugly stain. You're an amen corner that deems it politically sophisticated to elevate your lack of principle into your highest principle. To whatever extent your type gains sway over the GOP, the Republican Party will simply become an inverse reflection of the unscrupulous Democrats.

Don't wipe the boot polish from your lips, wear it proudly.

[Merdoug]

Ha! Ha! Ha! What a joke! And some of you people still bend over for the Republicans. Seriously; when are you people going to learn?

[El Gato]

Bush asked for a clean bill. Period.

Not quite, he asked that no amendments be passed that would delay passage. Now that those amendment have been added, and assuming the amended bill passes the Senate, he will likely press for passage of the bill as is, rather than delay it. A nice convienient vehicle for the AWB that he said before the 2000 elections and repeatedly since through his spokespersons that he want's to sign.