Posted on 02/24/2007 6:37:47 AM PST by pabianice
McCarthy Bill Bans Millions More Guns Than The Clinton Gun Ban
On Feb. 14, 2007, Representative Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) introduced H.R. 1022, a bill with the stated purpose, "to reauthorize the assault weapons ban, and for other purposes."
McCarthy's verbiage warrants explanation. Presumably, what she means by "assault weapons ban" is the Clinton Gun Ban of 1994. Congress allowed the ban to expire in 2004 for multiple reasons, including the fact that federal, state and local law enforcement agency studies showed that guns affected by the ban had been used in only a small percentage of crime, before and after the ban was imposed.
With the nation's murder rate 43% lower than in 1991, and the re-legalized guns still used in only a small percentage of crime, reauthorizing the Clinton Gun Ban would be objectionable enough. But McCarthy's "other purposes" would make matters even worse. H.R. 1022 would ban every gun banned by the Clinton ban, plus millions more guns, including:
. Every gun made to comply with the Clinton ban. (The Clinton ban dictated the kinds of grips, stocks and attachments new guns could have. Manufacturers modified new guns to the Clinton requirements. H.R. 1022 would ban the modified guns too.)
. Guns exempted by the Clinton ban. (Ruger Mini-14s and -30s and Ranch Rifles; .30 cal. carbines; and fixed-magazine, semi-automatic, center-fire rifles that hold more than 10 rounds.)
. All semi-automatic shotguns. (E.g., Remington, Winchester, Beretta and Benelli, used for hunting, sport shooting, and self-defense. H.R. 1022 would ban them because they have "any characteristic that can function as a grip," and would also ban their main component, called the "receiver.")
. All detachable-magazine semi-automatic rifles-including, for example, the ubiquitous Ruger 10/22 .22 rimfire-because they have "any characteristic that can function as a grip."
. Target shooting rifles. (E.g., the three centerfire rifles most popular for marksmanship competitions: the Colt AR-15, the Springfield M1A and the M1 "Garand.")
. Any semi-automatic shotgun or rifle an Attorney General one day claims isn't "sporting," even though the constitutions of the U.S. and 44 states, and the laws of all 50 states, recognize the right to use guns for defense.
. 65 named guns (the Clinton law banned 19 by name); semi-auto fixed-magazine pistols of over 10 rounds capacity; and frames, receivers and parts used to repair or refurbish guns.
H.R. 1022 would also ban the importation of magazines exempted by the Clinton ban, ban the sale of a legally-owned "assault weapon" with a magazine of over 10 rounds capacity, and begin backdoor registration of guns, by requiring private sales of banned guns, frames, receivers and parts to be conducted through licensed dealers. Finally, whereas the Clinton Gun Ban was imposed for a 10-year trial period, H.R. 1022 would be a permanent ban.
Please be sure to contact your U.S. Representative and urge him or her to oppose H.R. 1022!
You can call your U.S. Representative at (202) 225-3121.
They will then ban knives, cars, baseball bats, golf clubs, 2 x 4''s and even saw all limbs off of trees.
Time to invoke our right to 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of gun-grabbers' again.
You need to get your facts straight, bud.
Ain't nobody, particularly anyone on the right, chose this POS. He's the darling of the liberal warm and fuzzy birkenstockers, not the true conservatives.
Your post is filled with hyperbole and rhetoric.
If your intent was to piss us off, you succeeded.
But understand one damn thing:
No one, and I mean NO ONE will succeed in disarming this nation.
These laws, if passed, will do nothing more than prompt every gun-owner, myself included, to dream up and perfect even more ways of concealing our weapons from the grabbers and will steel our resolve to right these wrongs.
In other words, it will make criminals of the honest people.
Somehow, I suspect someone of your ilk will celebrate that also.
The World is laughing at my country and it hurts me deeply - why can't you people stop acting like idiots and get your act together?
If you're so concerned about it, then why not bring your butt back over here and help us fight the good fight, rather than sit in your ivory tower and complain?
You have nothing to offer but misguided rhetoric and name calling.
With "friends" like you, we don't need enemies.
Have a nice day.
Hopefuly this bill will never see the light of day.
I just looked over a DU and even in that uberliberal bastion of hippy dippy idiots fully half of them think this bill is BS.
Oh, and at the gun shop the other day a copy of the bill is being shown to all customers. Im sure thats being done country wide.
Now write to your congresscritter!
I will write my congressman (Steve Cohen) even with risk that he would save my name and address for the BATF.
The poor camel is still trudging along, even with a broken back. Damned persistent camel.
I dunno, Sar'n Major. A lot of gunowners will simply turn 'em in, like good little slaves. Then again, a lot of us will be watching for that "point of no return" event that tells it's time not to bury our arms, but to use 'em like the Founding Fathers intended. Serious gut check time.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Yeah, they squawk and cluck a lot over there! Most of what's said resembles what's at the bottom of my parrots' cage every morning.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I'll tell you what. ammo is the other weak link. I recently bought a case of guatamalen .223 after all the radway green .233 disappeared. Now you cant find either. The surplus .308 is all gone too. Thank Goodness I got a case of the south african stuff
Oh, I almost forgot.
The most troubling thing in this bill is that it would make all "private" sales of all firearms be required to be performed through a liscensed dealer making all sales registered.
bump for later reading, adding Duncan Hunter keyword
America is on its way to third world mediocrity!
No Guns ~ No Rights!
I'm both, plus SAF/CCRKBA, plus the Texas State Rifle Association, which is harder line, and more effective, than than the national NRA. About the only significant national organization I don't belong to is the JPFO, and that's out of shear sloth and maybe just a bit of hesitation due to having actually met the Head Cheese, Aaron Zelman, who I find a bit..er..driven. (Sort of reminds one of an early John Brown) However one need not be Jewish to join and I really should join.
For example, no doubt a total ban would make people who illegally keep "assault weapons" guilty of a serious felony. And we know that millions of us are not going to turn them in. Therefore, we become felons by default, with serious sentences if we get caught.
Now picture the cops pulling someone over for speeding or coming to a home to check on a noisy party. Pretty minor stuff now, but what if the people in the car or at the party are part of the millions who illegally kept their guns? They know the consequences of being caught. Suddenly, what was a minor police interaction has become a very dangerous encounter. Anytime police come into a home would automatically become a "high risk entry" because who knows, the homeowner might be one of the millions and he might not want to go to prison.
I don't want to become a felon, but I will never be disarmed by unconstitutional laws. The Dems and Rinos are creating an extremely dangerous situation.
These days, she's known as Jihad Jane. More alliteral, and descriptive don't you know.
Of course they won't, they'll just make "examples" of a few, and maybe offer rewards or other incentives for turning in your neighbor. The BATF did just that with Randy Weaver. They weren't really after him, but wanted him to infiltrate a white supremacist organization, and entrapped him into a relatively minor violation, then used that as a threat to get him do their bidding. Didn't work in that case, but it did get Sammy and Vicki Weaver, as well as a Federal Marhsall, killed.
Their next "publicity stunt" got some of their own killed, along with a whole bunch of innocent kids who were roasted to death.
How galactically stupid do you think the Federals are?
Is that a rhetorical question? :)
The BATFE has long been known to rest at the very bottom of the barrel of law enforcement/tax collection. Of course what would one expect of the members of an agency, who are required to swear to protect and defend the Constitution, but whose reason for existence is to violate that same Constitution. Do not underestimate their stupidity.
None of them passed. For that blame the Republican "leadership", to use the term loosely.
Bush has already said he would sign it.
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