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.
RINO.
Are we brave enough to be free? We still have -- more or less -- the great rights of the ballot, the bulletin, the bullion, and the bullet. I think that we are brave enough.
You mean (shudder) SNIPER Rifles....
How quickly the Dems forget what a losing issue gun control is for them.
It's just a simple fact that for many generations, America has known only strength and Peace due to the sacrifices of a few brave people who fought for their freedom.
They are ignorant but certainly not "worthless scraps of human flesh". Under different circumstances, I strongly believe that the free American spirit would be revived if there were an undeniable threat on us.
World Terrorism is still too distant at the current time to be considered a threat. In WWII, several highly organized militarily oriented fascist governments made undeniable attacks on World freedom. If it ever became as evident in this era, the same thing would probably happen.
Thanks for illustrating my point.
THey have a long list on their agenda. The spent the last 8 years off line.
Elections have consequences.
Plus slide/pump and lever actions. Break action s too of course.
What they don't realize is that what they really should be worried about are bolt action or break action rifles in heavy calibers, 7mm and above. More accurate and longer range.
Of course banning those will come in the name of banning "sniper rifles". All they'd have do would be to delete "semi-automatic" from the following definition, and that would do it. Then if they substituted "firearm, for "rifle or shotgun", they'd ban most every handgun as well.
`(L) A semiautomatic rifle or shotgun originally designed for military or law enforcement use, or a firearm based on the design of such a firearm, that is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, as determined by the Attorney General. In making the determination, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that a firearm procured for use by the United States military or any Federal law enforcement agency is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, and a firearm shall not be determined to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes solely because the firearm is suitable for use in a sporting event.'.
Politics is their religion.
The most sweeping gun ban ever was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan.
Not only the Constitution...
"This country belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
--Abraham Lincoln
how's the old saying go, "if Vince Foster had really had a gun in his hand, he might be alive today"
You're right... However, I also remember AG Ashcroft stating that the 2nd Amendment affirms the individual's right to keep and bear arms.
I miss AG Ashcroft.
Mark
Know the enemy. From 1999:
"Clinton also embraced elements of Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's legislation which provides criminal penalties for adults if juveniles use their weapons for illegal purposes.
(Rep. Carolyn McCarthy lost her husband during a shooting rampage in Long Island)
McCarthy became a congresswoman because little happened on toughening crime measures after her husband was killed nearly six years ago during a shooting rampage on the Long Island Rail Road.
At the event she said, "We're hearing from the other side already, 'There is nothing we can do.'"
"I'm sorry. You have heard of so many proposals. There is something we can do. There has to be something that we can do," McCarthy responded."
http://www.cnn.co.hu/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/04/27/clinton.crime/
So much for claims by the Rudy boosters that gun control is a dead issue. Instead, we have gun grabber extraordinaire Carolyn McCarthy trying to massively EXPAND the AW ban signed by Slick. The same Carolyn McCarthy Rudy stood with and avidly supported in 1997 when she wanted more federal gun control after the 1997 Empire State Building terrorist attack.
The REAL problem on that LIRR train was that there was nobody able or willing to disarm Collin Ferguson. Of course, needless to say Ferguson was the only one armed on the train... Had there been one armed civilian, that civilian could have put an end to Ferguson's rampage.
McCarthy's response? We need to be sure that all potential victims are disarmed and defensless. Don't spend too much time trying to make sense of it.
Mark
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