BUSH! VETO PEN! NOW!
If W didn't veto restrictions on the 1st Amendment, what makes you think he'll protect the 2nd ?
I suspect this will not go far....yet. As with Dems, they start big and will appear to compromise by allowing the removal of the stupidest parts and appear to be satified with the rest.
As for the veto pen, I suspect they're waiting for 08 when they have a hitlery in the WH or a compliant RINO.
Bush veto THIS? Are you crazy? He's already stated he would sign an "Assault Weapons Ban".
"BUSH! VETO PEN! NOW!"
Don't count on Bush to veto it...
Bush VETO??? Surely you jest?? Bush will not want to piss off his liberal Marxist friends in the Socialist Congress, so he will sign.
This bill won't pass, probably won't even get out of committee. However it's language will very likely get incorporated into a larger bill. Possibly the Homeland Security bill, but in any event, one which would be difficult for the President to Veto. That is how the previous AW ban was passed, as part of the "Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994" (H.R.3355 103rd Congress, Public Law No: 103-322.) , aka "The Crime Bill", aka "Bill's Crime". It was in there with the "Midnight Basketball" (Subtitle O--Urban Recreation and At-Risk Youth) and 10,000 Cops. In fact it was Title XI, subtitle A, of the Act, and entitled, this is a real side splitter:
"`Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act'."
Even in this bill, while she retained the Appendix A list of firearms, she took out the language that explicitly exempted them from the provisions of the bill. A pretty good joke.. on us.
Don't kid yourself. Bush will sign it. Remember, before the AWB expired, he said if it crossed his desk he would sign it!
Here's the problem. Bush doesn't know where it is, and besides, Bush doesn't do vetoes.
Here's another problem: whoever thinks that Bush is a conservative and respects the Second Amendment, doesn't know the man. HE IS NOT ON OUR SIDE.
Bush has already said he would sign it.
If Bush signs this into law, and does not Veto. I will call for his impeachment.