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Lautenberg to reintroduce gun-ban bill
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Posted on 01/10/2011 4:22:25 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Lautenberg to reintroduce gun-ban bill By Daniel Strauss - 01/10/11 05:52 PM ET

One of the Senate's most outspoken advocates of tighter gun restrictions said he plans to introduce language banning the type of supplemented gun clips that the shooter in Arizona used on Saturday.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) promised to bring back legislation that had expired in 2004 that would prohibit the use of magazines of 10 rounds or more, according to The Associated Press.

"The only reason to have 33 bullets loaded in a handgun is to kill a lot of people very quickly. These high-capacity clips simply should not be on the market," Lautenberg said in a statement.

Lautenberg plans to file the bill later this month, after Congress reconvenes.

Law enforcement officials say that the suspect used a gun with a clip that held 33 rounds, according to the AP.

Similarly, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) announced plans for a bill that would increase gun restrictions.


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To: Sub-Driver

Dang, I hate those 33 rounders. But now I have to go buy a skid of them.


61 posted on 01/10/2011 6:14:35 PM PST by ajwharton (FL GOP Pollwatcher, ACORN-buster, now in NH!)
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To: gleeaikin
I'm sorry. But you are going to have to limit your posts to 12 words or less. After all, anything you have to say should be expressed in that amount and only professional journalists should be able to say more.

Care to make any other asinine statements?

62 posted on 01/10/2011 6:14:35 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III%. The last line in the sand)
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To: BCR #226

Anyone who hasnt already gotten what they want or need by now is really crazy. We all know the rats have been waiting for something like this for years to push their agenda on guns.


63 posted on 01/10/2011 6:17:04 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: Dead Corpse

Lautenburg doesn’t reintroduce, he regurgitates.


64 posted on 01/10/2011 6:18:02 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

It’s not a stiff spine that makes him walk funny, it that hand up his backside making his mouth move...


65 posted on 01/10/2011 6:23:59 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III%. The last line in the sand)
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To: Dead Corpse

Me too. I actually have two 30 round mags for my own Glock 17 and they don’t even ask me to kill anyone. Mine are defective too (just in case it takes two to do the mind control thing).


66 posted on 01/10/2011 6:27:52 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Burn the Reichstag...check.)
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To: Dead Corpse

>>SFW...

What is “SFW”??


67 posted on 01/10/2011 6:29:08 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Burn the Reichstag...check.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just completed my annual Department of Defense Form 2760 - QUALIFICATION TO POSSESS FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION, so I could stay in the service one more year.

A POX on Lautenberg.


68 posted on 01/10/2011 6:41:34 PM PST by ODC-GIRL (We live in interesting times)
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To: gleeaikin
In this case Loughner was grabbed while he was trying to reload.

No, he was grabbed by a woman with courage. She could have easily been knifed, didn't know if he had a second gun, if there was a second shooter, etc.

69 posted on 01/10/2011 6:58:39 PM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: Bryanw92

So friggin’ what... Approximately.


70 posted on 01/10/2011 7:43:36 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III%. The last line in the sand)
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To: Bryanw92
I agree with you. In a free society, with our Second Amendment, there is no reason for police to have higher capacity weapons than you or I. The military should have high-capacity magazines as long as they don’t start using them against the American people. Their job IS to kill lots of people in foreign countries, so give them all they can carry and send them out. But, cops are just citizens, same as the rest of us.

I see your point but, sorry, I have to stick to my no exceptions rule. Come to think of it, maybe we could do a better job with the M1903A3, the .30-06 is more powerful than the .223 Remington in the M-16 series.

Some libs complain, "you'd allow nukes to be owned too," but commonsense is that there are very few people out there that have the resources to have one, they are high maintenance items and somewhat easy to track using geiger counters or neutron counters. The laws of economics do apply here, Maybe Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer or Warren Buffett can maintain one but not too many other can beyond that.

If they have a 10 round restriction, the military can have the M1 Garand back, some say we should have kept it in service but I digress..
71 posted on 01/10/2011 7:50:06 PM PST by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: Sub-Driver

10 rounds? T-e-n rounds????
In the other 49 states, outside of kaliforni-whatever, there is no such thing as a ten round magazine!

I do not think that Lautenburg, nor McCarthy, have seen the size of the released penitents in the last few years, with their federal or state-paid ‘Gold’s Gym’ physique!

The 2nd Amendment says: “shall not”! What part of that, don’t they understand?


72 posted on 01/10/2011 8:33:52 PM PST by Prussianone
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To: Sub-Driver

They never let a good crisis go to waste do they?
I find it very telling that none of these libs have gone after drunk illegals killing people with cars that they do not legally have a license to drive. In WI alone we have had a number of illegals causing deaths driving while intoxicated, never mind that they never had legal DLs. Just on New Years day another one. A beautiful young woman killed, leaving a young girl without her mom. The perp had been in this country illegally for 12 years and killed the woman in a head on crash going the wrong way on the freeway. But I guess getting hyped up about that would not be politically expedient for these liberal douche bags. They probably started salivating moments after news of the shooting over the prospect of blaming Palin, the Tea Party, Rush or whoever else their warped reasoning could target.


73 posted on 01/10/2011 8:40:38 PM PST by Merlinator (AT)
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To: palmer; All

The woman with courage had already been wounded and apparently desperately grabbed the next clip he was trying to put into the gun. I doubt if she was worried about a knife, a second gun or shooter, she just didn’t want him to reload and shoot her some more. Having been a crime victim myself, the first thing you worry about is surviving and in her case it was not letting him use any more bullets.


74 posted on 01/10/2011 9:48:32 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: goldstategop
Liberals have this incredible belief no one else has, that evil people will obey printed words on paper. That’s the entire ridiculous premise behind gun controls

Funny how they've simultaneously disbelieved that same idea for the last 50 years, when applied to pornography.

75 posted on 01/11/2011 7:50:17 AM PST by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: gleeaikin
I think law enforcement needs more bullets since they are in much greater danger, but I am perfectly happy with 6 at a time.

If you ever find yourself up to your ass in bad guys trying to jack your car by the expedient of blowing you away and dumping your body by the side of the road (happened several times in my home town in the last 10 years), you might think 6 rounds a little thin ..... if all you brought with you is the single magazine in your piece, or your reloads are in the glove box a long arm-reach away.

Target shooting and combat -- a real gunfight -- are two good reasons for wanting a 14-round magazine when the old Clinton-era limit was 10, or for wanting a 33-round magazine when someone else thinks 10 or 14 should "do".

I have a couple of small autopistols that ordinarily take 7-round magazines (the original versions of these guns had 5-round magazines, which I ultimately rejected, partly because of capacity and partly because those "purse guns" didn't really fit my hand comfortably, the butts being too short), but I also bought a 10-round "extended" magazine as well -- because it was available. More is better, all other things being equal.

76 posted on 01/11/2011 8:04:01 AM PST by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Bryanw92
He had two 30 round magazines for his Glock 17.

A news story I saw elsewhere on FR had a quote that it was a 9mm Glock 19.

77 posted on 01/11/2011 8:08:45 AM PST by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Lazamataz; sickoflibs; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; Clemenza; BillyBoy

Careful there Laz, that statement could be construed as a “threatening hateful attack” on Senator Tutankhamun. ;p

The only thing less alive than Frank the mummy is the issue of gun control. It’s dead Jim.


78 posted on 01/11/2011 8:09:00 AM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Lazamataz

Love your tag line BTW.


79 posted on 01/11/2011 8:10:07 AM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Merlinator
They probably started salivating moments after news of the shooting over the prospect of blaming Palin, the Tea Party, Rush .....

Actually, they did. As someone else put it in an online article, the blood wasn't dry yet when they started in.

The Left's response was approximately instantaneous. Their rush to judgment took about 0.0 seconds.

80 posted on 01/11/2011 8:18:48 AM PST by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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