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  • "Assault" Weapons Ban: Feinstein alert!

    06/08/2004 8:14:14 AM PDT · by petro45acp · 68 replies · 388+ views
    http://www.awbansunset.com/ ^ | June 7, 2004 | http://www.awbansunset.com/
    6/7/04: AWB renewal now on Senate calendar. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has once again introduced legislation to renew the so-called "assault weapons" ban. S.2498 was introduced last week, and, by using a "nuclear option" referred to as Rule XIV, has gotten the bill placed on the Senate calendar. As a Senate educational article on the subject puts it, "Most bills are routinely referred to the committee with appropriate jurisdiction as soon as they are introduced. But if a Senator plans to introduce a bill and believes that the committee to which it would be referred will be unsympathetic, Rule XIV...