Feinstein And Friends Quietly Introduce a Major Gun Control Bill During the Shutdown

[ProgSpear]

Feinstein And Friends Quietly Introduce a Major Gun Control Bill During the Shutdown

NOTE THE BANS IN THE "Updates" SECTION!

Although the official bill text hasn't been released, here's what Feinstein's office says the bill would accomplish, if passed:

Key provisions:

• Bans the sale, manufacture, transfer and importation of 205 military-style assault weapons by name. Owners may keep existing weapons.
• Bans any assault weapon that accepts a detachable ammunition magazine and has one or more military characteristics including a pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel or a folding or telescoping stock. Owners may keep existing weapons.
• Bans magazines and other ammunition feeding devices that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, which allow shooters to quickly fire many rounds without needing to reload. Owners may keep existing magazines.

Exemptions to bill:

• The bill exempts by name more than 2,200 guns for hunting, household defense or recreational purposes.
• The bill includes a grandfather clause that exempts all weapons lawfully possessed at the date of enactment.

Other provisions:

• Requires a background check on any future sale, trade or gifting of an assault weapon covered by the bill.
• Requires that grandfathered assault weapons are stored using a secure gun storage or safety device like a trigger lock.
• Prohibits the transfer of high-capacity ammunition magazines.
• Bans bump-fire stocks and other devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at fully automatic rates.

Updates to Assault Weapons Ban of 2017:

• Bans stocks that are “otherwise foldable or adjustable in a manner that operates to reduce the length, size, or any other dimension, or otherwise enhances the concealability of a firearm.”
• Bans assault pistols that weigh 50 or more ounces when unloaded, a policy included in the original 1994 ban.
• Bans assault pistol stabilizing braces that transform assault pistols into assault rifles by allowing the shooter to shoulder the weapon and fire more accurately.
• Bans Thordsen-type grips and stocks that are designed to evade a ban on assault weapons.

Feinstein And Friends Quietly Introduce a Major Gun Control Bill During the Shutdown

 

[STS556]

Wasn't there some kind of study that found the last assault weapon ban did absolutely nothing to reduce gun crime?

 

[GOYABEAN]

That's only the start of things to come amazing isn't it

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

"assault pistols"

They just keep making this shit up as they go.

 

[tirwin1]

Wasn't there some kind of study that found the last assault weapon ban did absolutely nothing to reduce gun crime?

This legislation has nothing to do with facts and everything to do with scoring points with their base of rabid left wingers.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

We can thank the person who killed Harvey Milk for this.

 

[pjzwtl]

Wasn't there some kind of study that found the last assault weapon ban did absolutely nothing to reduce gun crime?

I remember the dems passing a fed AWB once and it cost them the house for the first time in something like 50 years

 

[kev74]

How can we get the Chinese Norinco people to buy off her husband?

 

[Grimscale]

Wasn't there some kind of study that found the last assault weapon ban did absolutely nothing to reduce gun crime?

Who said this was to reduce gun crime?

 

[eris]

Bans stocks that are “otherwise foldable or adjustable in a manner that operates to reduce the length, size, or any other dimension, or otherwise enhances the concealability of a firearm.”

Have a rifle with an adjustable cheek rest? Sorry! That reduces an "other dimension" so it's illegal now.

 

[Dr. Evil]

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

I'm with @GOPerfect on this, the rest of the country needs to suffer like We are. Let them all take a bite of shit sandwich and then maybe things will get bad enough to make people angry enough. We need to hope RBG finally steps down and SCOTUS gets a solid conservative majority and this shit gets struck down once and for all.

 

[kev74]

It's because they're racist. They go ape-shit when cute white kids are shot. But act like nothing happened when minorities are killed.

 

[Shadow2]

This last surgery may do her in one way or another ... Get off the bench you fossil.

I'm with @GOPerfect on this, the rest of the country needs to suffer like We are. Let them all take a bite of shit sandwich and then maybe things will get bad enough to make people angry enough. We need to hope RBG finally steps down and SCOTUS gets a solid conservative majority and this shit gets struck down once and for all.

 

[islandneartahiti]

Feinstein And Friends Quietly Introduce a Major Gun Control Bill During the Shutdown

NOTE THE BANS IN THE "Updates" SECTION!

Although the official bill text hasn't been released, here's what Feinstein's office says the bill would accomplish, if passed:

Key provisions:

• Bans the sale, manufacture, transfer and importation of 205 military-style assault weapons by name. Owners may keep existing weapons.
• Bans any assault weapon that accepts a detachable ammunition magazine and has one or more military characteristics including a pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel or a folding or telescoping stock. Owners may keep existing weapons.
• Bans magazines and other ammunition feeding devices that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, which allow shooters to quickly fire many rounds without needing to reload. Owners may keep existing magazines.

Exemptions to bill:

• The bill exempts by name more than 2,200 guns for hunting, household defense or recreational purposes.
• The bill includes a grandfather clause that exempts all weapons lawfully possessed at the date of enactment.

Other provisions:

• Requires a background check on any future sale, trade or gifting of an assault weapon covered by the bill.
• Requires that grandfathered assault weapons are stored using a secure gun storage or safety device like a trigger lock.
• Prohibits the transfer of high-capacity ammunition magazines.
• Bans bump-fire stocks and other devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at fully automatic rates.

Updates to Assault Weapons Ban of 2017:

• Bans stocks that are “otherwise foldable or adjustable in a manner that operates to reduce the length, size, or any other dimension, or otherwise enhances the concealability of a firearm.”
• Bans assault pistols that weigh 50 or more ounces when unloaded, a policy included in the original 1994 ban.
• Bans assault pistol stabilizing braces that transform assault pistols into assault rifles by allowing the shooter to shoulder the weapon and fire more accurately.
• Bans Thordsen-type grips and stocks that are designed to evade a ban on assault weapons.

Feinstein And Friends Quietly Introduce a Major Gun Control Bill During the Shutdown

Full text of this bill has posted.

Text - S.66 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): A bill to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.

 

[ProgSpear]

To echo Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, 22 December 1944, my answer to any and all of these idiotic proposals;

NUTS!

"NUTS!" — Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe's 1944 Christmas Letter

 

[eris]

It's because they're racist. They go ape-shit when cute white kids are shot. But act like nothing happened when minorities are killed.

I think there is unconscious racism on the part of most gun grabbers. I don't think they are overtly racist (not anymore, at least), but it's quite telling that in the 70's there was a huge push to ban handguns because of violence in the cities. Then came the 80's and "white flight" left the cities predominantly black and hispanic, and the gun control advocates kind of lost steam. Then in the 00's we start having school shootings in predominantly white suburban schools, and suddenly gun control is back in a big way, but this time focused on the rifles being used to shoot the kids. There's a strong element of racism, whether conscious or unconscious, to the gun control movement, and there always has been.

 

[BDinPutnam]

To echo a small piece of @eris post above, I find it fascinating that usually, no matter whose study and numbers you use, most "mass shootings" involve handguns, not long guns. Yet what do we always see them go for first? AR's and the like.

Because it's low-hanging fruit the Fudds don't care about, never realizing these may be the start, but Elmer's single shot 8 bore is the final prize.

 

[eris]

Just to clarify, what I was getting at above is that the gun grabbers only seem to want to protect themselves. They don't really care about the majority of actual gun victims.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Just to clarify, what I was getting at above is that the gun grabbers only seem to want to protect themselves. They don't really care about the majority of actual gun victims.

Well the roots of modern gun control in the US are from Reconstruction to an extent, where southern Democrats attempted to disarm freed blacks so... yeah.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

Well the roots of modern gun control in the US are from Reconstruction to an extent, where southern Democrats attempted to disarm freed blacks so... yeah.

Another inconvenient fact you won't hear in the media. Gun control has it's roots in democratic racism.

 

[eris]

Another inconvenient fact you won't hear in the media. Gun control has it's roots in democratic racism.

Historically, yes. Of course, gun control in modern times has it's roots in Republican racism - see Reagan and the California Mulford Act. Racism is not, and has never been tied to one party or another.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

Historically, yes. Of course, gun control in modern times has it's roots in Republican racism - see Reagan and the California Mulford Act. Racism is not, and has never been tied to one party or another.

Republicans freed the slaves. Democrats founded the KKK. That's just history, sorry.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Historically, yes. Of course, gun control in modern times has it's roots in Republican racism - see Reagan and the California Mulford Act. Racism is not, and has never been tied to one party or another.

Oh, no doubt. I hate relitigating that stuff.

 

[Grimscale]

Another inconvenient fact you won't hear in the media. Gun control has it's roots in democratic racism.

No matter what "roots" gun control has, I guarantee the Powers-That-Be who are singing the disarm song don't know or care.
They have only one goal, to completely render the population of America impotent in the face of their increasing totalitarianism, and to make it next to impossible for the population of America to reenact 1776 all over again.
These are people who want power. Absolute power. And knowing that some pissed off farmer could end their power play at a moments notice scares the hell out of them. AS IT SHOULD BE!!!
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."