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US Senate: Feinstein Introduces “Updated” Federal “Assault Weapons” Ban

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Now With More Banning! Dianne Feinstein Introduces “Updated” Federal “Assault Weapons” Ban (S. 66)
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2019
On Wednesday, longtime gun control extremist Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the latest version of her perennial bid to rid America of its most popular types of rifles, as well as the standard capacity magazines that come with most modern firearms.

Unimaginatively dubbed the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2019,” Feinstein’s bill promises even more banning, more restrictions, more requirements, and more self-congratulatory and deluded rhetoric.

Feinstein has spent several days hyping the bill’s provisions to the media, but as of Friday afternoon, she had yet to actually release the text of the measure to the American public.

Her own description of the bill notes that it would ban “the sale, manufacture, transfer and importation of 205 military-style assault weapons by name.” Also included would be certain firearms that accept “a detachable ammunition magazine and [have] one or more military characteristics including a pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel or a folding or telescoping stock.”

Magazines would be banned if they “hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.”

Feinstein additionally claims she has “updated” the version of the legislation she introduced in the last Congress by banning more types of adjustable stocks, as well as stabilizing braces for pistols, and grips and stocks developed to comply with “assault weapons bans” enacted in the states. She even promises to include a provision that would ban certain pistols based on their unloaded weight.

Feinstein and lead co-sponsors Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) portrayed the measure as a response to youthful activism demanding an end to mass shootings and as a way to rid “the streets” of "military grade weaponry."

But there is zero evidence the bill would accomplish this goal.

Mass shootings have unfortunately occurred during the prior federal “assault weapons” ban and more recently in states with their own sweeping prohibitions on semiautomatic firearms. They have involved many different types of guns over the years, with the firearms targeted by this bill no more often represented than other common types of guns.

The firearms the bill targets are, however, the most popular class of centerfire rifles in America, with some 16 million having entered then stream of commerce in the U.S. since the previous national ban expired in 2004.

Law-abiding Americans use them for every type of lawful purpose, including personal and home defense, hunting, marksmanship competitions, and recreational target practice.

Ironically, one of the nation’s most notorious mass shootings was actually stopped by a hero wielding an AR-15, exactly the sort of rifle targeted by the bill. Steven Willeford of Sutherland Springs, TX, credits his AR-15 with giving him the wherewithal to confront an armed assailant who had been preying on helpless victims at a local church. Willeford’s quick action caused the attacker to flee and stopped any further loss of innocent life.

But while law-abiding Americans have adopted semiautomatic rifles in droves, they are not the firearm of choice for violent criminals. Year after year, the FBI’s statistics tell a consistent story: rifles of any sort are used less often as a murder weapon than other types of common firearms, as well as knives and cutting instruments, clubs and other blunt objects, and even hands, fists, and feet. Feinstein’s bill would ban firearms that are actually under-represented in nationwide violent crime trends.

Feinstein’s justifications for her bans over the years have been inconsistent and contradictory.

In 2013, she said: "Military-style assault weapons have but one purpose, and in my view that's a military purpose, to hold at the hip, possibly, to spray fire to be able to kill large numbers."

Now she wants to ban stabilizing braces because, so she claims, they “transform assault pistols into assault rifles by allowing the shooter to shoulder the weapon and fire more accurately.”

The inclusion of stabilizing braces and other features that had been developed specifically in response to prior bans shows that no modern firearm meets Feinstein’s shifting criteria of acceptability. Indeed, her legislation is nothing so much as an attempt to deny law-abiding gun owners the benefits of modern technology and restrict them to 19th Century firearm designs.

Needless to say, however, the modern criminal element will not be playing by the antiquated rules that Feinstein hopes to apply to the rest of us.

Rest assured, the NRA will not stand for this latest assault on the Second Amendment. Americans have a constitutional right to possess firearms “in common use at the time for lawful purposes,” and the semiautomatics and magazines covered by this bill undoubtedly fit that description.

We have been warning about the coming onslaught of national gun control proposals from congressional Democrats. Now that it is upon us, it is more important than ever before that gun owners remain focused and united in fighting for our rights.
 
More anti-second Amendment measures appeal to young voters.

Young immature voters who don't know our history because they have been taught by commie-liberal idiots.

Our system doesn't work well unless the voters are intelligent rational and mature. Our citizens are none of this, which is why we have the Great Compromise of our Congress.
 
Feinstein also is a proponent of the living document when it comes to the constitution. She basically has no use for it except when it suits her own twisted needs. The fact is all of these liberals know what the framers had in mind, protect ourselves from All enemies, foreign and domestic. As for military weapons, the same framers expected the citizens would have the same muskets to use as the enemy would have to use against them.

It's ironic none of the Demorats really want to do anything about the causes of the mass shootings. It seems they are ususally committed by some young white dude that has been drugged most of his life so his, I use this term lightly, parents don't have to deal with what used to be called everyday parenting. Lithium and Paxil have become the baby sitters of choice in too many households. Every night on TV, if the kids aren't on another electronic device, are ads for some drug to make one feel better no matter what ails you.So the answer these days seems to be to introduce weed as a new wonder drug for what ails you.

When the kids get to be in their teens they enter a world they are not prepared for psychologically. They sometimes go into a shell with their dark thoughts, or they strike out at those they perceive to be against them. It is a common thread that the shooter thought they were bullied, or some other notion of rejection by their peers. They usually have a history of being perceived, either by themselves or their peers, as social outcasts.

I saw this firsthand when my sons were in their teens and it continues to this day. Not much has been done to confront the real root causes because it makes adults and parents look at themselves in a way which they are unable or unwilling to do.

So you have young white males ending up as mass shooters, and young black and hispanic males killing one another in gang violence, usually related to turf wars and drug deals. It''s a sad state of affairs that the politicians do not want to address for fear of offending a group of voters.
 
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Feinstein Introduces “Updated” Federal “Assault Weapons” Ban

What-ever.

Nothing really surprising about that. She does it every year.

Here is a photo of her discussing gun control after the vegas shooting.

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So many youngsters with so many problems facing them. All the kids from fatherless homes, and yet the dimocrats promote young sexuality directly and or indirectly. They bash they every chance they get, they promote abortion, they cozy up with the dregs of hollywood. The schools fill their heads with nonsense. Ever wonder why the schools (public) jump at the chance to take in kids at a younger and younger age ? Start the indoctrination early.

Girls don't know if they are girls and boys don't know if they are boys. Don't know what bathroom to us, geesh. They never learn to stand up for themselves without adult intervention. A good old fashioned fist fight is unheard of these days. Kids just let things mount up until they break.

Counselors at school every little thing that happens, because in my opinion the ones in charge are pussies that can't handle adversity. Too much touchy feely b/s, now the toxic masculinity crap, and not enough parents naming their boy Sue, if that makes any sense. Good grief, I need to get out of here before I bore you guys to death.
 
The founding fathers already addressed her comment.

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And his comments were immediately following the British gun ban. Not long thereafter, they crossed the Delaware river and slit throats of the enemy. While they slept. On Christmas Eve.

Just a few others:

If any of you enjoy history, I encourage you to read this next link. It is of things, some of which I had no idea about before reading it myself few years ago because there are many stark similarities to today.

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/20...program-precipitated-the-american-revolution/
 
You're welcome.

I personally enjoy learning.

Mr. Smith, my fourth grade teacher taught us that "knowledge is power" and once you knew something, nobody could take it away from you. Without going into details about the story about Einstein that he used to drive the point home, he was a good teacher.
 
last I heard on here one of you single guys was supposed to marry her into the family and end this shit.....what happened to that ?
 
*I thought you were the one who volunteered to take one for the team.
 
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