Senators introduce Assault Weapons Ban

[bblhd672]

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public ... 77212ED17B

Bill will be subtitled “AR-15 and standard capacity magazine sales enhancement initiative” as sales of both go through the roof again

[RoyGBiv]

DOA. Posturing.

[Paladin]

These are the names:

In addition to Feinstein, Murphy and Blumenthal, cosponsors of the bill include Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.).

These are the people who would bring an end to the United States republic and democracy in the Western world. The effect of this legislation can only be to empower tyrants and oligarchs as Plato wrote about in "The Republic" over 2,000 years ago.

Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it:

INNOCENTS BETRAYED: A HISTORY OF GUN CONFISCATION

[Soccerdad1995]

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public ... 77212ED17B

Bill will be subtitled “AR-15 and standard capacity magazine sales enhancement initiative” as sales of both go through the roof again

Oh good, I just took a long position in RGR last week!

[bblhd672]

These are the names:

In addition to Feinstein, Murphy and Blumenthal, cosponsors of the bill include Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.).

These are the people who would bring an end to the United States republic and democracy in the Western world. The effect of this legislation can only be to empower tyrants and oligarchs as Plato wrote about in "The Republic" over 2,000 years ago.

Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it:

INNOCENTS BETRAYED: A HISTORY OF GUN CONFISCATION

Sadly, if this should ever get to a vote in the Senate there will be some "-R"s who vote for it.

[Syntyr]

These people are clowns... Evil traitorous clowns

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.

[ScottDLS]

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Sadly, if this should ever get to a vote in the Senate there will be some "-R"s who vote for it.

Correct. However since McLame, Flake, and Corkie are gone it likely wouldn't make it to the floor. If it did, I hope it wouldn't pass, but with Collins and Murkowski and others... And I hope Trump wouldn't sign it...