Courtesy Doug Ross.
Looks like lawfully owned “assault weapons” purchased pre-ban are excluded, but there’s no pre-ban stamp for high-cap mags. No more to be sold, period. The black market will love them some of that. Also, police and retired police are exempt. Which begs the question, why not retired military? Why not security guards or retired security guards? Are retired gangstas exempt, too? For the fairness?
Too, there’s no sunset clause in this. Once it passes, it’d be up to feckless, ball-less Republicans to try to undo it, and its certain it would meet with filibuster challenges from the left.
If this passes, we’ll see civil disobedience at the very least; and perhaps much worse. Bank on it.
Molon Labe.
this won’t pass it’s the gayest law ever
unless maybe the Dixie Chicks do a series of concerts to raise awareness of the terrible toll of gun violence
The dems are really overreaching, in order to gain a compromise from repubs:
– bans of standard-capacity magazines
– a national gun registry
– tracking sales of ammunition, and banning online sales of ammo
Voters need to be standing on the necks of their representatives, screaming at the top of their lungs: NO COMPROMISE.
A registry is confiscation delayed. I would expect compliance to be quite low.
As someone who didn’t initially understand the shocking rate of arms lost to the sea… this is a fairly concise explanation for those still wondering.
To fishing!
I’ve never been much of a fisherman, myself, but maybe I should give it another try.
NO COMPROMISE
NO QUARTER
NO RETREAT
NO SURRENDER
WOLVERINES!
Americans who voted for this dirty bastard should be ashamed. And stripped of their ‘title’.
One thing means that in one generation the private sector of the nation will be in effect disarmed.
You can sell or transfer that “assault” rifle to another person but the magazines stay with you till you die then will be destroyed.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s “Assault Weapons” Ban of 2013.
happyfeet says January 24, 2013 at 8:16 pm
“unless maybe the Dixie Chicks do a series of concerts to raise awareness of the terrible toll of gun violence”
Considering the crowd that their music appeals to; I’d bet they wouldn’t survive one show.
United States v. Miller 1939. Miller possessed a sawed-off shotgun banned under the National Firearms Act. He argued that he had a right to bear the weapon under the Second Amendment, but the Supreme Court ruled against him. Why? At the time, sawed-off shotguns were not being used in a military application, and the Supremes ruled that since it didn’t, it was not protected. Even though Miller lost that argument, the Miller case set the precedent that protected firearms have a military, and thus a legitimate and protected Militia use. The military now uses shotguns regularly, but not very short, sawed-off shotguns, but an AR-15/AK-47 type weapon is currently in use by the military, therefore it is a protected weapon for the Unorganized Militia, which includes just about every American citizen now that both age and sex discrimination are illegal. (The original Militia included men of age 17-45) Therefore any firearm that is applicable to military use is clearly protected under Article II, and that includes all those nasty-looking semi-automatic black rifles, including full 30 round magazines.
Rocket launchers??? I humped an M16 w/ M203 Grenade Launcher for years… But it wasn’t no feckin rocket launcher….
Anyone catch Bobby Jindal at the RNC last night? Lotta good stuff in that thing. Which one of you jokers gave your notes to his speechwriters?
Niiiiice.
Like any malevolent #LeftLibProgg ideal, nirvana, dream, banning these – or any – weapons isn’t doable or sustainable. Unless, of course, our Republic is CHANGED to something more resembling the PRC.
That’s their goal; us, controlled, forced to fit our diminishing freedoms into ever-smaller ideologically-correct cages.
Let’s not forget about Hillary, and Benghazi. We’ve got to drive a stake.
Also, police and retired police are exempt.
I’d love to see a bunch of small-town police chiefs start “cop for a day” programs, offering “retired cop” credentials to participants at the end of the day.
I know, I know — I shouldn’t even agree to play the game by their rules. Even so, you have to admit that it would be fun to toy with the tyrants a little bit.
How about having the police chiefs and sheriffs hire us for a day, then we retire at the end of our shift?
They haven’t had an audience with red-state types since they trashed Bush in that concert over in Europe. Fact is, I’m not convinced they still have a record ontract.
Bet’cha anything the bill specifies POST qualification, which in most states means police academy grad.
Using GOD to take GUNS.
They wouldn’t then………
Nah
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Bet’cha anything the bill specifies POST qualification, which in most states means police academy grad.
Stop harshing my mellow, dude.
Hey, can any of you photoshop gurus do Gandalf on the bridge, holding a copy of the bill and shouting, “It shall not pass!”?
[…] The full text of Feinstein’s bill can be found here at Doug Ross’s joint [as he sums it up: 'all scary-looking guns are banned'][tip of the fedora to Jeff Goldstein]. […]
What is to be outlawed is self-defense. The ban is a means to that end.
“Defend yourself? You can’t do that! Somebody else will do that for you.” Or not.
We all must lie prostrate before our “betters.”
The Tutor spake: […] For among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised, and this is one of those ignominies against which a prince ought to guard himself, as is shown later on. Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants. […]
And who, being an individual among individuals, is not a prince in his home, his castle, but a mere subject-slave?
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the sadistic bureaucrat Dolores Umbridge was that year’s Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
Her approach? Put those wands away: we’re going to study defending against dark arts from a textbook, but none of that dangerous practice. The Minister of Magic feels that there’s no need for schoolchildren to be involved in that kind of thing.
Leading Harry and his friends to create a secret club wherein they practiced the spells and were able to hold their own for awhile against Death Eaters. Until the network of spies and brownshirts ratted out Harry’s crew.
Seriously, Book 5 contains an incredibly perceptive account of how bureaucracies often house the most dangerous people and how they use their bureaucratic dullness and witless desire for control to wreck all that is good.
For the good of all, see. They are the keepers of good order in society; they are the ones who will set things right.
happyfeet says January 24, 2013 at 8:16 pm
“unless maybe the Dixie Chicks do a series of concerts to raise awareness of the terrible toll of gun violence”
Considering the crowd that their music appeals to; I’d bet they wouldn’t survive one show.
“crowd”? I think that’s a bit of a stretch. Pre-their Bush derangement syndrome, they had crowds of fans. Then they acquired a “crowd” of fair weather fans, there to support a Bush-Hating artist.
That “crowd” eventually lost interest.
They tried to tour last summer (perhaps the year before) and ended up having to cancel a lot of their concerts for lack of interest/sales.
The plain text of the Constitution evidently persuades a court that Obazma oversteps: Justice
Sen. Feinstein’s “Other List.”
I’m too lazy to look, but I’ll bet I can find nothing about gun safety on the Violence Policy Center’s website…
The Harry Reid “shell” bill S2 [caution pdf] to which we can expect all of the proposals that can be passed in the Senate will eventually get attached. Short name is:
“Sandy Hook Elementary School Violence Reduction Act’’
is that the same Catholic Charities USA what keeps whining about its constitutional rights being violated?
I see my former home town of San Diego is well-represented among those who are in favor of tyranny. I’m so pleased.
Is that Steve Guttenberg or Bob Goldthwaite?
I see my former home town of San Diego is well-represented among those who are in favor of tyranny
– The Progressive bandwagon aspirents are glooming on for now, but that can/will change in a heartbeat if the political winds change as the coirts catch up to Jug ears unconstitutional patrician antics. (See appeals court “executive order” decision link above.)
– O’fuck-no-not-again can set up his EO ducks in a line, and the courts can easily shoot them down, so to speak. At least until he can appoint more Progressive judges like O’Roberts.
Fundraising on the bodies. OFA.
When will OFA start giving out “special” t-shirts for certain donation levels? Or do they do that already?
They should give out high-capacity assault t-shirts, cranky. All sized 3XL or larger and with a pistol grip on ’em.
Somebody remind me to give Chief Knight a good dressing-down next time I’m in Chaska.
“crowd”? I think that’s a bit of a stretch.”
Point taken.
Perhaps I should have limited that to the peace and freedom party.