Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Ban on Assault Weapons and Hi-Cap Mags...

[BaiHu]

Bloomberg News ‏@BloombergNews
FLASH: Senate Judiciary Committee approves ban on assault weapons, high-capacity ammunition clips

More Details from AP:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/senate-committee-ready-ok-assault-weapons-ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved an assault weapons ban in a party -line vote that underscores how hard it will be for the measure to survive in the full Senate.

The proposal by California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein was approved on a 10-8 vote Thursday by the Democratic-controlled committee.

An assault rifle was used by the man who killed 26 elementary school students and staff in Newtown, Conn., in December. Banning the weapons is key to President Barack Obama's plan to curb gun violence.

The measure is not expected to survive in the Senate. Feinstein faces overwhelming GOP opposition and likely defections by up to six moderate Democrats facing re-election next year in Republican-leaning states in the South and West.

[Mitchell, Esq.]

I have nothing nice to say...

[hufnagel]

I thought the rifle usage was proven to be a lie.

[Suvorov]

Still has to pass the full senate and then the house which is pretty doubtful.

Unless.......... Another tragic shooting just happens to coincidentally occur before the vote (but that is my idiot TFH wearing doppelganger talking who I hope to God is wrong).

[hufnagel]

never ignore your doppleganger. that SOB has an annoying tendency of being right lately.

[JV_]

This isn't really a surprise, it was clear from the beginning that it would pass the committee vote. It was not clear that it would make it out of the Senate.

[hufnagel]

is it S.150 that's the bill # for this? I'm having trouble finding it for some reason.

[JV_]

I think it is, but Thomas doesn't show it's passed committee yet:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:SN00150:@@@L&summ2=m&

[JV_]

I think it is
It is.

http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/legislation/BusinessMeetingResults.cfm
S. 150, Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (Feinstein)
Ordered Reported by Roll Call Vote, 10-8

[Suvorov]

Because I'm too lazy to read the thing, does this bill still intend to make "assault weapons" non-transferable NFA items or has it been watered down in committee :confused:

[hufnagel]

do we have a "letters" thread on this site? someplace to dump the letters you're sending to legislators, so others can get ideas?

[Tamara]

I thought the rifle usage was proven to be a lie.

No. The shooter used a Bushhamster XM15E2S.

A verbal gaffe by an msnbc announcer the next morning has been spun into a vast conspiracy theory by the people who think the Jews flew radio-controlled airliners into the WTC to destroy Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.

I wish those people would stay off my side. This political fight is hard enough without having to carry their deadweight.

[Mr_White]

do we have a "letters" thread on this site? someplace to dump the letters you're sending to legislators, so others can get ideas?

Here are mine: http://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?6403-Template-Letters

[BaiHu]

At least there's a bit of silver in this cloud of stupidity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NYI3MEhegvQ

Good on Cruz.

[Spr1]

Fox News just ran a clip of Senator Cruz absolutely schooling DiFi. She was incensed and tried to pull seniority and expertise on the constitution. One can't argue with her seniority..... But what an idiot socialist.

[BaiHu]

Fox News just ran a clip of Senator Cruz absolutely schooling DiFi. She was incensed and tried to pull seniority and expertise on the constitution. One can't argue with her seniority..... But what an idiot socialist.

Just posted the video up above.

[Serpico1985]

From the video Feinstein says "I've seen the bodies that have been shot with these weapons, I've seen the bullets that emplode".

WTF? They continually demonstrate their complete lack of knowledge on tne subject at hand.

[Spr1]

Just posted the video up above.

Thanks. I think we were typing at the same time.

[Shellback]

At least there's a bit of silver in this cloud of stupidity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NYI3MEhegvQ

Good on Cruz.

Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are both stand up guys from everything I've seen thus far.

[RoyGBiv]

From the video Feinstein says "I've seen the bodies that have been shot with these weapons, I've seen the bullets that emplode".

WTF? They continually demonstrate their complete lack of knowledge on tne subject at hand.
Baffle them with bullshit.
And then later on when the other Senator comes to her defense with "child pornography"... Yet another idiot.

Yes. Child pornography is illegal and should remain illegal, just like murder.
But do we want to ban cameras? Especially cameras with lots of evil features like telephoto lenses and detachable strobes.?

Morons, or worse, traitors to their oaths. :mad:

[Drang]

I gotta get me one of them Strawman Arms bazookas...

[BaiHu]

Grab me one too and I'll pay you back ;)

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[Zhurdan]

I vonder if zeee Panzerfaust is still awailable. I deed not zee it on zee list.

Oh, and I think she said "bullets that implode". She also said "dismembered bodies at Sandy Hook". WTF is that all about?

[hufnagel]

the woman is clearly out of her mind.

i'm glad i'm not a representative. I would have gone off on her in ways that might have given her a heart attack in that chair. wait a minute...

[Suvorov]

I vonder if zeee Panzerfaust is still awailable. I deed not zee it on zee list.

Oh, and I think she said "bullets that implode". She also said "dismembered bodies at Sandy Hook". WTF is that all about?

Maybe she learned that bullets didn't "explode" like she has been saying for all these years, so she logically concluded that they must implode. Hher other remark was in reference to the fact that the .223 round did terrible things to the bodies of these poor little kids. The left has been trying to get as much traction of this as they could and if they could, I'm sure they would show the bodies on national TV. Even General McCrystal commented about the extreme power of the .223 round. Does she somehow think the results would have been less horrific had the murderer used 00 buck and "Uncle Joe's" shotgun? :confused:

[Drang]

...The left has been trying to get as much traction of this as they could and if they could, I'm sure they would show the bodies on national TV.
That renowned humanitarian Michael Moore has been pushing for just that. No doubt his next retch-fest will be titled "Dancing in blood with the stars."

[Suvorov]

That renowned humanitarian Michael Moore has been pushing for just that. No doubt his next retch-fest will be titled "Dancing in blood with the stars."

And yet, the same clown and most like him have no problem supporting thousands government funded abortions on demand and cry foul every time an abortion protester shows the results of their little "medical procedure."

It is not my intent to spin this thread into a discussion on abortion (it is frankly probably the biggest moral and ethical challenge to my belief system), but if you have no moral objection to a little human being chopped to pieces by a vacuum impeller, don't pretend to be traumatized at the thought of little children being shot to pieces either.

[JRB]

And yet, the same clown and most like him have no problem supporting thousands government funded abortions on demand and cry foul every time an abortion protester shows the results of their little "medical procedure."

It is not my intent to spin this thread into a discussion on abortion (it is frankly probably the biggest moral and ethical challenge to my belief system), but if you have no moral objection to a little human being chopped to pieces by a vacuum impeller, don't pretend to be traumatized at the thought of little children being shot to pieces either.

Personally I think men are just about as qualified to opine on the subject of abortion as these senseless emotional nutjobs that haven't ever held a gun in their lives are qualified to opine on the capabilities of guns, and who should carry them and why.

But wherever your beliefs may lie on the nebulous topic of willfully terminating a pregnancy, more often than not, it's better that those would-be parents AREN'T reproducing.

[Chuck Haggard]

The brutal truth is that they were small children and a nut case could have wiped them out with a war hammer, short sword, pitchfork, whatever, unless somebody shot him in the face first.

[David Armstrong]

No. The shooter used a Bushhamster XM15E2S.

A verbal gaffe by an msnbc announcer the next morning has been spun into a vast conspiracy theory by the people who think the Jews flew radio-controlled airliners into the WTC to destroy Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.

I wish those people would stay off my side. This political fight is hard enough without having to carry their deadweight.
We have our differences at time, but I really like how you turn a phrase!

[MikeyC]

i wish those people would stay off my side. This political fight is hard enough without having to carry their deadweight.

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