New Assault Weapons Ban?

[Steve-o]

House committee approves first assault weapons ban bill in decades

The bill would make it a crime to "import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device," according to the bill’s summary. A few exceptions would be made.

It would not include any "firearm that is (1) manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action; (2) permanently inoperable; (3) an antique; or (4) a rifle or shotgun specifically identified by make and model."

• A few exceptions?      So, basically, anything semi-auto needs to be on an exception list, which according to this wording includes hunting rifles (like the Remington 7400 and Browning BAR) and pistols.
  
  
• So how is the g'bmnt going to go about collecting "illegal" firearms and mags and compensating their owners for said seizure legally purchased items?
  
  
• And of course this means that only criminals will have the most effective, dangerous weapons.

[Leech~~]

House committee approves first assault weapons ban bill in decades

The bill would make it a crime to "import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device," according to the bill’s summary. A few exceptions would be made.

It would not include any "firearm that is (1) manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action; (2) permanently inoperable; (3) an antique; or (4) a rifle or shotgun specifically identified by make and model."

• A few exceptions?      So, basically, anything semi-auto needs to be on an exception list, which according to this wording includes hunting rifles (like the Remington 7400 and Browning BAR) and pistols.
  
  
• So how is the g'bmnt going to go about collecting "illegal" firearms and mags and compensating their owners for said seizure legally purchased items?
  
  
• And of course this means that only criminals will have the most effective, dangerous weapons.

Well I guess I can see banding a SAW!   

[Jerkbiat]

House committee approves first assault weapons ban bill in decades

The bill would make it a crime to "import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device," according to the bill’s summary. A few exceptions would be made.

It would not include any "firearm that is (1) manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action; (2) permanently inoperable; (3) an antique; or (4) a rifle or shotgun specifically identified by make and model."

• A few exceptions?      So, basically, anything semi-auto needs to be on an exception list, which according to this wording includes hunting rifles (like the Remington 7400 and Browning BAR) and pistols.
  
  
• So how is the g'bmnt going to go about collecting "illegal" firearms and mags and compensating their owners for said seizure legally purchased items?
  
  
• And of course this means that only criminals will have the most effective, dangerous weapons.

That is the big question right there. Without starting a civil war. If they plan to buy back, then mine are worth a billion dollars a gone tax free. 

[dutchboy]

You guys will have been dead for so long even the people on Mars will have forgotten what a gun is. But by all means work yourselves into a frenzy and don't forget to buy your NRA lifetime membership.

[Jerkbiat]

Well then. How do they plan to get them then? All us little sheep just going to hand them over. 

[dutchboy]

How does talking about banning high capacity magazines translate into coming for your guns? You could no more collect every gun than you could every fork or butter knife.

Limiting the capability of a weapon is different than banning or taking a weapon. At least in my mind. But than I'm neither a hunter nor gun collector.

[Jerkbiat]

Right here. That is their plan.
https://summit.news/2022/07/21/watch-dems-openly-admit-gun-control-bill-will-confiscate-firearms-in-common-use/

[Steve-o]

I'm not happy with the fact that the expiration of the original assault weapons ban led to more highly effective and lethal weapons being readily available to criminals and crazies.

But now the cow is out of the barn.

[Pulleye16]

Right here. That is their plan.
https://summit.news/2022/07/21/watch-dems-openly-admit-gun-control-bill-will-confiscate-firearms-in-common-use/

 

[dutchboy]

Right here. That is their plan.
https://summit.news/2022/07/21/watch-dems-openly-admit-gun-control-bill-will-confiscate-firearms-in-common-use/

Define "common use" for me. I'm not familiar with that term.

[Steve-o]

Right here. That is their plan.
https://summit.news/2022/07/21/watch-dems-openly-admit-gun-control-bill-will-confiscate-firearms-in-common-use/

Define "common use" for me. I'm not familiar with that term.

Here is how the NRA sees it (with background provided).

What Firearms Have “Common-Use” Protections?

In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects “arms ‘in common use at the time’ for lawful purposes like self-defense” and arms that are “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.” Such arms are “chosen by American society,” not the government.

Heller was not the first court to enunciate the common-use test. For instance, the North Carolina Supreme Court in State v. Kerner (1921) upheld the constitutional right to carry a pistol openly without a license. To the citizen, “the rifle, the musket, the shotgun, and the pistol are about the only arms which he could be expected to ‘bear,’ and his right to do this is that which is guaranteed by the Constitution,” said the ruling.

[Leech~~]

You guys will have been dead for so long even the people on Mars will have forgotten what a gun is. But by all means work yourselves into a frenzy and don't forget to buy your NRA lifetime membership.

Same people said!   

[dutchboy]

Hey Leech, business opportunity for ya. Develop a system for guys burying their guns. I'm thinking the tanks will be rolling down the street in 2023 so ya better get crackin. Maybe partner with the NRA.     

[Leech~~]

Hey Leech, business opportunity for ya. Develop a system for guys burying their guns. I'm thinking the tanks will be rolling down the street in 2023 so ya better get crackin. Maybe partner with the NRA.     

We got it covered.  We're going to hide them in all the folks caskets, who can't defend themselves!