- Latest Cosponsor statistics: 168 current – includes 164 original, all Democrats
- Thus already 87% of House Democrats COSPONSOR gun grab, the rest also vote to empower them
- Gun-grabber Loebasck among House co-sponsors
- Taking bets on how Cheri Bustos would vote, only slightly coy now
- Durbin and Duckworth support Senate version
Rhode Island Representative Cicilline, chief sponsor says:
The Assault Weapons Ban of 2018 will prohibit the sale, transfer, production, and importation of:
· Semi-automatic rifles and pistols with a military-style feature that can accept a detachable magazine;
· Semi-automatic rifles with a fixed magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds;
· Semi-automatic shotguns with a military-style feature;
· Any ammunition feeding device that can hold more than 10 rounds;
· And 205 specifically-named and listed firearms.
Read the bill here.
Under the legislation, gun owners who already have assault weapons would be allowed to keep them, but they could face challenges reselling them.
The bill would intensify background checks for people looking to buy any of the estimated 8 million to 9 million assault weapons that are already in circulation.
The legislation, introduced by Reps. David N. Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), gained support over the weekend as most Democrats were at home in their districts. There’s no evidence that the Republican-controlled House would bring the bill to a vote, but the list of sponsors offers hints about whether the party’s politics are moving.
Two of the bill’s co-sponsors — Reps. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) are running for Senate this year in states where owners of legal firearms are allowed to openly carry guns. Reps. Tim Ryan (Ohio) and Seth Moulton (Mass.), young Democrats who have campaigned throughout the country for party recruits and been critical of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), are also sponsors. So is Pelosi.
V’pac notes that one of latest additions to House gun grab bill is Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan) who succeeded her husband (30 years her senior BTW) John Dingell, most senior House member prior to retiring, and also a former board member of NRA
Press insists on using the loaded emotional description of a common operating mechanism of a firearm as constituting an “assault weapon”. The Dems will be using and the liberal press* will repeat the sort rhetoric as used by a St. Louis area Dem congressman:
“Semi-automatic assault weapons like the AR-15 are designed to rapidly kill mass numbers of people,” Clay said in a statement. “They are weapons of war and have no reasonable purpose in civilian society.”
And then there is Dick Durbin who twits: (QC Times)
“Only when Americans make gun safety a litmus test for their leaders will we finally break the NRA’s death grip on Congress,” Durbin tweeted over the weekend.
Smell the Bustos dodge, also via QC Times
Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., did not definitively support an AR-15 ban, but a spokesman, Jared Smith, said Monday that she is “committed to reducing gun violence while respecting the 2nd amendment rights of law abiding citizens.”
“While there is no single way to prevent all tragedies, nothing should be off the table when it comes to protecting our children,” he said.
So according to Bustos’ spokesman Second Amendment rights are on the chopping table as far as she is concerned
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*Washington Examiner refers to the proposed ban correctly because the functionality is primarily a type of operating mechanism not how a device looks. A toaster with Disney characters on it still toasts bread.
Washington Post typical of the gun grabbers repeats the gun-grabber rhetoric in its subject line.
