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“New” “Assault Weapons” Ban no surprise
February 27, 2009 | Tagged anti-gun Obama, Culture War, Heller, Second Amendment | 1 Comment
Obama Administration Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement on Wednesday of a renewal of the “Assault Weapons” Ban should come as no surprise to anyone remotely aware of the struggle to maintain the Second Amendment rights of American Citizens. The Democrat Platform had an anti-individual rights plank and Obama, himself, supported the draconian Washington, D.C. gun ban, even after the U.S. Supreme Court told the D.C. Council that their post Heller regulation continued to violate the Constitution. (See my posts under the Categories: “Elections,” and “Courts.”
First of all, an “Assault Weapon” is a select-fire military gun that can fire more than one bullet with one pull of the trigger. The guns that Clinton “banned” and Obama wants to ban are not “Assault Weapons,” they are semi-automatic or self-loading firearms that fire one round with one pull of the trigger.
To get some idea of what Obama’s ban might look like, we can review a summary of Democrat Representative McCarthy’s bill of last year, HR 1022. Her bill contained the following anti-individual rights provisions. (This list is not inclusive.)
2008 Semi-auto Ban Bill HR 1022
- Bill is not clearly written
- Allows Attorney General to ban any semiauto ever used by police or military
- Presumes that gun used by military or police is not suitable for civilian “sporting purpose,” even if gun is used in sporting event-Orwellian language-really scary!
- Bans any semi-auto with a magazine well
- Bans by name: AR-15, Mini 14, Uzi, M-1 Carbine, Galil, Mac 10, AK, SKS, AR-10 and others
- Bans transfers by persons of magazines of over ten rounds with semi-automatic firearms (Bans magazine transfers?)
- Grandfathers guns currently owned, but registers all future transfers of semi-autos (Sets up confiscation)
- Bans importation of magazines of over ten rounds
- Bans semi-autos with pistol grips, threaded barrels, folding stocks, bayonet lugs, and barrel shrouds
- Definition of “grip” may be used to include any semi-auto firearm in the ban
- Ban includes semi-auto shotguns with magazine wells and “Street Sweepers”
- Bans semi-auto .22s with magazine wells
- Exempts .22s with tubular magazines of over ten rounds
- Annual report by Attorney General to Congress on use of semi-autos in crime (Sets stage for further restriction)
- Dealer or manufacturer must certify to Attorney General within 60 days that any high capacity magazine sold was made before the date of the ban
Remember that registration is a necessary precursor to confiscation. Semi-automatic firearms were confiscated in New York after the owners were “promised” that the registration lists would never be used to take away their guns.
“Conservative” pundit Charles Krauthammer said of the Clinton semi-auto ban, “The claim of the advocates that banning these 19 types of ‘assault weapons’ will reduce the crime rate is laughable… Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic…move… Its only real justification is not crime, but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation. De-escalation begins with a change in mentality. And that change in mentality starts with the symbolic yielding of certain types of weapons.” (Charles Krauthammer, syndicated Columnist, The Washington Post, 1996.)
Please contact your gun owning friends and neighbors and anyone you know that loves freedom. Ask them to call, E-mail and write their elected federal representatives and senators in opposition to this deceptive scheme.
If you are a hunter, shotgunner, small bore target shooter, or a collector of antique firearms, don’t think that you are immune from the gun-grabbing tendencies of this administration. The Socialists pushing this dangerous agenda are using England as a model. (See my posts on England under the Category: “Foreign Gun Laws,” on this site.)
If you have visited this blog in the past you already know that the British Olympic Pistol Team is forced to train in Switzerland, because their guns are banned in their home country. That is the end game envisioned by the enemies of our individual right to armed self-defense against crime, tyranny, and genocide.
“Ask not for whom the bell tolls…” Get politically active or lose your birthright of freedom forever.
Def Mech
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Can you post a Main List of the elected officials that can hear us opposing? Or maybe links of where we can find our elected officials emails, phones, addresses, etc.
It is very hard for many of us to find this information and contact info. Thanks.