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stroo wrote:Anybody have a link to the actual bill yet?

ryouiki wrote:And did I hear mention that they were showing off "Assault Weapons" during this press conference? Doesn't that violate the DC gun ban?

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Feinstein: ‘Purpose Is to Dry Up the Supply of These Weapons Over Time’
11:52 AM, Jan 24, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER


Senator Dianne Feinstein announced an assault weapons ban today on Capitol Hill, saying, "The purpose is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time":

“The purpose is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time,” Feinstein revealed, according to the Washington Free Beacon. “Therefore, there is no sunset on this bill.”

RPB wrote:

trentwhite778 wrote:it's on cspan3 right now. wow!

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN3/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ryouiki wrote:And did I hear mention that they were showing off "Assault Weapons" during this press conference? Doesn't that violate the DC gun ban?

Kythas wrote:

ryouiki wrote:And did I hear mention that they were showing off "Assault Weapons" during this press conference? Doesn't that violate the DC gun ban?

Yes. She got permission from the police to break the law. I didn't know the police had the authority to authorize that sort of thing.

http://mrctv.org/videos/feinsteins-gun- ... s-gun-laws

stroo wrote:Anybody have a link to the actual bill yet?

Kythas wrote:

stroo wrote:Anybody have a link to the actual bill yet?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/24/politics/ ... index.html

Requiring a background check on all sales or transfers of a grandfathered assault weapon.

VMI77 wrote:

Kythas wrote:

stroo wrote:Anybody have a link to the actual bill yet?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/24/politics/ ... index.html

I don't see registration in there anymore.

And the provision seems to conflict with the no sale or transfer provision at the top:

Requiring a background check on all sales or transfers of a grandfathered assault weapon.

Bulldog1911 wrote:

RPB wrote:

trentwhite778 wrote:it's on cspan3 right now. wow!

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN3/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ugh...I couldn't stand to watch anymore. Did anyone catch McCarthy's "reason why this bill will work?" (about 17:50 into the video)

Paraphrased - criminals don't know how to get things on the black market. If we take them out of the stores, they can't get them...


I was going to say that it's like listening to my 2 year old daughter's reasoning, but then realized that she actually reason better than these ... people

I absolutely believe that they believe that they are working toward "the good." The problem is that you've eliminated critical, rational judgment; you've eliminated the ability to tell the difference between what works and what doesn't work; you're coming from the mindset of a five-year-old.

When I was five years old, the New York World's Fair closed up in my neighborhood, down the street from me, and I insisted that my father buy the monorail that went around the park because I want­ed to put it up alongside the Long Island Express­way and ease congestion and pollution because I was a liberal kid. He explained to me in grown-up fashion that we couldn't afford it and, technically, there were problems like getting the rights of way, creating a bureaucracy, etc.

When you have a conversation with a Modern Liberal about health care, there's no doubt that their goal is as good as mine was: curing air pollu­tion or curing everybody's health problems. But if you don't have the grown-up sense to be able to discuss how, what's the reality, what's the truth, you can't have a conversation where you make the world a better place. It's all fantasy at that point. Again, you're dealing with a five-year-old, so of course she wants to make the world a better place. Very, very few of us don't.

It's a matter of having given up the ability to dis­criminate: (a) they can't bring it about because it's a childish conversation; and (b) when you have to make the decisions about who gets certain things-- for example, health care, welfare, or illegal aliens-- certain decisions have to be made about who quali­fies for it, and when you're just going through indis­criminately giving all these benefits, then you're actually going to be assisting that which is most failed because they're the ones who are going to be most in need.